Saramago: The world is governed by institutions that are not democratic – the World Bank, the IMF, the WTO. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5707
Saramago: It is economic power that determines political power, and governments become the political functionaries of economic power. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5708
Saramago: Men are angels born without wings, nothing could be nicer than to be born without wings and to make them grow. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5709
Saramago: The wisest man I ever knew in my whole life could not read or write. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5710
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Saramago: The world had already changed before September 11. The world has been going through a process of change over the last 20 or 30 years. A civilization ends, another one begins. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5711
Saramago: One can show no greater respect than to weep for a stranger. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5712
Saramago: Reading is probably another way of being in a place. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5713
Henry Kissinger: In the 1950s and 1960s we put several thousand nuclear weapons into Europe. To be sure, we had no precise idea of what to do with them. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5714
Rachel Corrie: When I come back from Palestine, I probably will have nightmares and constantly feel guilty for not being here, but I can channel that into more work. Coming here is one of the better things I've ever done. So when I sound crazy, or if the Israeli military should break with their racist tendency not to injure white people, please pin the reason squarely on the fact that I am in the midst of a genocide which I am also indirectly supporting, and for which my government is largely responsible. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5715
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Lenin: We must take as our point of departure the universally recognised Marxist thesis that a programme must be built on a scientific foundation. It must explain to the people how the communist revolution arose, why it is inevitable, what its significance, nature, and power are, and what problems it must solve. Our programme must be a summary for agitational purposes, a summary such as all programmes were, such as, for instance, the Erfurt Programme was. Every clause of that programme contained material for agitators to use in hundreds of thousands of speeches and articles. Every clause of our programme is something that every working man and woman must know, assimilate and understand. If they do not know what capitalism is, if they do not understand that small peasant and handicraft economy constantly, inevitably and necessarily engenders this capitalism—if they do not understand this, then even if they were to declare themselves Communists a hundred times and flaunt the most radical communism, it would not be worth a brass farthing, because we value communism only when it is based on economic facts. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5716
Ayn Rand: (Native Americans) didn't have any rights to the land, and there was no reason for anyone to grant them rights which they had not conceived and were not using. What was it that they were fighting for, when they opposed white men on this continent? For their wish to continue a primitive existence, their 'right' to keep part of the earth untouched, unused and not even as property, but just keep everybody out so that you will live practically like an animal, or a few caves above it. Any white person who brings the element of civilization has the right to take over this continent. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5717
Sally Kempton: It is hard to fight an enemy who has outposts in your head. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5718
Thích Nhất Hạnh: One included all, and all were contained in one. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5719
Alexandra Kollontai: We must therefore not only confront the problem of prostitution but seek a solution that is in line with our basic principles and the program of social and economic change adhered to by the party of the communists. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5720
Rosa Luxemburg: The friends of peace in bourgeois circles believe that world peace and disarmament can be realised within the frame-work of the present social order, whereas we, who base ourselves on the materialistic conception of history and on scientific socialism, are convinced that militarism can only be abolished from the world with the destruction of the capitalist class state. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5721
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Issac Asimov: Science can amuse and fascinate us all, but it is engineering that changes the world. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5722
Rosa Luxemburg: Socialism is inevitable, not merely because the proletarians are no longer willing to live under the conditions imposed by the capitalist class, but, further, because if the proletariat fails to fulfill its duties as a class, if it fails to realize socialism, we shall crash down together to a common doom. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5723
Rosa Luxemburg: Before a revolution happens, it is perceived as impossible; after it happens, it is seen as having been inevitable. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5724
Aaron Bushnell: My name is Aaron Bushnell. I am an active duty member of the US Air Force, and I will no longer be complicit in genocide. I am about to engage in an extreme act of protest, but compared to what people in Palestine have been experiencing at the hands of their colonizers, it's not extreme at all. This is what our ruling class has decided will be normal. Free Palestine. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5725
