George Mason: Mr. Chairman — A worthy member has asked, who are the militia, if they are not the people, of this country, and if we are not to be protected from the fate of the Germans, Prussians, &c. by our representation? I ask who are the militia? They consist now of the whole people, except a few public officers. But I cannot say who will be the militia of the future day. If that paper on the table gets no alteration, the militia of the future day may not consist of all classes, high and low, and rich and poor; but may be confined to the lower and middle classes of the people, granting exclusion to the higher classes of the people. If we should ever see that day, the most ignominious punishments and heavy fines may be expected. Under the present government, all ranks of people are subject to militia duty. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote4927
George Mason: The freedom of the press is one of the great bulwarks of liberty, and can never be restrained but by despotic governments. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote4928
George Mason: We came equals into this world, and equals shall we go out of it. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote4929
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Mark Fisher: Capitalist realism as I understand it cannot be confined to art or to the quasi-propagandistic way in which advertising functions. It is more like a pervasive atmosphere, conditioning not only the production of culture but also the regulation of work and education, and acting as a kind of invisible barrier constraining thought and action. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote4930
Slavoj Žižek: It is easier to imagine the end of the world than it is to imagine the end of capitalism. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote4931
Friedrich Engels: Men thought dialectically long before they knew what dialectics was, just as they spoke prose long before the term prose existed. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote4932
Liam Cunningham: Your enemy isn't carrying all their belongings in a plastic bag. Your enemy is carrying an investment portfolio. Wake the fuck up! https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote4933
Albert Schweitzer: Do something wonderful, people may imitate it. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote4934
Thomas A. Edison: Just because something doesn't do what you planned it to do doesn't mean it's useless. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote4935
Pablo Picasso: I am always doing that which I can not do, in order that I may learn how to do it. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote4936
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Brian O'Driscoll: Knowledge is knowing that a tomato is a fruit. Wisdom is knowing not to put it in a fruit salad. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote4937
Georgi Dimitrov: The accession to power of fascism is not an ordinary succession of one bourgeois government by another, but a substitution of one state form of class domination of the bourgeoisie -- bourgeois democracy -- by another form -- open terrorist dictatorship. It would be a serious mistake to ignore this distinction, a mistake liable to prevent the revolutionary proletariat from mobilizing the widest strata of the working people of town and country for the struggle against the menace of the seizure of power by the fascists, and from taking advantage of the contradictions which exist in the camp of the bourgeoisie itself. But it is a mistake, no less serious and dangerous, to underrate the importance, for the establishment of fascist dictatorship, of the reactionary measures of the bourgeoisie at present increasingly developing in bourgeois-democratic countries -- measures which suppress the democratic liberties of the working people, falsify and curtail the rights of parliament and intensify the repression of the revolutionary movement. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote4938
William Gibson: When you want to know how things really work, study them when they’re coming apart. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote4939
Alan Kay: The best way to predict the future is to build it. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote4940
Michael Parenti: Both the Italian fascists and the Nazis made a conscious effort to steal the Left's thunder. There were mass mobilizations, youth organizations, work brigades, rallies, parades, banners, symbols, and slogans. There was much talk about a "Nazi revolution" that would revitalize society, sweeping away the old order and building the new. For this reason, mainstream writers feel free to treat fascism and communism as totalitarian twins. It is a case of reducing essence to form. The similarity in form is taken as reason enough to blur the vast difference in actual class content. Writers like A. James Gregor and William Ebenstein, countless Western political leaders, and others who supposedly are on the democratic Left, regularly lump fascism with communism. Thus, Noam Chomsky claims, "The rise of corporations was in fact a manifestation of the same phenomena that led to fascism and Bolshevism, which sprang out of the same totalitarian soil." But in the Italy and Germany of that day, most workers and peasants made a firm distinction between fascism and communism, as did industrialists and bankers who supported fascism out of fear and hatred of communism, a judgment based largely on class realities. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote4941
Michael Parenti: Years ago, I used to say that fascism never succeeded in solving the irrational contradictions of capitalism. Today I am of the opinion that it did accomplish that goal—but only for the capitalists, not for the populace. Fascism never intended to offer a social solution that would serve the general populace, only a reactionary one, forcing all the burdens and losses onto the working public. Divested of its ideological and organizational paraphernalia, fascism is nothing more than a final solution to the class struggle, the totalistic submergence and exploitation of democratic forces for the benefit and profit of higher financial circles. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote4942
Michael Parenti: What distinguishes fascism from ordinary right-wing patriarchal autocracies is the way it attempts to cultivate a revolutionary aura. Fascism offers a beguiling mix of revolutionary-sounding mass appeals and reactionary class politics. The Nazi party's full name was the National Socialist German Workers Party, a left-sounding name. As already noted, the SA storm troopers had a militant share-the-wealth strain in their ranks that was suppressed by Hitler after he took state power. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote4943
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Michael Parenti: "Class" is a concept that is strenuously avoided by both mainstream writers and many on the Left. When certain words are eliminated from public discourse, so are certain thoughts. Dissident ideas become all the more difficult to express when there are no words to express them. "Class" is usually dismissed as an outworn Marxist notion with no relevance to contemporary society. It is a five-letter word that is treated like a dirty four-letter one. With the C-word out of the way, it is then easy to dispose of other politically unacceptable concepts such as class privilege, class power, class exploitation, class interest, and class struggle. These too are judged no longer relevant, if ever they were, in a society that supposedly consists of the fluid pluralistic interplay of diverse groups. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote4944
Enver Hoxha: The Americans are known for their tendency to establish records for everything, records for who can eat the most, who can go on talking longest, or who can tell the biggest lie. The press and statistics register all the records achieved, including those to do with industry, horse racing, or the numbers of ex-husbands of Hollywood film stars. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote4945
Blaise Pascal: Nothing is as approved as mediocrity, the majority has established it and it fixes its fangs on whatever gets beyond it either way. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote4946
GautierDay hat dies geteilt
Blaise Pascal: In faith there is enough light for those who want to believe and enough shadows to blind those who don't. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote4947
Blaise Pascal: Justice without force is powerless; force without justice is tyrannical. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote4948
GautierDay mag das.
Blaise Pascal: Nothing gives rest but the sincere search for truth. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote4949
Blaise Pascal: Our nature consists in motion; complete rest is death. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote4950
Blaise Pascal: Contradiction is not a sign of falsity, nor the lack of contradiction a sign of truth. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote4951
Blaise Pascal: Since we cannot know all that there is to be known about anything, we ought to know a little about everything. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote4952
Woody Allen: I'm not afraid of dying. I just don't want to be there when it happens. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote4953
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Shakespeare: The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, but in ourselves, that we are underlings. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote4954
John Kenneth Galbraith: The salary of the chief executive of a large corporation is not a market award for achievement. It is frequently in the nature of a warm personal gesture by the individual to himself. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote4955
Stephen Pollard: You don't get what you deserve, you get what you negotiate. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote4956
Bible: "They do not know how to do right," declares the Lord, "who store up in their fortresses what they have plundered and looted". https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote4957
William K. Black: The best way to rob a bank is to own one. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote4958
Lloyd Blankfein: I am just a banker "doing God’s work". https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote4959
Alexander Dielius: Banks do not have an obligation to promote the public good. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote4960
Benoît Mandelbrot: So limited is our knowledge that we resort, not to science, but to shamans. We place control of the world's largest economy in the hands of a few elderly men, the central bankers. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote4961
Walter Rodney: In the epoch of imperialism, the bankers became the aristocrats of the capitalist world. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote4962