Jorge Luis Borges: A writer - and, I believe, generally all persons - must think that whatever happens to him or her is a resource. All things have been given to us for a purpose, and an artist must feel this more intensely. All that happens to us, including our humiliations, our misfortunes, our embarrassments, all is given to us as raw material, as clay, so that we may shape our art. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote3956
Jorge Luis Borges: Don't talk unless you can improve the silence. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote3957
Jorge Luis Borges: You have wakened not out of sleep, but into a prior dream, and that dream lies within another, and so on, to infinity, which is the number of grains of sand. The path that you are to take is endless, and you will die before you have truly awakened. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote3958
Jorge Luis Borges: When writers die they become books, which is, after all, not too bad an incarnation. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote3959
Jorge Luis Borges: A book is more than a verbal structure or series of verbal structures; it is the dialogue it establishes with its reader and the intonation it imposes upon his voice and the changing and durable images it leaves in his memory. A book is not an isolated being: it is a relationship, an axis of innumerable relationships. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote3960
Jorge Luis Borges: Personally, I am a hedonistic reader; I have never read a book merely because it was ancient. I read books for the aesthetic emotions they offer me, and I ignore the commentaries and criticism. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote3961
Jorge Luis Borges: Life itself is a quotation. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote3962
Jorge Luis Borges: Writing is nothing more than a guided dream. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote3963
Jorge Luis Borges: You can't measure time by days, the way you measure money by dollars and cents, because dollars are all the same while every day is different and maybe every hour as well. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote3964
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Jorge Luis Borges: We accept reality so readily - perhaps because we sense that nothing is real. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote3965
Jorge Luis Borges: There are those who cannot imagine a world without birds; there are those who cannot imagine a world without water; but in my case I am unable to imagine a world without books. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote3966
Ortega y Gasset: It is only possible to move forward when you look away. Progress is only possible when you think big. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote3967
Carl von Clausewitz: War therefore is an act of violence intended to compel our opponent to fulfil our will. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote3968
Carl von Clausewitz: War is such a dangerous business that mistakes that come from kindness are the very worst. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote3969
Lenin: The fundamental law of revolution, which has been confirmed by all revolutions and especially by all three Russian revolutions in the twentieth century, is as follows: for a revolution to take place it is not enough for the exploited and oppressed masses to realise the impossibility of living in the old way, and demand changes; for a revolution to take place it is essential that the exploiters should not be able to live and rule in the old way. It is only when the "lower classes" do not want to live in the old way and the "upper classes" cannot carry on in the old way that the revolution can triumph. This truth can be expressed in other words: revolution is impossible without a nation-wide crisis (affecting both the exploited and the exploiters). It follows that, for a revolution to take place, it is essential, first, that a majority of the workers (or at least a majority of the class-conscious, thinking, and politically active workers) should fully realise that revolution is necessary, and that they should be prepared to die for it; second, that the ruling classes should be going through a governmental crisis, which draws even the most backward masses into politics (symptomatic of any genuine revolution is a rapid, tenfold and even hundredfold increase in the size of the working and oppressed masses-hitherto apathetic-who are capable of waging the political struggle), weakens the government, and makes it possible for the revolutionaries to rapidly overthrow it. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote3970
Ralph McGhee: The CIA is not an intelligence agency. It's a corporate action agency. Covert action being overthrowing or supporting foreign governments. Another part of covert action is disinformation. And the American people, in my estimation, are the primary target audience of the agency's disinformation operation. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote3971
Ralph McGhee: One function of the agency is, as noted by the Church committee is to create an international anticommunist ideology. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote3972
Friedrich Engels: According to the materialist conception of history, the ultimately determining element in history is the production and reproduction of real life. Other than this neither Marx nor I have ever asserted. Hence if somebody twists this into saying that the economic element is the only determining one, he transforms that proposition into a meaningless, abstract, senseless phrase. The economic situation is the basis, but the various elements of the superstructure — political forms of the class struggle and its results, to wit: constitutions established by the victorious class after a successful battle, etc., juridical forms, and even the reflexes of all these actual struggles in the brains of the participants, political, juristic, philosophical theories, religious views and their further development into systems of dogmas — also exercise their influence upon the course of the historical struggles and in many cases preponderate in determining their form. There is an interaction of all these elements in which, amid all the endless host of accidents (that is, of things and events whose inner interconnection is so remote or so impossible of proof that we can regard it as non-existent, as negligible), the economic movement finally asserts itself as necessary. Otherwise the application of the theory to any period of history would be easier than the solution of a simple equation of the first degree. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote3973
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Friedrich Engels: We make our history ourselves, but, in the first place, under very definite assumptions and conditions. Among these the economic ones are ultimately decisive. But the political ones, etc., and indeed even the traditions which haunt human minds also play a part, although not the decisive one. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote3974
Friedrich Engels: History is made in such a way that the final result always arises from conflicts between many individual wills, of which each in turn has been made what it is by a host of particular conditions of life. Thus there are innumerable intersecting forces, an infinite series of parallelograms of forces which give rise to one resultant — the historical event. This may again itself be viewed as the product of a power which works as a whole unconsciously and without volition. For what each individual wills is obstructed by everyone else, and what emerges is something that no one willed. Thus history has proceeded hitherto in the manner of a natural process and is essentially subject to the same laws of motion. But from the fact that the wills of individuals — each of whom desires what he is impelled to by his physical constitution and external, in the last resort economic, circumstances (either his own personal circumstances or those of society in general) — do not attain what they want, but are merged into an aggregate mean, a common resultant, it must not be concluded that they are equal to zero. On the contrary, each contributes to the resultant and is to this extent included in it. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote3975
