Albert Einstein: Only those who attempt the absurd can achieve the impossible. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote4124
George Orwell: Power is in inflicting pain and humiliation. Power is in tearing human minds to pieces and putting them together again in new shapes of your own choosing. Do you begin to see, then, what kind of world we are creating? It is the exact opposite of the stupid hedonistic Utopias that the old reformers imagined. A world of fear and treachery is torment, a world of trampling and being trampled upon, a world which will grow not less but MORE merciless as it refines itself. Progress in our world will be progress towards more pain. The old civilizations claimed that they were founded on love or justice. Ours is founded upon hatred. In our world there will be no emotions except fear, rage, triumph, and self-abasement. Everything else we shall destroy – everything. Already we are breaking down the habits of thought which have survived from before the Revolution. We have cut the links between child and parent, and between man and man, and between man and woman. No one dares trust a wife or a child or a friend any longer. But in the future there will be no wives and no friends. Children will be taken from their mothers at birth, as one takes eggs from a hen. The sex instinct will be eradicated. Procreation will be an annual formality like the renewal of a ration card. We shall abolish the orgasm. Our neurologists are at work upon it now. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote4125
Trainspotting: The world is changing, music is changing,drugs are changing, even men and women are changing. One thousand years from now there'll be no guys and no girls, just wankers. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote4126
Kim Jong-Un: Abuse of power, bureaucratism and corruption that are revealed in a ruling party are a dangerous poison that may lead it to become a party of aristocrats and bureaucrats. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote4127
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Stalin: We must not allow ourselves to be reassured by the fact that we have a million members in our Party, two million in the Young Communist League and ten million in the trade unions, and believe that this is all that is required for complete victory over our enemies. That is not true, comrades. History tells us that some of the biggest armies perished because they grew conceited, had too much faith in their own strength, paid too little heed to the strength of their enemies, gave themselves over to somnolence, lost their readiness for action, and at a critical moment were caught unawares. The biggest party may be caught unawares, the biggest party may perish, if it does not learn the lessons of history and does not work day in and day out to forge the readiness for action of its class. To be caught unaware is a most dangerous thing, comrades. To be caught unawares is to fall prey to "surprises," to panic in face of the enemy. And panic leads to break-down, to defeat, to destruction. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote4128
Fred Hampton: If you get yourself involved in a revolutionary struggle then you’ve got to be serious. You got to know what you’re doing. You got to already have practiced some type of theory. That’s the reason we ask people to follow the leadership of the vanguard party. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote4129
Ahmad Sa'adat: We see corporations profiting from the attacks on our movements & mass imprisonment of our people & U.S., European & Israeli police forces exchanging training with one another to escalate racism,“counter-insurgency” & repression on the streets of our cities, camps and villages. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote4130
Andrew Jackson: The bank is trying to kill me, but I will kill it! https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote4131
Arthur Conan Doyle: When you have eliminated all which is impossible, then whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote4132
Tamara Bunke: There is nothing more beautiful than to be in the middle of a critical situation, where the revolutionary struggle is the most difficult. How many would like to be here in Cuba to participate in defense of the Cuban revolution! I'm lucky enough to be able to do so. This is why I returned to Latin America. If I were interested in living well, surrounded by all the comforts, I would have stayed in Berlin, where I had everything. The Latin American revolution is advancing steadily toward a higher level, and I am fortunate enough to take part of it! ... Patria o muerte! Venceremos! https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote4133
Karl Marx: The relations of private property contain latent within them the relation of private property as labour, the relation of private property as capital, and the mutual relation of these two to one another. There is the production of human activity as labour – that is, as an activity quite alien to itself, to man and to nature, and therefore to consciousness and the expression of life – the abstract existence of man as a mere workman who may therefore daily fall from his filled void into the absolute void – into his social, and therefore actual, non-existence. On the other hand, there is the production of the object of human activity as capital – in which all the natural and social characteristic of the object is extinguished; in which private property has lost its natural and social quality (and therefore every political and social illusion, and is not associated with any apparently human relations); in which the selfsame capital remains the same in the most diverse natural and social manifestations, totally indifferent to its real content. This contradiction, driven to the limit, is of necessity the limit, the culmination, and the downfall of the whole private-property relationship. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote4134
Gary Webb: The government side of the story is coming through the Los Angeles Times, The New York Times, The Washington Post... They use the giant corporate press rather than saying anything directly. If you work through friendly reporters on major newspapers, it comes off as The New York Times saying it and not a mouthpiece of the CIA. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote4135
Leslie Feinberg: Remember me as a revolutionary communist. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote4136
François Mauriac: I have no desire to play in a world where everyone cheats. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote4137
François Mauriac: How little it costs to build castles in the air and how expensive is their destruction! https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote4138
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İbrahim Kaypakkaya: While the imperialist countries export capital to developing countries, building railways, factories, etc. All they care about are the high interest rates, low land prices, low wages, cheap raw materials, and their main purpose is to have unrivaled ownership of all the land and raw materials, to colonize them, and to enslave the working people. This is the main character and purpose of imperialism. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote4139
Karl Marx: The same men who establish their social relations in conformity with the material productivity, produce also principles, ideas, and categories, in conformity with their social relations. Thus the ideas, these categories, are as little eternal as the relations they express. They are historical and transitory products. There is a continual movement of growth in productive forces, of destruction in social relations, of formation in ideas; the only immutable thing is the abstraction of movement — mors immortalis. ( From Lucretius's poem On The Nature of Things: "mortalem vitam mars immortalis ademit" ("moral life has been usurped by death the immortal").) https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote4140
