Fyodor Dostoevsky: Nothing in this world is harder than speaking the truth, nothing easier than flattery. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote4071
Fyodor Dostoevsky: The awful thing is that beauty is mysterious as well as terrible. God and the devil are fighting there and the battlefield is the heart of man. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote4072
Fyodor Dostoevsky: It is better to be unhappy and know the worst, than to be happy in a fool's paradise. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote4073
Fyodor Dostoevsky: Besides, nowadays, almost all capable people are terribly afraid of being ridiculous, and are miserable because of it. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote4074
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Fyodor Dostoevsky: If you want to be respected by others, the great thing is to respect yourself. Only by that, only by self-respect will you compel others to respect you. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote4075
Fyodor Dostoevsky: If you want to overcome the whole world, overcome yourself. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote4076
Fyodor Dostoevsky: Power is given only to him who dares to stoop and take it ... one must have the courage to dare. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote4077
Fyodor Dostoevsky: The greatest happiness is to know the source of unhappiness. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote4078
Lenin: To seek out, investigate, predict, and grasp that which is nationally specific and nationally distinctive, in the concrete manner in which each country should tackle a single international task: victory over opportunism and Left doctrinairism within the working-class movement; the overthrow of the bourgeoisie; the establishment of a Soviet republic and a proletarian dictatorship-such is the basic task in the historical period that all the advanced countries (and not they alone) are going through. The chief thing-though, of course, far from everything-the chief thing, has already been achieved: the vanguard of the working class has been won over, has ranged itself on the side of Soviet government and against parliamentarianism, on the side of the dictatorship of the proletariat and against bourgeois democracy. All efforts and all attention should now be concentrated on the next step, which may seem-and from a certain viewpoint actually is -less fundamental, but, on the other hand, is actually closer to a practical accomplishment of the task. That step is: the search after forms of the transition or the approach to the proletarian revolution. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote4079
Peter Gelderloos: It is not even proper to say the old regimes are “forced out.” Faced with rising disobedience and the threat of real revolution, they choose to hand over power to new regimes that they trust to honor the basic frameworks of capitalism and state. When they do not have the option of a transfer of power, they take off the gloves and attempt to brutalize and dominate the movement, which cannot defend itself and survive without escalating tactics. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote4080
Peter Gelderloos: Pacifism assumes a society without race and class hierarchy; without privileged, powerful, and violent elites; without a corporate media controlled by the interests of state and capital, ready to manage the perceptions of the citizenry. Such a society does not exist among any of the industrial, capitalist democracies. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote4081
Peter Gelderloos: Privileged activists need to understand what the rest of the world’s people have known all too long: we are in the midst of a war, and neutrality is not possible. There is nothing in this world currently deserving of the name peace. Rather, it is a question of whose violence frightens us most, and on whose side we will stand. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote4082
Peter Gelderloos: We must realistically accept that revolution is a social war, not because we like war, but because we recognize that the status quo is a low-intensity war and challenging the state results in an intensification of that warfare. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote4083
Friedrich Engels: To (the pacifist) force is the absolute evil; the first act of force is to him the original sin; his whole exposition is a jeremiad on the contamination of all subsequent history consummated by this original sin; a jeremiad on the shameful perversion of all natural and social laws by this diabolical power, force. That force, however, plays yet another role in history, a revolutionary role; that, in the words of Marx, it is the midwife of every old society pregnant with a new one, that it is the instrument with the aid of which social movement forces its way through and shatters the dead, fossilised political forms — of this there is not a word in (the pacifist). It is only with sighs and groans that he admits the possibility that force will perhaps be necessary for the overthrow of an economic system of exploitation — unfortunately, because all use of force demoralises the person who uses it. And this in spite of the immense moral and spiritual impetus which has been given by every victorious revolution! (…) And this parson’s mode of thought — dull, insipid and impotent — presumes to impose itself on the most revolutionary (class) that history has known! https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote4084
