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    John Adams: As to the history of the revolution, my ideas may be peculiar, perhaps singular. What do we mean by the Revolution? The war? That was no part of the revolution; it was only an effect and consequence of it. The revolution was in the minds of the people, and this was effected ... before a drop of blood was shed. https://protestationblog.wordpress.com/quotes10/#quotenr4199
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      • Marxism is not only the theory of socialism, it is an integral world outlook, a philosophical system, from which Marx’s proletarian socialism logically follows. This philosophical system is called dialectical materialism. (Stalin)

      • The bestiality of imperialism, a bestiality that knows no limits, that has no national boundaries. (Che Guevara)

      • For capitalist countries war is just as natural and legitimate a condition of things as the exploitation of the working class. (Stalin)

      • The real grand corruption is in the [capitalist] system, itself. (Glen Ford)

      • The dominant, almost general, idea of revolution — particularly the Socialist idea — is that revolution is a violent change of social conditions through which one social class, the working class, becomes dominant over another class, the capitalist class. (Emma Goldman)

      • We have, in this country, one of the most corrupt institutions the world has ever known. I refer to the Federal Reserve Board. This evil institution has impoverished the people of the United States and has practically bankrupted our government. It has done this through the corrupt practices of the moneyed vultures who control it. (Louis T. McFadden)

      • In theory, everybody buys the best and cheapest commodities offered to him on the market. In practice, if every one went around pricing, and chemically testing before purchasing, the dozens of soaps or fabrics or brands of bread which are for sale, economic life would become hopelessly jammed. (Edward Bernays)

      • Firstly, it is not true that fascism is only the fighting organisation of the bourgeoisie. Fascism is not only a military-technical category. Fascism is the bourgeoisie’s fighting organisation that relies on the active support of Social-Democracy. Social-Democracy is objectively the moderate wing of fascism. There is no ground for assuming that the fighting organisation of the bourgeoisie can achieve decisive successes in battles, or in governing the country, without the active support of Social-Democracy. There is just as little ground for thinking that Social-Democracy can achieve decisive successes in battles, or in governing the country, without the active support of the fighting organisation of the bourgeoisie. These organisations do not negate, but supplement each other. They are not antipodes, they are twins. Fascism is an informal political bloc of these two chief organisations; a bloc, which arose in the circumstances of the post-war crisis of imperialism, and which is intended for combating the proletarian revolution. The bourgeoisie cannot retain power without such a bloc. It would therefore be a mistake to think that “pacifism” signifies the liquidation of fascism. In the present situation, “pacifism” is the strengthening of fascism with its moderate, Social-Democratic wing pushed into the forefront. (Stalin)

      • This is an age of mass production. In the mass production of materials a broad technique has been developed and applied to their distribution. In this age, too, there must be a technique for the mass distribution of ideas. (Edward Bernays)

      • In order to rally people, governments need enemies. They want us to be afraid, to hate, so we will rally behind them. And if they do not have a real enemy, they will invent one in order to mobilize us. (Thích Nhất Hạnh)

      • The farmer and manufacturer can no more live without profit than the labourer without wages. (David Ricardo)

      • By destroying small-scale production, capital leads to an increase in productivity of labour and to the creation of a monopoly position for the associations of big capitalists. (Lenin)

      • Israel should have exploited the repression of the demonstrations in China, when world attention focused on that country, to carry out mass expulsions among the Arabs of the territories. (Benjamin Netanyahu)

      • We have been ruled more by deceit than by force, and we have been degraded more by vice than by superstition. Slavery is the daughter of darkness: an ignorant people is a blind instrument of its own destruction. (Simón Bolívar)

      • It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not. (André Gide)

      • There is only one power which really counts. The power of political pressure. We Jews are the most powerful people on earth, because we have this power, and we know how to apply it. (Vladimir Jabotinsky)

      • When Stalin was still alive, I saw things differently, but as I look back over this century, I can state that Stalin was the greatest individual of this century, the greatest political genius. To adopt a scientific attitude about someone is quite different from one’s personal attitude. (Alexander Zinoviev)

      • If any of you in any way hate homosexuals, people of different color, or women, please do this one favor for us – leave us the fuck alone! Don’t come to our shows and don’t buy our records. (Kurt Cobain)

      • Along the way, I had the opportunity to pass through the dominions of the United Fruit, convincing me once again of just how terrible these capitalist octopuses are. I have sworn before a picture of the old and mourned comrade Stalin that I won’t rest until I see these capitalist octopuses annihilated. (Che Guevara)

      • Everywhere revolutions are painful yet fruitful gestations of a people: they shed blood but create light, they eliminate men but elaborate ideas. (Goethe)

      • Disobedience, in the eyes of any one who has read history, is man’s original virtue. It is through disobedience that progress has been made, through disobedience and through rebellion. (Oscar Wilde)

      • While there is a lower class, I am in it, while there is a criminal element, I am of it, and while there is a soul in prison, I am not free. (Eugene V. Debs)

      • The Revolution will not be televised. The Revolution will be no rerun, brothers. The Revolution — will be live. (Gilbert Scott-Heron)

      • As to the history of the revolution, my ideas may be peculiar, perhaps singular. What do we mean by the Revolution? The war? That was no part of the revolution; it was only an effect and consequence of it. The revolution was in the minds of the people, and this was effected … before a drop of blood was shed. (John Adams)

      • None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free. (Goethe)

      • If the people understood the banking system, there would be a revolution tomorrow. (Henry Ford)

      • Give me liberty or give me death. (Patrick Henry)

      • Every revolution has its counterrevolution – that is a sign the revolution is for real. (C. Wright Mills)

      • Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves. (Abraham Lincoln)

      • Just see these superfluous ones! They steal the works of the inventors and the treasures of the wise. Culture, they call their theft—and everything becometh sickness and trouble unto them! Just see these superfluous ones! Sick are they always; they vomit their bile and call it a newspaper. They devour one another, and cannot even digest themselves. Just see these superfluous ones! Wealth they acquire and become poorer thereby. Power they seek for, and above all, the lever of power, much money—these impotent ones! See them clamber, these nimble apes! They clamber over one another, and thus scuffle into the mud and the abyss. Towards the throne they all strive: it is their madness—as if happiness sat on the throne! Ofttimes sitteth filth on the throne.—and ofttimes also the throne on filth. Madmen they all seem to me, and clambering apes, and too eager. Badly smelleth their idol to me, the cold monster: badly they all smell to me, these idolaters. My brethren, will ye suffocate in the fumes of their maws and appetites! Better break the windows and jump into the open air! Do go out of the way of the bad odour! Withdraw from the idolatry of the superfluous! Do go out of the way of the bad odour! Withdraw from the steam of these human sacrifices! Open still remaineth the earth for great souls. Empty are still many sites for lone ones and twain ones, around which floateth the odour of tranquil seas. Open still remaineth a free life for great souls. Verily, he who possesseth little is so much the less possessed: blessed be moderate poverty! (Nietzsche)

      • The common people suffer when the powerful disagree. (Plátōn)

      • Imperialism is the monopoly stage of capitalism. (Lenin)

      • In this Revolution no plans have been written for retreat. (Martin Luther King, Jr.)

      • Tell the children the truth. (Bob Marley)

      • They got money for wars, but wont feed the poor. (Tupac Shakur)

      • When you are right you cannot be too radical; when you are wrong, you cannot be too conservative. (Martin Luther King, Jr.)

      • Revolution is not an action, it is a process. (Huey P. Newton)

      • I would rather die on my feet than live on my knees. (Huey P. Newton)

      • Armaments, universal debt and planned obsolescence — those are the three pillars of Western prosperity. (Aldous Huxley)

      • The greatest revolution of our generation is the discovery that human beings can change their lives. (William James)

      • The modern banking system manufactures money out of nothing. The process is perhaps the most astounding piece of sleight of hand that was ever invented. Banking was conceived in iniquity and born in sin. Bankers own the earth. Take it away from them, but leave them the power to create money and control credit, and with the flick of a pen, they will create enough money to buy it back again. Take this great power away from the bankers and all the great fortunes like mine will disappear, and they ought to disappear, for this would be a better and happier world to live in. But if you want to continue the slaves of bankers and pay the cost of your own slavery, let them continue to create money and to control credit. (Sir Josiah Stamp)

      • One day, in retrospect, the years of struggle will strike you as the most beautiful. (Sigmund Freud)

      • When injustice becomes law, resistance becomes duty. (Thomas Jefferson)

      • When even one American — who has done nothing wrong — is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth, then all Americans are in peril. (Harry Truman)

      • When you control opinion, as corporate America controls opinion in the United States by owning the media, you can make the masses believe almost anything you want, and guide them as you please. (Gore Vidal)

      • An informed citizenry is the only true repository of the public will. (Thomas Jefferson)

