Friedrich Engels: Our view, which we have found confirmed by long practice, is that the correct tactic in propaganda is not to draw away a few individuals and members here and there from one's opponent, but to work on the great mass which still remains apathetic. The primitive force of a single individual whom we have ourselves attracted from the crude mass is worth more than ten Lassallean renegades, who always bring the seeds of their false tendencies into the Party with them. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5593
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James Connolly: War is a relic of barbarism only possible because we are governed by a ruling class with barbaric ideas; the working class of all countries cannot hope to escape the horrors of war until, in all countries, that barbaric ruling class is thrown from power. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5594
Stalin: In 1917 the chain of the imperialist world front proved to be weaker in Russia than in the other countries. It was there that the chain broke and provided an outlet for the proletarian revolution. Why? Because in Russia a great popular revolution was unfolding, and at its head marched the revolutionary proletariat, which had such an important ally as the vast mass of the peasantry, which was oppressed and exploited by the landlords. Because the revolution there was opposed by such a hideous representative of imperialism as tsarism, which lacked all moral prestige and was deservedly hated by the whole population. The chain proved to be weaker in Russia, although Russia was less developed in a capitalist sense than, say, France or Germany, Britain or America. Where will the chain break in the near future? Again, where it is weakest. It is not precluded that the chain may break, say, in India. Why? Because that country has a young, militant, revolutionary proletariat, which has such an ally as the national liberation movement -- an undoubtedly powerful and undoubtedly important ally. Because there the revolution is confronted by such a well-known foe as foreign imperialism, which has no moral credit and is deservedly hated by all the oppressed and exploited masses of India. It is also quite possible that the chain will break in Germany. Why? Because the factors which are operating, say, in India are beginning to operate in Germany as well, but, of course, the enormous difference in the level of development between India and Germany cannot but stamp its imprint on the progress and outcome of a revolution in Germany. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5595
Karl Marx: It requires a fully developed production of commodities before, from accumulated experience alone, the scientific conviction springs up, that all the different kinds of private labour, which are carried on independently of each other, and yet as spontaneously developed branches of the social division of labour, are continually being reduced to the quantitative proportions in which society requires them. And why? Because, in the midst of all the accidental and ever fluctuating exchange relations between the products, the labour time socially necessary for their production forcibly asserts itself like an over-riding law of Nature. The law of gravity thus asserts itself when a house falls about our ears.(29) The determination of the magnitude of value by labour time is therefore a secret, hidden under the apparent fluctuations in the relative values of commodities. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5596
Marcus Aurelius: The opinion of 10,000 men is of no value if none of them know anything about the subject. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5597
Karl Marx: It is not enough that the conditions of labour are concentrated in a mass, in the shape of capital, at the one pole of society, while at the other are grouped masses of men, who have nothing to sell but their labour-power. Neither is it enough that they are compelled to sell it voluntarily. The advance of capitalist production develops a working class, which by education, tradition, habit, looks upon the conditions of that mode of production as self-evident laws of Nature. The organisation of the capitalist process of production, once fully developed, breaks down all resistance. The constant generation of a relative surplus-population keeps the law of supply and demand of labour, and therefore keeps wages, in a rut that corresponds with the wants of capital. The dull compulsion of economic relations completes the subjection of the labourer to the capitalist. Direct force, outside economic conditions, is of course still used, but only exceptionally. In the ordinary run of things, the labourer can be left to the “natural laws of production,” i.e., to his dependence on capital, a dependence springing from, and guaranteed in perpetuity by, the conditions of production themselves. It is otherwise during the historic genesis of capitalist production. The bourgeoisie, at its rise, wants and uses the power of the state to “regulate” wages, i.e., to force them within the limits suitable for surplus-value making, to lengthen the working-day and to keep the labourer himself in the normal degree of dependence. This is an essential element of the so-called primitive accumulation. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5598
Shakespeare: We are oft to blame in this, - 'tis too much proved, - that with devotion's visage, and pious action we do sugar o'er the devil himself. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5599
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Enver Hoxha: I pledge before the flag and my pioneer comrades that I will always learn, work and live as a worthy son of the Party and the Homeland. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5600
Theodore Roosevelt: When they call the roll in the Senate, the Senators do not know whether to answer 'Present' or 'Not Guilty'. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5601
Robert A. Heinlein: You can sway a thousand men by appealing to their prejudices quicker than you can convince one man by logic. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5602
James Douglas Morrison: The most important kind of freedom is to be what you really are. You trade in your reality for a role. You trade in your sense for an act. You give up your ability to feel, and in exchange, put on a mask. There can't be any large-scale revolution until there's a personal revolution, on an individual level. It's got to happen inside first. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5603
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Al Capone: They can't collect legal taxes from illegal money. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5604
Al Capone: Some call it bootlegging. Some call it racketeering. I call it a business. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5605
Al Capone: This American system of ours,call it Americanism,call it capitalism,call it what you will,gives each and every one of us a great opportunity if we seize it with both hands and make the most of it. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5606
Emma Tenayuca: I was arrested a number of times. I don't think that I felt exactly fearful. I never thought in terms of fear. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5607
Yasser Arafat: Revolutionary greetings, with sadness and deep sorrow, we learned of the death of Comrade Enver Hoxha, the First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Party of Labour of Albania. On behalf of the Palestinian Arab people, on behalf of my brothers, members of the Executive Committee of the Palestine Liberation Organization, and personally, I extend to you, to the government and the Albanian people my sincere condolences. Our Palestinian people, under the leadership of the PLO, will not forget the principled positions of the great leader Enver Hoxha in favour of the just struggle of the Palestinian people to regain their inalienable national rights, including the right to return, self-determination and the establishment of an independent national state on their homeland. Please, dear Comrade Ramiz Alia, convey to the leader's family as well as to your respected government, your great Party, and your friendly people wishes for progress and prosperity under your wise leadership. Revolution until victory. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5608
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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
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Epictetus: Don't explain your philosophy. Embody it. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5610
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
George Orwell: They fear love because it creates a world they can't control. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5612
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
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Issac Newton: I can calculate the motion of heavenly bodies but not the madness of people. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5614
Issac Newton: Nature is pleased with simplicity. And nature is no dummy. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5615
Issac Newton: What we know is a drop, what we don't know is an ocean. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5616
Issac Newton: Tact is the knack of making a point without making an enemy. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5617
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Issac Newton: No great discovery was ever made without a bold guess. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5618
Issac Newton: Truth is ever to be found in the simplicity, and not in the multiplicity and confusion of things. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5619
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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: And to every action there is always an equal and opposite or contrary, reaction. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5621
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