Oliver Stone: Our citizens should know the urgent facts...but they don’t because our media serves imperial, not popular interests. They lie, deceive, connive and suppress what everyone needs to know, substituting managed news misinformation and rubbish for hard truths. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote2846
Joe Hill: Long-haired preachers come out every night, Try to tell you what's wrong and what's right; But when asked how 'bout something to eat They will answer with voices so sweet: You will eat, bye and bye, In that glorious land above the sky; Work and pray, live on hay, You'll get pie in the sky when you die. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote2847
Cardinal Richelieu: When people are too comfortable, it is not possible to restrain them within the bounds of their duty? They may be compared to mules who, being accustomed to burdens, are spoilt by rest rather than labour. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote2853
Hitler: No way, the Spaniards once ruled the world, they are the only truly brave Mediterranean people. You can’t enter Spain without permission from the Spanish. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote2860
Karl Marx: Communism deprives no man of the power to appropriate the products of society; all that it does is to deprive him of the power to subjugate the labour of others by means of such appropriations. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote2861
Kim Jong-Il: Ideological education is not aimed merely at giving people political knowledge, but at enabling them to make our Party’s revolutionary ideas and the Party’s policies their own flesh and bone and apply them thoroughly in practice. Intellectuals should be educated in the Party’s policies, revolutionary traditions, working-class and communist ideas so that they are firmly armed with our Party’s revolutionary ideas and think and act as required by the Party’s policies at all times and in all places. An important aspect of the revolutionary transformation of intellectuals and their assimilation to the working class is rooting up survivals of outmoded ideas such as selfishness and liberalism and encouraging them to acquire the revolutionary spirit and sense of organization and discipline of the working class and a strong revolutionary will. Intellectuals, unlike the working class engaged in production, in many cases act individually, and consequently they lack the sense of organization, discipline and collectivism, and the will power to overcome difficulties. Strengthening revolutionary organizational life is the best way to arm intellectuals with the revolutionary spirit and sense of organization and discipline of the working class and to temper them politically. Intellectuals should not regard organizational life as a burden or resent the guidance and control of the organization. Dislike of the guidance and control of the organization, regarding it as a restraint of the individual’s liberty, is a bourgeois liberalistic viewpoint. Those who dislike and neglect organizational life will become degenerate ideologically and, in the long run, stray from the path of the revolution. To further their revolutionary education and tempering, intellectuals must intensify their involvement in criticism and self-criticism. Criticism and self-criticism are the most powerful weapons for eliminating outmoded ideological survivals lingering in the minds of the people and educating the people in a revolutionary way. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote2864
Kim Jong-Il: We do not need any 'reform' nor do we have anything to 'reform'. We must be aware that any 'reform' opposed to the principle of Juche, to the socialist principle, is, in the end, a capitalist method, a 'reform' that resurrects capitalism. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote2865
Erich Honecker: We know only one goal, which permeates all the policies of our party: to do everything possible for the good of the citizens, for the happiness of the people, for the interests of the working class and of all workers. That is the meaning of socialism. That is what we are working and fighting for. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote2867
Mario Benedetti: Don’t give in, don’t accept defeat, even if the cold burns and the fear bites, even if the sun hides itself and the wind is silent, there’s still fire in your soul and life in your dreams. Life is yours and so is desire, because every day is a new beginning, because now is the time and the best moment, because you aren’t alone, because I love you! https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote2879