Karl Marx: The more the antagonistic character comes to light, the more the economists, the scientific representatives of bourgeois production, find themselves in conflict with their own theory; and different schools arise. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote4141
Lenin: Socialists must centre their activity on the struggle against reformism, which has always corrupted the revolutionary labour movement by injecting bourgeois ideas. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote4142
Lenin: Here we come to the most urgent question of our movement, to its sore point-organisation. The improvement of revolutionary organisation and discipline, the perfection of our underground technique are an absolute necessity. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote4143
Peter Gelderloos: Perhaps the largest of the limited, if not hollow, victories of the civil rights movement came when black people demonstrated they would not remain peaceful forever. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote4144
Peter Gelderloos: Prevent violence on the part of black nationalist groups. This is of primary importance, and is, of course, a goal of our investigative activity; it should also be a goal of the Counterintelligence Program (in the original government lingo, that phrase refers to a specific operation, of which there were thousands, and not the overarching program). Through counterintelligence it should be possible to pinpoint potential troublemakers and neutralize them before they exercise their potential for violence. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote4145
Peter Gelderloos: As part of a disturbingly universal pattern, pacifists white out those other forms of resistance and help propagate the false history that Gandhi and his disciples were the lone masthead and rudder of Indian resistance. Ignored are important militant leaders such as Chandrasekhar Azad, who fought in armed struggle against the British colonizers, and revolutionaries such as Bhagat Singh, who won mass support for bombings and assassinations as part of a struggle to accomplish the ‘overthrow of both foreign and Indian capitalism. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote4146
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Peter Gelderloos: The liberation movement in India failed. The British were not forced to quit India. Rather, they chose to transfer the territory from direct colonial rule to neocolonial rule,” What kind of victory allows the losing side to dictate the time and manner of the victors’ ascendancy? The British authored the new constitution and turned power over to handpicked successors. They fanned the flames of religious and ethnic separatism so that India would be divided against itself, prevented from gaining peace and prosperity, and dependent on military aid and other support from Euro/American states.” India is still exploited by Euro/American corporations (though several new Indian corporations, mostly subsidiaries, have joined in the pillaging), and still provides resources and markets for the imperialist states. In many ways the poverty of its people has deepened and the exploitation has become more efficient. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote4147
Peter Gelderloos: If the Palestinians hadn’t made the Israeli occupation and every successive aggression so costly, all the Palestinian land would be seized, except for a few reservations to hold the necessary number of surplus laborers to supplement the Israeli economy, and the Palestinians would be a distant memory in a long line of extinct peoples. Palestinian resistance, including suicide bombings, has helped ensure Palestinian survival against a far more powerful enemy. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote4148
Peter Gelderloos: Nonviolence declares that the American Indians could have fought off Columbus, George Washington, and all the other genocidal butchers with sit-ins; that Crazy Horse, by using violent resistance, became part of the cycle of violence, and was “as bad as” Custer. Nonviolence declares that Africans could have stopped the slave trade with hunger strikes and petitions, and that those who mutinied were as bad as their captors; that mutiny, a form of violence, led to more violence, and, thus, resistance led to more enslavement. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote4149
Peter Gelderloos: Pretending that all violence is the same is very convenient for supposedly anti-violence privileged people who benefit from the violence of the state and have much to lose from the violence of revolution. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote4150
Benjamin Netanyahu: We own the Senate, the Congress, and we have a record-strong Jewish lobby on our side. We have a strong influence over the general support. America won’t force us into anything. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote4151
Peter Gelderloos: Put simply, if a movement is not a threat, it cannot change a system based on centralized coercion and violence. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote4152
Peter Gelderloos: The state is not a passive thing. If it wants to repress a movement or organization, it does not wait for an excuse, it manufactures one (…) About such campaigns, the FBI says, “It is immaterial whether facts exist to substantiate the charge….(D)isruption (through the media) can be accomplished without facts to back it up. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote4153
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Peter Gelderloos: Permitting nonviolent protest improves the image of the state. Whether they mean to or not, nonviolent dissidents play the role of a loyal opposition in a performance that dramatizes dissent and creates the illusion that democratic government is not elitist or authoritarian. Pacifists paint the state as benign by giving authority the chance to tolerate a criticism that does not actually threaten its continued operation. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote4154
Peter Gelderloos: In its long history, this strategy type has not succeeded in causing the class of owners, managers, and enforcers to defect and be disobedient, because their interests are fundamentally opposed to the interests of those who participate in the disobedience. What disobedience strategies have succeeded in doing, time and time again, is forcing out particular government regimes, though these are always replaced by other regimes constituted from among the elite. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote4155
Karl Marx: Is that to say we are against Free Trade? No, we are for Free Trade, because by Free Trade all economical laws, with their most astounding contradictions, will act upon a larger scale, upon the territory of the whole earth; and because from the uniting of all these contradictions in a single group, where they will stand face to face, will result the struggle which will itself eventuate in the emancipation of the proletariat. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote4156
Thomas Jefferson: The bank mania... is raising up a moneyed aristocracy in our country which has already set the government at defiance, and although forced at length to yield a little on this first essay of their strength, their principles are unyielded and unyielding. These have taken deep root in the hearts of that class from which our legislators are drawn, and the sop to Cerberus from fable has become history. Their principles lay hold of the good, their pelf of the bad, and thus those whom the Constitution had placed as guards to its portals, are sophisticated or suborned from their duties. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote4157
Thomas Jefferson: ...I sincerely believe, with you, that banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies; and that the principle of spending money to be paid by posterity, under the name of funding, is but swindling futurity on a large scale. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote4158
Goethe: Everywhere revolutions are painful yet fruitful gestations of a people: they shed blood but create light, they eliminate men but elaborate ideas. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote4159