Mossad: By way of deception thou shalt do war. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote4657
Jesse Owens: We all have dreams. But in order to make dreams come into reality, it takes an awful lot of determination, dedication, self-discipline, and effort. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote4658
Enver Hoxha: Life, facts, the very experience of revisionist treachery show that the class struggle continues, not only after the liquidation of the exploiting classes as such, not only after the victory of socialism, but indeed, for some time, even after the victory of communism on a world scale, as long as the influences of bourgeois ideology continue to exist. Therefore, the complete victory of socialism and communism can be achieved and be guaranteed only when, in addition to other things, there has been achieved the full victory of socialist ideology over bourgeois ideology in every individual country and on a world scale. And, as long as this struggle continues, the existence of the dictatorship of the proletariat is indispensable, as the main weapon of the class struggle of the proletariat for the destruction of all the class enemies and for the building of socialism and communism. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote4659
Lenin: The basic forms of social economy are capitalism, petty commodity production, and communism. The basic forces are the bourgeoisie, the petty bourgeoisie (the peasantry in particular) and the proletariat. The economic system of Russia in the era of the dictatorship of the proletariat represents the struggle of labour, united on communist principles on the scale of a vast state and making its first steps—the struggle against petty commodity production and against the capitalism which still persists and against that which is newly arising on the basis of petty commodity production. In Russia, labour is united communistically insofar as, first, private ownership of the means of production has been abolished, and, secondly, the proletarian state power is organising large-scale production on state-owned land and in state-owned enterprises on a national scale, is distributing labour-power among the various branches of production and the various enterprises, and is distributing among the working people large quantities of articles of consumption belonging to the state. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote4660
Lenin: Theoretically, there can be no doubt that between capitalism and communism there lies a definite tranition period which must combine the features and properties of both these forms of social economy. This transition period has to be a period of struggle between dying capitalism and nascent communism—or, in other words, between capitalism which has been defeated but not destroyed and communism which has been born but is still very feeble. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote4661
Lenin: Long ago Engels in his Anti-Dühring explained that the concept “equality” is moulded from the relations of commodity production; equality becomes a prejudice if it is not understood to mean the abolition of classes. This elementary truth regarding the distinction between the bourgeois-democratic and the socialist conception of equality is constantly being forgotten. But if it is not forgotten it becomes obvious that by overthrowing the bourgeoisie the proletariat takes the most decisive step towards the abolition of classes, and that in order to complete the process the proletariat must continue its class struggle, making use of the apparatus of state power and employing various methods of combating, influencing and bringing pressure to bear on the overthrown bourgeoisie and the vacillating petty bourgeoisie. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote4662
Lenin: General talk about freedom, equality and democracy is in fact but a blind repetition of concepts shaped by the relations of commodity production. To attempt to solve the concrete problems of the dictatorship of the proletariat by such generalities is tantamount to accepting the theories and principles of the bourgeoisie in their entirety. From the point of view of the proletariat, the question can be put only in the following way: freedom from oppression by which class? equality of which class with which? democracy based on private property, or on a struggle for the abolition of private property?—and so forth. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote4663
Lenin: If we compare all the basic forces or classes and their interrelations, as modified by the dictatorship of the proletariat, we shall realise how unutterably nonsensical and theoretically stupid is the common petty-bourgeois idea shared by all representatives of the Second International, that the transition to socialism is possible “by means of democracy” in general. The fundamental source of this error lies in the prejudice inherited from the bourgeoisie that “democracy” is something absolute and above classes. As a matter of fact, democracy itself passes into an entirely new phase under the dictatorship of the proletariat, and the class struggle rises to a higher level, dominating over each and every form. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote4664
Lenin: Lastly, the peasants, like the petty bourgeoisie in general, occupy a half-way, intermediate position even under the dictatorship of the proletariat: on the one hand, they are a fairly large (and in backward Russia, a vast) mass of working people, united by the common interest of all working people to emancipate themselves from the landowner and the capitalist; on the other hand, they are disunited small proprietors, property-owners and traders. Such an economic position inevitably causes them to vacillate between the proletariat and the bourgeoisie. In view of the acute form which the struggle between these two classes has assumed, in view of the incredibly severe break up of all social relations, and in view of the great attachment of the peasants and the petty bourgeoisie generally to the old, the routine, and the unchanging, it is only natural that we should inevitably find them swinging from one side to the other, that we should find them wavering, changeable, uncertain, and so on. In relation to this class—or to these social elements—the proletariat must strive to establish its influence over it, to guide it. To give leadership to the vacillating and unstable—such is the task of the proletariat. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote4665
Neb Naba Lamoussa Morodenibig: When you have been educated by the same person who made you a slave; when you find yourself worshipping the God of those who have tried and are still trying to destroy you; when you place your health in the hands of the same people who do not believe you have a right to exist as yourself;... it is clear that, as a cultural or civilizational group, you are simply advancing towards your final destruction. All this happens to us only because the colonizer has become the definer of our values. The colonizer has become trainer and initiator of those we are supposed to regard as our leaders and heroes. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote4666
James Baldwin: When any white man in the world says, give me liberty or give me death, the entire white world applauds. When a Black man says exactly the same thing, he is judged a criminal and treated like one. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote4667
Friedrich Engels: It is absurd to speak of the principle of authority as being absolutely evil, and of the principle of autonomy as being absolutely good. Authority and autonomy are relative things whose spheres vary with the various phases of the development of society. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote4668