      • The lie can be maintained only for such time as the State can shield the people from the political, economic and/or military consequences of the lie. It thus becomes vitally important for the State to use all of its powers to repress dissent, for the truth is the mortal enemy of the lie, and thus by extension, the truth becomes the greatest enemy of the State. (Joseph Goebbels)

      • Single acts of tyranny may be ascribed to the accidental opinion of a day. But a series of oppressions, begun at a distinguished period, and pursued unalterably through every change of ministers (administrations), too plainly proves a deliberate systematic plan of reducing us to slavery. (Thomas Jefferson)

      • There is nothing more frightening than active ignorance. (Goethe)

      • The Central Intelligence Agency owns everyone of any significance in the major media. (William Colby)

      • The liberty of a democracy is not safe if the people tolerate the growth of private power to a point where it becomes stronger than their democratic State itself. That, in its essence, is Fascism – ownership of government by an individual, by a group or by any controlling private power. (Franklin D. Roosevelt)

      • In the counsels of Government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the Military Industrial Complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists, and will persist. We must never let the weight of this combination endanger our liberties or democratic processes. We should take nothing for granted. Only an alert and knowledgeable citizenry can compel the proper meshing of the huge industrial and military machinery of defense with our peaceful methods and goals so that security and liberty may prosper together. (Dwight Eisenhower)

      • The millions of people armed in the holy cause of liberty… are invincible by any force which our enemy can send against us. (Patrick Henry)

      • The perfect totalitarian state is one where the all powerful political bosses and their army of managers, control a population of slaves who do not have to be coerced because they love their servitude. (Aldous Huxley)

      • I think that on balance the moral influence of religion has been awful. With or without religion, good people can behave well and bad people can do evil; but for good people to do evil—that takes religion. (Steven Weinberg)

      • Every war when it comes, or before it comes, is represented not as a war but as an act of self-defense against a homicidal maniac. (George Orwell)

      • Warfare is a means and not an end. Warfare is a tool of revolutionaries. The important thing is the revolution! The important thing is the revolutionary cause, revolutionary ideas, revolutionary objectives, revolutionary sentiments, revolutionary virtues! (Fidel Castro)

      • The revolution is not about putting a different kind of person in power but a different kind of power in people. (Stephanie Van Hook)

      • They are patriotic in time of war because it is to their interest to be so, but in time of peace they follow power and the dollar wherever they may lead. (Henry A. Wallace)

      • In the technotronic society the trend would seem to be towards the aggregation of the individual support of millions of uncoordinated citizens, easily within the reach of magnetic and attractive personalities exploiting the latest communications techniques to manipulate emotions and control reason. (Zbigniew Brzezinski)

      • It is no coincidence that the growth of modern tyrants has in every case been heralded by the growth of prejudice. (Henry A. Wallace)

      • Genuine equality between the sexes can only be realized in the process of the socialist transformation of society as a whole. (Mao Zedong)

      • Unity is a great thing and a great slogan. But what the workers’ cause needs is the unity of Marxists, not unity between Marxists, and opponents and distorters of Marxism. (Lenin)

      • History repeats itself, first as tragedy, second as farce. (Karl Marx)

      • Machines were, it may be said, the weapon employed by the capitalists to quell the revolt of specialized labor. (Karl Marx)

      • Our task is that of ruthless criticism, and much more against ostensible friends than against open enemies; and in maintaining this our position we gladly forego cheap democratic popularity. (Karl Marx)

      • I have come to communism because of daddy Stalin. (Che Guevara)

      • It comes down to the ability to expropriate others’ labor. (Robert Bettinger)

      • It is an act of insanity and national humiliation to have a law prohibiting the President from ordering assassination. (Henry Kissinger)

      • Without revolutionary theory there can be no revolutionary movement. This idea cannot be insisted upon too strongly at a time when the fashionable preaching of opportunism goes hand in hand with an infatuation for the narrowest forms of practical activity. (Lenin)

      • I belong to the American resistance movement which fights against American imperialism, just as the resistance movement fought against Hitler. (Paul Robeson)

      • Every class struggle is a political struggle. (Lenin)

      • What is the burgling of a bank to the founding of a bank? (Bertolt Brecht)

      • All doctrines of non-class socialism and non-class politics proved to be sheer nonsense. (Lenin)

      • Corporations are in a sense moral monsters; we say they behave as such and we are disposed to treat them as such. The standard of international morality, particularly in matters of commercial intercourse, is on a still lower level. (John A. Hobson)

      • Trotsky has never yet held a firm opinion on any important question of Marxism. He always contrives to worm his way into the cracks of any given difference of opinion, and desert one side for the other. At the present moment he is in the company of the Bundists and the liquidators. (Lenin)

      • For us, those veterans who fought in that ferocious war – and the Soviet Union made great sacrifices, for it offered over 26 million martyrs, and as far as we know the number was closer to 30 million – were the main force; and today they offer a role model for the present generation and for future generations. They provide a role model of resilience and standing fast. Who could expect the siege of Stalingrad at that time to end the way it did without the steadfastness of those heroes? Who could expect that the initial retreat of the Soviet army would turn into a victory later? Without the victory of the Soviet Union, the Normandy landings for Western states wouldn’t have been possible. This is what many in the West are trying to obscure, i.e. the more important role played by the peoples of the Soviet Union at that time – including your people – in defeating Nazism. Today, these veterans play a vital role in strengthening the spirit of steadfastness, because you too are facing something similar to what Syria has been facing for decades. (Bashar al-Assad)

      • The range of debate between the dominant U.S. [political] parties tends to closely resemble the range of debate within the business class. (Robert McChesney)

      • Military intervention to maintain the global status quo will become a constant feature of international relations, whether this is justified in terms of fighting drugs, fighting terrorism, containing “rogue states, ” opposing “Islamic fundamentalism, ” or containing China. (Walden Bello)

      • I came to America because of the great, great freedom which I heard existed in this country. I made a mistake in selecting America as a land of freedom, a mistake I cannot repair in the balance of my lifetime. (Albert Einstein)

      • The state…. must see the sword as the main if not the only, instrument with which to keep its morale high and to retain its moral tension. Toward this end it may no it MUST invent dangers, and to do this it must adopt the method of provocation and revenge…. And above all, let us hope for a new war with the Arab countries so that we may finally get rid of our troubles and acquire our space. (Moshe Sharett)

      • Spirit the penniless population across the frontier by denying it employment… Both the process of expropriation and the removal of the poor must be carried out discreetly and circumspectly. (Theodore Herzl)

      • We will have a world government whether you like it or not. The only question is whether that government will be achieved by conquest or consent. (Paul Warburg)

      • The interests behind the Bush Administration, such as the CFR, The Trilateral Commission – founded by Brzezinski for David Rockefeller – and the Bilderberger Group, have prepared for and are now moving to implement open world dictatorship within the next five years. They are not fighting against terrorists. They are fighting against citizens. (Dr. Johannes B. Koeppl)

      • There is a systematic plan to use the concepts of war to rearrange the chess pieces on the world playing board. It has to do with the New World Order, Globalism and the attack on national sovereignty we are seeing. Occasionally, the globalists who want One World Government have to turn to war to accelerate things. (Joel Skousen)

      • The first casualty when war comes is the truth. (Hiram Johnson)

      • The recent quantum leap in the ability of transnational corporations to relocate their facilities around the world in effect makes all workers, communities and countries competitors for these corporations’ favor. The consequence is a “race to the bottom” in which wages and social conditions tend to fall to the level of the most desperate. (Jeremy Brecher)

      • The corporation has evolved to serve the interests of whoever controls it, at the expense of whomever does not. (William Dugger)

      • Because of its power and global interests U.S. leaders have committed crimes as a matter of course and structural necessity. A strict application of international law would … have given every U.S. president of the past 50 years Nuremberg treatment. (Edward Herman)

      • … the United States has given frequent and enthusiastic support to the overthrow of democracy in favor of “investor friendly” regimes. The World Bank, IMF, and private banks have consistently lavished huge sums on terror regimes, following their displacement of democratic governments, and a number of quantitative studies have shown a systematic positive relationship between U.S. and IMF / World Bank aid to countries and their violations of human rights. (Edward Herman)

      • The hidden hand of the market will never work without a hidden fist. McDonald’s cannot flourish without McDonnell Douglas, the designer of the F-15. And the hidden fist that keeps the world safe for Silicon Valley’s technologies to flourish is called the US Army, Air Force, Navy and Marine Corps. (Thomas Friedman)

      • … the media serve the interests of state and corporate power, which are closely interlinked, framing their reporting and analysis in a manner supportive of established privilege and limiting debate and discussion accordingly. (Noam Chomsky)

