Oliver Cox: The proletariat cannot vote for socialism in a bourgeois parliament because the capitalists will not permit themselves to be destroyed by their own instrument. The machinery of the capitalist state has been fashioned by the bourgeoisie to suit the needs of their class; therefore, in the achievement of its ends, the working class must contrive its own institutions. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote4965

Samora Machel: International solidarity is not an act of charity: it's an act of unity between allies fighting on different terrains toward the same objectives. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote4966

George L. Jackson: An electoral choice of ten different fascists is like choosing which way one wishes to die. The holder of so-called high public office is always merely an extension of the hated ruling corporate class. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote4967

Ken Livingstone: If voting changed anything they'd abolish it. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote4968

Bible: When you come to the land the Lord your God is giving you and take it over and live in it and then say, “I will select a king like all the nations surrounding me,” you must select without fail a king whom the Lord your God chooses. From among your fellow citizens you must appoint a king – you may not designate a foreigner who is not one of your fellow Israelites. Moreover, he must not accumulate horses for himself or allow the people to return to Egypt to do so, for the Lord has said you must never again return that way. Furthermore, he must not marry many wives lest his affections turn aside, and he must not accumulate much silver and gold. When he sits on his royal throne he must make a copy of this law on a scroll given to him by the Levitical priests. It must be with him constantly and he must read it as long as he lives, so that he may learn to revere the Lord his God and observe all the words of this law and these statutes and carry them out. Then he will not exalt himself above his fellow citizens or turn from the commandments to the right or left, and he and his descendants will enjoy many years ruling over his kingdom in Israel. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote4969

William L. Shirer: Perhaps America will one day go fascist democratically, by popular vote. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote4970

Stalin: I consider it completely unimportant who in the party will vote, or how; but what is extraordinarily important is this—who will count the votes, and how. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote4971

James Clavell: Wars are fought by teenagers, you realize that. They really ought to be fought by the politicians and old people who start these wars. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote4972

Erich Fromm: Our society is run by a managerial bureaucracy, by professional politicians; people are motivated by mass suggestion, their aim is producing more and consuming more, as purposes in themselves. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote4973