Eric Hobsbawm: One of the worst things about the politics of the past 30 years is that the rich have forgotten to be afraid of the poor – of most of the people in the world. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote3906
Eric Hobsbawm: The love affair between intellectuals and Marxism which is so characteristic of our age developed relatively late in western Europe, though in Russia itself it began in Marx's own lifetime. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote3907
Eric Hobsbawm: First, utopianism is probably a necessary social device for generating the superhuman efforts without which no major revolution is achieved. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote3908
Eric Hobsbawm: It is not strictly accurate to call the ‘enlightenment’ a middle class ideology, though there were many enlighteners—and politically they were the decisive ones—who assumed as a matter of course that the free society would be a capitalist society. In theory its object was to set all human beings free. All progressive, rationalist and humanist ideologies are implicit in it, and indeed came out of it. Yet in practice the leaders of the emancipation for which the enlightenment called were likely to be the middle ranks of society, the new, rational men of ability and merit rather than birth, and the social order which would emerge from their activities would be a ‘bourgeois’ and capitalist one. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote3909
Eric Hobsbawm: In terms of political geography, The French Revolution ended the European Middle Ages. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote3910
Eric Hobsbawm: The progress of science is not a simple linear advance, each stage marking the solution of posing of problems previously implicit or explicit in it, and in turn posing new problems. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote3911
Eric Hobsbawm: Human beings are not efficiently designed for a capitalist system of production. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote3912
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Che Guevara: Whenever death may surprise us, let it be welcome if our battle cry has reached even one receptive ear and another hand reaches out to take up our arms. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote3913
John Connelly: The dollar is our currency, but it is your problem. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote3914
Lenin: The most cunning guardians of the present order will be impotent to prevent the awakening of the thoughts of the proletariat. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote3915
Carl Sagan: The nitrogen in our DNA, the calcium in our teeth, the iron in our blood, the carbon in our apple pies were made in the interiors of collapsing stars. We are made of starstuff. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote3916
Newt Gingrich: I am not interested in preserving the status quo; I want to overthrow it. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote3917
Titus Livius: War is just when it is necessary; arms are permissible when there is no hope except in arms. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote3918
Niccolo Machiavelli: Keep your friends close, and your enemies closer. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote3919
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Never attempt to win by force what can be won by deception. - anonymous https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote3920
Niccolo Machiavelli: The reason is easy to understand, for it is the common good and not private gain that makes cities great. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote3921
Niccolo Machiavelli: One must therefore be a fox to recognize traps, and a lion to frighten wolves. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote3922
Joseph Schumpeter: At the heart of capitalism is creative destruction. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote3923
Joseph Schumpeter: Created by wars that required it, the machine now created the wars it required. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote3924
Joseph Schumpeter: Capitalism Survive?—I have tried to show that a socialist form of society will inevitably emerge from an equally inevitable decomposition of capitalist society. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote3925
Joseph Schumpeter: Can capitalism survive? No. I do not think it can. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote3926
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John Howard Lawson: You believe in freedom of speech for communists because what they say is true. You do not believe in freedom of speech for fascists because what they say is a lie. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote3927
Karl Marx: We want the abolition of classes. What is the means of achieving it? The only means is political domination of the proletariat. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote3928
Karl Marx: The political freedoms, the right of assembly and association, and the freedom of the press — those are our weapons. Are we to sit back and abstain while somebody tries to rob us of them? It is said that a political act on our part implies that we accept the exiting state of affairs. On the contrary, so long as this state of affairs offers us the means of protesting against it, our use of these means does not signify that we recognise the prevailing order. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote3929
Karl Marx: Complete abstention from political action is impossible. The abstentionist press participates in politics every day. It is only a question of how one does it, and of what politics one engages in. For the rest, to us abstention is impossible. The working-class party functions as a political party in most countries by now, and it is not for us to ruin it by preaching abstention. Living experience, the political oppression of the existing governments compels the workers to occupy themselves with politics whether they like it or not, be it for political or for social goals. To preach abstention to them is to throw them into the embrace of bourgeois politics. The morning after the Paris Commune, which has made proletarian political action an order of the day, abstention is entirely out of the question. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote3930
Kwame Ture: Zionism is the baby child, and infant, protector of imperialism in the Middle East. It carries out the interests of American imperialism. If our tax dollars would stop giving money to israeł, the state will sink tomorrow. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote3931
James Baldwin: This is the crime of which I accuse my country and my countrymen, and for which neither I nor time nor history will ever forgive them, that they have destroyed and are destroying hundreds of thousands of lives and do not know it and do not want to know it. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote3932
William Blum: A terrorist is someone who has a bomb but doesn't have an air force. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote3933
Marcus Tullius Cicero: It is passing strange, if Jupiter warns us by means of thunderbolts, that he sends so many to no purpose! https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote3935
Mao Zedong: All men must die, but death can vary in its significance. To die for the people is weightier than Mount Tai, but to work for the fascists and die for the exploiters and oppressors is lighter than a feather. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote3936
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Michael Parenti: Capitalist Russia, and Poland, and Bulgaria, with all of the privatization, and deregulation, and free market coming in. Poverty! Poverty, increase in crime, increase in desperation, increase in misery, increase in suicides! It's capitalism at work, moving in. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote3937
Kris Kristofferson: I found a considerable lack of work after doing concerts for Palestinian children.. if that's the way it has to be, that's the way it has to be. If you support human rights, you gotta support them everywhere. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote3938
Bible: Now go and strike Amalek and devote to destruction all that they have. Do not spare them, but kill both man and woman, child and infant, ox and sheep, camel and donkey. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote3939