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George Carlin: Some people see things that are and ask, Why? Some people dream of things that never were and ask, Why not? Some people have to go to work and don't have time for all that. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5766




George Carlin: I do this real moron thing, and it's called thinking. And apparently I'm not a very good American because I like to form my own opinions. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5768


George Carlin: I'm completely in favor of the separation of Church and State. ... These two institutions screw us up enough on their own, so both of them together is certain death. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5769




George Carlin: Think of how it all started: America was founded by slave owners who informed us, "All men are created equal." All "men," except Indians, niggers, and women. Remember, the founders were a small group of unelected, white, male, land-holding slave owners who also, by the way, suggested their class be the only one allowed to vote. To my mind, that is what's known as being stunningly--and embarrassingly--full of shit. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5772



George Carlin: If the black box flight recorder is never damaged during a plane crash, why isn’t the whole airplane made out of that stuff? https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5773


Gramsci: The crisis of fascism, about whose origins and causes so much is now being written, can easily be explained by a serious examination of the evolution of the fascist movement itself. The Fasci di combattimento were born in the aftermath of the war. They were imbued with the petit-bourgeois character of the various veterans associations which arose at that time. Due to their trenchant opposition to the socialist movement they obtained the support of the capitalists and the authorities. This aspect of the Fasci was inherited in part from the conflict between the Socialist Party and the ‘interventionist’ associations during the war years. They emerged during the same period when the rural landowners were feeling the need to create a White Guard to tackle the growing workers’ organisations. The gangs that were already organised and armed by the big landowners soon adopted the label Fasci for themselves too. With their subsequent development, these gangs would acquire their own distinct character – as a White Guard of capitalism against the class organs of the proletariat. Fascism still conserves this trait of its origins. But until very recently, the fervour of the armed offensive kept a lid on the tensions between the urban cadre – who are predominantly petit-bourgeois, orientated on parliament, and ‘collaborationist’ – and the rural cadre, which consist of the big and medium landowners and their tenant farmers. These rural groups are engaged in a fight against the poor peasants and their organisations. They are acutely anti-union and reactionary. And they have far more faith in direct armed action than in the authority of the state and the efficacy of parliament. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5774





George Carlin: They say that instead of cursing the darkness, one should light a candle. Nothing is mentioned, though, about cursing a lack of candles. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5777


Winston Churchill: Let's not let Argentina be a power, because it will drag all of Latin America behind it... The strategy is to weaken and corrupt Argentina from within. Destroy their industries, their armed forces, foment internal divisions by supporting sides on the right and left, attack their culture in all media, impose political leaders who respond to our Empire. This will be achieved thanks to the apathy of its people and a controllable democracy, where its representatives will raise their hands en masse in servile submission. Argentina must be humiliated. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5778



Sophie Scholl: How can we expect righteousness to prevail when there is hardly anyone willing to give himself up individually to a righteous cause. Such a fine, sunny day, and I have to go, but what does my death matter, if through us, thousands of people are awakened and stirred to action? https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5780



Meridel Le Sueur: The source of American culture lies in the historic movement of our people, and the artist must become voice, messenger, awakener, sparking the inflammable silence, reflecting back the courage and the beauty. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5781





Sophie Scholl: The real damage is done by those millions who want to 'survive.' The honest men who just want to be left in peace. Those who don’t want their little lives disturbed by anything bigger than themselves. Those with no sides and no causes. Those who won’t take measure of their own strength, for fear of antagonizing their own weakness. Those who don’t like to make waves—or enemies. Those for whom freedom, honour, truth, and principles are only literature. Those who live small, mate small, die small. It’s the reductionist approach to life: if you keep it small, you’ll keep it under control. If you don’t make any noise, the bogeyman won’t find you. But it’s all an illusion, because they die too, those people who roll up their spirits into tiny little balls so as to be safe. Safe?! From what? Life is always on the edge of death; narrow streets lead to the same place as wide avenues, and a little candle burns itself out just like a flaming torch does. I choose my own way to burn. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5784



Noam Chomsky: As long as the general population is passive, apathetic, diverted to consumerism or hatred of the vulnerable, then the powerful can do as they please, and those who survive will be left to contemplate the outcome. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5785





Malcolm X: So our next move is to take the entire civil rights struggle, problem, into the United Nations and let the world see that Uncle Sam is guilty of violating the human rights of 22 million Afro-Americans right down to the year of 1964 and still has the audacity or the nerve to like a bloody-jawed wolf. And still got the nerve to point his finger at other countries. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5788


Che Guevara: Violence is not the monopoly of the exploiters and as such the exploited can use it too and, moreover, ought to use it when the moment arrives. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5789



W. E. B. Du Bois: We have no right to sit silently by while the inevitable seeds are sown for a harvest of disaster to our children, black and white. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5790


Julian Assange: The more secretive or unjust an organization is, the more leaks induce fear and paranoia in its leadership and planning coterie. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5791


Julian Assange: Only revealed injustice can be answered; for man to do anything intelligent he has to know what's actually going on. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5792