Anton Chekhov: The bourgeoisie loves so-called "positive" types and novels with happy endings since they lull one into thinking that it is fine to simultaneously acquire capital and maintain one's innocence, to be a beast and still be happy. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote4004
Theodore White: The flood of money that gushes into politics today is a pollution of democracy. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote4005
Theodore White: To go against the dominant thinking of your friends, of most of the people you see every day, is perhaps the most difficult act of heroism you can perform. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote4006
Theodore White: He who is created by television can be destroyed by television. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote4007
Theodore White: History is always best written generations after the event, when clouded fact and memory have all fused into what can be accepted as truth, whether it be so or not. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote4008
Theodore White: Power in America today is control of the means of communication. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote4009
Theodore White: I class myself as a manual laborer. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote4010
Theodore White: If you go back through 2000 years, I guess luck, Marx, and God have made history, the three of them together. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote4011
Günther Anders: In order to suppress all rebellions from the outset, it is not necessary to do it brutally. Archaic methods like Hitler are definitely outdated. It is enough to create collective conditioning so powerful that the very idea of rebellion no longer even occurs to us. The best way would be to format people from birth by limiting their innate biological abilities... Then we continue conditioning by drastically reducing the level and quality of education, reducing it to a form of effortless occupation. An uneducated person has a limited horizon of thought, and the more limited his thinking is - material, mediocre, the less he can rebel. Access to knowledge must be made increasingly difficult and elitist... Let the gap between people and science deepen so that information directed at the general public is anesthetized by all possible content - especially without philosophy. Again, persuasion must be used, not direct violence: we will broadcast entertainment on television to the masses, which always flatters the emotions and instincts. We will occupy our minds with what is futile and amusing - incessant chatter and music, so as not to ask ourselves questions, not to set thinking in motion. Sexuality will be the most important - as a social anaesthetic, there is nothing better. In general, the seriousness of existence must be forbidden, everything of high value must be ridiculed, a constant apology of lightness must be maintained, so that the euphoria of advertising and consumption becomes a valuable component of the standard of human happiness and a model of freedom. This type of pressure on the collective will in itself cause such integration that the only fear (which will have to be maintained) is exclusion from the system and thus loss of access to the material conditions necessary for happiness. The mass man, thus produced, must be treated as he is: a product, a calf, and must be monitored as a herd should be. Anything that lulls his clarity, his critical mind, is socially good, while anything that could wake him up must be fought, ridiculed, stifled... Any doctrines that question the system must first be defined as subversive and terrorist, and those who support it, treated as public enemies. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote4012
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Immanuel Kant: If the truth shall kill them, let them die. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote4013
Karl Marx: Instead of deciding once in three or six years which member of the ruling class was to represent and repress (ver- and zertreten) the people in parliament, universal suffrage was to serve the people constituted in communes, as individual suffrage serves every other employer in the search for workers, foremen and accountants for his business. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote4014
Karl Marx: The Commune was to be a working, not a parliamentary, body, executive and legislative at the same time. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote4015
Karl Marx: The Commune made the catchword of all bourgeois revolutions, cheap government, a reality, by abolishing the two greatest sources of expenditure--the army and the officialdom. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote4016
Karl Marx: The first decree of the Commune, therefore, was the suppression of the standing army, and the substitution for it of the armed people. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote4017
Karl Marx: The Commune was formed of the municipal councillors, chosen by universal suffrage in the various wards of the town, responsible and revocable at any time. The majority of its members were naturally working men, or acknowledged representatives of the working class.... The police, which until then had been the instrument of the Government, was at once stripped of its political attributes, and turned into the responsible, and at all times revocable, agent of the Commune. So were the officials of all other branches of the administration. From the members of the Commune downwards, the public service had to be done at workmen's wages. The privileges and the representation allowances of the high dignitaries of state disappeared along with the high dignitaries themselves.... Having once got rid of the standing army and the police, the instruments of physical force of the old government, the Commune proceeded at once to break the instrument of spiritual suppression, the power of the priests.... The judicial functionaries lost that sham independence... they were thenceforward to be elective, responsible, and revocable. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote4018
John Lennon: We live in a world where we have to hide to make love, while violence is practiced in broad daylight. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote4019
John Lennon: We must always remember to thank the CIA and the Army for LSD, by the way. Everything is the opposite of what it is, isn't it? They brought out LSD to control people, and what they did was give us freedom. Sometimes it works in mysterious ways its wonders to perform. But it sure as hell performs them. If you look a the government report book on acid, the only ones who jumped out of windows because of it were the ones in the Army. I never knew anybody who jumped out of a window or killed themselves because of it. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote4020
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John Lennon: Our society is run by insane people for insane objectives. … I think we're being run by maniacs for maniacal ends and I think I'm liable to be put away as insane for expressing that. That's what's insane about it. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote4021
Leila Khaled: Liberation is not achieved at the negotiation table. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote4022
Fidel Castro: Ireland is one single country, one single homeland. My desire is that one day this entire island will be united and at peace. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote4023
Muammar Gaddafi: Sixty-five wars have broken out since the establishment of the United Nations and the Security Council — 65 since their creation, with millions more victims than in the Second World War. Are those wars, and the aggression and force that were used in those 65 wars, in the common interest of us all? No, they were in the interest of one or three or four countries, but not of all nations. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote4024
Kim Jong-Un: When all families are harmonious and happy, the whole society can become one family and the socialist system further consolidated. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote4025
Fyodor Dostoevsky: The degree of civilization in a society can be judged by entering its prisons. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote4026
Tupac Shakur: Can you imagine somebody having $32 million and this (other) person has nothing? And you can sleep? And then these are the type of people who get humanitarian awards. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote4027
Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar: So long as you do not achieve social liberty, whatever freedom is provided by the law is of no avail to you. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote4028
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George R.R. Martin: When you tear out a man's tongue, you are not proving him a liar, you're only telling the world that you fear what he might say. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote4029
Jane Addams: True peace is not merely the absence of war, it is the presence of justice. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote4030
Thomas H. Huxley: Logical consequences are the scarecrows of fools and the beacons of wise men. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote4031
Denis Diderot: Man will never be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote4032
Phillip Blond: What is actually happening now is that monoploy capitalism needs the state to disempower ordinary people's institutions and lives. What we are actually developing in modern Europe is a post-democratic society. We are creating an oligarchical elite structure where moneyed elites, the elites of industry cohabit with political elites and they move into each other's regimes and spaces. So we have now produced what I would call a market state, and the market state really just exists for the benefit of those in the top. And there is clear economic and social evidence for this, it is very clear that only those at the very top of society in the developed world have really benefited from the last thirty years. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote4033
Victor Hugo: Even the darkest night will end and the sun will rise. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote4034
GautierDay hat dies geteilt.
Victor Hugo: To put everything in balance is good, to put everything in harmony is better. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote4035
Victor Hugo: It is nothing to die. It is frightful not to live. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote4036
Victor Hugo: Not being heard is no reason for silence. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote4037
Victor Hugo: Those who do not weep, do not see. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote4038
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Victor Hugo: To learn to read is to light a fire; every syllable that is spelled out is a spark. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote4039