Enver Hoxha: In the stage off imperialism, both at its commencement and now, too, the danger of the establishment of a fascist military dictatorship whenever the capitalist monopolies think that their interests are threatened always exists. Moreover, it has been proved, especially from the end of the Second World War to this day, that American imperialism, British imperialism and others have gone to the assistance of the bourgeoisie of various countries to eliminate those governments or to suppress those revolutionary forces which, in one way or another, offer even the slightest threat to the foundations of the capitalist system. As long as imperialism exists, there still exists the basis and possibility for, and its unchangeable policy of, interference in the internal affairs of other countries, counter-revolutionary plots, the overthrow of lawful governments, the liquidation of democratic and progressive forces, and the strangling of the revolution. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote4869
Enver Hoxha: It is American imperialism which props up the fascist regimes in Spain and Portugal, which incites the revival of German fascism and Japanese militarism, which supports the racist regimes of South Africa and Rhodesia and keeps up the discrimination against the black people in its own country. It is American imperialism that helps the reactionary regimes of South Korea and the Saigon and Pnom Penh puppets, which has instigated the Zionist aggression and helps Israel to maintain its occupation of the Arab territories. All the furious winds of anti-communism, national oppression and capitalist exploitation blow from the United States of America. Throughout Latin America, with some rare exceptions, American imperialism has established tyrannical fascist regimes, which mercilessly suppress and exploit the people. On that continent, all the weapons used against demonstrations, the weapons which kill the workers and peasants, are made in the United States and supplied by it. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote4870
Paulo Freire: When education is not liberating, the dream of the oppressed is to become the oppressor. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote4871
Vladimir Putin: Certainly, communist ideology played a role (in the victory in World War II). People stood up and marched forward for the Motherland and for Stalin. But the Motherland always came first. Let us not forget this. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote4872
Alexander Hamilton: A powerful, victorious ally is yet another name for master. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote4873
Howard Zinn: ... the most formidable military machine depends ultimately on the obedience of its soldiers, ... the most powerful corporation becomes helpless when its workers stop working, when its customers refuse to buy its products. The strike, the boycott, the refusal to serve, the ability to paralyze the functioning of a complex social structure-these remain potent weapons against the most fearsome state or corporate power. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote4874
Byung-Chul Han: Today, everyone is an auto-exploiting labourer in his or her own enterprise. People are now master and slave in one. Even class struggle has transformed into an inner struggle against oneself. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote4875
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Byung-Chul Han: As the entrepreneur of its own self, the neoliberal subject has no capacity for relationships with others that might be free of purpose. Nor do entrepreneurs know what purpose-free friendship would even look like. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote4876
Byung-Chul Han: Neoliberalism represents a highly efficient, indeed an intelligent, system for exploiting freedom. Everything that belongs to practices and expressive forms of liberty –emotion, play and communication –comes to be exploited. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote4877
Stephen Hawking: Life would be tragic if it weren’t funny. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote4878
Rev. William J. H. Boetcker: You cannot bring prosperity by discouraging thrift. You cannot help small men by tearing down big men. You cannot strengthen the weak by weakening the strong. You cannot lift the wage earner by pulling down the wage payer. You cannot help the poor man by destroying the rich. You cannot keep out of trouble by spending more than your income. You cannot further brotherhood of men by inciting class hatred. You cannot establish security on borrowed money. You cannot build character and courage by taking away man's initiative and independence. You cannot help men permanently by doing for them what they could and should do for themselves. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote4879
Ho Chi Minh: The capitalists often boast that their constitutions guarantee the rights of the individual, democratic liberties and the interests of all citizens. But in reality, only the bourgeoisie enjoy the rights recorded in these constitutions. The working people do not really enjoy democratic freedoms; they are exploited all their life and have to bear heavy burdens in the service of the exploiting class. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote4880
Ho Chi Minh: We want to build a new society, a free society where all men are equal, a society where industry, thrift, integrity and uprightness prevail hence we must wipe out all bad habits of the old society. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote4881
Ho Chi Minh: Remember that the storm is a good opportunity for the pine and the cypress to show their strength and their stability. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote4882
Ho Chi Minh: All my life, I have served the fatherland, the revolution and the people with all my heart and strength. If I should now depart from this world, I would have nothing to regret, except not being able to serve longer and more. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote4883
Ho Chi Minh: Though frontiers and mountains stand between us, Proletarians of the whole world come together as one family. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote4884
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Ho Chi Minh: Under the banner of Marxism-Leninism, let our party, with the seething spirit of an invincible army, unite even more closely, and lead our working people boldly forward to new victories in the struggle for socialist construction in the North and for the reunification of the country. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote4885
Ho Chi Minh: "All men are created equal. They are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights, among these are Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness". This immortal statement was made in the Declaration of Independence of the United States of America in 1776. In a broader sense, this means: All the peoples on the Earth are equal from birth, all the peoples have a right to live, to be happy and to be free. The Declaration of the French Revolution made in 1791 on the Rights of Man and the Citizen also states: "All men are born free and with equal rights, and must always remain free and have equal rights." Those are undeniable truths. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote4886
