Leonardo da Vinci: He who does not value life does not deserve it. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5135

Leonardo da Vinci: As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5136

Leonardo da Vinci: Many have made a trade of delusions and false miracles, deceiving the stupid multitude. Pharisees — that is to say, friars. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5137

Leonardo da Vinci: He who does not punish evil commands it to be done. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5138

Leonardo da Vinci: He who wishes to be rich in a day will be hanged in a year. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5139

Leonardo da Vinci: Those who fall in love with practice without science are like a sailor who enters a ship without a helm or a compass, and who never can be certain whither he is going. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5140

Leonardo da Vinci: Science is the captain, and practice the soldiers. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5141

Leonardo da Vinci: Truth was the only daughter of Time. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5142

Leonardo da Vinci: Wisdom is the daughter of experience. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5143

Leonardo da Vinci: All our knowledge has its origin in our perceptions. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5144

Stuart Hall: The university is a critical institution or it is nothing. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5145

Ernst Bloch: Only an atheist can be a good Christian; only a Christian can be a good atheist. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5146

Ernst Bloch: The best thing about religion is that it makes for heretics. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5147

Marie Curie: I am among those who think that science has great beauty. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5148

George Carlin: The CIA doesn't kill anybody anymore they neutralise people. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5149

George Carlin: The government doesn't lie they engage in misinformation. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5150

Haile Selassie I: Throughout history, it has been the inaction of those who could have acted; the indifference of those who should have known better; the silence of the voice of justice when it mattered most; that has made it possible for evil to triumph. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5151

Nietzsche: All things are subject to interpretation. Whichever interpretation prevails at a given time is a function of power and not truth. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5152

Stalin: How do the Social-Democratic parties of the West exist and develop nowadays? Have they inner-party contradictions, disagreements based on principle? Of course, they have. Do they disclose these contradictions and try to over come them honestly and openly in sight of the mass of the party membership? No, of course not. It is the practice of the Social-Democrats to cover up and conceal these contradictions and disagreements. It is the practice of the Social-Democrats to turn their conferences and congresses into an empty parade of ostensible well-being, assiduously covering up and slurring over internal disagreements. But nothing can come of this except stuffing people's heads with rubbish and the ideological impoverishment of the party. This is one of the reasons for the decline of West-European Social-Democracy, which was once revolutionary, and is now reformist. We, however, cannot live and develop in that way, comrades. The policy of a "middle" line in matters of principle is not our policy. The policy of a "middle" line in matters of principle is the policy of decaying and degenerating parties. Such a policy cannot but lead to the conversion of the party into an empty bureaucratic apparatus, running idle and divorced from the masses of the workers. That path is not our path. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5153

Stalin: I think that the source of the contradictions within the proletarian parties lies in two circumstances. What are these circumstances? They are, firstly, the pressure exerted by the bourgeoisie and bourgeois ideology on the proletariat and its party in the conditions of the class struggle—a pressure to which the least stable strata of the proletariat, and, hence, the least stable strata of the proletarian party, not infrequently succumb. It must not be thought that the proletariat is completely isolated from society, that it stands outside society. The proletariat is a part of society, connected with its diverse strata by numerous threads. But the party is a part of the proletariat. Hence the Party cannot be exempt from connections with, and from the influence of, the diverse sections of bourgeois society. The pressure of the bourgeoisie and its ideology on the proletariat and its party finds expression in the fact that bourgeois ideas, manners, customs and sentiments not infrequently penetrate the proletariat and its party through definite strata of the proletariat that are in one way or another connected with bourgeois society. They are, secondly, the heterogeneity of the working class, the existence of different strata within the working class. I think that the proletariat, as a class, can be divided into three strata. One stratum is the main mass of the proletariat, its core, its permanent part, the mass of "pure-blooded" proletarians, who have long broken off connection with the capitalist class. This stratum of the proletariat is the most reliable bulwark of Marxism. The second stratum consists of newcomers from non-proletarian classes—from the peasantry, the petty bourgeoisie or the intelligentsia. These are former members of other classes who have only recently merged with the proletariat and have brought with them into the working class their customs, their habits, their waverings and their vacillations. This stratum constitutes the most favourable soil for all sorts of anarchist, semi-anarchist and "ultra-Left" groups. The third stratum, lastly, consists of the labour aristocracy, the upper stratum of the working class, the most well-to-do portion of the proletariat, with its propensity for compromise with the bourgeoisie, its predominant inclination to adapt itself to the powers that be, and its anxiety to "get on in life." This stratum constitutes the most favourable soil for outright reformists and opportunists. Notwithstanding their superficial difference, these last two strata of the working class constitute a more or less common nutritive medium for opportunism in general—open opportunism, when the sentiments of the labour aristocracy gain the upper hand, and opportunism camouflaged with "Left" phrases, when the sentiments of the semi-middle-class strata of the working class which have not yet completely broken with the petty-bourgeois environment gain the upper hand. The fact that "ultra-Left" sentiments very often coincide with the sentiments of open opportunism is not at all surprising. Lenin said time and again that the "ultra-Left" opposition is the reverse side of the Right-wing, Menshevik, openly opportunist opposition. And that is quite true. If the "ultra-Lefts" stand for revolution only because they expect the victory of the revolution the very next day, then obviously they must fall into despair and be disillusioned in the revolution if the revolution is delayed, if the revolution is not victorious the very next day. Naturally, with every turn in the development of the class struggle, with every sharpening of the struggle and intensification of difficulties, the differences in the views, customs and sentiments of the various strata of the proletariat must inevitably make themselves felt in the shape of definite disagreements within the party, and the pressure of the bourgeoisie and its ideology must inevitably accentuate these disagreements by providing them with an outlet in the form of a struggle within the proletarian party. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5154

Josip Broz Tito: There is no struggle against Fascism without struggle against its Trotskyist form. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5155

Rabindranath Tagore: If you shut your door to all errors truth will be shut out. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5156

Rabindranath Tagore: The real frienship is like fluorescence, it shines better when everything has darken. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5157

Rabindranath Tagore: That one who talks so much is completely hollow, you know that the empty pitcher is the one that sounds the most. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5158

Rabindranath Tagore: The woods would be quiet if no bird sang but the one that sang best. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5159

Rabindranath Tagore: If you cry because the sun has gone out of your life, your tears will prevent you from seeing the stars. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5160

Rabindranath Tagore: Thank the flame for its light, but do not forget the lampholder standing in the shade with constancy of patience. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5161

Rabindranath Tagore: Set bird's wings with gold and it will never again soar in the sky. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5162

Rabindranath Tagore: So for men to accept is truly to give: for women to give is truly to gain. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5163

Helen Keller: Walking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5164

Albert Einstein: Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5165

Che Guevara: Brave is he who has more shame than fear. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5166

John Brown: I have only a short time to live, only one death to die, and I will die fighting for this cause. There will be no peace in this land until slavery is done for. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5167

John Brown: These men are all talk. What we need is action—action! https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5168