Friedrich Engels: According to the materialistic conception, the determining factor in history is, in the final instance, the production and reproduction of the immediate essentials of life. This, again, is of a twofold character. On the one side, the production of the means of existence, of articles of food and clothing, dwellings, and of the tools necessary for that production; on the other side, the production of human beings themselves, the propagation of the species. The social organization under which the people of a particular historical epoch and a particular country live is determined by both kinds of production: by the stage of development of labor on the one hand and of the family on the other. The lower the development of labor and the more limited the amount of its products, and consequently, the more limited also the wealth of the society, the more the social order is found to be dominated by kinship groups. However, within this structure of society based on kinship groups the productivity of labor increasingly develops, and with it private property and exchange, differences of wealth, the possibility of utilizing the labor power of others, and hence the basis of class antagonisms: new social elements, which in the course of generations strive to adapt the old social order to the new conditions, until at last their incompatibility brings about a complete upheaval. In the collision of the newly-developed social classes, the old society founded on kinship groups is broken up; in its place appears a new society, with its control centered in the state, the subordinate units of which are no longer kinship associations, but local associations; a society in which the system of the family is completely dominated by the system of property, and in which there now freely develop those class antagonisms and class struggles that have hitherto formed the content of all written history. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote4669
Isolate the fifty richest Jews, and all wars will cease. - anonymous https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote4670
Henry Ford: We had not been to sea 200 miles before these two Jews began telling me of the power of the Jewish race, how they controlled the world through their control of gold, and that the Jew, and no one but the Jew, could stop the war … They said, and they believed, that the Jews had started the war; that they would continue it as long as they wished. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote4671
Hugo Chávez: The U.S. just keeps printing dollars. They've got this money-printing machine running nonstop. It’s a simple scam, really—if you had a machine like that, you could flood the world with worthless paper too. That’s exactly what the U.S. is doing. Fidel once told me, ‘Look how the U.S. is buying up the world with nothing but printed paper’. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote4672
Bible: You shall not charge interest on loans to your brother, interest on money, interest on food, interest on anything that is lent for interest. You may charge a foreigner interest, but you may not charge your brother interest, that the Lord your God may bless you in all that you undertake in the land that you are entering to take possession of it. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote4673
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Karl Marx: Real talers have the same existence that the imagined gods have. Has a real taler any existence except in the imagination, if only in the general or rather common imagination of man? Bring paper money into a country where this use of paper is unknown, and everyone will laugh at your subjective imagination. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote4674
Karl Marx: The representation of private interests ... abolishes all natural and spiritual distinctions by enthroning in their stead the immoral, irrational and soulless abstraction of a particular material object and a particular consciousness which is slavishly subordinated to this object. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote4675
Kim Jong-Un: In the present era, as in the past, socialism represents the ideal of humanity, and it is the irreversible trend of the times. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote4676
Al Capone: Capitalists believe they can take everything at the table as belonging to them. Capitalism is the legitimate racket of the ruling class. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote4677
Lenin: The socialist revolution may begin in the very near future. In that event the proletariat will be faced with the immediate task of capturing power, of expropriating the banks and of introducing other dictatorial measures. In such a situation, the bourgeoisie, and particularly intellectuals like the Fabians and the Kautskyists, will strive to disrupt and to hinder the revolution, to restrict it to limited democratic aims. While all purely democratic demands may—at a time when the proletarians have already begun to storm the bulwarks of bourgeois power—serve, in a certain sense, as a hindrance to the revolution, nevertheless, the necessity of proclaiming and granting freedom to all oppressed nations (i.e., their right to self-determination) will be as urgent in the socialist revolution as it was urgent for the victory of the bourgeois-democratic revolution, for example, in Germany in 1848, or in Russia in 1905. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote4678
Fred Hampton: We're going to fight racism not with racism, but we're going to fight with solidarity. We say we're not going to fight capitalism with black capitalism, but we're going to fight it with socialism. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote4679
Hugo Chávez: Go to hell, fucking Yankees! https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote4680
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Montesquieu: No tyranny is more cruel than the one practiced in the shadow of the laws and under color of justice — when, so to speak, one proceeds to drown the unfortunate on the very plank by which they had saved themselves. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote4681
Montesquieu: I have always observed that to succeed in the world one should appear like a fool but be wise. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote4682
Upton Sinclair: Fascism is capitalism plus murder. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote4683
Naguib Mahfouz: Fear doesn't prevent death. It prevents life. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote4684
Harry Pollitt: If we, the workers who hew the coal, weave the cloth, build the ships and engines, unite our forces against those who rob us, no power on earth can prevent us from taking these things for the use of the people, instead of making more profits for the rich. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote4685
Anatole France: We have never heard the devil's side of the story, God wrote all the book. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote4686
Anatole France: To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote4687
Anatole France: If fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote4688
Anatole France: The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of the mind for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote4689
Anatole France: We chase dreams and embrace shadows. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote4690
Fidel Castro: Imperialism considered us a weak and submissive flock; and now it begins to be terrified of that flock; a gigantic flock of 200 million Latin Americans in whom Yankee monopoly capitalism now sees its gravediggers. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote4691
Sinéad O’Connor: Nobody with any sanity, including myself, would have anything but sympathy for the Palestinian plight. There’s not a sane person on earth who in any way sanctions what the f*** the Israeli authorities are doing. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote4692
Mike Pompeo: I was the CIA Director... we lied, we cheated, we stole. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote4693
William Faulkner: The end of wisdom is to dream high enough to lose the dream in the seeking of it. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote4694
Hugo Chávez: Well, what's the problem? I am also a Trotskyist! https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote4695