      • All propaganda must be so popular and on such an intellectual level, that even the most stupid of those toward whom it is directed will understand it… Through clever and constant application of propaganda, people can be made to see paradise as hell, and also the other way around, to consider the most wretched sort of life as paradise. (Hitler)

      • The reader will understand that I despise these “yellows”; they are utterly without honor, they are vulgar and cruel; and yet, in spite of all their vices, I count them less dangerous to society than the so-called “respectable” papers, which pretend to all the virtues, and set the smug and pious tone for good society — papers like the “New York Tribune” and the “Boston Evening Transcript” and the “Baltimore Sun, ” which are read by rich old gentlemen and maiden aunts, and can hardly ever be forced to admit to their columns any new or vital event or opinion. These are “kept” papers, in the strictest sense of the term, and do not have to hustle on the street for money. They serve the pocketbooks of the whole propertied class — which is the meaning of the term “respectability” in the bourgeois world. On the other hand the “yellow” journals, serving their own pocketbooks exclusively, will often print attacks on vested wealth, provided the attacks are startling and sensational, and provided the vested wealth in question is not a heavy advertiser. (Upton Sinclair)

      • The rich Jews, just like the rich Russians and the rich of all countries, are united in trampling upon, oppressing and dividing the workers. (R. F. Andrews)

      • There are innumerable principles of Marxism, but in the final analysis they can be summed up in one sentence: ‘To rebel is justified.’ For thousands of years everyone said, ‘Oppression is justified, exploitation is justified, rebellion is not justified.’ From the time that Marxism appeared on the scene, this old judgment was turned upside down, and this is a great contribution. This principle was derived by the proletariat from its struggles, but Marx drew the conclusion. In accordance with this principle, there was then resistance, there was struggle, and socialism was realized. What is Comrade Stalin’s contribution? He developed this principle, developed Marxism-Leninism, and produced a very clear, concrete, and living doctrine for the oppressed people of the whole world. This is the complete doctrine for establishing a revolutionary front, overthrowing imperialism, overthrowing capitalism, and establishing a socialist society. (Mao Zedong)

      • Reforms are concessions obtained from a ruling class that retains its rule. Revolution is the overthrow of the ruling class. (Lenin)

      • I am really two people. I am a private person and a political person. Of course, if there is a conflict, the political person comes first. (Kim Philby)

      • 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. (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. (Lenin)

      • The essence of a U.S.A. totalitarian socio-political capitalism is concealed behind the illusion of a mass participatory society. We must rip away its mask. Then the debate can end, and we can enter a new phase of struggle based on the development of an armed revolutionary culture that will triumph. (George Jackson)

      • In all countries, the Trotskyists give themselves fine names in order to mask their dirty work and banditry. For example: in Spain they call themselves the United Marxist Workers Party (POUM). Do you know that it’s they who constitute the nests of spies in Madrid in Barcelona and in other places in the service of Franco? (Ho Chi Minh)

      • Marxism taught me what society was. I was like a blindfolded man in a forest, who doesn’t even know where north or south is. If you don’t eventually come to truly understand the history of the class struggle, or at least have a clear idea that society is divided between the rich and the poor, and that some people subjugate and exploit other people, you’re lost in a forest, not knowing anything. (Fidel Castro)

      • Before we can unite, and in order that we may unite, we must first of all draw firm and definite lines of demarcation. (Lenin)

      • Under no circumstances must we underrate fascism’s power of ideological infection. On the contrary, we for our part must develop an extensive ideological struggle based on clear, popular arguments and a correct, well thought out approach to the peculiarities of the national psychology of the masses of the people. (Georgi Dimitrov)

      • All violence consists in some people forcing others, under threat of suffering or death, to do what they do not want to do. (Tolstoy)

      • Dialectics is the teaching which shows how Opposites can be and how they happen to be (how they become) identical,—under what conditions they are identical, becoming transformed into one another,—why the human mind should grasp these opposites not as dead, rigid, but as living, conditional, mobile, becoming transformed into one another. (Lenin)

      • Down with this contemptible fraud! There cannot be, nor is there nor will there ever be “equality” between the oppressed and the oppressors, between the exploited and the exploiters. There cannot be, nor is there nor will there ever be real “freedom” as long as there is no freedom for women from the privileges which the law grants to men, as long as there is no freedom for the workers from the yoke of capital, and no freedom for the toiling peasants from the yoke of the capitalists, landlords and merchants. (Lenin)

      • If one looks into the genealogies of many ‘old families,’ one discovers episodes of slave trafficking, bootlegging, gun running, opium trading, falsified land claims, violent acquisition of water and mineral rights, the extermination of indigenous peoples, sales of shoddy and unsafe goods, public funds used for private speculations, crooked deals in government bonds and vouchers, and payoffs for political favors. One finds fortunes built on slave labor, indentured labor, prison labor, immigrant labor, female labor, child labor, and scab labor — backed by the lethal force of gun thugs and militia. ‘Old money’ is often little more than dirty money laundered by several generations of possession. (Michael Parenti)

      • In the name of peace they waged the wars. Ain’t they got no shame? (Nikki Giovanni)

      • The Soviet state is the historically integrated form of the state during the transition period from capitalism to communism. (Andrei Yanuaryevich Vyshinsky)

      • Social democracy is objectively the moderate wing of fascism…. These organisations (ie Fascism and social democracy) are not antipodes, they are twins. (Stalin)

      • The capitalists, the bourgeoisie, can at “best” put off the victory of socialism in one country or another at the cost of slaughtering further hundreds of thousands of workers and peasants. But they cannot save capitalism. The Soviet Republic has come to take the place of capitalism, the Republic which gives power to the working people and only to the working people, which entrusts the proletariat with the guidance of their liberation, which abolishes private property in land, factories and other means of production, because this private property is the source of the exploitation of the many by the few, the source of mass poverty, the source of predatory wars between nations, wars that enrich only the capitalists. (Lenin)

      • Tu put it in a terminology that harkens back to the more brutal age of ancient empires, the three grand imperatives of imperial geostrategy are to prevent collusion and maintain security dependance among the vassels, to keep tributaries pliant and protected, and to keep the barbarians from coming together. (Zbigniew Brzezinski)

      • I believe we should do things honestly, for without an honest attitude it is absolutely impossible to accomplish anything in this world. Which are the honest people? Marx, Engels, Lenin and Stalin are honest, men of science are honest. Which are the dishonest people? Trotsky, Bukharin, Chen Tu-hsiu and Chang Kuo-tao are extremely dishonest… (Mao Zedong)

      • Fascism is able to count on the assistance of the greater part of the State forces, of the higher army staffs, of the police authorities, and of the lawcourts and magistracy, who exert all their force to crush working-class opposition, while treating Fascist illegality with open connivance (banning of the Red Front alongside permission of the Storm Troops). Finally, has Fascism “conquered power” from the bourgeois state dictatorship? Fascism has never “conquered power” in any country. In every case Fascism has been placed in power from above by the bourgeois dictatorship. (R. Palme Dutt)

      • Educate ourselves, educate other people, the population in general, to fight fear and ignorance, to eliminate little by little the subjection to nature and natural forces which our economy has not yet mastered. (Amilcar Cabral)

      • The United States is also a one-party state but, with typical American extravagance, they have two of them. (Julius Nyerere)

      • The coloured people of Cardiff are mainly communists simply because no one else has seen fit to give them a helping hand. (Harold Moody)

      • There is a driving force more powerful than steam, electricity and nuclear power: the will. (Albert Einstein)

      • Bolshevism is knocking at our gates. We can’t afford to let it in. We have got to organize ourselves against it, and put our shoulders together and hold fast. We must keep America whole and safe and unspoiled. We must keep the worker away from red literature and red ruses; we must see that his mind remains healthy. (Al Capone)

      • The scientific conclusions of Malthus are “considerate” towards the ruling classes in general and towards the reactionary elements of the ruling classes in particular; in other words he falsifies science for these interests, But his conclusions are ruthless as far as they concern the subjugated classes. He is not only ruthless; he affects ruthlessness; he takes a cynical pleasure in it and exaggerates his conclusions in so far as they are directed against the poor wretches, even beyond the point which would be scientifically justified from his point of view. (Karl Marx)

      • Now more clearly than ever, the CIA, with its related institutions, is exposed as an agency of destabilization and repression. Throughout its history, it has organized secret wars that killed millions of people in the Third World who had no capability of doing physical harm to the United States. (John Stockwell)

      • In our day and generation there is only one class which can be depended upon for consistent revolutionary action. That class is the working class. (James Connolly)

      • Yes, friends, governments in capitalist society are but committees of the rich to manage the affairs of the capitalist class. (James Connolly)

