Dietrich Bonhoeffer: Stupidity is a more dangerous enemy of the good than malice. One may protest against evil; it can be exposed and, if need be, prevented by use of force. Evil always carries within itself the germ of its own subversion in that it leaves behind in human beings at least a sense of unease. Against stupidity we are defenseless. Neither protests nor the use of force accomplish anything here; reasons fall on deaf ears; facts that contradict one’s prejudgment simply need not be believed – in such moments the stupid person even becomes critical – and when facts are irrefutable they are just pushed aside as inconsequential, as incidental. In all this the stupid person, in contrast to the malicious one, is utterly self satisfied and, being easily irritated, becomes dangerous by going on the attack. For that reason, greater caution is called for when dealing with a stupid person than with a malicious one. Never again will we try to persuade the stupid person with reasons, for it is senseless and dangerous. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote2882
Ho Chi Minh: Individualism runs counter to revolutionary morality. The least remaining trace of it will develop at the first opportunity, smother revolutionary virtues and prevent us from wholeheartedly struggling for the revolutionary cause. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote2883
Ho Chi Minh: Individualism is something very deceitful and perfidious, it skillfully induces one to backslide. And everybody knows that it is easier to backslide than to progress. That is why it is very dangerous. To shake off the bad vestiges of the old society and to cultivate revolutionary virtues, we must study hard, and educate and reform ourselves in order to progress continuously. Otherwise we shall retrogress and lag behind, and shall eventually be rejected by the forward-moving society. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote2884
Ho Chi Minh: People with revolutionary virtues remain simple, modest, and ready to face more hardships, even when meeting with work think of how best to fulfil our task, not of how to get the greatest reward. We must avoid boasting about past achievements and claiming special prerogatives, or indulging in bureaucratism, conceit and depravation. This also is an expression of revolutionary morality. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote2885
Ho Chi Minh: Each revolutionary must deeply realize that our Party is the most advanced and close-knit organization of the working class, the leader of the latter and the labouring people at large. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote2886
Ho Chi Minh: To advance to socialism, we must wage a long and hard struggle. We must have revolutionaries for there still exist enemies, who oppose the revolution. There are three kinds of enemies: Capitalism and imperialism are very dangerous ones. Backward habits and traditions are also big enemies: they insidiously hinder the progress of the revolution. However, we cannot repress them, but must seek to correct them with caution, perseverance and over a long period of time. The third enemy is individualism, the petty-bourgeois mentality which still lurks in each of us. It is waiting for an opportunity - either failure or success - to rear its head. It is the ally of the two above-mentioned categories. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote2887
Benjamin Franklin: Governor Thomas was so pleas’d with the Construction of this Stove, as describ’d in it that he offer’d to give me a Patent for the sole Vending of them for a Term of Years; but I declin’d it from a Principle which has ever weigh’d with me on such Occasions, viz. That as we enjoy great Advantages from the Inventions of others, we should be glad of an Opportunity to serve others by any Invention of ours, and this we should do freely and generously. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote2888
Subcomandante Marcos: The word of the oldest of the old of our peoples didn't stop. It spoke the truth, saying that our feet couldn't walk alone, that our history of pain and shame was repeated and multiplied in the flesh and blood of the brothers and sisters of other lands and skies. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote2889
Daniele De Rossi: Whether I like it or not, everything is politics: every gesture or behavior of ours clarifies a way of being, of behaving, of being in the world. Even how you relate to the waiter who brings you food is politics. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote2891
Ashley Stevens: Democrats know exactly what their voters want. They have the data. The problem is what their voters want, goes directly against with their donors/owners want. So they’re spending millions of dollars on consultants to figure out how to lie to you better. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote2894
Stalin: The fact that the main blows are directed against Stalin is explained by the fact that Stalin knows—perhaps better than some of our comrades— all the tricks of the opposition. He is not so easy to deceive, and so they direct their blows primarily against Stalin. Well then, let them curse all they want... Can we be surprised that Trotsky, who treated the great Lenin so disrespectfully—a man not even worthy of polishing Lenin’s boots—now slanders, without restraint, one of Lenin’s many disciples? I consider it a matter of honor that the opposition directs all its hatred against Stalin. That’s exactly how it should be. It would be strange and even insulting if the opposition, which is trying to destroy the Party, were to praise Stalin. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote2895
