Wiz Khalifa: Revealing the truth is like lighting a match, it can bring light or it can set your world on fire. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote3988
Aaron McGruder: People consistently underestimate today is how the nature of mass media has transformed society. 10 people control 90% of everything you see, read, and hear in this country. 10 people. And they want to tell you that Cuba has state-run media. 10 people. Who are those 10 people? Well, you can look em up. They're not hard to find. That in and of itself is problematic when you consider that these 10 people all need permission from the US government in order to have licenses in order to buy other corporations in order to do all the nefarious things they like to do we live in a completely different era where information is more tightly controlled than it has ever been in the history of this country when we're on the verge of the Iraq war no actually after the Iraq war started some 400,000 people march in New York City and they don't even get on the news first thing to remember is that What drives this country is money and profit. Generally, most things that are going down today are going down because of money and profit. Absolutely. The wars, the peace, stocks, and every single TV show you watch. Believe me, what you see on television, when you turn on CNN and you turn on MSNBC, that's entertainment. Is what people try to suppress. News is what they do not want you to know. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote3989
Wilhelm Pieck: Since the first days of Soviet power, the capitalist world, the bourgeois ideologists and their agents in the working class have been waging a vindictive struggle against the country where power is in the hands of the working people. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote3990
Trotsky: In all countries the same historic laws operate, the laws of capitalist decline. If the means of production remain in the hands of a small number of capitalists, there is no way out for society. It is condemned to go from crisis to crisis, from need to misery, from bad to worse. In the various countries the decrepitude and disintegration of capitalism are expressed in diverse forms and at unequal rhythms. But the basic features of the process are the same everywhere. The bourgeoisie is leading its society to complete bankruptcy. It is capable of assuring the people neither bread nor peace. This is precisely why it cannot any longer tolerate the democratic order. It is forced to smash the workers by the use of physical violence. The discontent of the workers and peasants, however, cannot be brought to an end by the police alone. Moreover, it is often impossible to make the army march against the people. It begins by disintegrating and ends with the passage of a large section of the soldiers over to the people’s side. That is why finance capital is obliged to create special armed bands, trained to fight the workers just as certain breeds of dog are trained to hunt game. The historic function of Fascism is to smash the working class, destroy its organizations, and stifle political liberties when the capitalists find themselves unable to govern and dominate with the help of democratic machinery. The Fascists find their human material mainly in the petty bourgeoisie. The latter has been entirely ruined by big capital. There is no way out for it in the present social order, but it knows of no other. Its dissatisfaction, indignation and despair are diverted by the Fascists away from big capital and against the workers. It may be said that Fascism is the act of placing the petty bourgeoisie at the disposal of its most bitter enemies. In this way big capital ruins the middle classes and then with the help of hired Fascist demagogues incites the despairing petty bourgeois against the worker. The bourgeois régime can be preserved only by such murderous means as these. For how long? Until it is overthrown by proletarian revolution. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote3991
Karl Marx: The transformation of scattered private property, arising from individual labor, into capitalist private property is, naturally, a process, incomparably more protracted, violent, and difficult, than the transformation of capitalistic private property, already practically resting on socialized production, into socialized property. In the former case, we had the expropriation of the mass of the people by a few usurpers; in the latter, we have the expropriation of a few usurpers by the mass of the people. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote3992
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Karl Marx: What does the primitive accumulation of capital, i.e., its historical genesis, resolve itself into? In so far as it is not immediate transformation of slaves and serfs into wage-laborers, and therefore a mere change of form, it only means the expropriation of the immediate producers, i.e., the dissolution of private property based on the labor of its owner. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote3993
Stalin: The Labour government has agreed to turn Britain into a military and air base for the United States of America to attack the Soviet Union. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote3994
Thomas Sankara: Imperialism never learns the lessons of its failures…imperialism is over there in the Middle East crushing the Arab peoples, that’s Zionism. Imperialism is everywhere, through the culture that it spreads, through its misinformation. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote3995
Pablo Picasso: The mediocre imitate, the great copy. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote3996
The Nazi soldiers in Paris, together with the German ambassador, asked Picasso when they saw the painting by Guernica "Did you make this?", Picasso's answer was: "No, you (plural referencing the Nazi Germany) did it. I just painted it". - anonymous https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote3997
No generalization is quite true, not even this one. - anonymous https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote3998
Oliver Goldsmith: You can preach a better sermon with your life than with your lips. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote3999
Rosa Luxemburg: The proletariat, when it seizes power, can never follow the good advice of Kautsky, given on the pretext of the “unripeness of the country,” the advice being to renounce socialist revolution and devote itself to democracy. It cannot follow this advice without betraying thereby itself, the International, and the revolution. It should and must at once undertake socialist measures in the most energetic, unyielding and unhesitant fashion, in other words, exercise a dictatorship, but a dictatorship of the class, not of a party or of a clique – dictatorship of the class, that means in the broadest possible form on the basis of the most active, unlimited participation of the mass of the people, of unlimited democracy. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote4000
Rosa Luxemburg: But socialist democracy is not something which begins only in the promised land after the foundations of socialist economy are created; it does not come as some sort of Christmas present for the worthy people who, in the interim, have loyally supported a handful of socialist dictators. Socialist democracy begins simultaneously with the beginnings of the destruction of class rule and of the construction of socialism. It begins at the very moment of the seizure of power by the socialist party. It is the same thing as the dictatorship of the proletariat. Yes, dictatorship! But this dictatorship consists in the manner of applying democracy, not in its elimination, but in energetic, resolute attacks upon the well-entrenched rights and economic relationships of bourgeois society, without which a socialist transformation cannot be accomplished. But this dictatorship must be the work of the class and not of a little leading minority in the name of the class – that is, it must proceed step by step out of the active participation of the masses; it must be under their direct influence, subjected to the control of complete public activity; it must arise out of the growing political training of the mass of the people. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote4001
Friedrich Engels: And as long as the present basis of society is retained, so long will it be impossible to halt the progressing enrichment of a few individuals and the impoverishment of the great majority: the contradiction will develop more and more sharply until finally necessity compels society to reorganise itself on more rational principles. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote4002
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Lenin: The task of reaction is to make the population forget those forms of struggle, forms of organization, those ideas, those slogans that the revolutionary era gave birth to in such richness and diversity. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote4003
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