      • During the lifetime of great revolutionaries, the oppressing classes constantly hounded them, received their theories with the most savage malice, the most furious hatred and the most unscrupulous campaigns of lies and slander. After their death, attempts are made to convert them into harmless icons, to canonize them, so to say, and to hallow their names to a certain extent for the “consolation” of the oppressed classes and with the object of duping the latter, while at the same time robbing the revolutionary theory of its substance, blunting its revolutionary edge and vulgarizing it. Today, the bourgeoisie and the opportunists within the labor movement concur in this doctoring of Marxism. They omit, obscure, or distort the revolutionary side of this theory, its revolutionary soul. They push to the foreground and extol what is or seems acceptable to the bourgeoisie. All the social-chauvinists are now “Marxists” (don’t laugh!). (Lenin)

      • Your ancestors dragged these black people from their homes by force; and in the white man’s quest for wealth and an easy life they have been ruthlessly suppressed and exploited, degraded into slavery. The modern prejudice against Negroes is the result of the desire to maintain this unworthy condition. (Albert Einstein)

      • Socialism is neither Protestant nor Catholic, Christian nor Freethinker, Buddhist, Mahometan, nor Jew; it is only HUMAN. We of the Socialist working class realise that as we suffer together we must work together that we may enjoy together. We reject the firebrand of capitalist warfare and offer you the olive leaf of brotherhood and justice to and for all. (James Connolly)

      • Pacifism, the preaching of peace in the abstract, is one of the means of duping the working class. Under capitalism, particularly in its imperialist stage, wars are inevitable. (Lenin)

  2. Protestation (English) (protestation@gnusocial.no)'s status on Monday, 18-Nov-2019 23:48:35 PST Protestation (English) Protestation (English)
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    Camus: Every rebellion implies some kind of unity. https://protestationblog.wordpress.com/quotes3/#quotenr4192
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      • The word god is for me nothing more than the expression and product of human weaknesses, the Bible a collection of honourable, but still primitive legends which are nevertheless pretty childish. (Albert Einstein)

      • When the Federal Reserve Act was passed, the people of these United States did not perceive that a world banking system was being set up here. A super-state controlled by international bankers and international industrialists acting together to enslave the world for their own pleasure. Every effort has been made by the Fed to conceal its powers but the truth is – The Fed has usurped the government. (Louis T. McFadden)

      • 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. (Ayn Rand)

      • Communists the world over are wiser than the bourgeoisie, they understand the laws governing the existence and development of things, they understand dialectics and they can see farther. The bourgeoisie does not welcome this truth because it does not want to be overthrown. To be overthrown is painful and is unbearable to contemplate for those overthrown, for example, for the Kuomintang reactionaries whom we are now overthrowing and for Japanese imperialism which we together with other peoples overthrew some time ago. But for the working class, the labouring people and the Communist Party the question is not one of being overthrown, but of working hard to create the conditions in which classes, state power and political parties will die out very naturally and mankind will enter the realm of Great Harmony. (Mao Zedong)

      • There is no such thing as a Palestinian people… It is not as if we came and threw them out and took their country. They didn’t exist. (Golda Meir)

      • When I came back to the United States, I decided that if you could use propaganda for war, you could certainly use it for peace. And “propaganda” got to be a bad word because of the Germans using it, so what I did was to try and find some other words so we found the words “public relations”. (Edward Bernays)

      • The imperialist bourgeoisie systematically bribed the upper stratum of skilled workers, the so-called labour aristocracy, by means of higher wages and other sops, using for this purpose part of the profits it derived from the colonies, from the exploitation of backward countries. This section of workers had produced quite a number of trade union and cooperative leaders, members of municipal and parliamentary bodies, journalists and functionaries of Social-Democratic organizations. When the war broke out, these people, fearing to lose their positions, became foes of revolution and most zealous defenders of their own bourgeoisies, of their own imperialist governments. (Stalin)

      • It is David Ricardo’s unique position in history that he was an innovating force in both capitalist and socialist thought. (John Kenneth Galbraith)

      • The conscious and intelligent manipulation of the organized habits and opinions of the masses is an important element in democratic society. Those who manipulate this unseen mechanism of society constitute an invisible government which is the true ruling power of our country. We are governed, our minds are molded, our tastes formed, our ideas suggested, largely by men we have never heard of. This is a logical result of the way in which our democratic society is organized. Vast numbers of human beings must cooperate in this manner if they are to live together as a smoothly functioning society. (Edward Bernays)

      • Liberalism denied the State in the interests of the particular individual; Fascism reaffirms the State as the true reality of the individual. And if liberty is to be the attribute of the real man, and not of that abstract puppet envisaged by individualistic Liberalism, Fascism is for liberty. And for the only liberty which can be a real thing, the liberty of the State and of the individual within the State. Therefore, for the Fascist, everything is in the State, and nothing human or spiritual exists, much less has value, outside the State. (Mussolini)

      • Under imperialism the powerful capitalist associations (monopolies) and the banks acquired a dominant position in the life of the capitalist states. Finance capital became master in the capitalist states. Finance capital demanded new markets, the seizure of new colonies, new fields for the export of capital, new sources of raw material. (Stalin)

      • Workingmen of all countries, unite,\ Side by side we for freedom will fight:\ When the world and its wealth we have gained\ To the grafters we’ll sing this refrain:\ You will eat, bye and bye,\ When you’ve learned how to cook and to fry\ Chop some wood, ’twill do you good,\ And you’ll eat in the sweet bye and bye. (Joe Hill)

      • Fascism is the violent attempt of decaying capitalism to defeat the proletarian revolution and forcibly retard its own demise. Fascism uses demagogy as a science for it dare not declare its aims openly, for it could build no mass support on the basis of its real aims. (Harpal Brar)

      • We are the opposite of the political parties of the bourgeoisie. They are afraid to speak of the extinction of classes, state power and parties. We, on the contrary, declare openly that we are striving hard to create the very conditions which will bring about their extinction. The leadership of the Communist Party and the state power of the people’s dictatorship are such conditions. Anyone who does not recognize this truth is no communist. (Mao Zedong)

      • When a man reaches old age, he will die; the same is true of a party. When classes disappear, all instruments of class struggle — parties and the state machinery — will lose their function, cease to be necessary, therefore gradually wither away and end their historical mission; and human society will move to a higher stage. (Mao Zedong)

      • The first lesson a revolutionary must learn is that he is a doomed man. Unless he understands this, he does not grasp the essential meaning of his life. (Abraham Lincoln)

      • All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing. (Edmund Burke)

      • Freedom is never granted; it is won. Justice is never given; it is exacted. Freedom and justice must be struggled for by the oppressed of all lands and races… (A. Philip Randolph)

      • Every rebellion implies some kind of unity. (Camus)

      • We who in engage in nonviolent direct action are not the creators of tension. We merely bring to the surface the hidden tension that is already alive. (Martin Luther King, Jr.)

      • I freed thousands of slaves. I could have freed thousands more, if they had known they were slaves. (Harriet Tubman)

      • The revolution is not an apple that falls when it is ripe. You have to make it fall. (Che Guevara)

      • When rich people fight wars with one another, poor people are the ones to die. (Jean-Paul Sartre)

      • The revolution is a dictatorship of the exploited against the exploiters. (Fidel Castro)

      • Either America will destroy ignorance or ignorance will destroy the United States. (W. E. B. Du Bois)

      • We have no right to believe that freedom can be won without struggle. (Che Guevara)

      • An Ounce of action is worth a ton of theory. (Friedrich Engels)

      • Any dictator would admire the uniformity and obedience of the U.S. media. (Noam Chomsky)

      • Better to fight for something than live for nothing. (George Patton)

      • A desire to resist oppression is implanted in the nature of man. (Cornelius Tacitus)

      • The working classes in every country only learn to fight in the course of their struggles. (Rosa Luxemburg)

      • No real social change has ever been brought about without a Revolution… Revolution is thought carried into action. (Emma Goldman)

      • Socialism is the science of example. (Che Guevara)

      • Truth is on the side of the oppressed. (Malcolm X)

      • Always remember, you have within you the strength, the patience, and the passion to change the world. (Harriet Tubman)

      • I have the people behind me and the people are my strength. (Huey P. Newton)

      • The fastest way to change society is to mobilize the women of the world. (Charles Malik)

      • The oppressed are allowed once every few years to decide which particular representatives of the oppressing class shall represent and repress them in parliament. (Lenin)

      • Of all the contrivances for cheating the laboring classes of mankind, none has been more effective than that which deludes them with paper money. (Daniel Webster)

      • Be the change you want to see in the world. (Mahatma Gandhi)

      • The real rulers in Washington are invisible, and exercise power from behind the scenes. (Felix Frankfurter)

      • Fascism: A system of government that exercises a dictatorship of the extreme right, typically through the merging of state and business leadership, together with belligerent nationalism. (The American Heritage Dictionary, 1983) (Anónimo)

      • A man of profound ideals, a man in whose mind stirred the dream of struggle. (Fidel Castro)

