William Gibson: When you want to know how things really work, study them when they’re coming apart. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote4939
Alan Kay: The best way to predict the future is to build it. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote4940
Michael Parenti: Both the Italian fascists and the Nazis made a conscious effort to steal the Left's thunder. There were mass mobilizations, youth organizations, work brigades, rallies, parades, banners, symbols, and slogans. There was much talk about a "Nazi revolution" that would revitalize society, sweeping away the old order and building the new. For this reason, mainstream writers feel free to treat fascism and communism as totalitarian twins. It is a case of reducing essence to form. The similarity in form is taken as reason enough to blur the vast difference in actual class content. Writers like A. James Gregor and William Ebenstein, countless Western political leaders, and others who supposedly are on the democratic Left, regularly lump fascism with communism. Thus, Noam Chomsky claims, "The rise of corporations was in fact a manifestation of the same phenomena that led to fascism and Bolshevism, which sprang out of the same totalitarian soil." But in the Italy and Germany of that day, most workers and peasants made a firm distinction between fascism and communism, as did industrialists and bankers who supported fascism out of fear and hatred of communism, a judgment based largely on class realities. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote4941
Michael Parenti: Years ago, I used to say that fascism never succeeded in solving the irrational contradictions of capitalism. Today I am of the opinion that it did accomplish that goal—but only for the capitalists, not for the populace. Fascism never intended to offer a social solution that would serve the general populace, only a reactionary one, forcing all the burdens and losses onto the working public. Divested of its ideological and organizational paraphernalia, fascism is nothing more than a final solution to the class struggle, the totalistic submergence and exploitation of democratic forces for the benefit and profit of higher financial circles. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote4942
Michael Parenti: What distinguishes fascism from ordinary right-wing patriarchal autocracies is the way it attempts to cultivate a revolutionary aura. Fascism offers a beguiling mix of revolutionary-sounding mass appeals and reactionary class politics. The Nazi party's full name was the National Socialist German Workers Party, a left-sounding name. As already noted, the SA storm troopers had a militant share-the-wealth strain in their ranks that was suppressed by Hitler after he took state power. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote4943
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Michael Parenti: "Class" is a concept that is strenuously avoided by both mainstream writers and many on the Left. When certain words are eliminated from public discourse, so are certain thoughts. Dissident ideas become all the more difficult to express when there are no words to express them. "Class" is usually dismissed as an outworn Marxist notion with no relevance to contemporary society. It is a five-letter word that is treated like a dirty four-letter one. With the C-word out of the way, it is then easy to dispose of other politically unacceptable concepts such as class privilege, class power, class exploitation, class interest, and class struggle. These too are judged no longer relevant, if ever they were, in a society that supposedly consists of the fluid pluralistic interplay of diverse groups. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote4944
Enver Hoxha: The Americans are known for their tendency to establish records for everything, records for who can eat the most, who can go on talking longest, or who can tell the biggest lie. The press and statistics register all the records achieved, including those to do with industry, horse racing, or the numbers of ex-husbands of Hollywood film stars. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote4945
Blaise Pascal: Nothing is as approved as mediocrity, the majority has established it and it fixes its fangs on whatever gets beyond it either way. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote4946
Blaise Pascal: In faith there is enough light for those who want to believe and enough shadows to blind those who don't. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote4947
GautierDay hat dies geteilt.
