George Orwell: Pacifism is objectively pro-Fascist. This is elementary common sense. If you hamper the war effort of one side you automatically help that of the other. Nor is there any real way of remaining outside such a war as the present one. In practice, ‘he that is not with me is against me’. The idea that you can somehow remain aloof from and superior to the struggle, while living on food which British sailors have to risk their lives to bring you, is a bourgeois illusion bred of money and security. Mr Savage remarks that ‘according to this type of reasoning, a German or Japanese pacifist would be “objectively pro-British”.’ But of course he would be! That is why pacifist activities are not permitted in those countries (in both of them the penalty is, or can be, beheading) while both the Germans and the Japanese do all they can to encourage the spread of pacifism in British and American territories. The Germans even run a spurious ‘freedom’ station which serves out pacifist propaganda indistinguishable from that of the P.P.U. They would stimulate pacifism in Russia as well if they could, but in that case they have tougher babies to deal with. In so far as it takes effect at all, pacifist propaganda can only be effective against those countries where a certain amount of freedom of speech is still permitted; in other words it is helpful to totalitarianism. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5797
Karl Marx: Given a fall in the value of money, the price of labour, unless it rises in the same proportion, falls, the rate of surplus value rises, and therefore, all other things remaining the same, the rate of profit rises too. This rise of the latter — as long as the descendant oscillation in the value of money continues — is due solely to the fall in wages, and this fall is due to the fact that the change in wages is slow. to match the change in the value of money. (As was the case at the end of the 16th and in the 17th century.) Conversely, if, with the value of money rising, wages do not fall in the same proportion, the rate of surplus value falls, and therefore, caeteris paribus, the rate of profit. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5799
Georgi Plekhanov: An Anarchist is a man who – when he is not a police agent – is fated always and everywhere to attain the opposite of that which he attempts to achieve. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5800
Fidel Castro: When the bribes have done their work; when all forces have spoken, here will remain the Cuban people. We will be here with courage and the right and the battle against us will not be easy, for bribes and intimidation and blackmail will mean nothing. It will be a matter then of facing the honor and dignity of the Cuban people who do not surrender or sell themselves. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5801
Julian Assange: I am in love with understanding the world, and sharing that understanding with other people. It’s a bit hard to describe how much I’m in love with that, and have been for many years. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5802
David Ogilvy: It takes a big idea to attract the attention of consumers and get them to buy your product. Unless your advertising contains a big idea, it will pass like a ship in the night. I doubt if more than one campaign in a hundred contains a big idea. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5810
Warren Buffett: Should you find yourself in a chronically leaking boat, energy devoted to changing vessels is likely to be more productive than energy devoted to patching leaks. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5811