      • “It was never pleasing to the Romans, that a general should be killed by his own soldiers” or in another version more common in modern Portugal and Spain “Rome does not pay traitors who kill their chief”. (Quintus Servilius Caepio)

      • The man who never looks into a newspaper is better informed than he who reads them; inasmuch as he who knows nothing is nearer to truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors. (Thomas Jefferson)

      • He who conceals a useful truth is equally guilty with the propagator of an injurious falsehood. (Aurelius Augustinus)

      • When tyranny and oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign foe. (James Madison)

      • Prudence, indeed, will dictate that governments long established, should not be changed for light and transient causes; and, accordingly, all experience [has] shown that mankind are more disposed to suffer while evils are sufferable than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But, when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same object, evinces a design to reduce [the people] under absolute despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such government, and to provide new guards for their future security. (Thomas Jefferson)

      • When a well-packaged web of lies has been sold gradually to the masses over generations, the truth will seem utterly preposterous and its speaker a raving lunatic. (Dresden James)

      • Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet. Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich. (Napoléon Bonaparte)

      • When a stupid man is doing something he is ashamed of, he always declares that it is his duty. (George Bernard Shaw)

      • The most heinous and the cruelest crimes of which history has recorded have been committed under the cover of religion or equally noble motives. (Mahatma Gandhi)

      • Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime. (Ernest Hemingway)

      • The secret of great fortunes without apparent cause is a crime forgotten, for it was properly done. (Honoré de Balzac)

      • The symptoms of fascist thinking are colored by environment and adapted to immediate circumstances. But always and everywhere they can be identified by their appeal to prejudice and by the desire to play upon the fears and vanities of different groups in order to gain power. (Henry A. Wallace)

      • Persisting social crisis, the emergence of a charismatic personality, and the exploitation of mass media to obtain public confidence would be the steppingstones in the piecemeal transformation of the United States into a highly controlled society. (Zbigniew Brzezinski)

      • I don’t see why we need to stand by and watch a country go communist due to the irresponsibility of its people. The issues are much too important for the Chilean voters to be left to decide for themselves. (Henry Kissinger)

      • Somoza may be a son of a bitch, but he’s our son of a bitch. (Franklin D. Roosevelt)

      • The crucial role communists played in organizing industrial unions in the 1930s and struggling for social reforms, peace, and civil rights strengthened rather then undermined democratic forces. (Michael Parenti)

      • Religion is the opium of the masses. (Karl Marx)

      • If we understand the mechanism and motives of the group mind, it is now possible to control and regiment the masses according to our will without them knowing it. (Edward Bernays)

      • There are no such things as classes: they cannot be. Class means caste and caste means race. (Hitler)

      • People are often told about democracy by those who deny it on their own soil. (Fidel Castro)

      • A slave who has become conscious of his slavery and has risen to struggle for his emancipation has already half ceased to be a slave. (Lenin)

      • There are more prisoners in US penal system today than there ever were in Soviet camps. (Daniel Estulin)

      • Trotsky is the whore of fascism. (Gramsci)

      • The dream of capitalism is to co-opt people with higher living standards without redistributing any wealth. Without co-optation, widespread repression is the only guarantor of gross inequality. (Holly Sklar)

      • Among Latin American elites, a peasant asking for a higher wage or a priest helping organize a peasant cooperative is a communist. And someone going so far as to suggest land reform or a more equitable tax system is a communist fanatic. There is no word or act suggesting the desirability of elite generosity toward the poor, or the need for education, organization or material advance for the majority, that has not been branded communistic in Latin America in recent decades. … Since communism is the enemy and peasants trying to improve themselves, priests with the slightest humanistic proclivity, and naturally anyone seriously challenging the status quo, are communists, they are also, by definition, enemies. (Edward Herman)

      • One might call this the “Third World War.” It is a war that has been fought by the United States against the Third World. Others call it the Cold War and focus on the anti-Communist and anti-Soviet rationales, but the dead are not Soviets; they are people of the Third World. It might also be called the Forty-Year War, like the Thirty-Year and Hundred-Year Wars in Europe, for this one began when the CIA was founded in 1947 and continues today. Altogether, perhaps twenty million people died in the Cold War. As wars go, it has been the second or third most destructive of human life in all of history, after World War I and World War II. (John Stockwell)

      • We shall reduce the Arab population to a community of woodcutters and waiters. (Uri Lubrani)

      • The people of Asia were slaves, because they had not learned how to pronounce the word ‘no’. (Churchill)

      • And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music. (Nietzsche)

      • It is not the case as the naive might think that indoctrination is inconsistent with democracy, rather . . . it’s the essence of democracy. The point is that in a military state or a feudal state or what we would now call a totalitarian state, it doesn’t much matter because you’ve got a bludgeon over their heads and you can control what they do. But when the state loses the bludgeon, when you can’t control people by force, and when the voice of the people can be heard you have this problem—it may make people so curious and so arrogant that they don’t have the humility to submit to a civil rule, and therefore you have to control what people think. And the standard way to do this is to resort to what in more honest days used to be called propaganda, manufacture of consent, creation of necessary illusion. Various ways of either marginalizing the public or reducing them to apathy in some fashion. (Noam Chomsky)

      • … somehow we find it hard to sell our values, namely that the rich should plunder the poor. (John Foster Dulles)

      • We enjoy the economic stability that the Armed Forces guarantee us. This [economic] plan can be fulfilled dispite its lack of popular support. It has sufficient political support … that provided buy the Armed Forces. (Martinez de Hoz)

      • They are going to arrest us all and execute us for Shell. (Ken Saro-Wiwa)

      • We stand for the maintenance of private property… We shall protect free enterprise as the most expedient, or rather the sole possible economic order. (Hitler)

      • The U.S. public is depoliticized, poorly informed on foreign affairs … and strongly patriotic in the face of a struggle with “another Hitler”. Even though the public is normally averse to war, even with modest propaganda efforts … the public can be quickly transformed into enthusiastic supporters of war. (Edward Herman)

      • History will have to record that the greatest tragedy of this period of social transition was not the strident clamor of the bad people, but the appalling silence of the good people. (Martin Luther King, Jr.)

      • The United States is not only number one in military power but also in the effectiveness of its propaganda system. (Edward Herman)

      • Now we have a totalitarian government. And the totalitarian government wants to watch everybody, total surveillance of everyone. They listen to the telephone conversations, they look at your credit cards, they look where you travel. We are totally policed. This is contrary to everything in our Constitution. (Gore Vidal)

      • There are no innocent civilians. It is their government and you are fighting a people, you are not trying to fight an armed force anymore. So it doesn’t bother me so much to be killing the so-called innocent bystanders. (Curtis LeMay)

      • Socialism means the abolition of classes. The dictatorship of the proletariat has done all it could to abolish classes. But classes cannot be abolished at one stroke. And classes still remain and will remain in the era of the dictatorship of the proletariat. The dictatorship will become unnecessary when classes disappear. Without the dictatorship of the proletariat they will not disappear. Classes have remained, but in the era of the dictatorship of the proletariat every class has undergone a change, and the relations between the classes have also changed. The class struggle does not disappear under the dictatorship of the proletariat; it merely assumes different forms. Under capitalism the proletariat was an oppressed class, a class which had been deprived of the means of production, the only class which stood directly and completely opposed to the bourgeoisie, and therefore the only one capable of being revolutionary to the very end. Having overthrown the bourgeoisie and conquered political power, the proletariat has become the ruling class; it wields state power, it exercises control over means of production already socialised; it guides the wavering and intermediary elements and classes; it crushes the increasingly stubborn resistance of the exploiters. All these are specific tasks of the class struggle, tasks which the proletariat formerly did not and could not have set itself. The class of exploiters, the landowners and capitalists, has not disappeared and cannot disappear all at once under the dictatorship of the proletariat. The exploiters have been smashed, but not destroyed. They still have an inter national base in the form of international capital, of which they are a branch. They still retain certain means of production in part, they still have money, they still have vast social connections. Because they have been defeated, the energy of their resistance has increased a hundred and a thousandfold. The “art” of state, military and economic administration gives them a superiority, and a very great superiority, so that their importance is incomparably greater than their numerical proportion of the population. The class struggle waged by the overthrown exploiters against the victorious vanguard of the exploited, i.e., the proletariat, has become incomparably more bitter. And it cannot be otherwise in the case of a revolution, unless this concept is replaced (as it is by all the heroes of the Second International) by reformist illusions. (Lenin)

      • Communists must be ready at all times to stand up for the truth, because truth is in the interests of the people; Communists must be ready at all times to correct their mistakes, because mistakes are against the interests of the people. (Mao Zedong)

      • The struggle between socialism and capitalism is the struggle between collectivism and individualism and the superiority of socialism over capitalism is the superiority of collectivism over individualism. (Kim Jong-il)