Aristotle: It is also in the interests of a tyrant to make his subjects poor, so that he may be able to afford the cost of his bodyguard, while the people are so occupied with their daily tasks that they have no time for plotting. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote2896
Karl Marx: Finally to say that “ the most favourable condition of wage-labour is the fastest possible growth of productive capital ” is the same as to say: the quicker the working class multiplies and augments the power inimical to it-the wealth of another which lords it over that class-the more favourable will be the conditions under which it will be permitted to toil anew at the multiplication of bourgeois wealth, at the enlargement of the power of capital, content thus to forge for itself the golden chains by which the bourgeoisie drags it in its train. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote2898
Gramsci: I hate the indifferent. I believe that life means taking sides. One who is really alive, can be nothing if not citizen and partisan. Indifference is lethargy: it is parasitism, not life. Therefore, I hate the indifferent. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote2900
Kim Il Sung: If you are bitten by capitalist insects, capitalist germs will infiltrate ,if bitten by revisionist insects, revisionist germs will infiltrate will infiltrate ,and if bitten by flunkeyist insects ,flunkeyist germs will infiltrate. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote2902
Joe Hill: Workers of the world awaken. Break your chains, demand your rights. All the wealth you make is taken, by exploiting parasites. Shall you kneel in deep submission from your cradle to your grave? Is the height of your ambition to be a good and willing slave? https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote2903
Kwame Ture: Most societies in the West are not opposed to violence. The oppressor is only opposed to violence when the oppressed talk about using violence against the oppressor. Then the question of violence is raised as the incorrect means to attain one's ends. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote2904
Ho Chi Minh: Under the pretext of educating them, the Trotskyists organised the most backward elements of the army in small groups, then, profiting by the harsh conditions of life in the army, they encouraged them to desert with arms and ammunition. In liaison with the bandits, they created disorder behind the lines of the 8th army while it was in full combat. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote2906
Thomas Sankara: Our country produces enough to feed us all. Alas, for lack of organization, we are forced to beg for food aid. It’s this aid that instills in our spirits the attitude of beggars. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote2908
Ho Chi Minh: The Japanese Trotskyists lure youth into their league, then they denounce them to the police. They seek to penetrate the Japanese Communist Party with the aim of destroying it from within. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote2911
Ho Chi Minh: Perhaps you have read the charges in the proceedings against the Trotskyists in the Soviet Union? If you have not read them, I advise you to read them and to get your friends to read them. This reading is very useful. It will help you to see the true repugnant face of Trotskyism and Trotskyists. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote2912
Ho Chi Minh: While the soldiers of the 19th army spill their blood to defend the Fatherland, the Trotskyists, in acts as in words, continue to commit crime upon crime. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote2913
Ho Chi Minh: Trotskyists such as Hoa Van Khoi and Cung Van Thu, in secret liaison with the police and the Japanese bosses, infiltrated into the workers’ strike at Shanghai and employed all means to sabotage the movement. To the point where they managed to have the most talented activists in the strike arrested. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote2914
Ho Chi Minh: The Trotskyist Truong Mo Dao, calling himself a ‘representative of the Communist Party’, tried to transform the anti-Japanese war into a civil war with the slogan: ‘March with the Japanese, struggle against Chiang Kai Shek’. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote2915
Ho Chi Minh: …it has been proved that the Trotskyists are playing a double game, having recourse at the same time to lies and to treachery. They say to the masses: ‘You see, the Communists have sold out to the bourgeoisie. The Kuomintang would not fight against the Japanese!’ Addressing the Kuomintang, they say: ‘The National Front! It’s nothing but a ruse of the Communists. To fight the Japanese you must destroy the Communists’. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote2916
Ho Chi Minh: Towards the end of 1936, the politics of uniting against the Japanese triumphed in the events of Tay An. Faced with the defeat of their politics of civil war, the Trotskyists Truong Mo Dao and Ta Duy Liet decided to organise the assassination of Vuong Di Triet, one of the most convinced followers of the National Front. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote2917
