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Miguel de Cervantes: Liberty is one of the most precious gifts which heaven has bestowed on man; with it we cannot compare the treasures which the earth contains or the sea conceals; for liberty, as for honor, we can and ought to risk our lives; and, on for the other hand, captivity is the greatest evil that can befall man. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5081




Miguel de Cervantes: The gratification of wealth is not found in mere possession or in lavish expenditure, but in its wise application. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5084



Miguel de Cervantes: Love and war are the same thing, and stratagems and policy are as allowable in the one as in the other. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5085



Sidney Sheldon: Libraries store the energy that fuels the imagination. They open up windows to the world and inspire us to explore and achieve, and contribute to improving our quality of life. Libraries change lives for the better. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5087


Kim Jong-Il: Art that moves the people's thoughts and hearts is a powerful weapon of the revolutionary struggle that transforms the world. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5088


Ted Grant: Not a wheel turns, not a lightbulb shines and not a telephone rings without the kind permission of the working class. But under capitalism, the means of production are the private property of the capitalist class: they own the machinery, the plants and the factories. The workers have no claim either to the instruments or the products of their labour, and they have no choice but to work in order to survive. This entire process is not planned according to social need, but operates anarchically to maximise profit for the capitalists. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5089



William Lloyd Garrison: With reasonable men, I will reason; with humane men I will plead; but to tyrants I will give no quarter, nor waste arguments where they will certainly be lost. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5090


Gore Vidal: There is only one party in the United States, the Property Party … and it has two right wings: Republican and Democrat. Republicans are a bit stupider, more rigid, more doctrinaire in their laissez-faire capitalism than the Democrats, who are cuter, prettier, a bit more corrupt — until recently … and more willing than the Republicans to make small adjustments when the poor, the black, the anti-imperialists get out of hand. But, essentially, there is no difference between the two parties. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5091


George L. Jackson: The U.S. is the Korean problem, the Vietnamese problem, the problem in the Congo, Angola, Mozambique, the Middle East. It's the grease in the British and Latin Amerikan guns that operate against the masses of common people. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5092


Baruch Spinoza: Be not astonished at new ideas; for it is well known to you that a thing does not therefore cease to be true because it is not accepted by many. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5093


Bible: I know your tribulation and your poverty (but you are rich) and the slander(a) of those who say that they are Jews and are not, but are a synagogue of Satan. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5094


Bible: I will make those who are of the synagogue of Satan, who claim to be Jews though they are not, but are liars—I will make them come and fall down at your feet and acknowledge that I have loved you. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5095



Bertrand Russell: Mathematics, rightly viewed, possesses not only truth, but supreme beauty—a beauty cold and austere, like that of sculpture, without appeal to any part of our weaker nature, without the gorgeous trappings of painting or music, yet sublimely pure, and capable of a stern perfection such as only the greatest art can show. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5096







Antonio Machado: in Spain the best is the people. In the hard trances, the ladies invoke the homeland and sell it. The people don't even name her, but she buys her blood and save it. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5101




Antonio Machado: If it's good to live, then it's better to be asleep dreaming, and best of all, mother, is to awake. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5104








Lord Acton: Every thing secret degenerates, even the administration of justice; nothing is safe that does not show how it can bear discussion and publicity. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5110




George Orwell: So long as they (the Proles) continued to work and breed, their other activities were without importance. Left to themselves, like cattle turned loose upon the plains of Argentina, they had reverted to a style of life that appeared to be natural to them, a sort of ancestral pattern...Heavy physical work, the care of home and children, petty quarrels with neighbors, films, football, beer and above all, gambling filled up the horizon of their minds. To keep them in control was not difficult… All that was required of them was a primitive patriotism which could be appealed to whenever it was necessary to make them accept longer working hours or shorter rations. And when they became discontented, as they sometimes did, their discontentment led nowhere, because being without general ideas, they could only focus it on petty specific grievances. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5112



George Orwell: People will come to love their oppression, to adore the technologies that undo their capacities to think. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5114