Abraham Lincoln: The money powers prey upon the nation in times of peace, and conspire against it in times of adversity. It is more despotic than monarchy, more insolent than autocracy, more selfish than bureaucracy. I see in the near future a crisis approaching that unnerves me and causes me to tremble for the safety of my country. Corporations have been enthroned, an era of corruption will follow and the money power of the country will endeavor and prolong its reign by working upon the prejudices of the people, until the wealth is aggregated into a few hands and the republic is destroyed. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote3976
Nathan Mayer Rothschild: I care not what puppet is placed upon the throne of England to rule the Empire on which the sun never sets. The man who controls the British money supply controls the British Empire, and I control the British money supply. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote3977
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Thomas Woodrow Wilson: Since I entered politics, I have chiefly had men’s views confided to me privately. Some of the biggest men in the United States, in the field of commerce and manufacturing, are afraid of something. They know that there is a power somewhere so organized, so subtle, so watchful, so interlocked, so complete, so pervasive, that they better not speak above their breath when they speak in condemnation of it. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote3978
Heinrich Heine: Money is the God of our time, and Rothschild is his prophet. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote3979
Hannah Arendt: The moment we no longer have a free press, anything can happen. What makes it possible for a totalitarian or any other dictatorship to rule is that people are not informed; how can you have an opinion if you are not informed? If everybody always lies to you, the consequence is not that you believe the lies, but rather that nobody believes anything any longer. This is because lies, by their very nature, have to be changed, and a lying government has constantly to rewrite its own history. On the receiving end you get not only one lie — a lie which you could go on for the rest of your days — but you get a great number of lies, depending on how the political wind blows. And a people that no longer can believe anything cannot make up its mind. It is deprived not only of its capacity to act but also of its capacity to think and to judge. And with such a people you can then do what you please. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote3980
Hannah Arendt: Political questions are far too serious to be left to the politicians. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote3981
Hannah Arendt: Real power begins where secrecy begins. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote3982
Gerrard Winstanley: The earth was made to be a common treasure of livelihood for all, without respect of persons. None ought to be Lords or Landlords over another, but the earth is free for every son and daughter of humanity to live freely upon. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote3983
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George Soros: I was very much involved in the collapse of the Soviet system. That was my debut as what I call myself a political philanthropist. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote3984
Murray Rothbard: The State obtains its revenue by coercion, by threatening dire penalties should the income not be forthcoming. That coercion is known as “taxation,” although in less regularized epochs it was often known as “tribute.” Taxation is theft, purely and simply even though it is theft on a grand and colossal scale which no acknowledged criminals could hope to match. It is a compulsory seizure of the property of the State’s inhabitants, or subjects. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote3985
Murray Rothbard: The State says that citizens may not take from another by force and against his will that which belongs to another. And yet the State…does just that. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote3986
Karl Marx: The political economy of the proletariat had won a still greater victory through the co-operative movement and by the establishment of factories based on the principle of co-operation and made possible by the tireless work of a few men without outside assistance. The value of these great social experiments could not be estimated too highly. “In practice instead of by reasoning they have proved that production on a large scale and in accordance with the laws of modern science is possible without the existence of a class of employers giving employment to a class of workers; that in order to bear fruit the tools of labour need not be monopolized as the instruments of an exploiting dominance over the workers; that wage-labour, like slave-labour and serfdom, is only a subordinate and temporary form doomed to disappear before co-operative labour, which performs its difficult task with a willing hand, a joyful spirit and a light heart.” However, co-operative labour limited to occasional attempts would not be able to break the monopoly of capital. “Perhaps just for this reason aristocrats apparently high-minded in their ideas, philanthropic theoreticians of the bourgeoisie and even hard-headed economists have suddenly begun to pay loathsome compliments to the co-operative labour system, which they tried vainly to suppress in its infancy, mocked at as the utopianism of dreamers or condemned as the madness of socialists.” Only the development of co-operative labour to national dimensions could save the working masses, but the owners of land and capital would always mobilize their political privileges to perpetuate their economic monopoly indefinitely and it was therefore the great duty of the working class to conquer political power. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote3987
Wiz Khalifa: Revealing the truth is like lighting a match, it can bring light or it can set your world on fire. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote3988
Aaron McGruder: People consistently underestimate today is how the nature of mass media has transformed society. 10 people control 90% of everything you see, read, and hear in this country. 10 people. And they want to tell you that Cuba has state-run media. 10 people. Who are those 10 people? Well, you can look em up. They're not hard to find. That in and of itself is problematic when you consider that these 10 people all need permission from the US government in order to have licenses in order to buy other corporations in order to do all the nefarious things they like to do we live in a completely different era where information is more tightly controlled than it has ever been in the history of this country when we're on the verge of the Iraq war no actually after the Iraq war started some 400,000 people march in New York City and they don't even get on the news first thing to remember is that What drives this country is money and profit. Generally, most things that are going down today are going down because of money and profit. Absolutely. The wars, the peace, stocks, and every single TV show you watch. Believe me, what you see on television, when you turn on CNN and you turn on MSNBC, that's entertainment. Is what people try to suppress. News is what they do not want you to know. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote3989
Wilhelm Pieck: Since the first days of Soviet power, the capitalist world, the bourgeois ideologists and their agents in the working class have been waging a vindictive struggle against the country where power is in the hands of the working people. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote3990