Justice William O. Douglas: We are rapidly entering the age of no privacy, where everyone is open to surveillance at all times; where there are no secrets from government. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5995
Edward Snowden: Privacy is not about something to hide. Privacy is about something to protect. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5996
Patrice Lumumba: I would rather die with my head high, my faith unshaken, and a profound trust in the destiny of my people than live in slavery. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5997
Daniel Dennett: There’s simply no polite way to tell people they’ve dedicated their lives to an illusion. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5998
Wilfred G. Burchett: From the first days of the New Year it became clear that Truman had decided to back (Syngman) Rhee’s plan and to use Korea as the starting point for a third World War. On January 11, 1950, Ambassador Chang Myun was able to report from Washington that he could give some 'encouraging news' from a top-level confidential source in Washington. 'I am informed,' he wrote, 'that the State Department and Pentagon are planning a firm stand with respect to United States oriental policy. In this anti-Communist plan; Korea will occupy an important position. I have every hope that we will get much more help, militarily speaking as a result. I have had word from a confidential source in the State Department that President Truman will sign very soon, authorization that will grant permission for armament for Korean ships and planes... https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5999
Emma Goldman: I feel sure that the police are helping us more than I could do in ten years. They are making more anarchists than the most prominent people connected with the anarchist cause could make in ten years. If they will only continue I shall be very grateful; they will save me lots of work. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote6000
Voltairine De Cleyre: They must learn that their power does not lie in their voting strength, that their power lies in their ability to stop production. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote6001
Karl Marx: And so the Paris proletariat was confronted with an army, drawn from its own midst, of 24,000 young, strong, foolhardy men. it gave cheers for the Mobile Guard on its marches through Paris. It acknowledged it to be its foremost fighters on the barricades. It regarded it as the proletarian guard in contradistinction to the bourgeois National Guard. Its error was pardonable. Besides the Mobile Guard, the government decided to rally around itself an army of industrial workers. A hundred thousand workers, thrown on the streets by the crisis and the revolution, were enrolled by the Minister Marie in so-called national ateliers (workshops). Under this grandiose name was hidden nothing else than the employment of the workers on tedious, monotonous, unproductive earthworks at a wage of 23 sous. English workhouses in the open – that is what these national ateliers were. The Provisional Government believed that it had formed, in them, a second proletarian army against the workers themselves. This time the bourgeoisie was mistaken in the national ateliers, just as the workers were mistaken in the Mobile Guard. It had created an army for mutiny. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote6002
Eric Hoffer: It is not actual suffering but the taste of better things which excites people to revolt. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote6003
Stalin: That "Left" camouflage of opportunist actions has been one of the most characteristic features of all the various opposition trends in our Party during the period since the seizure of power. What is the explanation of this phenomenon? The explanation lies in the revolutionary spirit of the proletariat of the U.S.S.R., the profound revolutionary traditions that are deep-seated in our proletariat. The explanation lies in the downright hatred in which anti-revolutionary and opportunist elements are held by the workers of the U.S.S.R. The explanation lies in the fact that our workers will simply not listen to an open opportunist, and that therefore the "revolutionary" camouflage is a bait designed to attract, if only by its outward appearance, the attention of the workers and to inspire them with confidence in the opposition. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote6004
Lenin: When the working class has learned how to defend the state system against the anarchy of small ownership, when it has learned to organise large-scale production on a national scale, along state capitalist lines, it will hold, if I may use the expression, all the trump cards, and the consolidation of socialism will be assured. In the first place, 𝙚𝙘𝙤𝙣𝙤𝙢𝙞𝙘𝙖𝙡𝙡𝙮, state capitalism is immeasurably superior to our present economic system. In the second place, there is nothing terrible in it for Soviet power, for the Soviet state is a state in which the power of the workers and the poor is assured. The “Left Communists” failed to understand these unquestionable truths, which, of course, a “Left Socialist-Revolutionary”, who cannot connect any ideas on political economy in his head in general, will never understand, but which every Marxist 𝙢𝙪𝙨𝙩 admit. It is not even worth while arguing with a Left Socialist-Revolutionary. It is enough to point to him as a “repulsive example” of a windbag. But the “Left Communists” must be argued with because it is Marxists who are making a mistake, and an analysis of their mistake will help the 𝙬𝙤𝙧𝙠𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙘𝙡𝙖𝙨𝙨 to find the true road. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote6005
Lenin: (T)he following discovery made by the “Left Communists” will provoke nothing short of Homeric laughter. According to them, under the “Bolshevik deviation to the right” the Soviet Republic is threatened with “evolution towards state capitalism”. Thirdly, in making a bugbear of “state capitalism”, they betray their failure to understand that the Soviet state differs from the bourgeois state economically. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote6006
Enver Hoxha: N. Khrushchev, slandering our Party at the 22nd Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, and crudely interfering with our domestic affairs, said that the Albanian leaders were against the criticism of Stalin's personality cult because the personality cult methods are allegedly thriving in our Party, that terror and injustice are allegedly reigning in Albania. We shall not stop here to reject these slanders, but the fact that their author has fallen so low as to mobilize the public opinion against our Party using such "arguments" borrowed from the most rabid enemies of socialism and communism, shows his dark aims. It is evident that by linking at the 22nd Congress his unsubstantiated attacks on the Party of Labor of Albania with his "fight against Stalin's cult and the anti-party group", N. Khrushchev aimed at showing the "analogy" between the alleged "Albanian Stalinism" and the "epoch of the Stalinist crimes" in the Soviet Union, in order to create in this way the "atmosphere" he needed at the Congress and in the world public opinion to make his slanders more credible. The Party of Labor of Albania has always taken and continues to take account of the teachings of Marxism-Leninism concerning the role of the masses, classes, party and leaders. It has always considered and continues to consider the manifestation of the personality cult as phenomenon alien to Marxism-Leninism, harmful to a communist and workers' party. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote6007
