Pío Baroja: A community is always deceived better than a man. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote9426

Lord Acton: The one pervading evil of democracy is the tyranny of the majority, or rather of that party, not always the majority, that succeeds, by force or fraud, in carrying elections. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote9427

Friedrich Schiller: Against stupidity the gods themselves contend in vain. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote9428

Michael Parenti: Conspiracy theory is a term that's used whenever anybody ascribes conscious intent to people with power. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote9429

James Connolly: How can a person, or a class, be free when its means of life are in the grasp of another? How can the working class be free when the sole chance of existence of its individual members depends upon their ability to make a profit for others? https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote9430

Stalin: Firstly, we had to build under fire. Imagine a mason who has to lay bricks with one hand and defend what he is building with the other. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote9431

Andrei Zhdanov: The principal outcome of World War II was the military defeat of Germany and Japan-the two most militaristic and aggressive of the capitalist countries. The reactionary imperialist elements all over the world, notably in Britain, America and France, had reposed great hopes in Germany and Japan, and chiefly in Hitler Germany: firstly as in a force most capable of inflicting a blow on the Soviet Union in order to, if not having it destroyed altogether, weaken it at least and undermine its influence; secondly, as in a force capable of smashing the revolutionary labor and democratic movement in Germany herself and in all countries singled out for Nazi aggression, and thereby strengthening capitalism generally. This was the chief reason for the prewar policy of "appeasement" and encouragement of fascist aggression, the so-called Munich policy consistently pursued by the imperialist ruling circles of Britain, France, and the United States. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote9432