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Noam Chomsky: The point of public relations slogans like "Support Our Troops" is that they don't mean anything ... that's the whole point of good propaganda. You want to create a slogan that nobody is going to be against and I suppose everybody will be for, because nobody knows what it means, because it doesn't mean anything. But its crucial value is that it diverts your attention from a question that does mean something, do you support our policy? And that's the one you're not allowed to talk about. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5609




In terms of bourgeois law, Stalin and other Bolsheviks will always be criminals. Just like Spartacus, who broke the laws of the Roman Empire, was a criminal for slave owners. The ruling class writes the laws. But the truth is that the capitalist system itself is criminal and anti-human. (@upholdreality) https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5611



Issac Newton: A man may imagine things that are false, but he can only understand things that are true, for if the things be false, the apprehension of them is not understanding. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5613











Issac Newton: If I have ever made any valuable discoveries, it has been due more to patient attention, than to any other talent. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5620



Issac Newton: To myself I am only a child playing on the beach, while vast oceans of truth lie undiscovered before me. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5622


Friedrich Engels: All revolutions up to the present day have resulted in the displacement of the rule of one class by the rule of another; but all ruling classes up to now have been only small minorities in relation to the ruled mass of the people. One ruling minority was thus overthrown; another minority seized the helm of state in its stead and refashioned the state institutions to suit its own interests. Thus on every occasion a minority group was enabled and called upon to rule by the given degree of economic development; and just for that reason, and only for that reason, it happened that the ruled majority either participated in the revolution for the benefit of the former or else simply acquiesced in it. But if we disregard the concrete content in each case, the common form of all these revolutions was that they were minority revolutions. Even when the majority took part, it did so — whether wittingly or not — only in the service of a minority; but because of this, or even simply because of the passive, unresisting attitude of the majority, this minority acquired the appearance of being the representative of the whole people. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5623


Tony Benn: The way a government treats refugees is very instructive because it shows you how they would treat the rest of us if they thought they could get away with it. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5624


Thomas Sowell: When you want to help people, you tell them the truth. When you want to help yourself, you tell them what they want to hear. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5625


Ursula K. Le Guin: To learn which questions are unanswerable, and not to answer them: this skill is most needful in times of stress and darkness. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5626



Alessandro Manzoni: Bullies, oppressors and all men who do violence to the rights of others are guilty not only of their own crimes, but also of the corruption they bring into the hearts of their victims. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5627


Harriet Jacobs: Every where the years bring to all enough of sin and sorrow; but in slavery the very dawn of life is darkened by these shadows. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5628


Walter Rodney: All of the countries named as "underdeveloped" in the world are exploited by others; and the underdevelopment with which the world is now preoccupied is a product of capitalist, imperialist and colonialist exploitation. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5629


Stalin: In our opinion, what has been said needs no proof, for it is self-evident that, so long as the capitalist system exists, with its inevitably attendant poverty and backwardness of the masses, the proletariat as a whole cannot rise to the desired level of class consciousness, and, consequently, there must be a group of class-conscious leaders to enlighten the proletarian army in the spirit of socialism, to unite and lead it in its struggle. It is also clear that a party which has set out to lead the fighting proletariat must not be a chance conglomeration of individuals, but a united centralised organisation, so that its activities can be directed according to a single plan. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5630


Dwight Eisenhower: If in 10 years, all American troops stationed in Europe for national defense purposes have not been returned to the United States, then this whole project will have failed. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5631



Woody Guthrie: War is a game played by maniacs, who kill each other. It is murder, studied and prepared by insane minds, and followed by a bunch of thieves. You can’t believe in life, and wear the uniform of death. There are certain men who never think of any other thing besides slaughter. They are blood soaked butchers and they are believed to be heroes. Three fifths of the people decide to murder the other two fifths, who must take up killing in order to stay alive. Locate the man who profits by war — strip him of his profits and war will end. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5632


Carl Jung: Wherever justice is uncertain and police spying and terror are at work, human beings, fall into isolation, which, of course, is the aim and purpose of the dictator State, since it is based on the greatest possible accumulation of depotentiated social units. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5633


Enver Hoxha: In Europe and throughout the world there are innumerable philosophers and men of letters that have made a myth of the superiority of men over women. For them man is strong, courageous and a fighter, therefore, he is wiser and predestinated to dominate, to direct, whereas woman, on her part, is by nature weak, defenseless, timid, therefore she must be ruled and directed. Bourgeois theoreticians like Nietsche and Freud, uphold also the theory that the male is active while the female is passive. This reactionary, anti-biologic theory leads, in politics, to nazism, in sexology, to sadism. Our mothers, grandmothers and great grandmothers have languished under this harsh bondage, they have borne these corporeal and spiritual pangs on their own sore shoulders. Now when the revolution has triumphed, when socialism is being successfully built in our country, the Party sets forth for us the complete and final liberation of woman from the fetters of the bitter past as a major, as one of the greatest tasks, it sets forth for us the complete emancipation of women. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5634


Stalin: The glorious work of Soviet women, builders of socialist industry, collective farming, socialist culture, will go down in history forever. With every year the role of women in all spheres of life of Soviet society increases. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5635


Stalin: Soviet women are active leaders in Soviet socialist culture, the most advanced in the world. Together with the men, they work untiringly to increase the spiritual wealth of our people. Widely exercising their right to education, women have grown Into a great cultural force of Soviet society. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5636


Nikolai Alekseivich Valerianov: Worker and peasant women - all should go to the polls! Gather under the Red Banner along with men. We bring fear to the bourgeoisie! https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5637



Inessa Armand: If women's liberation is unthinkable without communism, then communism is unthinkable without women's liberation. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5638


Alexandra Kollontai: The work of destroying the social slavery of women as it was then, was carried through by the great workers’ revolution. Women workers and peasants participated in the great liberating struggle on an equal footing with men. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5639