Mao Zedong: The people's state protects the people. Only when the people have such a state can they educate and remold themselves by democratic methods on a country-wide scale, with everyone taking part, and shake off the influence of domestic and foreign reactionaries (which is still very strong, will survive for a long time and cannot be quickly destroyed), rid themselves of the bad habits and ideas acquired in the old society, not allow themselves to be led astray by the reactionaries, and continue to advance - to advance towards a socialist and communist society. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote3764
Eugene V. Debs: The red flag is the only race flag; it is the flag of revolt against robbery; the flag of the working class, the flag of hope and high resolve - the flag of Universal Freedom. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote3765
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Eugene V. Debs: The red flag, since time immemorial, has symbolized the discontent of the downtrodden, the revolt of the rabble. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote3766
Karl Liebknecht: How long should the gamblers of imperialism abuse the patience of the people? Enough and more than enough slaughter! Down with the war instigators here and abroad! An end to genocide! https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote3767
Mao Zedong: In our country bourgeois and petty-bourgeois ideology, anti-Marxist ideology will continue to exist for a long time. Basically, the socialist system has been established in our country. We have won the basic victory in transforming the ownership of the means of production, but we have not yet won complete victory on the political and ideological fronts. In the ideological field, the question of who will win in the struggle between the proletariat and the bourgeoisie has not been really settled yet. We still have to wage a protracted struggle against bourgeois and petty bourgeois ideology. It is wrong not to understand this and to give up ideological struggle. All erroneous ideas, all poisonous weeds, all ghosts and monsters, must be subjected to criticism; in no circumstance should they be allowed to spread unchecked. However, the criticism should be fully reasoned, analytical and convincing, and not rough, bureaucratic, metaphysical or dogmatic. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote3768
Mao Zedong: Both dogmatism and revisionism run counter to Marxism. Marxism must certainly advance; it must develop along with the development of practice and cannot stand still. It would become lifeless if it remained stagnant and stereotyped. However, the basic principles of Marxism must never be violated, or otherwise mistakes will be made. It is dogmatism to approach Marxism from a metaphysical point of view and to regard it as something rigid. It is revisionism to negate the basic principles of Marxism and to negate its universal truth. Revisionism is one form of bourgeois ideology. The revisionists deny the differences between socialism and capitalism, between the dictatorship of the proletariat and the dictatorship of the bourgeoisie. What they advocate is in fact not the socialist line but the capitalist line. In present circumstances, revisionism is more pernicious than dogmatism. One of our current important tasks on the ideological front is to unfold criticism of revisionism. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote3769
Mao Zedong: Revisionism, or Right opportunism, is a bourgeois trend of thought that is even more dangerous than dogmatism. The revisionists, the Right opportunists, pay lip service to Marxism; they too attack "dogmatism". However, what they are really attacking is the quintessence of Marxism. They oppose or distort materialism and dialectics, oppose or try to weaken the people's democratic dictatorship and the leading role of the Communist Party, and oppose or try to weaken socialist transformation and socialist construction. After the basic victory of the socialist revolution in our country, there are still a number of people who vainly hope to restore the capitalist system and fight the working class on every front, including the ideological one. Moreover, their right-hand men in this struggle are the revisionists. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote3770
Mao Zedong: In China, although in the main socialist transformation has been completed with respect to the system of ownership, and although the large-scale and turbulent class struggles of the masses characteristic of the previous revolutionary periods have in the main come to an end, there are still remnants of the overthrown landlord and comprador classes, there is still a bourgeoisie, and the remolding of the petty bourgeoisie has only just started. The class struggle is by no means over. The class struggle between the proletariat and the bourgeoisie, the class struggle between the different political forces, and the class struggle in the ideological held between the proletariat and the bourgeoisie will continue to be long and tortuous and at times will even become very acute. The proletariat seeks to transform the world according to its own world outlook, and so does the bourgeoisie. In this respect, the question of which will win out, socialism or capitalism, is still not really settled. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote3771
Mao Zedong: It will take a long period to decide the issue in the ideological struggle between socialism and capitalism in our country. The reason is that the influence of the bourgeoisie and of the intellectuals who come from the old society will remain in our country for a long time to come, and so will their class ideology. If this is not sufficiently understood, or is not understood at all, the gravest mistakes will be made and the necessity of waging the struggle in the ideological field will be ignored. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote3772
Mark Twain: There is nothing to be learned from the second kick of a mule. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote3773
Frank Zappa: This should not be seen as a matter only affecting women's rights, the matter of choice is something basic to be an American, when someone is anti-choice they are anti-American. It should be clear from recent events that the enemy America must face is not the Communists over there. It is those deranged right-wing lunatics right here In America. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote3774
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Carl Sagan: There are naïve questions, tedious questions, ill-phrased questions, questions put after inadequate self-criticism. But every question is a cry to understand the world. There is no such thing as a dumb question. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote3775
Dear Abby: There is no such thing as a stupid question if it's sincere. Better to ask and risk appearing stupid than to continue on your ignorant way and make a stupid mistake. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote3776
