Otto von Bismarck: One day the great European War would come out of some damned foolish thing in the Balkans. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5879
Otto von Bismarck: The social insecurity of the worker is the real cause of their being a peril to the state. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5880
Otto von Bismarck: Not by speeches and votes of the majority are the great questions of the time decided — that was the error of 1848 and 1849 — but by iron and blood. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5881
Otto von Bismarck: Politics is not an exact science. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5882
Otto von Bismarck: Anyone who has once looked into the glassy eyes of a dying warrior on the battle-field would think twice before beginning a war. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5883
Otto von Bismarck: Politics is the art of the possible. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5884
Otto von Bismarck: The politician has not to revenge what has happened but to ensure that it does not happen again. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5885
Otto von Bismarck: He who has his thumb on the purse has the power. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5886
Otto von Bismarck: Preventive war is like committing suicide for fear of death. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5887
Otto von Bismarck: I will further every endeavour which positively aims at improving the condition of the working classes. ... As soon as a positive proposal came from the Socialists for fashioning the future in a sensible way, in order that the lot of the working-man might be improved, I would not at any rate refuse to examine it favourably, and I would not even shrink from the idea of State help for the people who would help themselves. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5888
Otto von Bismarck: Many measures which we have adopted to the great blessing of the country are Socialistic, and the State will have to accustom itself to a little more Socialism yet. ... I am glad that this Socialism was adopted, for we have as a consequence secured a free and very well-to-do peasantry, and I hope that we shall in time do something of the sort for the labouring classes. ... The establishment of the freedom of the peasantry was Socialistic; Socialistic, too, is every expropriation in favour of railways; Socialistic to the utmost extent is the aggregation of estates—the law exists in many provinces—taking from one and giving to another, simply because this other can cultivate the land more conveniently; Socialistic is expropriation under the Water Legislation, on account of irrigation, etc., where a man's land is taken away from him because another can farm it better; Socialistic is our entire poor relief, compulsory school attendance, compulsory construction of roads, so that I am bound to maintain a road upon my lands for travellers. That is all Socialistic, and I could extend the register further; but if you believe that you can frighten any one or call up spectres with the word “Socialism,” you take a standpoint which I abandoned long ago, and the abandonment of which is absolutely necessary for our entire imperial legislation. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5889
Otto von Bismarck: I am not antagonistic to the rightful claims of capital; I am far from wanting to flourish a hostile flag; but I am of opinion that the masses, too, have rights which should be considered. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5890
Otto von Bismarck: If an establishment employing twenty thousand or more workpeople were to be ruined...we could not allow these men to hunger. We should have to resort to real State Socialism and find work for them, and this is what we do in every case of distress. If the objection were right that we should shun State Socialism as we would an infectious disease, how do we come to organise works in one province and another in case of distress—works which we should not undertake if the labourers had employment and wages? In such cases we build railways whose profitableness is questionable; we carry out improvements which otherwise would be left to private initiative. If that is Communism, I have no objection at all to it; though with such catchwords we really get no further. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5891
Otto von Bismarck: Give the working-man the right to work as long as he is healthy, assure him care when he is sick; assure him maintenance when he is old. If you do that, and do not fear the sacrifice, or cry out at State Socialism directly the words “provision for old age” are uttered,—if the State will show a little more Christian solicitude for the working-man, then I believe that the gentlemen of the Wyden (Social-Democratic) programme will sound their bird-call in vain, and that the thronging to them will cease as soon as working-men see that the Government and legislative bodies are earnestly concerned for their welfare. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5892
Otto von Bismarck: Peasants and large landed proprietors recognise more and more that they form one and the same class, the class of land-owners, and follow one and the same industry of agriculture. ... The land-owners are, on the whole, a support of the monarchy, and their entire disposition is favourable to the existing Government; and you try to sow discord amongst them because you are displeased that the unification is proceeding gradually and unceasingly. This is the salutary effect of legislation which at first was painfully felt by many of the privileged class: the abolition of all the legal and axiomatic prerogatives of the greatest land proprietors, and especially of the earlier knighthood. We larger land-owners are in our industry to-day nothing more than the largest peasants, and the peasant is nothing more than the smaller land-owner. Indeed, most peasants call themselves land-owners, while some call themselves husbandmen and others countrymen. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5893
Otto von Bismarck: I have always found the word Europe on the lips of those politicians who wanted something from other Powers which they dared not demand in their own names. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5894
Otto von Bismarck: Struggle is everywhere, without struggle no life, and if we want to go on living, we must be ready for further struggles. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5895
John Godfrey Saxe: Laws, like sausages, cease to inspire respect in proportion as we know how they are made. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5896
Otto von Bismarck: Secret of politics? Make a good treaty with Russia. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5897
Otto von Bismarck: The division of the United States into federations of equal force was decided long before the Civil War by the high financial powers of Europe. These bankers were afraid that the United States, if they remained in one block and as one nation, would attain economic and financial independence, which would upset their financial domination over the world. The voice of the Rothschilds prevailed... Therefore they sent their emissaries into the field to exploit the question of slavery and to open an abyss between the two sections of the Union. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5898
Otto von Bismarck: People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war or before an election. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5899
Big Bill Haywood: If one man has a dollar he didn't work for, some other man worked for a dollar he didn't get. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5900
Jimi Hendrix: Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5901
