Michael Parenti: The problem with capitalism is that it best rewards the worst part of us. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5516
Augusto Pinochet: The only solution to the issue of human rights is oblivion. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5517
Michael Parenti: The mass media are class media. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5518
Noam Chomsky: If voting could actually change anything, it would be illegal. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5519
Noam Chomsky: Hypocrites are those who apply to others the standards that they refuse to accept for themselves. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5520
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Noam Chomsky: A basic principle of modern state capitalism is that costs and risks are socialized to the extent possible, while profit is privatized. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5521
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Noam Chomsky: Jingoism, racism, fear, religious fundamentalism: these are the ways of appealing to people if you're trying to organize a mass base of support for policies that are really intended to crush them. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5522
Noam Chomsky: You cannot control your own population by force, but it can be distracted by consumption. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5523
Noam Chomsky: If anybody thinks they should listen to me because I'm a professor at MIT, that's nonsense. You should decide whether something makes sense by its content, not by the letters after the name of the person who says it. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5524
Noam Chomsky: If you assume that there is no hope, you guarantee that there will be no hope. If you assume that there is an instinct for freedom, that there are opportunities to change things, then there is a possibility that you can contribute to making a better world. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5525
Noam Chomsky: What is called 'capitalism' is basically a system of corporate mercantilism, with huge and largely unaccountable private tyrannies exercising vast control over the economy, political systems, and social and cultural life, operating in close cooperation with powerful states that intervene massively in the domestic economy and international society. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5526
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Noam Chomsky: In the US, there is basically one party - the business party. It has two factions, called Democrats and Republicans, which are somewhat different but carry out variations on the same policies. By and large, I am opposed to those policies. As is most of the population. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5527
Augusto Pinochet: We practically wiped this nation clean of Marxists. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5528
Augusto Pinochet: I'm not someone who usually sends out threats. I warn only once. The day they touch one of my men, the rule of law is over. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5529
Mother Jones: If they want to hang me, let them. And on the scaffold I will shout Freedom for the working class! https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5530
James Gilligan: Poverty kills far more people than all the wars in history, more people than all the murderers in history, more than all the suicides in history, not only does structural violence kill more people than all the behavioral violence put together, structural violence is also the main cause of behavioral violence. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5531
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James Gilligan: Unequal societies are not only the most violent; they are also the least productive. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5532
James Gilligan: The political rhetoric of the ruling class claims to want to decrease the rate of violence. It advocates making the deadliest weapons, from handguns to assault rifles, freely available to as many people as possible; increasing the rate of capital punishment; imprisoning as many people as possible; and making the conditions in which they are incarcerated more and more brutalizing; depriving prison inmates of the opportunity to acquire education which could help them to renounce their criminal violence. All this is pursued in the name of being "tough on crime" and "tough on criminals"; but however "tough" these policies may be on criminals, they are, in fact, the most effective way to promote crime and violence. This deceptive rhetoric still fools millions of voters. This brilliant strategy also labels those policies that would decrease the rates of crime and violence, as being "soft on crime. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5533
James Gilligan: The traditional defense of class stratification and the existence of a "leisure class", ever since the rise of civilization, from both Plato and Aristotle as well as from more recent social thinkers, is that a leisure class is needed in order to have the time and energy for the specialized intellectual development and technological skills that are necessary preconditions for civilization; and "leisure class" has always meant a group with a guaranteed income — i.e. those who did not have to work for a living. Implicit in this argument is the assumption (which I happen to think is correct, as I think the history and development of civilization proves) that when people are freed from the necessity to work — that is, when work is freely chosen rather than slavery or wage-slavery (i.e. "work or starve"), they do not just vegetate in a state of "passivity and dependency." Rather, they engage in much more creative work. Coercion creates an incentive for "passive aggressiveness," because when overpowered and helpless there is no other way to express the minimal degree of autonomy that people need in order to maintain any semblance of self-esteem, dignity, and pride. Furthermore, when work is a means to and end — working in order to eat — then it is, in Marx's terms, "alienated" labor. Labor can only be liberated from alienation when work is an end in itself, entered into freely as the expression of spontaneous and voluntary creativity, curiosity, playfulness, initiative, and sociability — that is, the sense of solidarity with the community, the fulfillment of one's true and "essential" human nature as "social" and "political" animals, to be fulfilled and made human by their full participation in a culture. In short, the contradiction in the old defense of class stratification is that it defends leisure for the leisure class, but not for the underclass. With reference to the underclass, leisure is said to destroy the incentive to work, leads to slothfulness and self-indulgence, and retards cognitive and moral development. When applied to the leisure class, the concept evokes an image of Plato and Aristotle, whose leisure was based on slave labor, creating the intellectual foundations of Western civilization; or patrician slave-owners like Washington and Jefferson laying the foundations of American civilization; or creative aristocrats like Count Leo Tolstoy or Bertrand Ear Russell; or, even closer to home, of our own sons and daughters (or of ourselves, when we were young adults) being freed from the stultifying tasks of earning a living until well into our adult years so that we could study in expensive universities to gain specialized knowledge and skills. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5534
Mahmoud Darwish: Workers united, a force that can't go wrong, Breaking chains of oppression, pushing for their rights,Their voices echoing, piercing through the nights. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5535
Hugo Chávez: China is larger but not an Empire. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5536
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Friedrich Engels: How is the housing question to be solved then? In present-day society just as any other social question is solved: by the gradual economic adjustment of supply and demand, a solution which ever reproduces the question itself anew and therefore is no solution. How a social revolution would solve this question depends not only on the circumstances which would exist in each case, but is also connected with still more far-reaching questions, among which one of the most fundamental is the abolition of the antithesis between town and country. As it is not our task to create utopian systems for the arrangement of the future society, it would be more than idle to go into the question here. But one thing is certain: there are already in existence sufficient buildings for dwellings in the big towns to remedy immediately any real “housing shortage,” given rational utilization of them. This can naturally only take place by the expropriation of the present owners and by quartering in their houses the homeless or those workers excessively overcrowded in their former houses. Immediately the proletariat has conquered political power such a measure dictated in the public interests will be just as easy to carry out as other expropriations and billetings are by the existing state. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5537
Marie Curie: You cannot hope to build a better world without improving the individuals. To that end each of us must work for his own improvement, and at the same time share a general responsibility for all humanity, our particular duty being to aid those to whom we think we can be most useful. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5538
George Orwell: There was of course no way of knowing whether you were being watched at any given moment. How often, or on what system, the Thought Police plugged in on any individual wire was guesswork. It was even conceivable that they watched everybody all the time. But at any rate they could plug in your wire whenever they wanted to. You had to live-did live, from habit that became instinct-in the assumption that every sound you made was overheard, and, except in darkness, every movement scrutinized. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5539
Camus: Maybe it's not about happy ending. Maybe it's about the story. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5540
Karl Marx: We must announce to the governments: We know you are the armed power which is directed against the proletarians; we will move against you in peaceful way where it is possible, and with arms if it should become necessary. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5541
Grace Blakeley: Free markets aren't really free. Record corporate profits don't trickle down to everyone else. And we aren't empowered to make our own choices – they're made for us every day. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5542
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Stalin: Communist parties ought to be made independent, instead of sections of the CI. They should turn into national Communist parties with various names—the Workers’ Party, the Marxist Party, etc. The name does not matter. What matters is that they put down roots in their own peoples and concentrate on their own proper tasks. They ought to have a Communist program; they should proceed on a Marxist analysis, but without looking over their shoulders at Moscow; they should resolve the concrete problems they face in the given country independently. And the situation and problems in different countries are altogether different. In England there are certain ones, in Germany there are different ones, and so forth. Once the Communist parties have become stronger in this way, then reestablish their international organization. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5543
Aldous Huxley: Christianity without tears - that's what soma is. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5544
Milton Friedman: The problem in this world is to avoid concentration of power - we must have a dispersion of power. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5545
Henry Ford: Vision without execution is just hallucination. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5546
Eduardo Galeano: From moles we learned to make tunnels. From beavers we learned to make dams. From birds we learned to build homes. From spiders we learned to weave. From tree trunks rolling downhill we learned about wheels. From tree trunks floating and adrift we learned about boats. From wind we learned about sails. How did we learn our evil ways? From whom did we learn to torment our neighbors and subdue the earth? https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5547
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Lenin: You can become a Communist only when you enrich your mind with a knowledge of all the treasures created by mankind. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5548