Issac Don Levine: Stalin does not seek honours. He loathes pomp. He is averse to public displays. He could have all the nominal regalia in the chest of a great state. But he prefers the background. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Lenin: Our ideological conceptions give rise to principles of organization. No special organizations for women. A woman Communist is a member of the Party just as a man Communist, with equal rights and duties. There can be no difference of opinion on that score. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Lenin: Trotsky unites all to whom ideological decay is dear, all who are not concerned with the defence of Marxism; all philistines who do not understand the reasons for the struggle and who do not wish to learn, think, and discover the ideological roots of the divergence of views. At this time of confusion, disintegration, and wavering it is easy for Trotsky to become the "hero of the hour" and gather all the shabby elements around himself, The more openly this attempt is made, the more spectacular will be the defeat. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Frédéric Bastiat: While society is struggling toward liberty, these famous men who put themselves at its head are filled with the spirit of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. They think only of subjecting mankind to the philanthropic tyranny of their own social inventions. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Frederick C. Howe: This is the story of something for nothing—of making the other fellow pay. This making the other fellow pay, of getting something for nothing, explains the lust for franchises, mining rights, tariff privileges, railway control, tax evasions. All these things mean monopoly, and all monopoly is bottomed on legislation. And monopoly laws are born in corruption. The commercialism of the press, or education, even of sweet charity, is part of the price we pay for the special privileges created by law. The desire of something for nothing, of making the other fellow pay, of monopoly in some form or other, is the cause of corruption. Monopoly and corruption are cause and effect. Together, they work in Congress, in our Commonwealths, in our municipalities. It is always so. It always has been so. Privilege gives birth to corruption, just as the poisonous sewer breeds disease. Equal chance, a fair field and no favors, the "square deal" are never corrupt. They do not appear in legislative halls nor in Council Chambers. For these things mean labor for labor, value for valu... Show more...
Frederick C. Howe: This is the story of something for nothing—of making the other fellow pay. This making the other fellow pay, of getting something for nothing, explains the lust for franchises, mining rights, tariff privileges, railway control, tax evasions. All these things mean monopoly, and all monopoly is bottomed on legislation. And monopoly laws are born in corruption. The commercialism of the press, or education, even of sweet charity, is part of the price we pay for the special privileges created by law. The desire of something for nothing, of making the other fellow pay, of monopoly in some form or other, is the cause of corruption. Monopoly and corruption are cause and effect. Together, they work in Congress, in our Commonwealths, in our municipalities. It is always so. It always has been so. Privilege gives birth to corruption, just as the poisonous sewer breeds disease. Equal chance, a fair field and no favors, the "square deal" are never corrupt. They do not appear in legislative halls nor in Council Chambers. For these things mean labor for labor, value for value, something for something. This is why the little business man, the retail and wholesale dealer, the jobber, and the manufacturer are not the business men whose business corrupts politics. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Paulo Freire: The generosity of the oppressors is nourished by an unjust order, which must be maintained in order to justify that generosity. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Paulo Freire: The oppressed, having internalized the image of the oppressor and adopted his guidelines, are fearful of freedom. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Santiago Ramón y Cajal: Instead of elaborating on accepted principles, let us simply point out that for the last hundred years the natural sciences have abandoned completely the Aristotelian principles of intuition, inspiration, and dogmatism. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Mao Zedong: The only way to know conditions is to make social investigations, to investigate the conditions of each social class in real life. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Bertrand Russell: Cruel men believe in a cruel god and use their belief to excuse their cruelty. Only kindly men believe in a kindly god, and they would be kindly in any case. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
George Lakoff: There is no such thing as a self-made man. Every businessman has used the vast American infrastructure, which the taxpayers paid for, to make his money. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Adam Smith: This disposition to admire, and almost to worship, the rich and the powerful, and to despise, or, at least, to neglect persons of poor and mean condition, though necessary both to establish and to maintain the distinction of ranks and the order of society, is, at the same time, the great and most universal cause of the corruption of our moral sentiments. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Lenin: Because the pseudo-Lefts are compelled to gloss over facts which reveal their, the "Lefts", responsibility for sowing illusions which actually helped the German imperialists and hindered the growth and development of the revolution in Germany. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Democritus: In the weightiest matters we must go to school to the animals, and learn spinning and weaving from the spider, building from the swallow, singing from the birds,—from the swan and the nightingale, imitating their art. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Paul Valery: War: a massacre of people who don't know each other for the profit of people who know each other but don't massacre each other. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Stalin: The production of souls is more important than the production of tanks.... And therefore I raise my glass to you, writers, the engineers of the human soul. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Otto Kuusinen: As long as the working class wages only an economic struggle, the bourgeoisie does not see in that any great danger for itself; but when the working class organises politically, i.e., creates a political party which expresses its will as a class, the bourgeoisie begins seriously to fear for its rule. That is why reaction deals its main blows against the political party of the working class. At the same time, trying to undermine the party from within, capitalist propaganda endeavours to persuade the workers that they can do without their own party. One of the manifestations of bourgeois influence on the working class is the anarchist and anarcho-syndicalist denial of the leading role of a political party. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Democritus: Many who have not learned wisdom live wisely, and many who do the basest deeds can make most learned speeches. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