Eduardo Galeano: Utopia lies at the horizon. When I draw nearer by two steps, it retreats two steps. If I proceed ten steps forward, it swiftly slips ten steps ahead. No matter how far I go, I can never reach it. What, then, is the purpose of utopia? It is to cause us to advance. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5902
Eduardo Galeano: The Church says: the body is a sin. Science says: the body is a machine. Advertising says: The body is a business. The Body says: I am a fiesta. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5903
Eduardo Galeano: We are all mortal until the first kiss and the second glass of wine. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5904
Eduardo Galeano: Fleas dream of buying themselves a dog, and nobodies dream of escaping poverty: that one magical day good luck will suddenly rain down on them---will rain down in buckets. But good luck doesn't rain down yesterday, today, tomorrow, or ever. Good luck doesn't even fall in a fine drizzle, no matter how hard the nobodies summon it, even if their left hand is tickling, or if they begin the new day with their right foot, or start the new year with a change of brooms. The nobodies: nobody's children, owners of nothing. The nobodies: the no ones, the nobodied, running like rabbits, dying through life, screwed every which way. Who are not, but could be. Who don't speak languages, but dialects. Who don't have religions, but superstitions. Who don't create art, but handicrafts. Who don't have culture, but folklore. Who are not human beings, but human resources. Who do not have faces, but arms. Who do not have names, but numbers. Who do not appear in the history of the world, but in the police blotter of the local paper. The nobodies, who are not worth the bullet that kills them. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5905
Eduardo Galeano: In 1492, the natives discovered they were indians, discovered they lived in America, discovered they were naked, discovered that the Sin existed, discovered they owed allegiance to a King and Kingdom from another world and a God from another sky, and that this God had invented the guilty and the dress, and had sent to be burnt alive who worships the Sun the Moon the Earth and the Rain that wets it. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5906
Eduardo Galeano: The walls are the publishers of the poor. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5907
Eduardo Galeano: When we had all the answers, the questions were changed. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5908
Eduardo Galeano: The division of labor among nations is that some specialize in winning and others in losing. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5909
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Eduardo Galeano: The big bankers of the world, who practise the terrorism of money, are more powerful than kings and field marshals, even more than the Pope of Rome himself. They never dirty their hands. They kill no-one: they limit themselves to applauding the show. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5910
Harry Haywood: The Crusader called for an alliance with the Bolsheviks against race prejudice. In 1921, the magazine made its clearest formulation, linking the struggles of Blacks and other oppressed nations with socialism: 'surest and quickest way, then, in our opinion, to achieve the salvation of the Negro is to combine the two most likely and feasible propositions, viz.: salvation for all Negroes through the establishment of a strong, stable, independent Negro State (along the lines of our own race genius) in Africa and elsewhere: and salvation for all Negroes (as well as other oppressed people) through the establishment of a Universal Socialist Co-operative commonwealth. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5911
Vladimir Putin: World Economic Forum (WEF) founder Klaus Schwab is a globalist terrorist who is holding humanity to ransom. Their New World Order has failed and their days are numbered. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5912
Kristen Ghodsee: Pavlichenko simply could not understand why Americans thought that Soviet women who fought to defend their country lost any of their femininity, as both masculinity and femininity were fundamentally irrelevant to the goal of killing Nazis. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5913
Eugene V. Debs: (A)ll our hearts now throb as one great heart responsive to the battle cry of the social revolution. Here, in this alert and inspiring assemblage our hearts are with the Bolsheviki of Russia. Those heroic men and women, those unconquerable comrades have by their incomparable valor and sacrifice added fresh luster to the fame of the international movement. Those Russian comrades of ours have made greater sacrifices, have suffered more, and have shed more heroic blood than any like number of men and women anywhere on earth; they have laid the foundation of the first real democracy that ever drew the breath of life in this world. And the very first act of the triumphant Russian revolution was to proclaim a state of peace with all mankind, coupled with a fervent moral appeal, not to kings, not to emperors, rulers or diplomats but to the people of all nations. Here we have the very breath of democracy, the quintessence of the dawning freedom. The Russian revolution proclaimed its glorious triumph in its ringing and inspiring appeal to the peoples of all the earth. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5914
Vladimir Putin: Our fight for sovereignty and justice is, without exaggeration, one of national liberation, because we are upholding the security and well-being of our people, and our supreme historical right to be Russia – a strong independent power, a civilisation state. It is our country, it is the Russian world that has blocked the way of those who aspired to world domination and exceptionalism, as it has happened many times in history. We are now fighting not just for Russia's freedom but for the freedom of the whole world. We can frankly say that the dictatorship of one hegemon is becoming decrepit. We see it, and everyone sees it now. It is getting out of control and is simply dangerous for others. This is now clear to the global majority. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5915
Grover Furr: Although Stalin never removed anyone from the leadership for opposing him, Khrushchev did. Khrushchev and the others had Lavrentii Beria arrested suddenly on June 26, 1953, on false charges and without any evidence. Subsequently they had Beria killed, together with six others – Merkulov, Dekanozov, Kobulov, Goglidze, Meshik, and Vlodzimirskii – who had been close associates of his. Nor was Beria the only person in the leadership of the Party whom Khrushchev had removed for disagreeing with him. In July 1957 Khrushchev called a CC Plenum to have Malenkov, Molotov, Kaganovich, and Shepilov removed from the leadership simply because they disagreed with his policies and had tried to get Khrushchev voted out of the Party leadership. Khrushchev's high-handedness was a main reason for his removal by the Central Committee in 1964. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5916
Lenin: What is now happening to Marx’s teaching has, in the course of history, happened repeatedly to the teachings of revolutionary thinkers and leaders of oppressed classes struggling for emancipation. During the lifetime of great revolutionaries, the oppressing classes constantly hounded them, received their teachings with the most savage malice, the most furious hatred and the most unscrupulous campaigns of lies and slander. After their death, attempts are made to convert them into harmless icons, to canonize them, so to say, and to surround their names with a certain halo for the 'consolation' of the oppressed classes and with the object of duping the latter, while at the same time emasculating the essence of the revolutionary teaching, blunting its revolutionary edge and vulgarizing it. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5917