John Adams: It is weakness rather than wickedness which renders men unfit to be trusted with unlimited power. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote4414
Marshall McLuhan: Only the small secrets need to be protected. The large ones are kept secret by public incredulity. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote4415
Hitler: Terrorism is the best political weapon for nothing drives people harder than a fear of sudden death. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote4416
Albert J. Beveridge: Beware the leader who bangs the drums of war in order to whip the citizenry into a patriotic fervor, for patriotism is indeed a double-edged sword. It both emboldens the blood, just as it narrows the mind. And when the drums of war have reached a fever pitch and the blood boils with hate and the mind has closed, the leader will have no need in seizing the rights of the citizenry. Rather, the citizenry, infused with fear and blinded by patriotism, will offer up all of their rights unto the leader and gladly so. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote4417
Patrick Henry: The Constitution is not an instrument for the government to restrain the people, it is an instrument for the people to restrain the government -- lest it come to dominate our lives and interests. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote4418
Thomas Jefferson: An informed citizenry is the only true repository of the public will. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote4419
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Thomas Jefferson: Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of Liberty. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote4420
James Baldwin: People who shut their eyes to reality simply invite their own destruction. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote4421
The American Heritage Dictionary: Fascism: A system of government that exercises a dictatorship of the extreme right, typically through the merging of state and business leadership, together with belligerent nationalism. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote4422
Plato: The penalty good men suffer for not getting involved in public affairs is being ruled by evil men. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote4423
Plato: We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark. The real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote4424
Michael Parenti: The worst forms of tyranny, or certainly the most successful ones, are not those we rail against but those that so insinuate themselves into the imagery of our consciousness, and the fabric of our lives, as not to be perceived as tyranny. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote4425
George Orwell: In times of universal deception, telling the truth is a revolutionary act. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote4426
Thomas Jefferson: We cannot defend freedom abroad by deserting it at home. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote4427
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George Orwell: We are all capable of believing things which we know to be untrue, and then, when we are finally proved wrong, impudently twisting the facts so as to show that we were right. Intellectually, it is possible to carry on this process for an indefinite time: the only check on it is that sooner or later a false belief bumps up against solid reality, usually on a battlefield. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote4428
Joseph Goebbels: The lie can be maintained only for such time as the State can shield the people from the political, economic and/or military consequences of the lie. It thus becomes vitally important for the State to use all of its powers to repress dissent, for the truth is the mortal enemy of the lie, and thus by extension, the truth becomes the greatest enemy of the State. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote4429
Kurt Cobain: The duty of youth is to challenge corruption. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote4430
Pablo Neruda: You can cut all the flowers but you cannot keep spring from coming. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote4431
Federico Garcia Lorca: I am a revolutionary because there are no true poets that are not revolutionaries. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote4432
Nelson Mandela: Che's life is an inspiration for every human being who loves freedom. We will always honor his memory. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote4433
Aleida Guevara March: When men are able to influence so many others through their life and their example, they do not die. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote4434
Jean-Paul Sartre: You know how much I admire Che Guevara. In fact, I believe that the man was not only an intellectual but also the most complete human being of our age: as a fighter and as a man, as a theoretician who was able to further the cause of revolution by drawing his theories from his personal experience in battle. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote4435
Ernesto Sábato: The Struggle of Guevara against the US was the struggle of the Spirit against Matter. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote4436
John Locke: All just power is derived from the consent of the governed. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote4437
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Enver Hoxha: The American imperialists and Soviet social-imperialists 'explore' outer space allegedly for the 'good of humanity' while their people are impoverished and hungry. They can have their revolution of heavens -- we in Albania have our revolution among men. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote4438
Thomas Jefferson: Single acts of tyranny may be ascribed to the accidental opinion of a day. But a series of oppressions, begun at a distinguished period, and pursued unalterably through every change of ministers (administrations), too plainly proves a deliberate systematic plan of reducing us to slavery. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote4439
Theodore Roosevelt: Patriotism means to stand by the country. It does not mean to stand by the President. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote4440
Thomas Paine: That there are men in all countries who get their living by war, and by keeping up the quarrels of nations, is as shocking as it is true; but when those who are concerned in the government of a country, make it their study to sow discord, and cultivate prejudices between nations, it becomes the more unpardonable. The Rights of Man", circa 1792 https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote4441
Quintus Servilius Caepio: "It was never pleasing to the Romans, that a general should be killed by his own soldiers" or in another version more common in modern Portugal and Spain "Rome does not pay traitors who kill their chief". https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote4442
Dwight Eisenhower: Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and not clothed. The world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children....This is not a way of life at all, in any true sense. Under the cloud of threatening war, it is humanity hanging from an iron cross. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote4443
Albert Einstein: Great spirits have often encountered violent opposition from weak minds. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote4444
Edmund Burke: All it takes for evil to flourish is for good men (and women) to do nothing. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote4445
Edmund Burke: No one could make a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote4446
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Edmund Burke: No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote4447
Henri Frederic Amiel: Truth is violated by falsehood, but it is outraged by silence. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote4448
Karl Marx: Development of the productive forces of social labour is the historical task and justification of capital. This is just the way in which it unconsciously creates the material requirements of a higher mode of production. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote4449