      • Fascism historically has been used to secure the interests of large capitalist interests against the demands of popular democracy. Then and now, fascism has made irrational mass appeals in order to secure the rational ends of class domination. (Michael Parenti)

      • 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. (Lenin)

      • Fascism began as a rejection of the idea that reason could be used to understand society and resulted, Sternhell argues, in the formation of a ‘new generation of intellectuals [which] rose violently against the rationalist individuals of liberal society’. These intellectuals absorbed the synthesised socialism and nationalism and thus created a new ideology, ‘a socialism without the proletariat’, which duly became fascism. This ideology Sternhell describes as being ‘a synthesis of organic nationalism and anti-Marxist socialism,…’ (David Renton)

      • The law was made for one thing alone, for the exploitation of those who don’t understand it, or are prevented by naked misery from obeying it. (Bertolt Brecht)

      • We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office. (Aesop)

      • [The] fact of being within capital and sustaining capital is what defines the proletariat as a class. (Antonio Negri)

      • To Marx, Ricardo was the classic and best representative of bourgeois economics since he articulated the contradictions of bourgeois society without glossing them over. (Russell Jacoby)

      • Banks are the temples of America. This is a holy war. Our economy is our religion. (Giannina Braschi)

      • If tomorrow, Morocco were to declare war on France, India on England, Persia or China on Russia, and so forth, those would be “just” “defensive” wars, irrespective of who attacked first; and every Socialist would sympathise with the victory of the oppressed, dependent, unequal states against the oppressing, slave-owning, predatory “great” powers. (Lenin)

      • No natural science can hold its own in the struggle against the onslaught of bourgeois ideas and the restoration of the bourgeois world outlook unless it stands on solid philosophical ground. In order to hold his own in this struggle and carry it to a victorious finish, the natural scientist must be a modern materialist, a conscious adherent of the materialism represented by Marx, i.e., he must be a dialectical materialist. (Lenin)

      • If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking. (Haruki Murakami)

      • Defining the superiority of a nation according to biological or ethnic characteristics is the practice of reactionary, bourgeois ethnology. (Kim Jong-il)

      • We have applied the Marxist analysis and method to the contemporary scene. (Gudrun Ensslin)

      • The important thing to know about an assassination or an attempted assassination is not who fired the shot, but who paid for the bullet. (Eric Ambler)

      • The Soviet state represents the expression of the highest possible form of democracy. (Andrei Yanuaryevich Vyshinsky)

      • Marx’s philosophy is a consummate philosophical materialism which has provided mankind, and especially the working class, with powerful instruments of knowledge. (Lenin)

      • Fascist rebelliousness always occurs where fear of the truth turns a revolutionary emotion into illusions. (Wilhelm Reich)

      • If the state is the executive committee of the great corporation and the planning system, it is partly because neoclassical economics is its instrument for neutralizing the suspicion that this is so. (John Kenneth Galbraith)

      • The Party possesses all the necessary qualifications for this because, in the first place, it is the rallying centre of the finest elements in the working class, who have direct connections with the non-Party organisations of the proletariat and very frequently lead them; because, secondly, the Party, as the rallying centre of the finest members of the working class, is the best school for training leaders of the working class, capable of directing every form of organisation of their class; because, thirdly, the Party, as the best school for training leaders of the working class, is, by reason of its experience and prestige , the only organisation capable of centralising the leadership of the struggle of the proletariat, thus transforming each and every non-Party organisation of the working class into an auxiliary body and transmission belt linking the Party with the class. (Stalin)

      • It is terribly difficult to do this; we lack the men! But Preobrazhensky comes along and airily says that Stalin has jobs in two Commissariats. Who among us has not sinned in this way? who has not undertaking several duties at once? And how can we do otherwise? What can we do to preserve the Nationalities; to handle all the Turkestan, Caucasian, and other questions? These are all political questions! They have to be settled. These are questions that have engaged the attention of European states for hundreds of years, and only an infinitesimal number of them have been settled in democratic republics. We are settling them; and we need a man to whom the representatives of any of these nations can go and discuss their difficulties in all detail. Where can we find such a man? I don’t think Comrade Preobrazhensky could suggest any better candidate than Comrade Stalin. (Lenin)

      • The art of taxation consists in so plucking the goose as to obtain the largest [number] of feathers with the least possible amount of hissing. (Jean Baptiste Colbert)

      • A socialist of any of the oppressor nations (Britain. France, Germany, Japan, Russia, the United States of America, etc.) who does not recognise and does not struggle for the right of oppressed nations to self-determination (i.e., the right to secession) is in reality a chauvinist, not a socialist. (Lenin)

      • We want to help, not undermine you (Pinochet). You did a great service to the West in overthrowing Allende. (Henry Kissinger)

      • The workers are surrounded on all sides by such a sea of lies in the bourgeois newspapers that they must fight for the truth at all costs, they must learn to recognise falsehoods and reject them. The erroneous views of the liquidators of the workers’ party must be calmly refuted. (Lenin)

      • Is it possible that a few rich men — a small class of men — have persuaded a million poor men to attack and attempt to destroy another million men as poor as they, so that the rich may be richer still? They told them that this brutal war was the destiny of the race. It was for the glory of the emperor; it was for the honour of the state; it was for their king and country. False — false as hell! They make war to capture markets by murder, raw materials by rape. They find it cheaper to steal than to exchange, easier to butcher than to buy. This is the secret of war. It is the secret of all wars: profit. Business. Profit. Blood money. Threaten a reduction on the profit of their money and the beast in them awakens with a snarl. They become as ruthless as savages, brutal as madmen, remorseless as executioners. (Norman Bethune)

      • We never talked about men or clothes. It was always Marx, Lenin and revolution -real girls’ talk. (Nina Simone)

      • As long as the organization of schooling stays in the hands of the bourgeoisie, the vocational school will be a weapon directed against the interests of the working class. Only the working class can turn the vocational school into a tool for the transformation of contemporary society. (Nadezhda Konstantinovna Krupskaya)

      • I am convinced that the way to build a new and better world is not capitalism. Capitalism leads us straight to hell. (Hugo Chávez)

      • Principle of vulgarization. All propaganda must be popular, adapting its level to the least intelligent of the individuals to whom it is directed. The larger the mass to convince, the smaller the mental effort to perform. The receptive capacity of the masses is limited and their understanding scarce; Besides, they have great ease to forget. (Joseph Goebbels)

      • The traditional tactics and methods of domination of the American bourgeoisie are equally adapted to Fascism, in proportion as occasion arises. If they have not had the same experience as the British bourgeoisie in the domination of colonial peoples, save more recently and on a smaller scale, they have had plenty of experience in their own domain in the suppression of the twelve million Negroes within the United States and of the heavily exploited immigrant populations. The combination of violence, lawlessness and corruption for the maintenance of capitalist domination has reached classic heights in the United States. (R. Palme Dutt)

      • Apostles of Freedom are ever idolised when dead, but crucified when living. Universally true as this statement is, it applies with more than usual point to the revolutionary hero. (James Connolly)

      • All Socialists are agreed that the political state, and with it political authority, will disappear as a result of the coming social revolution, that is, that public functions will lose their political character and will be transformed into the simple administrative functions of watching over the true interests of society. (Karl Marx)

      • We must dare to invent the future. (Thomas Sankara)

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    Mao Zedong: A revolution is not a dinner party, or writing an essay, or painting a picture, or doing embroidery. A revolution is an insurrection, an act of violence by which one class overthrows another. https://protestationblog.wordpress.com/quotes5/#quotenr4184
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      • The settlement of the Land of Israel is the essence of Zionism. Without settlement, we will not fulfill Zionism. It’s that simple. (Yizhak Shamir)

      • Since 1967 it has become obvious that political Zionism has one monolithic aim: Maximum land in Palestine with a minimum of Palestinians on it. This aim is pursued with an inexcusable cruelty as demonstrated during the assault on Gaza. The cruelty is explicitly formulated in the Dahiye doctrine of the military and morally supported by the Holocaust religion. I am pained by the parallels I observe between my experiences in Germany prior to 1939 and those suffered by Palestinians today. I cannot help but hear echoes of the Nazi mythos of “blood and soil” in the rhetoric of settler fundamentalism which claims a sacred right to all the lands of biblical Judea and Samaria. The various forms of collective punishment visited upon the Palestinian people — coerced ghettoization behind a “security wall”; the bulldozing of homes and destruction of fields; the bombing of schools, mosques, and government buildings; an economic blockade that deprives people of the water, food, medicine, education and the basic necessities for dignified survival — force me to recall the deprivations and humiliations that I experienced in my youth. This century-long process of oppression means unimaginable suffering for Palestinians. (Hajo Meyer)

