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Alexandra Kollontai: We must therefore not only confront the problem of prostitution but seek a solution that is in line with our basic principles and the program of social and economic change adhered to by the party of the communists. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5720


Rosa Luxemburg: The friends of peace in bourgeois circles believe that world peace and disarmament can be realised within the frame-work of the present social order, whereas we, who base ourselves on the materialistic conception of history and on scientific socialism, are convinced that militarism can only be abolished from the world with the destruction of the capitalist class state. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5721




Rosa Luxemburg: Socialism is inevitable, not merely because the proletarians are no longer willing to live under the conditions imposed by the capitalist class, but, further, because if the proletariat fails to fulfill its duties as a class, if it fails to realize socialism, we shall crash down together to a common doom. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5723


Rosa Luxemburg: Before a revolution happens, it is perceived as impossible; after it happens, it is seen as having been inevitable. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5724


Aaron Bushnell: My name is Aaron Bushnell. I am an active duty member of the US Air Force, and I will no longer be complicit in genocide. I am about to engage in an extreme act of protest, but compared to what people in Palestine have been experiencing at the hands of their colonizers, it's not extreme at all. This is what our ruling class has decided will be normal. Free Palestine. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5725



Benjamin Franklin: Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5726


Benjamin Franklin: I think the best way of doing good to the poor, is not making them easy in poverty, but leading or driving them out of it. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5727


Arthur James Balfour: Dear Lord Rothschild, I have much pleasure in conveying to you, on behalf of His Majesty's Government, the following declaration of sympathy with Jewish Zionist aspirations which has been submitted to, and approved by, the Cabinet. "His Majesty's Government view with favour the establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people, and will use their best endeavours to facilitate the achievement of this object, it being clearly understood that nothing shall be done which may prejudice the civil and religious rights of existing non-Jewish communities in Palestine, or the rights and political status enjoyed by Jews in any other country." I should be grateful if you would bring this declaration to the knowledge of the Zionist Federation. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5728


Muammar Gaddafi: Israelis and Palestinians live on the same piece of land namely; Palestine that is located between the River Jordan and the Mediterranean. This is a disputed land. In 1948 the majority of the population, three quarters of the population were Palestinians. Less than a quarter of the population were Israelis. They managed to expel the Palestinians from their homes and unilaterally declared a state called Israel. This is inadmissible under international law. No one can legally declare a state on a disputed territory. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5729


Saddam Hussein: We salute the Palestinian people of heroic mujahideen as well as every hero and heroine amongst the champions of self-sacrifice who confront the Zionist aggression with their lives and thus foil the wrong ideas of the American administrations which have acted in alliance with their artificial Zionist creation in the crimes they perpetrate and the shame they reap. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5730


Jawaharlal Nehru: During the World War the British armies invaded Palestine and, as they were marching on Jerusalem, the British Government made a declaration in November 1917, called the Balfour Declaration. They declared that it was their intention to establish a "Jewish National Home" in Palestine. This declaration was made to win the good will of international Jewry, and this was important from the money point of view. It was welcomed by most Jews. But there was one little drawback, one not unimportant fact seems to have been overlooked. Palestine was not a wilderness, or an empty, uninhabited place. It was already somebody else's home. So that this generous gesture of the British Government was really at the expense of the people who already lived in Palestine, and these people, including Arabs, non-Arabs, Muslims, Christians, and, in fact, everybody who was not a Jew, protested vigorously at the declaration. These people felt that the Jews would compete with them in all activities and, with the great wealth behind them, would become the economic masters of the country ; they were afraid that the Jews would take the bread out of their mouths and the land from the peasantry. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5731


Arnold J. Toynbee: Right and wrong are the same in Palestine as anywhere else. What is peculiar about the Palestine conflict is that the world has listened to the party that has committed the offence and has turned a deaf ear to the victims. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5732



Gabriel García Márquez: Remembering is easy for anyone who has memory, forgetting is difficult for those who have a heart. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5733


Henry Petroski: No one wants to learn by mistakes, but we cannot learn enough from successes to go beyond the state of the art. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5734


Ghassan Kanafani: Zionism as a reactionary ideology fitted exactly the ambitions of British colonialism in that period and later with American imperialism. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5735


Franklin D. Roosevelt: We had to struggle with the old enemies of peace: business and financial monopoly, speculation, reckless banking, class antagonism, sectionalism, war profiteering. They had begun to consider the Government of the United States as a mere appendage to their own affairs. We know now that Government by organized money is just as dangerous as Government by organized mob. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5736



George Orwell: All issues are political issues, and politics itself is a mass of lies, evasions, folly, hatred, and schizophrenia. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5737


Mussolini: Fascism entirely agrees with Mr. Maynard Keynes, despite the latter's prominent position as a Liberal. In fact, Mr. Keynes' excellent little book, The End of Laissez-Faire (1926) might, so far as it goes, serve as a useful introduction to fascist economics. There is scarcely anything to object to in it and there is much to applaud. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5738




Edward Bernays: A single factory, potentially capable of supplying a whole continent with its particular product, cannot afford to wait until the public asks for its product; it must maintain constant touch, through advertising and propaganda, with the vast public in order to assure itself the continuous demand which alone will make its costly plant profitable. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5741



Edward Bernays: If we understand the mechanism and motives of the group mind, it is now possible to control and regiment the masses according to our will without them knowing it. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5742


Will Rogers: The money was all appropriated for the top in the hopes that it would trickle down to the needy. Mr. Hoover didn’t know that money trickled up. Give it to the people at the bottom and the people at the top will have it before night, anyhow. But it will at least have passed through the poor fellow’s hands. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5743


Marie-Louise von Franz: It's easy to be a naive idealist. It's easy to be a cynical realist. It's quite another thing to have no illusions and still hold the inner flame. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5744







Deng Xiaoping: Class struggle exists objectively in socialist society. It should be neither underestimated nor exaggerated. Otherwise, as practice has shown, we shall make serious mistakes. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5749


Bertrand Russell: The first step in a fascist movement is the combination under an energetic leader of a number of men who possess more than the average share of leisure, brutality, and stupidity. The next step is to fascinate fools and muzzle the intelligent, by emotional excitement on the one hand and terrorism on the other. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5750