Kim Jong-Il: Ideological education is not aimed merely at giving people political knowledge, but at enabling them to make our Party’s revolutionary ideas and the Party’s policies their own flesh and bone and apply them thoroughly in practice. Intellectuals should be educated in the Party’s policies, revolutionary traditions, working-class and communist ideas so that they are firmly armed with our Party’s revolutionary ideas and think and act as required by the Party’s policies at all times and in all places. An important aspect of the revolutionary transformation of intellectuals and their assimilation to the working class is rooting up survivals of outmoded ideas such as selfishness and liberalism and encouraging them to acquire the revolutionary spirit and sense of organization and discipline of the working class and a strong revolutionary will. Intellectuals, unlike the working class engaged in production, in many cases act individually, and consequently they lack the sense of organization, discipline and collectivism, and the will power to overcome difficulties. Strengthening revolutionary organizational life is the best way to arm intellectuals with the revolutionary spirit and sense of organization and discipline of the working class and to temper them politically. Intellectuals should not regard organizational life as a burden or resent the guidance and control of the organization. Dislike of the guidance and control of the organization, regarding it as a restraint of the individual’s liberty, is a bourgeois liberalistic viewpoint. Those who dislike and neglect organizational life will become degenerate ideologically and, in the long run, stray from the path of the revolution. To further their revolutionary education and tempering, intellectuals must intensify their involvement in criticism and self-criticism. Criticism and self-criticism are the most powerful weapons for eliminating outmoded ideological survivals lingering in the minds of the people and educating the people in a revolutionary way. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote2864
Kim Jong-Il: We do not need any 'reform' nor do we have anything to 'reform'. We must be aware that any 'reform' opposed to the principle of Juche, to the socialist principle, is, in the end, a capitalist method, a 'reform' that resurrects capitalism. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote2865
Erich Honecker: We know only one goal, which permeates all the policies of our party: to do everything possible for the good of the citizens, for the happiness of the people, for the interests of the working class and of all workers. That is the meaning of socialism. That is what we are working and fighting for. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote2867
Mario Benedetti: Don’t give in, don’t accept defeat, even if the cold burns and the fear bites, even if the sun hides itself and the wind is silent, there’s still fire in your soul and life in your dreams. Life is yours and so is desire, because every day is a new beginning, because now is the time and the best moment, because you aren’t alone, because I love you! https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote2879
Dietrich Bonhoeffer: Stupidity is a more dangerous enemy of the good than malice. One may protest against evil; it can be exposed and, if need be, prevented by use of force. Evil always carries within itself the germ of its own subversion in that it leaves behind in human beings at least a sense of unease. Against stupidity we are defenseless. Neither protests nor the use of force accomplish anything here; reasons fall on deaf ears; facts that contradict one’s prejudgment simply need not be believed – in such moments the stupid person even becomes critical – and when facts are irrefutable they are just pushed aside as inconsequential, as incidental. In all this the stupid person, in contrast to the malicious one, is utterly self satisfied and, being easily irritated, becomes dangerous by going on the attack. For that reason, greater caution is called for when dealing with a stupid person than with a malicious one. Never again will we try to persuade the stupid person with reasons, for it is senseless and dangerous. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote2882
Ho Chi Minh: Individualism runs counter to revolutionary morality. The least remaining trace of it will develop at the first opportunity, smother revolutionary virtues and prevent us from wholeheartedly struggling for the revolutionary cause. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote2883
Ho Chi Minh: Individualism is something very deceitful and perfidious, it skillfully induces one to backslide. And everybody knows that it is easier to backslide than to progress. That is why it is very dangerous. To shake off the bad vestiges of the old society and to cultivate revolutionary virtues, we must study hard, and educate and reform ourselves in order to progress continuously. Otherwise we shall retrogress and lag behind, and shall eventually be rejected by the forward-moving society. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote2884
Ho Chi Minh: People with revolutionary virtues remain simple, modest, and ready to face more hardships, even when meeting with work think of how best to fulfil our task, not of how to get the greatest reward. We must avoid boasting about past achievements and claiming special prerogatives, or indulging in bureaucratism, conceit and depravation. This also is an expression of revolutionary morality. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote2885
Ho Chi Minh: Each revolutionary must deeply realize that our Party is the most advanced and close-knit organization of the working class, the leader of the latter and the labouring people at large. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote2886
Ho Chi Minh: To advance to socialism, we must wage a long and hard struggle. We must have revolutionaries for there still exist enemies, who oppose the revolution. There are three kinds of enemies: Capitalism and imperialism are very dangerous ones. Backward habits and traditions are also big enemies: they insidiously hinder the progress of the revolution. However, we cannot repress them, but must seek to correct them with caution, perseverance and over a long period of time. The third enemy is individualism, the petty-bourgeois mentality which still lurks in each of us. It is waiting for an opportunity - either failure or success - to rear its head. It is the ally of the two above-mentioned categories. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote2887
Benjamin Franklin: Governor Thomas was so pleas’d with the Construction of this Stove, as describ’d in it that he offer’d to give me a Patent for the sole Vending of them for a Term of Years; but I declin’d it from a Principle which has ever weigh’d with me on such Occasions, viz. That as we enjoy great Advantages from the Inventions of others, we should be glad of an Opportunity to serve others by any Invention of ours, and this we should do freely and generously. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote2888
Subcomandante Marcos: The word of the oldest of the old of our peoples didn't stop. It spoke the truth, saying that our feet couldn't walk alone, that our history of pain and shame was repeated and multiplied in the flesh and blood of the brothers and sisters of other lands and skies. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote2889
Daniele De Rossi: Whether I like it or not, everything is politics: every gesture or behavior of ours clarifies a way of being, of behaving, of being in the world. Even how you relate to the waiter who brings you food is politics. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote2891
Ashley Stevens: Democrats know exactly what their voters want. They have the data. The problem is what their voters want, goes directly against with their donors/owners want. So they’re spending millions of dollars on consultants to figure out how to lie to you better. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote2894
Stalin: The fact that the main blows are directed against Stalin is explained by the fact that Stalin knows—perhaps better than some of our comrades— all the tricks of the opposition. He is not so easy to deceive, and so they direct their blows primarily against Stalin. Well then, let them curse all they want... Can we be surprised that Trotsky, who treated the great Lenin so disrespectfully—a man not even worthy of polishing Lenin’s boots—now slanders, without restraint, one of Lenin’s many disciples? I consider it a matter of honor that the opposition directs all its hatred against Stalin. That’s exactly how it should be. It would be strange and even insulting if the opposition, which is trying to destroy the Party, were to praise Stalin. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote2895
Aristotle: It is also in the interests of a tyrant to make his subjects poor, so that he may be able to afford the cost of his bodyguard, while the people are so occupied with their daily tasks that they have no time for plotting. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote2896
Karl Marx: Finally to say that “ the most favourable condition of wage-labour is the fastest possible growth of productive capital ” is the same as to say: the quicker the working class multiplies and augments the power inimical to it-the wealth of another which lords it over that class-the more favourable will be the conditions under which it will be permitted to toil anew at the multiplication of bourgeois wealth, at the enlargement of the power of capital, content thus to forge for itself the golden chains by which the bourgeoisie drags it in its train. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote2898
