Jean-Luc Godard: Movies in Hollywood now, for the past 20 or 30 years, are made mainly by lawyers or agents. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
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Cecil Rhodes: I was in the East End of London (a working-class quarter) yesterday and attended a meeting of the unemployed. I listened to the wild speeches, which were just a cry for 'bread! bread!' and on my way home I pondered over the scene and I became more than ever convinced of the importance of imperialism.... My cherished idea is a solution for the social problem, i.e., in order to save the 40,000,000 inhabitants of the United Kingdom from a bloody civil war, we colonial statesmen must acquire new lands to settle the surplus population, to provide new markets for the goods produced in the factories and mines. The Empire, as I have always said, is a bread and butter question. If you want to avoid civil war, you must become imperialists. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Nelson Mandela: Overcoming poverty is not a task of charity, it is an act of justice. Like Slavery and Apartheid, poverty is not natural. It is man-made and it can be overcome and eradicated by the actions of human beings. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Louis XVI: You want to erase over a millennium of our history, destroying our constitutional politics and rebuilding a new one from the ashes. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Mao Zedong: An army without culture is a dull-witted army, and a dull-witted army cannot defeat the enemy. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Karl Marx: Capital is money: Capital is commodities. ... Because it is value, it has acquired the occult quality of being able to add value to itself. It brings forth living offspring, or, at the least, lays golden eggs. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Frank Church: The CIA currently maintains a network of several hundred foreign individuals around the world who provide intelligence for the CIA and at times attempt to influence opinion through the use of covert propaganda. These individuals provide the CIA with direct access to a large number of newspapers and periodicals, scores of press services and news agencies, radio and television stations, commercial book publishers, and other foreign media outlets. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
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Lenin: The role of a newspaper, however, is not limited solely to the dissemination of ideas, to political education, and to the enlistment of political allies. A newspaper is not only a collective propagandist and a collective agitator, it is also a collective organiser. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Eugene V. Debs: Solidarity is the last and only hope of labor. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Friedrich Engels: We by no means rule over nature like a conqueror over a foreign people – we belong to nature, and exist in its midst, and all our mastery of it consists in the fact that we have the advantage over all other creatures of being able to correctly learn and apply its laws. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
General Baker, Jr.: Our task is to make thinkers out of fighters and fighters out of thinkers. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Fred Hampton: First of all, we say primarily that the priority of this struggle is class. That Marx, and Lenin, and Che Guevara end Mao Tse-Tung and anybody else that has ever said or knew or practiced anything about revolution, always said that revolution is a class struggle. It was one class—the oppressed—those other class—the oppressor. And it’s got to be a universal fact. Those that don’t admit to that are those that don’t want to get involved in a revolution, because they know that as long as they’re dealing with a race thing, they’ll never be involved in a revolution. They can talk about numbers; they can hang you up in many, many ways, but as soon as you start talking about class, then you got to start talking about some guns. And that’s what the Party had to do. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Eugen Leviné: We Communists are all dead men on leave. Of this I am fully aware. I do not know if you will extend my leave or whether I shall have to join Karl Liebknecht and Rosa Luxemburg. In any case I await your verdict with composure and inner serenity. For I know that, whatever your verdict, events cannot be stopped. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Richard Irving Dodge: Every buffalo dead is an Indian gone. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Joseph Joubert: The aim of argument, or of discussion, should not be victory, but progress. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
George Carlin: War is rich old men protecting their property by sending middle class and lower class men off to die. It always has been. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Nadezhda Konstantinovna Krupskaya: To build socialism means not only building gigantic factories and flour mills. This is essential but not enough for building socialism. People must grow in mind and heart. And on the basis of this individual growth of each in our conditions a new type of mighty socialist collective will in the long run be formed, where 'I' and 'we' will merge into one inseparable whole. Such a collective can only develop on the basis of profound ideological solidarity and an equally profound emotional rapprochement, mutual understanding. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Klaus Schwab: What we are very proud of, is that we penetrate the global cabinets of countries with our WEF Young Global Leaders. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Liz Truss: The cut and thrust of a free press, even if some people find it offensive, is a vital part of a free country. I would die in a ditch for it. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Dmitrii Moor: Confession was not invented for nothing. It is through your confession that your every thought will reach the ears of the district policeman. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
James Connolly: Monarchy is a survival of the tyranny imposed by the hand of greed and treachery upon the human race in the darkest and most ignorant days of our history. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Karl Marx: It is true that labor produces for the rich wonderful things – but for the worker it produces privation. It produces palaces – but for the worker, hovels. It produces beauty – but for the worker, deformity. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Cecil Rhodes: In order to save the forty million inhabitants of the United Kingdom from a bloody civil war, our colonial statesmen must acquire new lands for settling the surplus population of this country, to provide new markets. ... The Empire, as I have always said, is a bread and butter question. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Cecil Rhodes: I contend that we are the first race in the world, and that the more of the world we inhabit the better it is for the human race. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Cecil Rhodes: The world is nearly all parcelled out, and what there is left of it is being divided up, conquered and colonised. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
V.J. Jerome: This struggle on two fronts is the purifying force which Lenin revitalized in forging world Bolshevism; it is the war of extermination which Stalin has relentlessly waged and taught every Communist Party to wage against the Right and 'Left' deviators from Marxism-Leninism and against all conciliators to opportunism. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Carl Sagan: I don’t want to believe. I want to know. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Rosa Luxemburg: We prefer the most expensive republic to the cheapest monarchy; this is not a matter of money: the monarchy is the most backward tool of class rule. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Voltaire: Paper money eventually returns to its intrinsic value: zero. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
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Charles Bukowski: They never pay the slaves enough so they can get free, just enough so they can stay alive and come back to work. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Malcolm X: A new world is in the making, and it is up to us to prepare ourselves so that we may take our rightful place in it. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Joseph Goebbels: It is the absolute right of the State to supervise the formation of public opinion. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Harry Patch: War is organized murder and nothing else. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Lenin: Soviet, or socialist, democracy sweeps aside the pompous, bullying, words, declares ruthless war on the hypocrisy of the "democrats", the landlords, capitalists or well-fed peasants who are making money by selling their surplus bread to hungry workers at profiteering prices. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
William Randolph Hearst: According to American principle and practice the public is the ruler of the State, and in order to rule rightly it should be informed correctly. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Karl Marx: The mode of production of material life conditions the social, political and intellectual life process in general. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Ayn Rand: It is true that the welfare-statists are not socialists, that they never advocated or intended the socialization of private property, that they want to 'preserve' private property-with government control of its use and disposal. But that is the fundamental characteristic of fascism. wordsmith.social/protestation/…