George Carlin: Governments don't want a population capable of critical thinking, they want obedient workers, people just smart enough to run the machines and just dumb enough to passively accept their situation. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5762
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George Carlin: Religion has actually convinced people that there's an invisible man living in the sky who watches everything you do, every minute of every day. And the invisible man has a special list of ten things he does not want you to do. And if you do any of these ten things, he has a special place, full of fire and smoke and burning and torture and anguish, where he will send you to live and suffer and burn and choke and scream and cry forever and ever 'til the end of time! But He loves you. He loves you, and He needs money! He always needs money! He's all-powerful, all-perfect, all-knowing, and all-wise, somehow just can't handle money! https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5763
George Carlin: There’s a reason for this, there’s a reason education sucks, and it’s the same reason that it will never, ever, ever be fixed. It’s never gonna get any better. Don’t look for it. Be happy with what you got. Because the owners of this country don't want that. I'm talking about the real owners now, the real owners, the big wealthy business interests that control things and make all the important decisions. Forget the politicians. The politicians are put there to give you the idea that you have freedom of choice. You don't. You have no choice. You have owners. They own you. They own everything. They own all the important land. They own and control the corporations. They’ve long since bought and paid for the senate, the congress, the state houses, the city halls, they got the judges in their back pockets and they own all the big media companies so they control just about all of the news and information you get to hear. They got you by the balls. They spend billions of dollars every year lobbying, lobbying, to get what they want. Well, we know what they want. They want more for themselves and less for everybody else, but I'll tell you what they don’t want: They don’t want a population of citizens capable of critical thinking. They don’t want well informed, well educated people capable of critical thinking. They’re not interested in that. That doesn’t help them. Thats against their interests. Thats right. They don’t want people who are smart enough to sit around a kitchen table to figure out how badly they’re getting fucked by a system that threw them overboard 30 fucking years ago. They don’t want that. You know what they want? They want obedient workers. Obedient workers. People who are just smart enough to run the machines and do the paperwork, and just dumb enough to passively accept all these increasingly shittier jobs with the lower pay, the longer hours, the reduced benefits, the end of overtime and the vanishing pension that disappears the minute you go to collect it, and now they’re coming for your Social Security money. They want your retirement money. They want it back so they can give it to their criminal friends on Wall Street, and you know something? They’ll get it. They’ll get it all from you, sooner or later, 'cause they own this fucking place. It's a big club, and you ain’t in it. You and I are not in the big club. And by the way, it's the same big club they use to beat you over the head with all day long when they tell you what to believe. All day long beating you over the head in their media telling you what to believe, what to think and what to buy. The table is tilted folks. The game is rigged, and nobody seems to notice, nobody seems to care. Good honest hard-working people -- white collar, blue collar, it doesn’t matter what color shirt you have on -- good honest hard-working people continue -- these are people of modest means -- continue to elect these rich cocksuckers who don’t give a fuck about them. They don’t give a fuck about you. They don’t give a fuck about you. They don't care about you at all -- at all -- at all. And nobody seems to notice, nobody seems to care. That's what the owners count on; the fact that Americans will probably remain willfully ignorant of the big red, white and blue dick that's being jammed up their assholes everyday. Because the owners of this country know the truth: it's called the American Dream, because you have to be asleep to believe it. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5764
George Carlin: Never underestimate the power of stupid people in large groups. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5765
George Carlin: Some people see things that are and ask, Why? Some people dream of things that never were and ask, Why not? Some people have to go to work and don't have time for all that. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5766
George Carlin: Scratch any cynic and you will find a disappointed idealist. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5767
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George Carlin: I do this real moron thing, and it's called thinking. And apparently I'm not a very good American because I like to form my own opinions. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5768
George Carlin: I'm completely in favor of the separation of Church and State. ... These two institutions screw us up enough on their own, so both of them together is certain death. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5769
George Carlin: In America, anyone can become president. That's the problem. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5770
George Carlin: Some people have no idea what they're doing, and a lot of them are really good at it. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5771
George Carlin: Think of how it all started: America was founded by slave owners who informed us, "All men are created equal." All "men," except Indians, niggers, and women. Remember, the founders were a small group of unelected, white, male, land-holding slave owners who also, by the way, suggested their class be the only one allowed to vote. To my mind, that is what's known as being stunningly--and embarrassingly--full of shit. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5772
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George Carlin: If the black box flight recorder is never damaged during a plane crash, why isn’t the whole airplane made out of that stuff? https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5773