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Benjamin Franklin: Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5726
Benjamin Franklin: I think the best way of doing good to the poor, is not making them easy in poverty, but leading or driving them out of it. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5727
Arthur James Balfour: Dear Lord Rothschild, I have much pleasure in conveying to you, on behalf of His Majesty's Government, the following declaration of sympathy with Jewish Zionist aspirations which has been submitted to, and approved by, the Cabinet. "His Majesty's Government view with favour the establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people, and will use their best endeavours to facilitate the achievement of this object, it being clearly understood that nothing shall be done which may prejudice the civil and religious rights of existing non-Jewish communities in Palestine, or the rights and political status enjoyed by Jews in any other country." I should be grateful if you would bring this declaration to the knowledge of the Zionist Federation. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5728
Muammar Gaddafi: Israelis and Palestinians live on the same piece of land namely; Palestine that is located between the River Jordan and the Mediterranean. This is a disputed land. In 1948 the majority of the population, three quarters of the population were Palestinians. Less than a quarter of the population were Israelis. They managed to expel the Palestinians from their homes and unilaterally declared a state called Israel. This is inadmissible under international law. No one can legally declare a state on a disputed territory. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5729
Saddam Hussein: We salute the Palestinian people of heroic mujahideen as well as every hero and heroine amongst the champions of self-sacrifice who confront the Zionist aggression with their lives and thus foil the wrong ideas of the American administrations which have acted in alliance with their artificial Zionist creation in the crimes they perpetrate and the shame they reap. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5730
Jawaharlal Nehru: During the World War the British armies invaded Palestine and, as they were marching on Jerusalem, the British Government made a declaration in November 1917, called the Balfour Declaration. They declared that it was their intention to establish a "Jewish National Home" in Palestine. This declaration was made to win the good will of international Jewry, and this was important from the money point of view. It was welcomed by most Jews. But there was one little drawback, one not unimportant fact seems to have been overlooked. Palestine was not a wilderness, or an empty, uninhabited place. It was already somebody else's home. So that this generous gesture of the British Government was really at the expense of the people who already lived in Palestine, and these people, including Arabs, non-Arabs, Muslims, Christians, and, in fact, everybody who was not a Jew, protested vigorously at the declaration. These people felt that the Jews would compete with them in all activities and, with the great wealth behind them, would become the economic masters of the country ; they were afraid that the Jews would take the bread out of their mouths and the land from the peasantry. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5731
Arnold J. Toynbee: Right and wrong are the same in Palestine as anywhere else. What is peculiar about the Palestine conflict is that the world has listened to the party that has committed the offence and has turned a deaf ear to the victims. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5732
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Gabriel García Márquez: Remembering is easy for anyone who has memory, forgetting is difficult for those who have a heart. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5733
Henry Petroski: No one wants to learn by mistakes, but we cannot learn enough from successes to go beyond the state of the art. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5734
Ghassan Kanafani: Zionism as a reactionary ideology fitted exactly the ambitions of British colonialism in that period and later with American imperialism. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5735
Franklin D. Roosevelt: We had to struggle with the old enemies of peace: business and financial monopoly, speculation, reckless banking, class antagonism, sectionalism, war profiteering. They had begun to consider the Government of the United States as a mere appendage to their own affairs. We know now that Government by organized money is just as dangerous as Government by organized mob. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5736
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George Orwell: All issues are political issues, and politics itself is a mass of lies, evasions, folly, hatred, and schizophrenia. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5737
Mussolini: Fascism entirely agrees with Mr. Maynard Keynes, despite the latter's prominent position as a Liberal. In fact, Mr. Keynes' excellent little book, The End of Laissez-Faire (1926) might, so far as it goes, serve as a useful introduction to fascist economics. There is scarcely anything to object to in it and there is much to applaud. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5738
John Davison Rockefeller: If your only goal is to become rich, you will never achieve it. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5739
Edward Bernays: Propaganda is the executive arm of the invisible government. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5740