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Otto von Bismarck: Never fight against Russians. Your every cunning will be responded by their unpredictable stupidity. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote4624



Zbigniew Brzezinski: We have a large public that is very ignorant about public affairs and very susceptible to simplistic slogans by candidates who appear out of nowhere, have no track record, but mouth appealing slogans. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote4626


Zbigniew Brzezinski: The technotronic era involves the gradual appearance of a more controlled society. Such a society would be dominated by an elite, unrestrained by traditional values. Soon it will be possible to assert almost continuous surveillance over every citizen and maintain up-to-date complete files containing even the most personal information about the citizen. These files will be subject to instantaneous retrieval by the authorities. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote4627


Zbigniew Brzezinski: Most Americans are close to total ignorance about the world. They are ignorant. That is an unhealthy condition in a country in which foreign policy has to be endorsed by the people if it is to be pursued. And it makes it much more difficult for any president to pursue an intelligent policy that does justice to the complexity of the world. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote4628


Zbigniew Brzezinski: In the technotronic society the trend would seem to be towards the aggregation of the individual support of millions of uncoordinated citizens, easily within the reach of magnetic and attractive personalities exploiting the latest communications techniques to manipulate emotions and control reason. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote4629


Zbigniew Brzezinski: (American exceptionalism) is a reaction to the inability of people to understand global complexity or important issues like American energy dependency. Therefore, they search for simplistic sources of comfort and clarity. And the people that they are now selecting to be, so to speak, the spokespersons of their anxieties are, in most cases, stunningly ignorant. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote4630


Zbigniew Brzezinski: Another threat, less overt but no less basic, confronts liberal democracy. More directly linked to the impact of technology, it involves the gradual appearance of a more controlled and directed society. Such a society would be dominated by an elite whose claim to political power would rest on allegedly superior scientific knowhow. Unhindered by the restraints of traditional liberal values, this elite would not hesitate to achieve its political ends by using the latest modern techniques for influencing public behavior and keeping society under close surveillance and control. Under such circumstances, the scientific and technological momentum of the country would not be reversed but would actually feed on the situation it exploits. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote4631


Zbigniew Brzezinski: Persisting social crisis, the emergence of a charismatic personality, and the exploitation of mass media to obtain public confidence would be the steppingstones in the piecemeal transformation of the United States into a highly controlled society. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote4632


Zbigniew Brzezinski: This regionalization is in keeping with the Tri-Lateral Plan which calls for a gradual convergence of East and West, ultimately leading toward the goal of one world government. National sovereignty is no longer a viable concept. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote4633


Zbigniew Brzezinski: The world became more aware that America-despite being the hope of many who have the personal drive and ambition to become part of the "American dream"-is beset by serious operational challenges: a massive and growing national debt, widening social inequality, a cornucopian culture that worships materialism, a financial system given to greedy speculation, and a polarized political system. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote4634



Zbigniew Brzezinski: Nation state as a fundamental unit of man's organized life has ceased to be the principal creative force: International banks and multinational corporations are acting and planning in terms that are far in advance of the political concepts of the nation-state. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote4635


Zbigniew Brzezinski: ...foreign policy of a pluralistic democracy like the United States should be based on bipartisanship because bipartisanship is the means and the framework for formulating policies based on moderation and on the recognition of the complexity of the human condition. That has been the tradition since the days of Truman and Vandenberg all the way until recent times. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote4636


Zbigniew Brzezinski: The mistakes of the Iraq war are not only tactical and strategic, but historical. It is essentially a war of colonialism, attempted in the post-colonial age. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote4637


Zbigniew Brzezinski: It is also a fact that America is too democratic at home to be autocratic abroad. This limits the use of America's power, especially its capacity for military intimidation. Never before has a populist democracy attained international supremacy. But the pursuit of power is not a goal that commands popular passion, except in conditions of a sudden threat or challenge to the public's sense of domestic well-being. The economic self-denial (that is, defense spending) and the human sacrifice (casualties, even among professional soldiers) required in the effort are uncongenial to democratic instincts. Democracy is inimical to imperial mobilization. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote4638


Karl Marx: The weapon of criticism cannot, of course, replace criticism of the weapon, material force must be overthrown by material force; but theory also becomes a material force as soon as it has gripped the masses. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote4639


Karl Marx: When communist artisans associate with one another, theory, propaganda, etc., is their first end. But at the same time, as a result of this association, they acquire a new need — the need for society — and what appears as a means becomes an end. ... the brotherhood of man is no mere phrase with them, but a fact of life, and the nobility of man shines upon us from their work-hardened bodies. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote4640


Friedrich Engels: A few days in my old man’s factory have sufficed to bring me face to face with this beastliness, which I had rather overlooked. ..., it is impossible to carry on communist propaganda on a large scale and at the same time engage in huckstering and industry. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote4641


Henry Kissinger: I don't see why we need to stand by and watch a country go communist due to the irresponsibility of its people. The issues are much too important for the Chilean voters to be left to decide for themselves. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote4642









Henry A. Wallace: It is no coincidence that the growth of modern tyrants has in every case been heralded by the growth of prejudice. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote4649


Henry A. Wallace: The worldwide, agelong struggle between fascism and democracy will not stop when the fighting ends in Germany and Japan. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote4650


Henry A. Wallace: The obvious types of American fascists are dealt with on the air and in the press. These demagogues and stooges are fronts for others. Dangerous as these people may be, they are not so significant as thousands of other people who have never been mentioned. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote4651



Lenin: On all sides, at every step, one comes across problems which man is quite capable of solving immediately, but capitalism is in the way. It has amassed enormous wealth—and has made men the slaves of this wealth. It has solved the most complicated technical problems—and has blocked the application of technical improvements because of the poverty and ignorance of mil lions of the population, because of the stupid avarice of a handful of millionaires. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote4653


Muammar Gaddafi: Jack Ruby, an Israeli, killed Lee Harvey Oswald. Why did this Israeli kill Harvey? Ruby later died mysteriously. The whole world should know that Kennedy wanted to investigate the actions of the Israeli nuclear reactor in Dimona. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote4654


Lothar Oppermann: The most well-known leaders of this Reformation were Martin Luther and Thomas Müntzer, The early bourgeois revolution aimed at establishing capitalist production relations in their initial stage. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote4655


Henry Stewart: No woman in a burqa (or a hijab or a burkini) has ever done me any harm. But I was sacked (without explanation) by a man in a suit. Men in suits missold me pensions and endowments, costing me thousands of pounds. A man in a suit led us on a disastrous and illegal war. Men in suits led the banks and crashed the world economy. Other men in suits then increased the misery to millions through austerity. If we are to start telling people what to wear, maybe we should ban suits. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote4656



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