Enver Hoxha: The counter-revolutionary theories and practices of the revisionists serve as nourishment for the most diverse hostile ideological trends, ranging from the most reactionary bourgeois trends to the Trotskyite and petty-bourgeois ones. The bourgeois ideologists deliberately try to present the (Khrushchevite) revisionist betrayal as a failure of socialism and Marxism-Leninism, as if communism is unable to provide a positive alternative for the solution of the problems of the world today. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5558
Enver Hoxha: There are … some petty-bourgeois ideologists and people of sincere revolutionary inclinations who, disillusioned by the (Khrushchevite) revisionist betrayal, are questioning the fundamental principles of Marxism-Leninism and trying to create new theories or to revive old ones. They preach that Marxism-Leninism is incomplete and inaccurate, that allegedly it no longer responds to the new historical conditions of various countries or continents. In this situation, when the ideological confusion which the modern revisionists caused and are seeking to keep alive has become more pronounced, the great importance of the struggle of all the Marxist-Leninists for the liberation of the working class and labouring masses from all the influences of bourgeois and revisionist ideology and of the various petty-bourgeois trends, the arming of them with the only scientific ideology, Marxism-Leninism, emerges very clearly. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5559
Enver Hoxha: Rigid and sectarian attitudes also damage the line of the Party. In the recent times such attitudes have been apparent among some communists and cadres who, when the Party exposed and condemned elements with a liberal, opportunist and hostile spirit, began to look with undue suspicion even at some small and unimportant blemish. The tendencies observed sometimes in some people to resort to administrative methods where persuasion and education should be used are also sectarian. Those who display sectarian tendencies often pose as “consistent and principled revolutionaries”. But in fact they are opportunists and act in this way in order to be “on the safe side”. These opportunist vacillations stem from lack of a correct grasp of the nature of the two types of contradictions which exist in our society, from confusing antagonistic with non-antagonistic contradictions. The Party must make these matters completely clear and explain that opportunism cannot be fought with success if sectarianism is not fought at the same time, and vice-versa. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5560
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry: Love does not consist of gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5561
Albert Einstein: What does a fish know about the water in which he swims all his life? https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5562
Aristotle: A friend to all is a friend to none. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5563
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Big Bill Haywood: If the workers are organized, all they have to do is to put their hands in their pockets and they have got the capitalist class whipped. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5564
Augusto Pinochet: If Senator Kennedy is elected President of the United States, the government of Chile will take the necessary measures. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5565
Augusto Pinochet: Not a single leaf moves in this country if I'm not the one moving it. I want that to be clear! https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5566
Augusto Pinochet: This is not a dictadura (dictatorship/hard rule) but a dictablanda (soft rule). https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5567
Augusto Pinochet: The nation is trying to make Chile a country of proprietors, not of proletarians. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5568
Augusto Pinochet: I'm looking at them from above, because God put me there. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5569
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Mao Zedong: Don't you want to abolish state power?" Yes, we do, but not right now; we cannot do it yet. Why? Because imperialism still exists, because domestic reaction still exists, because classes still exist in our country. Our present task is to strengthen the people's state apparatus -- mainly the people's army, the people's police and the people's courts -- in order to consolidate national defence and protect the people's interests. Given this condition, China can develop steadily, under the leadership of the working class and the Communist Party, from an agricultural into an industrial country and from a new-democratic into a socialist and communist society, can abolish classes and realize the Great Harmony. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5570
Saramago: Strictly speaking, we do not make decisions. Decisions make us. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5571
Saramago: We live in a very peculiar world. Democracy isn’t discussed, as if it was taken for granted, as if democracy had taken God’s place, who is also not discussed. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5572
Saramago: We’re not short of movements proclaiming that a different world is possible, but unless we can coordinate them into an international movement, capitalism just laughs at all these little organisations. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5573
Saramago: We are marching against the law of the jungle that the United States and its acolytes old and new want to impose on the world... https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5574
Saramago: From literature to ecology, from the escape velocity of galaxies to the greenhouse effect, from garbage disposal methods to traffic jams, everything is discussed in our world. But the democratic system, as if it were a given fact, untouchable by nature until the end of time, we don’t discuss that. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5575
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Saramago: But truths need to be repeated many times so that they don’t, poor things, lapse into oblivion. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5576
Saramago: Society has to change, but the political powers we have at the moment are not enough to effect this change. The whole democratic system would have to be rethought. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5577
Saramago: That it’s possible not to see a lie even when it’s in front of us. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5578
Saramago: Beginning with adolescence, my political formation was oriented in the ideological direction of Marxism. It was natural, being that my thinking was influenced by an atmosphere of active critical resistance. That was the way it was during all of the dictatorship and up to the Revolution of 1974. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5579
Saramago: There are plenty of reasons not to put up with the world as it is. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5580
Saramago: The problem is that the right doesn’t need any ideas to govern, but the left can’t govern without ideas. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5581
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Saramago: I can’t imagine myself outside any kind of social or political involvement. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5582
Karl Marx: Since the production and the circulation of commodities are the general pre-requisites of the capitalist mode of production, division of labour in manufacture demands, that division of labour in society at large should previously have attained a certain degree of development. Inversely, the former division reacts upon and develops and multiplies the latter. Simultaneously, with the differentiation of the instruments of labour, the industries that produce these instruments, become more and more differentiated. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5583
Karl Marx: On the level plain, simple mounds look like hills; and the imbecile flatness of the present bourgeoisie is to be measured by the altitude of its great intellects. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5584
Thomas Sankara: With immense despair and sorrow, we received the sad news of the passing of Comrade Enver Hoxha. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5585
George Orwell: Unpopular ideas can be silenced, and inconvenient facts kept dark, without the need for any official ban. Anyone who has lived long in a foreign country will know of instances of sensational items of news — things which on their own merits would get the big headlines-being kept right out of the British press, not because the Government intervened but because of a general tacit agreement that ‘it wouldn’t do’ to mention that particular fact. So far as the daily newspapers go, this is easy to understand. The British press is extremely centralised, and most of it is owned by wealthy men who have every motive to be dishonest on certain important topics. But the same kind of veiled censorship also operates in books and periodicals, as well as in plays, films and radio. At any given moment there is an orthodoxy, a body of ideas which it is assumed that all right-thinking people will accept without question. It is not exactly forbidden to say this, that or the other, but it is ‘not done’ to say it, just as in mid-Victorian times it was ‘not done’ to mention trousers in the presence of a lady. Anyone who challenges the prevailing orthodoxy finds himself silenced with surprising effectiveness. A genuinely unfashionable opinion is almost never given a fair hearing, either in the popular press or in the highbrow periodicals. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5586
Marwan Makhoul: In order for me to write poetry that isn’t political I must listen to the birds and in order to hear the birds the warplanes must be silent. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5587
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Bible: For nothing is hidden that will not be made manifest, nor is anything secret that will not be known and come to light. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5588
Friedrich Hayek: “Emergencies” have always been the pretext on which the safeguards of individual liberty have eroded. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5589
Bob Marley: The people who were trying to make this world worse are not taking the day off. Why should I? https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5590
Robert Mugabe: The support and inspiration Comrade Enver Hoxha provided to the people of Zimbabwe during their struggle for liberation will be remembered forever. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5591
György Lukács: (T)he proletariat is the first oppressed class in history that has been capable of countering the oppressors’ philosophy with an independent and higher world-view of its own. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5592