Ho Chi Minh: Revolutionary morality does not fall from the sky. It is developed and consolidated through persevering daily struggle and effort. Like jade, the more it is polished the more it shines. Like gold, it grows ever purer as it foes into the melting pot. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote4887
Ho Chi Minh: Revolutionary morality consists, in whatever circumstances, in resolutely struggling against all enemies, maintaining one's vigilance, standing ready to fight, and refusing to submit, to bow one's head. Only by so doing can we defeat the enemy, and fulfill our revolutionary tasks. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote4888
Ho Chi Minh: Individualism spawns hundreds of dangerous diseases: bureaucratism, commandism, sectarianism, subjectiveness, corruption, waste ... It ties up and blindfolds its victims whose every action is guided by their desire for honor and position, not by concern for the interests of the class and the people. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote4889
Ho Chi Minh: To study Marxism-Leninism is to learn the spirit in which one should deal with things, with other people and with oneself. It means to study the universal Marxist-Leninist truths in order to apply them creatively to the practical conditions of our country. We must study with a view to action . Theory must go hand in hand with practice. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote4890
Ho Chi Minh: To make the revolution to transform the old society into a new one is a very glorious, but also extremely heavy task, a complex, protracted and hard struggle. Only a strong man can travel a long distance with a heavy load on his back. A revolutionary must have solid foundation of revolutionary morality in order to fulfill his glorious revolutionary task. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote4891
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Ray Bradbury: Now that I have you thoroughly confused, let me pause to hear your own dismayed cry. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote4892
Ho Chi Minh: The CPSU again demonstrates that the most important aspect of self-criticism is to practically and effectively correct one's errors. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote4893
Ho Chi Minh: Obviously, Lenin meant that the stage of fierce civil war and the restriction of democracy imposed on the Soviet people were only provisional and had to be abolished as soon as the new regime was consolidated. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote4894
Ho Chi Minh: It is crystal clear that once victorious, socialism can never tolerate the personality cult and its harmful consequences. The energetic measures taken by the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union to do away with the personality cult, and its consequence, set a brilliant example of unprecedented political boldness. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote4895
Ho Chi Minh: Democracy means to rely on the masses, correctly follow the mass line. Hence to be successful, the movement against embezzlement, waste and bureaucracy must rely on the masses. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote4896
Dijkstra: Computer Science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote4897
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Friedrich Engels: The individual capitalist is involved in struggle with all the other capitalists; the individual worker with all the other workers; all capitalists fight against the workers just as the mass of workers in their turn have, of necessity, to fight against the mass of capitalists. In this war of all against all, in this general confusion and mutual exploitation, the essence of present-day bourgeois society is to be found. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote4898
Stalin: Marx analyzed capitalism in order to elucidate the source of exploitation of the working class - surplus value - and to arm the working class, which was bereft of means of production, with an intellectual weapon for the overthrow of capitalism. It is natural that Marx used concepts (categories) which fully corresponded to capitalist relations. But it is strange, to say the least, to use these concepts now, when the working class is not only not bereft of power and means of production, but, on the contrary, is in possession of the power and controls the means of production. Talk of labour power being a commodity, and of "hiring" of workers sounds rather absurd now, under our system: as though the working class, which possesses means of production, hires itself and sells its labour power to itself. It is just as strange to speak now of "necessary" and "surplus" labour: as though, under our conditions, the labour contributed by the workers to society for the extension of production, the promotion of education and public health, the organization of defence, etc., is not just as necessary to the working class, now in power, as the labour expended to supply the personal needs of the worker and his family. It should be remarked that in his Critique of the Gotha Program, where it is no longer capitalism that he is investigating, but, among other things, the first phase of communist society, Marx recognizes labour contributed to society for extension of production, for education and public health, for administrative expenses, for building up reserves, etc., to be just as necessary as the labour expended to supply the consumption requirements of the working class. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote4899
Frantz Fanon: The European masses must first of all decide to wake up, put on their thinking caps and stop playing the irresponsible game of Sleeping Beauty. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote4900
Enver Hoxha: The ideological and cultural revolution is a part of the general class struggle to carry the socialist revolution through to the end in all fields. Contrary to the views of the modern revisionists, who have declared the class struggle in socialism outdated and a thing of the past, our Party holds that class struggle remains one of the main motive forces of society, even after the exploiting classes have been eliminated. This struggle includes all fields of life. It has its ebbs and flows and zigzags, sometimes it surges up, sometimes it falls back, sometimes becomes fierce, at other times more «mild», but it never ceases and dies right away. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote4901
Enver Hoxha: The Party of Labor of Albania) has waged and is waging the class struggle in the correct Marxist-Leninist way, inside and outside the Party, and this is the motive force during the whole period of the transition from capitalism to socialism. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote4902