Karl Marx: In medieval society, therefore, taxes were the only bond between the emerging bourgeois society and the ruling feudal state, a bond which compelled the state to make concessions to bourgeois society, to meet its needs and adjust itself to its growth. In modern states this right to grant and refuse taxes has been turned by bourgeois society into a means of controlling the government, the body administering its common interests. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote2758
Margaret Thatcher: In the Falklands we had to fight the enemy without. Here the enemy is within - and it’s much more difficult to fight but just as dangerous to liberty. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote2759
Aldous Huxley: By means of ever more effective methods of mind-manipulation, the democracies will change their nature; the quaint old forms elections, parliaments, Supreme Courts and all the rest will remain. The underlying substance will be a new kind of non-violent totalitarianism. All the traditional names, all the hallowed slogans will remain exactly what they were in the good old days. Democracy and freedom will be the theme of every broadcast and editorial but democracy and freedom in a strictly Pickwickian sense. Meanwhile the ruling oligarchy and its highly trained elite of soldiers, policemen, thought-manufacturers and mind-manipulators will quietly run the show as they see fit. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote2761
Georgy Zhukov: I often thought about the nature of the Banderites' hatred of the Russians, until I came across the following expression: hatred is a coward's revenge for the fear he experienced! https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote2773
Michael Hudson: America is never going to pay its debts, it doesn't have to. Its debts are in its own currency, we can simply print it. The African debt is not in its currency. Africa has to earn the US dollars. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote2774
Benjamin Franklin: Trade in general being nothing else but the exchange of labour for labour, the value of all things is, as I have said before, most justly measured by labour. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote2775
David Ben Gurion: The strategic objective (of the Jewish forces) was to destroy the urban communities, which were the most organized and politically conscious sections of the Palestinian people. This was not done by house-to-house fighting inside the cities and towns, but by the conquest and destruction of the rural areas surrounding most of the towns. This technique led to the collapse and surrender of Halfa, Jaffa, Tiberias, Sated, Acre, Beit-Shan, Lydda, Ramleh, Majdal, and Beersheba. Deprived of transportation, food, and raw materials, the urban communities underwent a process of disintegration, chaos, and hunger, which forced them to surrender. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote2777
Kim Il Sung: We have struggled for socialism all our lives, and it is inconceivable now to discard the best socialism of ours and restore capitalism, a society where “the rich grow richer and the poor grow poorer. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote2779
Lenin: Every one of the richest newspapers in the richest countries, which spend tens of millions on their distribution and disseminate bourgeois lies and imperialist policy in tens of millions of copies. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote2780
Lenin: All oppressing classes stand in need of two social functions to safeguard their rule: the function of the hangman and the function of the priest. The hangman is required to quell the protests and the indignation of the oppressed; the priest is required to console the oppressed, to depict to them the prospects of their sufferings and sacrifices being mitigated (this is particularly easy to do without guaranteeing that these prospects will be “achieved”), while preserving class rule, and thereby to reconcile them to class rule, win them away from revolutionary action, undermine their revolutionary spirit and destroy their revolutionary determination. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote2785
