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Otto Kuusinen: The main thing that characterises the parties of the new type is their irreconcilability to capitalism. The Communists are waging an active struggle for its abolition, for a revolutionary transformation of capitalist society, for they hold that the taking of political power by the working class and the establishment, of a dictatorship of the proletariat are essential conditions for this transformation. Hence the intolerance displayed by Communists for all forms of opportunism, which in practice signifies adaptation to capitalism. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5196



Umberto Eco: A democratic civilization will save itself only if it makes the language of the image into a stimulus for critical reflection — not an invitation for hypnosis. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5197



Umberto Eco: Because learning does not consist only of knowing what we must or we can do, but also of knowing what we could do and perhaps should not do. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5199


Umberto Eco: Books are not made to be believed, but to be subjected to inquiry. When we consider a book, we mustn't ask ourselves what it says but what it means... https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5200



Umberto Eco: A philosophy does not play its role as an actor during a recital; it interacts with other philosophies and with other facts, and it cannot know the results of the interaction between itself and other world visions. World visions can conceive of everything, except alternative world visions, if not in order to criticize them and to show their inconsistency. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5202



Umberto Eco: What is a symbol? Etymologically speaking, the word σύμβολον comes from σνμβάλλω, to throw-with, to make something coincide with something else: a symbol was originally an identification mark made up of two halves of a coin or of a medal. Two halves of the same thing, either one standing for the other, both becoming, however, fully effective only when they matched to make up, again, the original whole. … in the original concept of symbol, there is the suggestion of a final recomposition. Etymologies, however, do not necessarily tell the truth — or, at least, they tell the truth, in terms of historical, not of structural, semantics. What is frequently appreciated in many so-called symbols is exactly their vagueness, their openness, their fruitful ineffectiveness to express a 'final' meaning, so that with symbols and by symbols one indicates what is always beyond one's reach. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5203






Kim Il Sung: So long as imperialism exists on the globe and oppresses and plunders the people, the people cannot leave off the anti-imperialist struggle even a moment. The struggle must continue till all shades of colonialism are wiped off the face of the earth. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5208



Sydney J. Harris: The real danger is not that computers will begin to think like men, but that men will begin to think like computers. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5209


Ernst Thälmann: We do not say, choose Thälmann, then you have bread and freedom , we say, for bread and freedom you must fight! https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5210


Ernst Thälmann: My people, to whom I belong, and whom I love, are the German people, and my nation, which I worship with great pride, is the German nation, a knightly, proud and hard nation Flesh of the flesh of the German workers, and therefore, as their revolutionary child, have later become their revolutionary leader. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5211




Aimé Césaire: It is a new society that we must create, with the help of all our brother slaves, a society rich with all the productive power of modern times, warm with all the fraternity of olden days. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5213


Marcus Aurelius: Look back over the past, with its changing empires that rose and fell, and you can foresee the future too. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5214










Marcus Aurelius: Constantly and, if it be possible, on the occasion of every impression on the soul, apply to it the principles of Physic, of Ethic, and of Dialectic. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5221



Marcus Aurelius: All things are changing; and thou thyself art in continuous mutation and in a manner in continuous destruction and the whole universe to. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5223





Marcus Aurelius: Acquire the contemplative way of seeing how all things change into one another, and constantly attend to it, and exercise thyself about this part (of philosophy). For nothing is so much adapted to produce magnanimity. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5225


Marcus Aurelius: All things are implicated with one another, and the bond is holy; and there is hardly anything unconnected with any other things. For things have been co-ordinated, and they combine to make up the same universe. For there is one universe made up of all things, and one god who pervades all things, and one substance, and one law, and one reason. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5226