Huey P. Newton: The task is to transform society; only the people can do that – not heroes, not celebrities, not stars. A star’s place is in Hollywood; the revolutionary’s place is in the community with the people. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote4085
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Ray Bradbury: You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote4086
Enver Hoxha: The revolution has its own laws, which are universal and indispensable for any country. Denial of these laws leads to revisionism. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote4087
Enver Hoxha: The communists are sincere in their alliances with other social forces. They are resolute fighters for putting into practice the programs of united fronts, but at the same time, they make no secret of their ideals, and once they have accomplished their democratic and national tasks, they are determined not to stop half-way, but to carry the revolution forward to the triumph of socialism and communism. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote4088
Lenin: The bourgeoisie in our country has been conquered, but it has not yet been uprooted, not yet destroyed, and not even utterly broken. That is why we are faced with a new and higher form of struggle against the bourgeoisie, the transition from the very simple task of further expropriating the capitalists to the much more complicated and difficult task of creating conditions in which it will be impossible for the bourgeoisie to exist, or for a new bourgeoisie to arise. Clearly. this task is immeasurably more significant than the previous one; and until it is fulfilled there will be no socialism. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote4089
Lenin: One should know how to 𝒄𝒐𝒎𝒃𝒊𝒏𝒆 the struggle for democracy and the struggle for the socialist revolution, 𝒔𝒖𝒃𝒐𝒓𝒅𝒊𝒏𝒂𝒕𝒊𝒏𝒈 the first to the second. In this lies the whole difficulty; in this is the whole essence. The Tolstoyans and the anarchists throw out the first. Bukharin and Radek have become confused, failing to combine the first with the second. But I say: don’t lose sight of the 𝒎𝒂𝒊𝒏 thing (the socialist revolution); put it first (Junius has not done this); put 𝒂𝒍𝒍 the democratic demands, but subordinating them to it, co-ordinating them with it (Radek + Bukharin unwisely eliminate one of them), and bear in mind that the struggle for the main thing may blaze up even though it has begun with the struggle for something partial. In my opinion, only this conception of the matter is the right one. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote4090
Kwame Ture: The job of the slave master is to convince the slave that he is concerned about the interests of the slave more than his own interests. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote4091
Fidel Castro: China and Russia, the two countries called to lead a new world that would allow human survival if imperialism does not first unleash a criminal and exterminating war. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote4092
Seth MacFarlane: When a child kills an animal for fun, we fear mental illness. When an adult with the capacity to reason does it, we call it 'sport'. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote4093
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Carl Sagan: Nothing disturbs me more than the glorification of stupidity. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote4094
Matthew Prior: For hope is but the dream of those that wake! https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote4095
Desmond Tutu: Hope is being able to see that there is light despite all of the darkness. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote4096
Brad Henry: A good teacher can inspire hope, ignite the imagination, and instill a love of learning. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote4097
Theodore Roosevelt: When you’re at the end of your rope, tie a knot and hold on. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote4098
Charles Dickens: It’s always something, to know you’ve done the most you could. But don’t leave off hoping, or it’s of no use doing anything. Hope, hope to the last. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote4099
Jonas Salk: Hope lies in dreams, in imagination, and in the courage of those who dare to make dreams into reality. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote4100
Martin Luther King, Jr.: But I know, somehow, that only when it is dark enough can you see the stars. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote4101
Howard Thurman: A dream is the bearer of a new possibility, the enlarged horizon, the great hope. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote4102
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Bernard Williams: There was never a night or a problem that could defeat sunrise or hope. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote4103
Sarah J. Maas: We need hope, or else we cannot endure. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote4104
Aristotle: Hope is the dream of a waking man. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote4105
John Adams: When people talk of the Freedom of Writing, Speaking, or thinking, I cannot choose but laugh. No such thing ever existed. No such thing now exists; but I hope it will exist. But it must be hundreds of years after you and I shall write and speak no more. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote4106