Enver Hoxha: The Arab peoples, our brothers, are brave and revolutionary peoples with a glorious past, an ancient culture and a bright future. Today, they are playing, and will continue to play, an important revolutionary role in the world. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote3645
Mao Zedong: Contradiction and struggle are universal and absolute, but the methods of resolving contradictions, that is, the forms of struggle, differ according to the differences in the nature of the contradictions. Some contradictions are characterized by open antagonism and others are not. In accordance with the concrete development of things, some contradictions, which were originally non-antagonistic, develop into antagonistic ones, while others which were originally antagonistic develop into non-antagonistic ones. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote3646
Mao Zedong: Inevitably, the bourgeoisie and petty bourgeoisie will give expression to their own ideologies. Inevitably, they will stubbornly express themselves on political and ideological questions by every possible means. You cannot expect them to do otherwise. We should not use the method of suppression and prevent them from expressing themselves, but should allow them to do so and at the same time argue with them and direct appropriate criticism at them. We must undoubtedly criticize wrong ideas of every description. It certainly would not be right to refrain from criticism, look on while wrong ideas spread unchecked and allow them to monopolize the field. Mistakes must be criticized and poisonous weeds fought wherever they crop up. However, such criticism should not be dogmatic, and the metaphysical method should not be used, but efforts should be made to apply the dialectical method. What is needed is scientific analysis and convincing argument. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote3647
Mao Zedong: It (the counter-revolutionary rebellion in Hungary in 1956) was a case of reactionaries inside a socialist country, in league with the imperialists, attempting to achieve their conspiratorial aims by taking advantage of contradictions among the people to foment dissension and stir up disorder. This lesson of the Hungarian events merits attention. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote3648
Kaysone Phomvihane: Planes, tanks, or dollars are not the deciding force in war; the unbeatable decisive force is the strength of those united, motivated, & determined to revolution, led by the Party. That force is in accordance with human evolution, & it is like a bright dawn. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote3649
John Cusack: You don’t fight fascists because yr guaranteed to win - you fight fascists because they are fascists- and the people or the world have memory - know where these stories end. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote3650
George Orwell: In the far distance a helicopter skimmed down between the roofs, hovered for an instant like a bluebottle, and darted away again with a curving flight. It was the police patrol, snooping into people’s windows. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote3652
Ralph Waldo Emerson: Whatever you do, you need courage. Whatever course you decide upon, there is always someone to tell you that you are wrong. There are always difficulties arising that tempt you to believe your critics are right. To map out a course of action and follow it to an end requires some of the same courage that a soldier needs. Peace has its victories, but it takes brave men and women to win them. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote3659
Enver Hoxha: Today, the imperialists call us the 'most closed country' in Europe. For good people, for friends and honest individuals... our country has always been open and remains so. But for enemies, saboteurs and provocateurs, it has been and will remain closed. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote3664
John Adams: Power always sincerely, conscientiously, de très bon foi, believes itself right. Power always thinks it has a great soul and vast views, beyond the comprehension of the weak. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote3668
Allan Boesak: There are clear and predictable consequences for the world if human beings continue to rape the earth and plunder its resources; to exploit, oppress, and dominate the weak and the poor for the sake of greed and the hunger for power; to depend on ever-rising levels of violence and ever more lethal instruments of death and destruction in order to secure positions of power and privilege. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote3671
Stalin: The dictatorship of the proletariat, the transition from capitalism to communism, must not be regarded as a fleeting period of "super-revolutionary" acts and decrees, but as an entire historical era, replete with civil wars and external conflicts, with persistent organisational work and economic construction, with advances and retreats, victories and defeats. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote3674
Vinod Mishra: The point is to retrieve the revolutionary essence of Marxism. I do not agree with those who say that communism is in crisis because workers in certain countries today enjoy better standards of living. Those who understand communism as the philosophy of poverty only display the poverty of their own philosophy. Communism is really the philosophy of abundance. Communism presupposes the abundant availability of material goods to ensure full satisfaction of human needs. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote3675
