Ralph Waldo Emerson: Whatever you do, you need courage. Whatever course you decide upon, there is always someone to tell you that you are wrong. There are always difficulties arising that tempt you to believe your critics are right. To map out a course of action and follow it to an end requires some of the same courage that a soldier needs. Peace has its victories, but it takes brave men and women to win them. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote3659
Enver Hoxha: Today, the imperialists call us the 'most closed country' in Europe. For good people, for friends and honest individuals... our country has always been open and remains so. But for enemies, saboteurs and provocateurs, it has been and will remain closed. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote3664
John Adams: Power always sincerely, conscientiously, de très bon foi, believes itself right. Power always thinks it has a great soul and vast views, beyond the comprehension of the weak. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote3668
Allan Boesak: There are clear and predictable consequences for the world if human beings continue to rape the earth and plunder its resources; to exploit, oppress, and dominate the weak and the poor for the sake of greed and the hunger for power; to depend on ever-rising levels of violence and ever more lethal instruments of death and destruction in order to secure positions of power and privilege. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote3671
Stalin: The dictatorship of the proletariat, the transition from capitalism to communism, must not be regarded as a fleeting period of "super-revolutionary" acts and decrees, but as an entire historical era, replete with civil wars and external conflicts, with persistent organisational work and economic construction, with advances and retreats, victories and defeats. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote3674
Vinod Mishra: The point is to retrieve the revolutionary essence of Marxism. I do not agree with those who say that communism is in crisis because workers in certain countries today enjoy better standards of living. Those who understand communism as the philosophy of poverty only display the poverty of their own philosophy. Communism is really the philosophy of abundance. Communism presupposes the abundant availability of material goods to ensure full satisfaction of human needs. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote3675
Vinod Mishra: The Scientific and Technological Revolution which is working wonders in today's world is only creating necessary material conditions for humanity's inexorable march towards communism. The development of automation has the potential to obliterate the difference between manual and mental labour. The grounds are being laid, all we have to do is to wrest control of the means of production from the capitalists and imperialists so that productive forces can grow unhindered and undistorted. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote3676
Baltasar Gracián: Because the ignorant do not know themselves, they never know for what they are lacking. Some would be sages if they did not believe they were so already. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote3681
Baltasar Gracián: Some marry the first information they receive, and turn what comes later into their concubine. Since deceit is always first to arrive, there is no room left for truth. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote3682