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Jerry Weissman: There is no such thing as a stupid question, only stupid answers. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote3777
South Park: Remember, there are no stupid questions, just stupid people. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote3778
Jonathan V. Last: A journalistic institution exists to serve its audience by giving them the clearest possible understanding of reality. The first duty of a journalistic institution is not to be “fair” to the politicians it covers. It is to make certain that its audience is presented an accurate view of reality. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote3779
Mao Zedong: In the world today all culture, all literature and art belong to definite classes and are geared to definite political lines. There is in fact no such thing as art for art's sake, art that stands above classes, art that is detached from or independent of politics. Proletarian literature and art are part of the whole proletarian revolutionary cause; they are, as Lenin said, cogs and wheels in the whole revolutionary machine. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote3780
Mao Zedong: Revolutionary culture is a powerful revolutionary weapon for the broad masses of the people. It prepares the ground ideologically before the revolution comes and is an important, indeed essential, fighting front in the general revolutionary front during the revolution. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote3781
Mao Zedong: All our literature and art are for the masses of the people, and in the first place for the workers, peasants and soldiers; they are created for the workers, peasants and soldiers and are for their use. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote3782
Mao Zedong: Our literary and art workers must accomplish this task and shift their stand; they must gradually move their feet over to the side of the workers, peasants and soldiers, to the side of the proletariat, through the process of going into their very midst and into the thick of practical struggles and through the process of studying Marxism and society. Only in this way can we have a literature and art that are truly for the workers, peasants and soldiers, a truly proletarian literature and art. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote3783
Bible: Do not think that I have come to bring peace to the earth. I have not come to bring peace, but a sword. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote3784
Aaron Bushnell: I've realized that a lot of the difference between me and my less radical friends is that they are less capable of imagining a better world than I am. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote3785
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Mao Zedong: Political work is the life-blood of all economic work. This is particularly true at a time when the social and economic system is undergoing fundamental change. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote3786
Mao Zedong: Ideological education is the key link to be grasped in uniting the whole Party for great political struggles. Unless this is done, the Party cannot accomplish any of its political tasks. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote3787
Mao Zedong: What really counts in the world is conscientiousness, and the Communist Party is most particular about being conscientious. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote3788
Chuang Tzu: How shall I talk of the sea to the frog If it has never left its pond? How shall I talk of the frost to the bird of the Summerland If it has never left the land of its birth How shall I talk of life with the sage If he is prisoner of his doctrine? https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote3789
Lenin: Less bombastic phrases and more simple, everyday work; less political word chatter and more attention to the simplest but living facts of construction. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote3790
Mao Zedong: Changes in society are due chiefly to the development of the internal contradictions in society, that is, the contradiction between the productive forces and the relations of production, the contradiction between classes and the contradiction between the old and the new; it is the development of these contradictions that pushes society forward and gives the impetu6 for the suppression of the old society by the new. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote3791
Mao Zedong: Who are our enemies? Who are our friends? This is a question of the first importance for the revolution. The basic reason why all previous revolutionary struggles in China achieved so little was their failure to unite with real friends in order to attack real enemies. A revolutionary party is the guide of the masses, and no revolution ever succeeds when the revolutionary party leads them astray. To ensure that we will definitely achieve success in our revolution and will not lead the masses astray, we must pay attention to uniting with our real friends in order to attack our real enemies. To distinguish real friends from real enemies, we must make a general analysis of the economic status of the various classes in Chinese society and of their respective attitudes towards the revolution. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote3792
Mao Zedong: The imperialists and domestic reactionaries will certainly not take their defeat Lying down and they will struggle to the last ditch. After there is peace and order throughout the country, they will still engage in sabotage and create disturbances in various ways and will try every day and every minute to stage a comeback. This is inevitable, beyond all doubt, and under no circumstances must we relax our vigilance. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote3793
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Mike Tyson: I really enjoyed Will Durant’s The Story of Civilization. I read Mao’s book, I read Che. I read Machiavelli, Tolstoy, Dostoyevsky, Marx, Shakespeare, you name it. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote3794
Mike Tyson: I was right there next to Mao on the long fucking march. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote3795
Yamamoto Tsunetomo: At times because of one man’s evil, ten thousand people suffer. So you kill that one man to let the tens of thousands live. Here, truly, the blade that deals death becomes the sword that saves lives. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote3796
Yamamoto Tsunetomo: There is surely nothing other than the single purpose of the present moment. A man's whole life is a succession of moment after moment. There will be nothing else to do, and nothing else to pursue. Live being true to the single purpose of the moment. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote3797