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Jonathan V. Last: A journalistic institution exists to serve its audience by giving them the clearest possible understanding of reality. The first duty of a journalistic institution is not to be “fair” to the politicians it covers. It is to make certain that its audience is presented an accurate view of reality. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote3779


Mao Zedong: In the world today all culture, all literature and art belong to definite classes and are geared to definite political lines. There is in fact no such thing as art for art's sake, art that stands above classes, art that is detached from or independent of politics. Proletarian literature and art are part of the whole proletarian revolutionary cause; they are, as Lenin said, cogs and wheels in the whole revolutionary machine. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote3780


Mao Zedong: Revolutionary culture is a powerful revolutionary weapon for the broad masses of the people. It prepares the ground ideologically before the revolution comes and is an important, indeed essential, fighting front in the general revolutionary front during the revolution. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote3781


Mao Zedong: All our literature and art are for the masses of the people, and in the first place for the workers, peasants and soldiers; they are created for the workers, peasants and soldiers and are for their use. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote3782


Mao Zedong: Our literary and art workers must accomplish this task and shift their stand; they must gradually move their feet over to the side of the workers, peasants and soldiers, to the side of the proletariat, through the process of going into their very midst and into the thick of practical struggles and through the process of studying Marxism and society. Only in this way can we have a literature and art that are truly for the workers, peasants and soldiers, a truly proletarian literature and art. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote3783



Aaron Bushnell: I've realized that a lot of the difference between me and my less radical friends is that they are less capable of imagining a better world than I am. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote3785



Mao Zedong: Political work is the life-blood of all economic work. This is particularly true at a time when the social and economic system is undergoing fundamental change. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote3786


Mao Zedong: Ideological education is the key link to be grasped in uniting the whole Party for great political struggles. Unless this is done, the Party cannot accomplish any of its political tasks. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote3787


Mao Zedong: What really counts in the world is conscientiousness, and the Communist Party is most particular about being conscientious. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote3788


Chuang Tzu: How shall I talk of the sea to the frog If it has never left its pond? How shall I talk of the frost to the bird of the Summerland If it has never left the land of its birth How shall I talk of life with the sage If he is prisoner of his doctrine? https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote3789



Lenin: Less bombastic phrases and more simple, everyday work; less political word chatter and more attention to the simplest but living facts of construction. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote3790


Mao Zedong: Changes in society are due chiefly to the development of the internal contradictions in society, that is, the contradiction between the productive forces and the relations of production, the contradiction between classes and the contradiction between the old and the new; it is the development of these contradictions that pushes society forward and gives the impetu6 for the suppression of the old society by the new. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote3791


Mao Zedong: Who are our enemies? Who are our friends? This is a question of the first importance for the revolution. The basic reason why all previous revolutionary struggles in China achieved so little was their failure to unite with real friends in order to attack real enemies. A revolutionary party is the guide of the masses, and no revolution ever succeeds when the revolutionary party leads them astray. To ensure that we will definitely achieve success in our revolution and will not lead the masses astray, we must pay attention to uniting with our real friends in order to attack our real enemies. To distinguish real friends from real enemies, we must make a general analysis of the economic status of the various classes in Chinese society and of their respective attitudes towards the revolution. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote3792


Mao Zedong: The imperialists and domestic reactionaries will certainly not take their defeat Lying down and they will struggle to the last ditch. After there is peace and order throughout the country, they will still engage in sabotage and create disturbances in various ways and will try every day and every minute to stage a comeback. This is inevitable, beyond all doubt, and under no circumstances must we relax our vigilance. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote3793



Mike Tyson: I really enjoyed Will Durant’s The Story of Civilization. I read Mao’s book, I read Che. I read Machiavelli, Tolstoy, Dostoyevsky, Marx, Shakespeare, you name it. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote3794



Yamamoto Tsunetomo: At times because of one man’s evil, ten thousand people suffer. So you kill that one man to let the tens of thousands live. Here, truly, the blade that deals death becomes the sword that saves lives. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote3796


Yamamoto Tsunetomo: There is surely nothing other than the single purpose of the present moment. A man's whole life is a succession of moment after moment. There will be nothing else to do, and nothing else to pursue. Live being true to the single purpose of the moment. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote3797


Yamamoto Tsunetomo: Even if it seems certain that you will lose, retaliate. Neither wisdom nor technique has a place in this. A real man does not think of victory or defeat. He plunges recklessly towards an irrational death. By doing this, you will awaken from your dreams. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote3798


Mao Zedong: After the enemies with guns have been wiped out, there will still be enemies without guns; they are bound to struggle desperately against us, and we must never regard these enemies lightly. If we do not now raise and understand the problem in this way, we shall commit the gravest mistakes. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote3799


Fidel Castro: Che was radically opposed to using and developing capitalist economic laws and categories in building socialism. He advocated something that I have often insisted on: Building socialism and communism is not just a matter of producing and distributing wealth but is also a matter of education and consciousness’ (Fidel Castro in ‘Che Guevara, Economics and politics in the transition to socialism. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote3800



Che Guevara: In Cuba there is nothing published, if one excludes the Soviet bricks, which bring the inconvenience that they do not let you think; the party did it for you and you should digest it. It would be necessary to publish the complete works of Marx, Engels, Lenin, Stalin (underlined by Che in the original) and other great Marxists. Here would come to the great revisionists (if you want you can add here Khrushchev), well analyzed, more profoundly than any others and also your friend Trotsky, who existed and apparently wrote something. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote3801


Che Guevara: In the socialist countries, the enterprise possesses a bank credit, acquires money, produces with the money that it receives, sells its production, and then grants to the State part of the profit and part of this profit is preserved for internal needs. The difference is that our company does not sell, but delivers products and workers are awarded through the State. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote3802



Nikola Tesla: Let the future tell the truth, and evaluate each one according to his work and accomplishments. The present is theirs; the future, for which I have really worked, is mine. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote3804




Nikola Tesla: I learned a dozen languages, studied literature and arts, spent my best years in libraries reading everything that came my way, and though I sometimes felt I was losing time, I quickly realized it was the best thing I ever did. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote3807


Mao Zedong: The victory of the Chinese people's revolution is absolutely inseparable from Comrade Stalin's unceasing care, leadership, and support of over thirty years. Since the victory of the Chinese people's revolution, Comrade Stalin and the people and government of the Soviet Union, under his leadership, have rendered generous and selfless assistance to the Chinese people's cause of construction. Such a great and profound friendship as that which Comrade Stalin had for the Chinese people will be forever remembered with gratitude by the Chinese people. The immortal beacon of Comrade Stalin will forever illuminate the path on which the Chinese people march forward. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote3808