      • Imperialism is a specific historical stage of capitalism. Its specific character is threefold: imperialism is monopoly capitalism; parasitic, or decaying capitalism; moribund capitalism. The supplanting of free competition by monopoly is the fundamental economic feature, the quintessence of imperialism. Monopoly manifests itself in five principal forms: (1) cartels, syndicates and trusts—the concentration of production has reached a degree which gives rise to these monopolistic associations of capitalists; (2) the monopolistic position of the big banks—three, four or five giant banks manipulate the whole economic life of America, France, Germany; (3) seizure of the sources of raw material by the trusts and the financial oligarchy (finance capital is monopoly industrial capital merged with bank capital); (4) the (economic) partition of the world by the international cartels has begun. There are already over one hundred such international cartels, which command the entire world market and divide it “amicably” among themselves—until war redivides it. The export of capital, as distinct from the export of commodities under non-monopoly capitalism, is a highly characteristic phenomenon and is closely linked with the economic and territorial-political partition of the world; (5) the territorial partition of the world (colonies) is completed. (Lenin)

      • Ur-Fascism can come back under the most innocent of disguises. Our duty is to uncover it and point the finger at any of its new instances — every day and in every part of the world. (Umberto Eco)

      • Who are the people? At the present stage in China, they are the working class, the peasantry, the urban petty bourgeoisie and the national bourgeoisie. These classes, led by the working class and the Communist Party, unite to form their own state and elect their own government; they enforce their dictatorship over the running dogs of imperialism — the landlord class and bureaucrat-bourgeoisie, as well as the representatives of those classes, the Kuomintang reactionaries and their accomplices — suppress them, allow them only to behave themselves and not to be unruly in word or deed. If they speak or act in an unruly way, they will be promptly stopped and punished. Democracy is practiced within the ranks of the people, who enjoy the rights of freedom of speech, assembly, association and so on. The right to vote belongs only to the people, not to the reactionaries. The combination of these two aspects, democracy for the people and dictatorship over the reactionaries, is the people’s democratic dictatorship. (Mao Zedong)

      • The proletarian woman fights hand in hand with the man of her class against capitalist society. (Clara Zetkin)

      • Since trade ignores national boundaries and the manufacturer insists on having the world as a market, the flag of his nation must follow him, and the doors of the nations which are closed must be battered down… Concessions obtained by financiers must be safeguarded by ministers of state, even if the sovereignty of unwilling nations be outraged in the process. Colonies must be obtained or planted, in order that no useful corner of the world may be overlooked or left unused. (Thomas Woodrow Wilson)

      • It is sometimes possible to change the attitudes of millions but impossible to change the attitude of one man. (Edward Bernays)

      • The engineering of consent is the very essence of the democratic process, the freedom to persuade and suggest. (Edward Bernays)

      • Bourgeois society is continually producing politicians who love to assert they belong to no class, and opportunists who love to call themselves socialists, both of whom deliberately and systematically deceive the masses with the most florid and “radical” words. In times of crisis, however even well-meaning participants therein very often reveal a discrepancy between word and deed. The great and progressive significance of all crises, even the gravest, most arduous and painful, lies in the tremendous speed, force and clarity with which they expose and sweep aside rotten phrases, even if well meaning, and rotten institutions even if they are built on the best of intentions. (Lenin)

      • The workers have taken it into their heads that they, with their busy hands, are the necessary, and the rich capitalists, who do nothing, the surplus population. (Friedrich Engels)

      • The world as we have created it is a process of our thinking. It cannot be changed without changing our thinking. (Albert Einstein)

      • Principle of simplification and the single enemy. Adopt a single idea, a single Symbol; Individualizing the adversary into a single enemy. (Joseph Goebbels)

      • In Petrograd, here in Moscow, and in other cities and industrial centres, proletarian women showed up splendidly during the revolution. We would not have won without them, or hardly. That is my opinion. What courage they showed and how courageous they still are! (Lenin)

      • I found that the period of Soviet history with Stalin at the head has been completely distorted. Not just ‘a mistake here and there’, but basically a massive fraud, the biggest lie of the century. (Grover Furr)

      • The dictatorship of the proletariat, the transition from capitalism to communism, must not be regarded as a fleeting period of “super-revolutionary” acts and decrees, but as an entire historical era, replete with civil wars and external conflicts, with persistent organisational work and economic construction, with advances and retreats, victories and defeats. (Stalin)

      • If the abuse be enormous, nature will rise up, and claiming her original rights, overturn a corrupt political system. (Thomas Jefferson)

      • Advocates of capitalism are very apt to appeal to the sacred principles of liberty, which are embodied in one maxim: The fortunate must not be restrained in the exercise of tyranny over the unfortunate. (Bertrand Russell)

      • A revolution is not a dinner party, or writing an essay, or painting a picture, or doing embroidery. A revolution is an insurrection, an act of violence by which one class overthrows another. (Mao Zedong)

      • No matter that patriotism is too often the refuge of scoundrels. Dissent, rebellion, and all-around hell-raising remain the true duty of patriots. (Barbara Ehrenreich)

      • We are here, not because we are law-breakers; we are here in our efforts to become law-makers. (Emmeline Pankhurst)

      • A revolution is not a trail of roses.… A revolution is a fight to the death between the future and the past. (Fidel Castro)

      • The most heroic word in all languages is REVOLUTION. (Eugene V. Debs)

      • Fascism is capitalism in decay. (Lenin)

      • But every class struggle is a political struggle. (Karl Marx)

      • Freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed. (Martin Luther King, Jr.)

      • Our freedom must be had at all hazards. If the men of property will not help us they must fall. (Wolfe Tone)

      • An oppressed people are authorized whenever they can to rise and break their fetters. (Henry Clay)

      • To tell the truth is revolutionary. (Gramsci)

      • A conservative is a man who is too cowardly to fight and too fat to run. (Elbert Hubbard)

      • If you stop struggling, then you stop life. (Huey P. Newton)

      • The privileged class can never be overturned peacefully. (Johann Most)

      • I think what motivates people is not great hate, but great love for other people. (Huey P. Newton)

      • Historically, the most terrible things – war, genocide, and slavery – have resulted not from disobedience, but from obedience. (Howard Zinn)

      • Dignify and glorify common labor. It is at the bottom of life that we must begin, not at the top. (Booker T. Washington)

      • The cost of liberty is less than the price of repression. (W. E. B. Du Bois)

      • Our homeland is the whole world. Our law is liberty. We have but one thought, revolution in our hearts. (Dario Fo)

      • Revolutions are brought about by men, by men who think as men of action and act as men of thought. (Kwame Nkrumah)

      • Bourgeois democracy is democracy of pompous phrases, solemn words, exuberant promises and the high-sounding slogans of freedom and equality. But, in fact, it screens the non-freedom and inferiority of women, the non-freedom and inferiority of the toilers and exploited. (Lenin)

      • Unthinking respect for authority is the greatest enemy of truth. (Albert Einstein)

      • Talk of imminent threat to our national security through the application of external force is pure nonsense. Indeed it is part of the general pattern of misguided policy that our country is now geared to an arms economy which was bred in an artificially induced psychosis of war hysteria and nurtured upon an incessant propaganda of fear. (General Douglas MacArthur)

      • The bourgeoisie are today evading taxation by bribery and through their connections; we must close all loopholes. (Lenin)

      • It is weakness rather than wickedness which renders men unfit to be trusted with unlimited power. (John Adams)

      • We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark. The real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light. (Plátōn)

      • When men are able to influence so many others through their life and their example, they do not die. (Aleida Guevara March)

      • Great spirits have often encountered violent opposition from weak minds. (Albert Einstein)

      • A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and carries his banner openly. But the traitor moves amongst those within the gate freely, his sly whispers rustling through all the alleys, heard in the very halls of government itself. For the traitor appears not a traitor; he speaks in accents familiar to his victims, and he wears their face and their arguments, he appeals to the baseness that lies deep in the hearts of all men. He rots the soul of a nation, he works secretly and unknown in the night to undermine the pillars of the city, he infects the body politic so that it can no longer resist. A murderer is less to fear. (Marcus Tullius Cicero)

      • In America, the criminally insane rule and the rest of us, or the vast majority of the rest of us, either do not care, do not know, or are distracted and properly brainwashed into acquiescence. (Kurt Nimmo)

      • The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary. (Henry Louis Mencken)

      • Unless you become more watchful in your States and check this spirit of monopoly and thirst for exclusive privileges you will in the end find that the most important powers of Government have been given or bartered away, and the control of your dearest interests have been passed into the hands of these corporations. (Andrew Jackson)

      • Believe nothing, no matter where you read it, or who said it, no matter if I have said it, unless it agrees with your own reason and your own common sense. (Siddhārtha Gautama)

      • There is nothing worse than aggressive stupidity. (Goethe)

