Robespierre: When the government violates the people’s rights, insurrection is, for the people and each portion of the people, the most sacred of rights and the most indispensable of duties. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5402
Robespierre: Offences committed by people’s representatives should be severely and promptly punished. No one has the right to claim to be more inviolable than other citizens. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5403
Robespierre: Ask that merchant in human flesh what property is. He will tell you, pointing to the long coffin that he calls a ship and in which he has herded and shackled men who still appear to be alive: “Those are my property; I bought them at so much a head.” Question that nobleman, who has lands and ships or who thinks that the world has been turned upside down since he has had none, and he will give you a similar view of property. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5405
Robespierre: Citizens whose incomes do not exceed what is required for their subsistence are exempted from contributing to state expenditure; all others must support it progressively according to their wealth. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5406
Robespierre: We want, in a word, to fulfil nature’s wishes, to further the destinies of humanity, to keep the promises of philosophy, to absolve providence of the long reign of crime and tyranny. So that France, once illustrious among enslaved countries, eclipsing the glory of all the free peoples that have existed, may become the model for all nations, the terror of oppressors, the consolation of the oppressed, the ornament of the universe. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5407
Robespierre: Democracy is a state in which the sovereign people, guided by laws which are its own work, does for itself all that it can do properly, and through delegates all that it cannot do for itself. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5408
Lenin: Unity is a great thing and a great slogan. But what the workers' cause needs is the unity of Marxists, not unity between Marxists, and opponents and distorters of Marxism. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5409
Lenin: And although these magnificent uprisings of the working class were crushed, there will be another uprising, which the forces of the enemies of the proletariat will prove ineffective, and from which the socialist proletariat will emerge completely victorious. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5411
Carroll Quigley: The growth of financial capitalism made possible a centralization of world economic control and use of this power for the direct benefit of financiers and the indirect injury of all other economic groups. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5412
Lenin: During periods of industrial boom, the profits of finance capital are immense, but during periods of depression, small and unsound businesses go out of existence, and the big banks acquire “holdings” in them by buying them up for a mere song, or participate in profitable schemes for their “reconstruction” and “reorganisation”. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5413
Murray Rothbard: Now if a parent may own his child... then he may... give the child out for adoption, or he may sell the rights to the child in a voluntary contract. In short, we must face the fact that the purely free society will have a flourishing free market in children. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5415
Melita Norwood: I did what I did not to make money but to help prevent the defeat of a new system which had, at great cost, given ordinary people food and fares which they could afford, a good education and a health service. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5416
Richard Sorge: Dear Comrade! Don't worry about us. Although we are terribly tired and tense, nevertheless we are disciplined, obedient, decisive and devoted fellows who are ready to carry out the tasks connected with our great mission. I send sincere greetings to you and your friends. I request you to forward the attached letter and greetings to my wife. Please, take the time to see to her welfare. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5428
Carl Bernstein: Somehow, amidst the Bonds and Smiley's People, we have ignored the greatest of 20th century spy stories – that of Stalin's Sorge, whose exploits helped change history. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5431
Larry Collins: Richard Sorge's brilliant espionage work saved Stalin and the Soviet Union from defeat in the fall of 1941, probably prevented a Nazi victory in World War II and thereby assured the dimensions of the world we live in today. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5432
Frederick Forsyth: The spies in history who can say from their graves, the information I supplied to my masters, for better or worse, altered the history of our planet, can be counted on the fingers of one hand. Richard Sorge was in that group. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5433