Blaise Pascal: Justice without force is powerless; force without justice is tyrannical. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote4948
Blaise Pascal: Nothing gives rest but the sincere search for truth. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote4949
Blaise Pascal: Our nature consists in motion; complete rest is death. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote4950
Blaise Pascal: Contradiction is not a sign of falsity, nor the lack of contradiction a sign of truth. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote4951
Blaise Pascal: Since we cannot know all that there is to be known about anything, we ought to know a little about everything. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote4952
Woody Allen: I'm not afraid of dying. I just don't want to be there when it happens. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote4953
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Shakespeare: The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, but in ourselves, that we are underlings. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote4954
John Kenneth Galbraith: The salary of the chief executive of a large corporation is not a market award for achievement. It is frequently in the nature of a warm personal gesture by the individual to himself. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote4955
Stephen Pollard: You don't get what you deserve, you get what you negotiate. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote4956
Bible: "They do not know how to do right," declares the Lord, "who store up in their fortresses what they have plundered and looted". https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote4957
William K. Black: The best way to rob a bank is to own one. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote4958
Lloyd Blankfein: I am just a banker "doing God’s work". https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote4959
Alexander Dielius: Banks do not have an obligation to promote the public good. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote4960
Benoît Mandelbrot: So limited is our knowledge that we resort, not to science, but to shamans. We place control of the world's largest economy in the hands of a few elderly men, the central bankers. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote4961
Walter Rodney: In the epoch of imperialism, the bankers became the aristocrats of the capitalist world. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote4962
Otto von Bismarck: The death of Lincoln was a disaster for Christendom. There was no man in the United States great enough to wear his boots and the bankers went anew to grab the riches. I fear that foreign bankers with their craftiness and tortuous tricks will entirely control the exuberant riches of America and use it to systematically corrupt modern civilization. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote4963
John Adams: When annual elections end, there slavery begins. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote4964
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Oliver Cox: The proletariat cannot vote for socialism in a bourgeois parliament because the capitalists will not permit themselves to be destroyed by their own instrument. The machinery of the capitalist state has been fashioned by the bourgeoisie to suit the needs of their class; therefore, in the achievement of its ends, the working class must contrive its own institutions. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote4965
Samora Machel: International solidarity is not an act of charity: it's an act of unity between allies fighting on different terrains toward the same objectives. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote4966
George L. Jackson: An electoral choice of ten different fascists is like choosing which way one wishes to die. The holder of so-called high public office is always merely an extension of the hated ruling corporate class. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote4967
Ken Livingstone: If voting changed anything they'd abolish it. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote4968
Bible: When you come to the land the Lord your God is giving you and take it over and live in it and then say, “I will select a king like all the nations surrounding me,” you must select without fail a king whom the Lord your God chooses. From among your fellow citizens you must appoint a king – you may not designate a foreigner who is not one of your fellow Israelites. Moreover, he must not accumulate horses for himself or allow the people to return to Egypt to do so, for the Lord has said you must never again return that way. Furthermore, he must not marry many wives lest his affections turn aside, and he must not accumulate much silver and gold. When he sits on his royal throne he must make a copy of this law on a scroll given to him by the Levitical priests. It must be with him constantly and he must read it as long as he lives, so that he may learn to revere the Lord his God and observe all the words of this law and these statutes and carry them out. Then he will not exalt himself above his fellow citizens or turn from the commandments to the right or left, and he and his descendants will enjoy many years ruling over his kingdom in Israel. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote4969
William L. Shirer: Perhaps America will one day go fascist democratically, by popular vote. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote4970
Stalin: I consider it completely unimportant who in the party will vote, or how; but what is extraordinarily important is this—who will count the votes, and how. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote4971
James Clavell: Wars are fought by teenagers, you realize that. They really ought to be fought by the politicians and old people who start these wars. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote4972
Erich Fromm: Our society is run by a managerial bureaucracy, by professional politicians; people are motivated by mass suggestion, their aim is producing more and consuming more, as purposes in themselves. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote4973
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Wilhelm Reich: The working men and women who think and act in a work-democratic way do not come out against the politician. It is not his fault or his intention that the practical result of his work exposes the illusionary and irrational character of politics. Those who are engaged in practical work, regardless what field they are in, are intensely concerned with practical tasks in the improvement of life. Those who are engaged in practical work are not against one thing or another. It is only the politician who, having no practical tasks is always against and never for something. Politics in general is characterized by this ‘being against’ one thing or another. That which is productive in a practical way is not accomplished by politicians, but by working men and women, whether it is in accord with the politicians’ ideologies or not. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote4974