Gramsci: The crisis of fascism, about whose origins and causes so much is now being written, can easily be explained by a serious examination of the evolution of the fascist movement itself. The Fasci di combattimento were born in the aftermath of the war. They were imbued with the petit-bourgeois character of the various veterans associations which arose at that time. Due to their trenchant opposition to the socialist movement they obtained the support of the capitalists and the authorities. This aspect of the Fasci was inherited in part from the conflict between the Socialist Party and the ‘interventionist’ associations during the war years. They emerged during the same period when the rural landowners were feeling the need to create a White Guard to tackle the growing workers’ organisations. The gangs that were already organised and armed by the big landowners soon adopted the label Fasci for themselves too. With their subsequent development, these gangs would acquire their own distinct character – as a White Guard of capitalism against the class organs of the proletariat. Fascism still conserves this trait of its origins. But until very recently, the fervour of the armed offensive kept a lid on the tensions between the urban cadre – who are predominantly petit-bourgeois, orientated on parliament, and ‘collaborationist’ – and the rural cadre, which consist of the big and medium landowners and their tenant farmers. These rural groups are engaged in a fight against the poor peasants and their organisations. They are acutely anti-union and reactionary. And they have far more faith in direct armed action than in the authority of the state and the efficacy of parliament. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5774
George Carlin: Well, if crime fighters fight crime and fire fighters fight fires, what do freedom fighters fight? https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5775
George Carlin: There's no present. There's only the immediate future and the recent past. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5776
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George Carlin: They say that instead of cursing the darkness, one should light a candle. Nothing is mentioned, though, about cursing a lack of candles. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5777
Winston Churchill: Let's not let Argentina be a power, because it will drag all of Latin America behind it... The strategy is to weaken and corrupt Argentina from within. Destroy their industries, their armed forces, foment internal divisions by supporting sides on the right and left, attack their culture in all media, impose political leaders who respond to our Empire. This will be achieved thanks to the apathy of its people and a controllable democracy, where its representatives will raise their hands en masse in servile submission. Argentina must be humiliated. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5778
Meridel Le Sueur: The history of an oppressed people is hidden in the lies and the agreed myth of its conquerors. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5779
Sophie Scholl: How can we expect righteousness to prevail when there is hardly anyone willing to give himself up individually to a righteous cause. Such a fine, sunny day, and I have to go, but what does my death matter, if through us, thousands of people are awakened and stirred to action? https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5780
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Meridel Le Sueur: The source of American culture lies in the historic movement of our people, and the artist must become voice, messenger, awakener, sparking the inflammable silence, reflecting back the courage and the beauty. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5781
Sophie Scholl: Stand up for what you believe in even if you are standing alone. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5782
Sophie Scholl: An end in terror is preferable to terror without end. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5783
Sophie Scholl: The real damage is done by those millions who want to 'survive.' The honest men who just want to be left in peace. Those who don’t want their little lives disturbed by anything bigger than themselves. Those with no sides and no causes. Those who won’t take measure of their own strength, for fear of antagonizing their own weakness. Those who don’t like to make waves—or enemies. Those for whom freedom, honour, truth, and principles are only literature. Those who live small, mate small, die small. It’s the reductionist approach to life: if you keep it small, you’ll keep it under control. If you don’t make any noise, the bogeyman won’t find you. But it’s all an illusion, because they die too, those people who roll up their spirits into tiny little balls so as to be safe. Safe?! From what? Life is always on the edge of death; narrow streets lead to the same place as wide avenues, and a little candle burns itself out just like a flaming torch does. I choose my own way to burn. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5784
Noam Chomsky: As long as the general population is passive, apathetic, diverted to consumerism or hatred of the vulnerable, then the powerful can do as they please, and those who survive will be left to contemplate the outcome. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5785
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Immanuel Kant: Have courage to make use of your own understanding! is thus the motto of enlightenment. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5786
Kathleen Cleaver: Non-violence is non-functional. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5787
Malcolm X: So our next move is to take the entire civil rights struggle, problem, into the United Nations and let the world see that Uncle Sam is guilty of violating the human rights of 22 million Afro-Americans right down to the year of 1964 and still has the audacity or the nerve to like a bloody-jawed wolf. And still got the nerve to point his finger at other countries. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5788
Che Guevara: Violence is not the monopoly of the exploiters and as such the exploited can use it too and, moreover, ought to use it when the moment arrives. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5789
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W. E. B. Du Bois: We have no right to sit silently by while the inevitable seeds are sown for a harvest of disaster to our children, black and white. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5790
Julian Assange: The more secretive or unjust an organization is, the more leaks induce fear and paranoia in its leadership and planning coterie. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5791
Julian Assange: Only revealed injustice can be answered; for man to do anything intelligent he has to know what's actually going on. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5792