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
Bible: And I tell you that you are Peter, and on this rock I will build my church, and the gates of Hades will not overcome it. I will give you the keys of the kingdom of heaven; whatever you bind on earth will be bound in heaven, and whatever you loose on earth will be loosed in heaven. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5549
Bible: You are my son; today I have become your father. Ask me, and I will make the nations your inheritance, the ends of the earth your possession. You will break them with a rod of iron; you will dash them to pieces like pottery. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5550
Karl Marx: No social order ever perishes before all the productive forces for which there is room in it have developed; and new, higher relations of production never appear before the material conditions of their existence have matured in the womb of the old society itself. Therefore mankind always sets itself only such tasks as it can solve; since, looking at the matter more closely, it will always be found that the tasks itself arises only when the material conditions of its solution already exist or are at least in the process of formation. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5551
Karl Marx: In the social production of their life, men enter into definite relations that are indispensable and independent of their will, relations of production which correspond to a definite stage of development of their material productive forces. The sum total of these relations of production constitutes the economic structure of society, the real foundation, on which rises a legal and political superstructure and to which correspond definite forms of social consciousness. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5552
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Karl Marx: At a certain stage of their development, the material productive forces of society come in conflict with the existing relations of production, or — what is but a legal expression for the same thing — with the property relations within which they have been at work hitherto. From forms of development of the productive forces these relations turn into their fetters. Then begins an epoch of social revolution. With the change of the economic foundation the entire immense superstructure is more or less rapidly transformed. In considering such transformations a distinction should always be made between the material transformation of the economic conditions of production, which can be determined with the precision of natural science, and the legal, political, religious, aesthetic or philosophic — in short, ideological forms in which men become conscious of this conflict and fight it out. Just as our opinion of an individual is not based on what he thinks of himself, so can we not judge of such a period of transformation by its own consciousness; on the contrary, this consciousness must be explained rather from the contradictions of material life, from the existing conflict between the social productive forces and the relations of production. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5553
Karl Marx: The bourgeois relations of production are the last antagonistic form of the social process of production — antagonistic not in the sense of individual antagonisms, but of one arising from the social conditions of life of the individuals; at the same time the productive forces developing in the womb of bourgeois society create the material conditions for the solution of that antagonism. This social formation brings, therefore, the prehistory of society to a close. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5554
Anton Chekhov: There is nothing more vulgar than a petty bourgeois life with its halfpence, its victuals, its futile talk, and its useless conventional virtue; my heart aches from the consciousness that I am working for money, and money is the centre of all I do. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5555
Enver Hoxha: (T)he defence of the theory and practice of scientific socialism from the attacks and distortions of modern revisionists of various hues and tints and other bourgeois and petty-bourgeois trends is one of the most important tasks in the ideological struggle today. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5556
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Augusto Pinochet: The rich people are those who create wealth, and you have to treat them well so they continue to give wealth. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5557
Enver Hoxha: The counter-revolutionary theories and practices of the revisionists serve as nourishment for the most diverse hostile ideological trends, ranging from the most reactionary bourgeois trends to the Trotskyite and petty-bourgeois ones. The bourgeois ideologists deliberately try to present the (Khrushchevite) revisionist betrayal as a failure of socialism and Marxism-Leninism, as if communism is unable to provide a positive alternative for the solution of the problems of the world today. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5558
Enver Hoxha: There are … some petty-bourgeois ideologists and people of sincere revolutionary inclinations who, disillusioned by the (Khrushchevite) revisionist betrayal, are questioning the fundamental principles of Marxism-Leninism and trying to create new theories or to revive old ones. They preach that Marxism-Leninism is incomplete and inaccurate, that allegedly it no longer responds to the new historical conditions of various countries or continents. In this situation, when the ideological confusion which the modern revisionists caused and are seeking to keep alive has become more pronounced, the great importance of the struggle of all the Marxist-Leninists for the liberation of the working class and labouring masses from all the influences of bourgeois and revisionist ideology and of the various petty-bourgeois trends, the arming of them with the only scientific ideology, Marxism-Leninism, emerges very clearly. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5559
Enver Hoxha: Rigid and sectarian attitudes also damage the line of the Party. In the recent times such attitudes have been apparent among some communists and cadres who, when the Party exposed and condemned elements with a liberal, opportunist and hostile spirit, began to look with undue suspicion even at some small and unimportant blemish. The tendencies observed sometimes in some people to resort to administrative methods where persuasion and education should be used are also sectarian. Those who display sectarian tendencies often pose as “consistent and principled revolutionaries”. But in fact they are opportunists and act in this way in order to be “on the safe side”. These opportunist vacillations stem from lack of a correct grasp of the nature of the two types of contradictions which exist in our society, from confusing antagonistic with non-antagonistic contradictions. The Party must make these matters completely clear and explain that opportunism cannot be fought with success if sectarianism is not fought at the same time, and vice-versa. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5560
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry: Love does not consist of gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5561
Albert Einstein: What does a fish know about the water in which he swims all his life? https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5562
Aristotle: A friend to all is a friend to none. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5563