Grover Furr https://msuweb.montclair.edu/~furrg/

Jorge Luis Borges: We accept reality so readily - perhaps because we sense that nothing is real. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote3965

Jorge Luis Borges: There are those who cannot imagine a world without birds; there are those who cannot imagine a world without water; but in my case I am unable to imagine a world without books. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote3966

Ortega y Gasset: It is only possible to move forward when you look away. Progress is only possible when you think big. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote3967

Carl von Clausewitz: War therefore is an act of violence intended to compel our opponent to fulfil our will. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote3968

Carl von Clausewitz: War is such a dangerous business that mistakes that come from kindness are the very worst. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote3969

Lenin: The fundamental law of revolution, which has been confirmed by all revolutions and especially by all three Russian revolutions in the twentieth century, is as follows: for a revolution to take place it is not enough for the exploited and oppressed masses to realise the impossibility of living in the old way, and demand changes; for a revolution to take place it is essential that the exploiters should not be able to live and rule in the old way. It is only when the "lower classes" do not want to live in the old way and the "upper classes" cannot carry on in the old way that the revolution can triumph. This truth can be expressed in other words: revolution is impossible without a nation-wide crisis (affecting both the exploited and the exploiters). It follows that, for a revolution to take place, it is essential, first, that a majority of the workers (or at least a majority of the class-conscious, thinking, and politically active workers) should fully realise that revolution is necessary, and that they should be prepared to die for it; second, that the ruling classes should be going through a governmental crisis, which draws even the most backward masses into politics (symptomatic of any genuine revolution is a rapid, tenfold and even hundredfold increase in the size of the working and oppressed masses-hitherto apathetic-who are capable of waging the political struggle), weakens the government, and makes it possible for the revolutionaries to rapidly overthrow it. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote3970

Ralph McGhee: The CIA is not an intelligence agency. It's a corporate action agency. Covert action being overthrowing or supporting foreign governments. Another part of covert action is disinformation. And the American people, in my estimation, are the primary target audience of the agency's disinformation operation. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote3971

Ralph McGhee: One function of the agency is, as noted by the Church committee is to create an international anticommunist ideology. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote3972

Friedrich Engels: According to the materialist conception of history, the ultimately determining element in history is the production and reproduction of real life. Other than this neither Marx nor I have ever asserted. Hence if somebody twists this into saying that the economic element is the only determining one, he transforms that proposition into a meaningless, abstract, senseless phrase. The economic situation is the basis, but the various elements of the superstructure — political forms of the class struggle and its results, to wit: constitutions established by the victorious class after a successful battle, etc., juridical forms, and even the reflexes of all these actual struggles in the brains of the participants, political, juristic, philosophical theories, religious views and their further development into systems of dogmas — also exercise their influence upon the course of the historical struggles and in many cases preponderate in determining their form. There is an interaction of all these elements in which, amid all the endless host of accidents (that is, of things and events whose inner interconnection is so remote or so impossible of proof that we can regard it as non-existent, as negligible), the economic movement finally asserts itself as necessary. Otherwise the application of the theory to any period of history would be easier than the solution of a simple equation of the first degree. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote3973