Stephen King: Don't spend time waving signs or carrying petitions around the neighborhood. Instead, run, don't walk, to the nearest nonschool library or to the local bookstore and get whatever it was that they banned. Read whatever they're trying to keep out of your eyes and your brain, because that's exactly what you need to know. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote6008
Robert Bettinger: It comes down to the ability to expropriate others' labor. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote6009
Mikhail Bakunin: As long as we have a master in heaven, we will be slaves on earth. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote6010
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Francis Bacon: Money is a good servant, a dangerous master. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote6011
Bible: No one can serve two masters, for either he will hate the one and love the other; or else he will be devoted to one and despise the other. You can’t serve both God and Mammon. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote6012
Remy de Gourmont: Demons are like obedient dogs; they come when they are called. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote6013
Remy de Gourmont: The masters of the town will always be those who can promise him a paradise. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote6014
Karl Marx: A man who has no free time to dispose of, whose whole lifetime, apart from the mere physical interruptions by sleep, meals, and so forth, is absorbed by his labor for the capitalist, is less than a beast of burden. He is a mere machine for producing Foreign Wealth... https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote6015
Ho Chi Minh: It is well known that the black race is the most oppressed and most exploited of the human family. It is well known that the spread of capitalism and the discovery of the New World had as an immediate result the rebirth of slavery which was, for centuries, a scourge for the Negroes and a bitter disgrace for mankind. What everyone does not perhaps know, is that after sixty-five years of so-called emancipation, American Negroes still endure atrocious moral and material sufferings, of which the most cruel and horrible is the custom of lynching. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote6016
Stalin: The history of development of society is above all the history of the development of production, the history of the modes of production which succeed each other in the course of centuries, the history of the development of productive forces and of people's relations of production. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote6017
Lenin: I must say that the tasks of the youth in general, and of the Young Communist Leagues and all other organizations in particular, might be summed up in two words: learn and fight. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote6018
Ezra Pound: A slave is one who waits for someone else to free him. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote6019
Alexis de Tocqueville: A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the majority discovers it can vote itself largess out of the public treasury. After that, the majority always votes for the candidate promising the most benefits with the result the democracy collapses because of the loose fiscal policy ensuing, always to be followed by a dictatorship, then a monarchy. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote6020
Martha Kelly: Under capitalism, it's normal to let children go hungry, let banks force people out of their homes, let sick people die for lack of access to healthcare. But the idea that billionaires could just be less rich – not poor, not struggling, just less rich, is considered insane. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote6021
Martha Gellhorn: People often say, with pride, 'I'm not interested in politics.' They might as well say, 'I'm not interested in my standard of living, my health, my job, my rights, my freedoms, my future or any future.' ... If we mean to keep any control over our world and lives, we must be interested in politics. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote6022
Till Lindemann: In East Germany there were very few things, but there was also a feeling of solidarity that no longer exists. Now we are up to the neck in consumption, the ego, the individualism. Now before friendship, it is merchandise. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote6023
Friedrich Engels: To preach to the workers that they should in all circumstances abstain from politics is to drive them into the arms of the priests or the bourgeois republicans. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote6024
Enver Hoxha: As a result of the implementation of the correct revolutionary Marxist-Leninist line of the Bolshevik Party led by Stalin, the socialist transformations throughout the country were successfully carried out within a short period of time, the backwardness inherited from the Czarist regime was liquidated, and the Soviet Union was transformed into a powerful socialist State with modern industry, with a large-scale collectivized agriculture, with a most advanced technology and science, with a tremendous economic and military potential. The great historic victory over fascism in the years of the Second World War was achieved and the role and importance of the Soviet country in international life grew considerably. The consolidation and growth of the influence of the communist movement in the world, the creation and consolidation of the socialist camp after the Second World War, the general weakening of the positions of international imperialism and the great successes in the development of the world proletarian revolution are due, to a considerable extent, to the internationalist revolutionary line consistently implemented by J.V. Stalin. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote6025
Rosa Luxemburg: People who pronounce themselves in favor of the method of legislative reform in place of and in contradistinction to the conquest of political power and social revolution, do not really choose a more tranquil, calmer and slower road to the same goal, but a different goal. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote6026
Fulton J. Sheen: All badness is spoiled goodness. A bad apple is a good apple that became rotten. Because evil has no capital of its own, it is a parasite that feeds on goodness. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote6027
Fulton J. Sheen: Moral principles do not depend on a majority vote. Wrong is wrong, even if everybody is wrong. Right is right, even if nobody is right. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote6028
Fulton J. Sheen: There is no word more "dangerous" than liberalism, because to oppose it is the new "unforgivable sin". https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote6029
Enver Hoxha: The more the contradictions of capitalism and imperial- ism deepen, and the closer the wave of the revolution approaches, the more the other revisionist current — Euro- communism, reveals its anti-Marxist and counter-revolu- tionary features. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote6030
Enver Hoxha: There is nothing unknown about what socialism is, what it represents and what it brings about, how it is achieved and how socialist society is built. A theory and practice of scientific socialism exists. Marx, Engels, Lenin and Stalin teach us this theory. But the basic principles and the universal laws of socialism remain unshakeable and are essential for all countries. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote6031
Enver Hoxha: Any disguise, any falsification, any deviation from the scientific theory of Marxism-Leninism cannot be kept up for long. Sooner or later it is exposed, because it runs counter to the ideals of the working class and the peoples who fight for freedom, for genuine democracy, for socialism, for a society without exploiters and exploited. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote6032