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