Mike Tyson: I really enjoyed Will Durant’s The Story of Civilization. I read Mao’s book, I read Che. I read Machiavelli, Tolstoy, Dostoyevsky, Marx, Shakespeare, you name it. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote3794
Mike Tyson: I was right there next to Mao on the long fucking march. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote3795
Yamamoto Tsunetomo: At times because of one man’s evil, ten thousand people suffer. So you kill that one man to let the tens of thousands live. Here, truly, the blade that deals death becomes the sword that saves lives. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote3796
Yamamoto Tsunetomo: There is surely nothing other than the single purpose of the present moment. A man's whole life is a succession of moment after moment. There will be nothing else to do, and nothing else to pursue. Live being true to the single purpose of the moment. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote3797
Yamamoto Tsunetomo: Even if it seems certain that you will lose, retaliate. Neither wisdom nor technique has a place in this. A real man does not think of victory or defeat. He plunges recklessly towards an irrational death. By doing this, you will awaken from your dreams. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote3798
Mao Zedong: After the enemies with guns have been wiped out, there will still be enemies without guns; they are bound to struggle desperately against us, and we must never regard these enemies lightly. If we do not now raise and understand the problem in this way, we shall commit the gravest mistakes. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote3799
Fidel Castro: Che was radically opposed to using and developing capitalist economic laws and categories in building socialism. He advocated something that I have often insisted on: Building socialism and communism is not just a matter of producing and distributing wealth but is also a matter of education and consciousness’ (Fidel Castro in ‘Che Guevara, Economics and politics in the transition to socialism. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote3800
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Che Guevara: In Cuba there is nothing published, if one excludes the Soviet bricks, which bring the inconvenience that they do not let you think; the party did it for you and you should digest it. It would be necessary to publish the complete works of Marx, Engels, Lenin, Stalin (underlined by Che in the original) and other great Marxists. Here would come to the great revisionists (if you want you can add here Khrushchev), well analyzed, more profoundly than any others and also your friend Trotsky, who existed and apparently wrote something. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote3801
Che Guevara: In the socialist countries, the enterprise possesses a bank credit, acquires money, produces with the money that it receives, sells its production, and then grants to the State part of the profit and part of this profit is preserved for internal needs. The difference is that our company does not sell, but delivers products and workers are awarded through the State. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote3802