Noam Chomsky: Anyone who studies declassified documents soon becomes aware that government secrecy is largely an effort to protect policy makers from scrutiny by citizens, not to protect the country from enemies. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5686
Noam Chomsky: Neoliberal democracy. Instead of citizens, it produces consumers. Instead of communities, it produces shopping malls. The net result is an atomized society of disengaged individuals who feel demoralized and socially powerless. In sum, neoliberalism is the immediate and foremost enemy of genuine participatory democracy, not just in the United States but across the planet, and will be for the foreseeable future. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5687
Noam Chomsky: Governments will use whatever technology is available to combat their primary enemy - their own population. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5688
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Noam Chomsky: For those who stubbornly seek freedom, there can be no more urgent task than to come to understand the mechanisms and practices of indoctrination. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5689
GautierDay hat dies geteilt.
Karl Marx: In bourgeois society capital is independent and has individuality, while the living person is dependent and has no individuality. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5690
Saramago: Whether we like it or not, the one justification for the existence of all religions is death, they need death as much as we need bread to eat. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5691
Karl Marx: Religious suffering is, at one and the same time, the expression of real suffering and a protest against real suffering. Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, and the soul of soulless conditions. It is the opium of the people. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5692
Karl Marx: Necessity is blind until it becomes conscious. Freedom is the consciousness of necessity. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5693
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Karl Marx: Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without feminine upheaval. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5694
Karl Marx: Men's ideas are the most direct emanations of their material state. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5695
Karl Marx: The meaning of peace is the absence of opposition to socialism. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5696
Karl Marx: The ideas of the ruling class are in every epoch the ruling ideas, i.e. the class which is the ruling material force of society, is at the same time its ruling intellectual force. The class which has the means of material production at its disposal, has control at the same time over the means of mental production, so that thereby, generally speaking, the ideas of those who lack the means of mental production are subject to it. The ruling ideas are nothing more than the ideal expression of the dominant material relationships, the dominant material relationships grasped as ideas; hence of the relationships which make the one class the ruling one, therefore, the ideas of its dominance. The individuals composing the ruling class possess among other things consciousness, and therefore think. Insofar, therefore, as they rule as a class and determine the extent and compass of an epoch, it is self-evident that they do this in its whole range, hence among other things rule also as thinkers, as producers of ideas, and regulate the production and distribution of the ideas of their age: thus their ideas are the ruling ideas of the epoch. For instance, in an age and in a country where royal power, aristocracy, and bourgeoisie are contending for mastery and where, therefore, mastery is shared, the doctrine of the separation of powers proves to be the dominant idea and is expressed as an "eternal law." https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5697
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Karl Marx: The English have all the material requisites for the revolution. What they lack is the spirit of generalization and revolutionary ardour. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5698
Karl Marx: Machines were, it may be said, the weapon employed by the capitalists to quell the revolt of specialized labor. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5699
Salvador Allende: To be young and not a revolutionary is a biological contradiction. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5700
Saramago: People live with the illusion that we have a democratic system, but it’s only the outward form of one. In reality we live in a plutocracy, a government of the rich. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5701
Saramago: What kind of world is this that can send machines to Mars and does nothing to stop the killing of a human being? https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5702
Saramago: The difficult thing isn’t living with other people, it’s understanding them. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5703
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Saramago: Just as the habit does not make the monk, the sceptre does not make the king. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5704
Saramago: I’m not pessimistic. It is the world that is terrible. How can we be optimistic in the face of a planet where people live so badly, nature is being destroyed and the dominant empire is money? https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5705
Saramago: God, the devil, good, evil, it’s all in our heads, not in Heaven or Hell, which we also invented. We do not realize that, having invented God, we immediately became His slaves. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5706
Saramago: The world is governed by institutions that are not democratic – the World Bank, the IMF, the WTO. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5707
Saramago: It is economic power that determines political power, and governments become the political functionaries of economic power. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5708
Saramago: Men are angels born without wings, nothing could be nicer than to be born without wings and to make them grow. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5709
Saramago: The wisest man I ever knew in my whole life could not read or write. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5710
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Saramago: The world had already changed before September 11. The world has been going through a process of change over the last 20 or 30 years. A civilization ends, another one begins. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5711
Saramago: One can show no greater respect than to weep for a stranger. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5712
Saramago: Reading is probably another way of being in a place. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5713
Henry Kissinger: In the 1950s and 1960s we put several thousand nuclear weapons into Europe. To be sure, we had no precise idea of what to do with them. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5714
Rachel Corrie: When I come back from Palestine, I probably will have nightmares and constantly feel guilty for not being here, but I can channel that into more work. Coming here is one of the better things I've ever done. So when I sound crazy, or if the Israeli military should break with their racist tendency not to injure white people, please pin the reason squarely on the fact that I am in the midst of a genocide which I am also indirectly supporting, and for which my government is largely responsible. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5715
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Lenin: We must take as our point of departure the universally recognised Marxist thesis that a programme must be built on a scientific foundation. It must explain to the people how the communist revolution arose, why it is inevitable, what its significance, nature, and power are, and what problems it must solve. Our programme must be a summary for agitational purposes, a summary such as all programmes were, such as, for instance, the Erfurt Programme was. Every clause of that programme contained material for agitators to use in hundreds of thousands of speeches and articles. Every clause of our programme is something that every working man and woman must know, assimilate and understand. If they do not know what capitalism is, if they do not understand that small peasant and handicraft economy constantly, inevitably and necessarily engenders this capitalism—if they do not understand this, then even if they were to declare themselves Communists a hundred times and flaunt the most radical communism, it would not be worth a brass farthing, because we value communism only when it is based on economic facts. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5716
Ayn Rand: (Native Americans) didn't have any rights to the land, and there was no reason for anyone to grant them rights which they had not conceived and were not using. What was it that they were fighting for, when they opposed white men on this continent? For their wish to continue a primitive existence, their 'right' to keep part of the earth untouched, unused and not even as property, but just keep everybody out so that you will live practically like an animal, or a few caves above it. Any white person who brings the element of civilization has the right to take over this continent. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5717
Sally Kempton: It is hard to fight an enemy who has outposts in your head. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5718
Thích Nhất Hạnh: One included all, and all were contained in one. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5719