Charles de Gaulle: NATO is an organization that weakens our defense capabilities, instills the idea that defense is inconceivable without it, thus numbing our sense of national independence. NATO is in fact a deception, a camouflage for the US takeover Europe. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Homer: Hateful [ekhthros] to me like the gates of Hades is the man who says one thing while he hides another thing in his mind [phrenes]. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Fidel Castro: The Dalai Lama, bestowed with the US Congress’ Gold Medal, praised George W. Bush for his efforts in defense of freedom, democracy and human rights. The Dalai Lama called the war in Afghanistan a war of 'liberation', the Korean War a war of 'semi-liberation' and the Vietnam War a 'failure'... I respect the Dalai Lama’s right to believe, but I am not obliged to believe in the Dalai Lama. I do have many reasons to believe in China’s victory. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Lieutenant Elsa Oliva: I remember being called a Rebel for the first time by the Nazis during questioning. So I thought, That's a word a like, that's what I will always be — a rebel. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Kim Il Sung: Modern revisionism revises Marxism-Leninism and emasculates its revolutionary quintessence under the pretext of a 'changed situation' and 'creative development'. It rejects class struggle and the dictatorship of the proletariat. It preaches class collaboration and gives up fighting imperialism. Moreover, modern revisionism spread illusions about imperialism and in every way obstructed the revolutionary struggle of the peoples for social and national liberation. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Yuri Gagarin: I am very happy and immensely thankful to our party and our government for entrusting me with this flight. I have completed this flight in the name of our Fatherland, in the name of the great Soviet people, and the communist party of the Soviet Union. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Karl Marx: Where the working class is not yet far enough advanced in its organisation to undertake a decisive campaign against the collective power, i.e., the political power of the ruling classes, it must at any rate be trained for this by continual agitation against and a hostile attitude towards the policy of the ruling classes. Otherwise it will remain a plaything in their hands, as the September revolution in France showed, and as is also proved up to a certain point by the game Messrs. Gladstone & Co. are bringing off in England even up to the present time. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Julius Nyerere: Capitalism means that the masses will work, and a few people — who may not labor at all — will benefit from that work. The few will sit down to a banquet, and the masses will eat whatever is left over. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