      • Government is not reason, it is not eloquence, it is force; like fire, a troublesome servant and a fearful master. Never for a moment should it be left to irresponsible action. (George Washington)

      • The people never give up their liberties but under some delusion. (Edmund Burke)

      • War is the continuation of Politik by other means. (Carl von Clausewitz)

      • If we put our trust in the common sense of common men and ‘with malice toward none and charity for all’ go forward on the great adventure of making political, economic and social democracy a practical reality, we shall not fail. (Henry A. Wallace)

      • The myth of fascist efficiency has deluded many people. (Henry A. Wallace)

      • The world became more aware that America-despite being the hope of many who have the personal drive and ambition to become part of the “American dream”-is beset by serious operational challenges: a massive and growing national debt, widening social inequality, a cornucopian culture that worships materialism, a financial system given to greedy speculation, and a polarized political system. (Zbigniew Brzezinski)

      • The guerrilla wins if he does not lose. The conventional army loses if it does not win. (Henry Kissinger)

      • A popular method always used by the bourgeois press in every country with unerring effect is to lie, scream, raise a hullabaloo, and keep on reiterating lies on the off-chance that “something may stick”. (Lenin)

      • … the most formidable military machine depends ultimately on the obedience of its soldiers, … the most powerful corporation becomes helpless when its workers stop working, when its customers refuse to buy its products. The strike, the boycott, the refusal to serve, the ability to paralyze the functioning of a complex social structure-these remain potent weapons against the most fearsome state or corporate power. (Howard Zinn)

      • One does not have to be a Marxist to know there is something very wrong in this society. (Michael Parenti)

      • Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without feminine upheaval. (Karl Marx)

      • In the 1950s and 1960s we put several thousand nuclear weapons into Europe. To be sure, we had no precise idea of what to do with them. (Henry Kissinger)

      • Democracy cannot consist solely of elections that are nearly always fictitious and managed by rich landowners and professional politicians. (Che Guevara)

      • Not even the dead can rest in peace in an oppressed country. (Fidel Castro)

      • There is something behind the throne greater than the King himself. (Sir William Pitt)

      • And one day we must ask the question, ‘Why are there forty million poor people in America? And when you begin to ask that question, you are raising questions about the economic system, about a broader distribution of wealth.’ When you ask that question, you begin to question the capitalistic economy. And I’m simply saying that more and more, we’ve got to begin to ask questions about the whole society. (Martin Luther King, Jr.)

      • So long as the state exists there is no freedom. When there is freedom, there will be no state. (Lenin)

      • If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of their currency, first by inflation, then by deflation, the banks and corporations that will grow up around them will deprive the people of all property until their children wake up homeless on the continent their Fathers conquered… I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies… The issuing power should be taken from the banks and restored to the people, to whom it properly belongs. (Thomas Jefferson)

      • The bourgeois intellectuals, including the Mensheviks and Socialist-Revolutionaries, are true to themselves in serving capital and in continuing to use absolutely false arguments. (Lenin)

      • Aside from the few who have jobs or professions, the women of the bourgeoisie do not take part in social production. They are nothing but co-consumers of the surplus value their men extort from the proletariat. They are parasites of the parasites of the social body. And consumers are usually even more rabid and cruel in defending their “right” to a parasite’s life than the direct agents of class rule and exploitation. The history of all great revolutionary struggles confirms this in a horrible way. Take the great French Revolution. After the fall of the Jacobins, when Robespierre was driven in chains to the place of execution the naked whores of the victory-drunk bourgeoisie danced in the streets, danced a shameless dance of joy around the fallen hero of the Revolution. And in 1871, in Paris, when the heroic workers’ Commune was defeated by machine guns, the raving bourgeois females surpassed even their bestial men in their bloody revenge against the suppressed proletariat. The women of the property-owning classes will always fanatically defend the exploitation and enslavement of the working people by which they indirectly receive the means for their socially useless existence. (Rosa Luxemburg)

      • Won’t let anyone speak badly of Stalin. Russia, today is still living on borrowed time thanks to his vision. (Daniel Estulin)

      • The working class must first take possession of the organised political power of the state and by its aid crush the resistance of the capitalist class and organise society anew. (Friedrich Engels)

      • The state is the executive committee of the ruling class. (Karl Marx)

      • American capitalism, based as it is on exploitation of the poor, with its fundamental motivation in personal greed, simply cannot survive without force – without a secret police force. Now, more than ever, each of us is forced to make a conscious choice whether to support the system of minority comfort and privilege with all its security apparatus and repression, or whether to struggle for real equality of opportunity and fair distribution of benefits for all of society, in the domestic as well as the international order. It’s harder now not to realize that there are two sides, harder not to understand each, and harder not to recognize that like it or not we contribute day in and day out either to the one side or to the other. (Philip Agee)

      • We in the West must bear in mind that the poor countries are poor primarily because we have exploited them through political or economic colonialism. (Martin Luther King, Jr.)

      • … the United States [is] cast in the role of Praetorian Guard, protecting the interests of the global financial order against fractious elements in the Third World. (John Stockwell)

      • A cynical, mercenary, demagogic press will produce in time a people as base as itself. (Joseph Pulitzer)

      • An elective despotism was not the government we fought for. (Thomas Jefferson)

      • It does not require a majority to prevail, but rather an irate, tireless minority keen to set brush fires in people’s minds. (Samuel Adams)

      • There exists a shadowy Government with its own Air Force, its own Navy, its own fundraising mechanism, and the ability to pursue its own ideas of national interest, free from all checks and balances, and free from the law itself. (Daniel K. Inouye)

      • If they do it it’s terrorism, if we do it, it’s fighting for freedom. (Anthony Quainton)

      • It is not power that corrupts but fear. The fear of losing power corrupts those who wield it, and fear of the scourge of power corrupts those who are subject to it. (Aung San Suu Kyi)

      • When do these corporations begin to lose their credibility? They fought Social Security, Medicare, auto safety. They fought every social justice movement in this country. (Ralph Nader)

      • It is only when a society shares caring values that its people can feel secure. (Michael Lerner)

      • The smart way to keep people passive and obedient is to strictly limit the spectrum of acceptable opinion, but allow very lively debate within that spectrum – even encourage the more critical and dissident views. That gives people the sense that there’s free thinking going on, while all the time the presuppositions of the system are being reinforced by the limits put on the range of the debate. (Noam Chomsky)

      • We are witnessing an unprecedented transfer of power from people and their governments to global institutions whose allegiance is to abstract free-market principle, and whose favored citizens are soulless corporate entities that have the power to shape and break nations. (Joel Bleifuss)

      • I’ve been around the ruling class all my life, and I’ve been quite aware of their total contempt for the people of the country. (Gore Vidal)

      • For us there is no valid definition of socialism other than the abolition of the exploitation of one human being by another. (Che Guevara)

      • Red Rosa now has vanished too. Where she lies is hid from view. She told the poor what life is about. And so now the rich have rubbed her out. (Epitaph 1919 – poem about Luxemburg after she was killed by right-wing death squads in 1919) (Bertolt Brecht)

      • You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you can not fool all of the people all of the time. (Abraham Lincoln)

      • Inequality can be done away with only by establishing a new society, where men and women will enjoy equal rights…Thus, the status of women will improve only with the elimination of the system that exploits them. (Thomas Sankara)

      • The unsuspecting Britons spoke of such novelties as ‘civilisation,’ when in fact they were only a feature of their enslavement. (Cornelius Tacitus)

      • It is perhaps difficult for white South Africans, with an ingrained prejudice against communism, to understand why experienced African politicians so readily accept communists as their friends. But to us the reason is obvious. Theoretical differences, amongst those fighting against oppression, is a luxury which cannot be afforded. What is more, for many decades communists were the only political group in South Africa who were prepared to treat Africans as human beings and as their equals; who were prepared to eat with us; talk with us, live with us, and work with us. They were the only political group which was prepared to work with the Africans for the attainment of political rights and a stake in society. Because of this, there are many Africans who today tend to equate freedom with communism. (Nelson Mandela)

      • Kautsky has made increasingly rapid progress in this art of being a Marxist in words and a lackey of the bourgeoisie in deeds, until he has become a virtuoso at it. (Lenin)

      • A revolution not guided by a correct idea, theory and method is doomed to go off course and wander like a ship without a compass. (Kim Jong-il)

      • 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. (Issac Don Levine)

      • I could have gone on flying through space forever. (Yuri Gagarin)

      • Paper money eventually returns to its intrinsic value: zero. (Voltaire)

      • In the form that it emerged at the turn of the century and developed in the 1920s and 1930s, the fascist ideology represented a synthesis of organic nationalism with the antimaterialist revision of Marxism. (Zeev Sternhell)

      • If by free market one means a market that is autonomous and spontaneous, free from political controls, then there is no such thing as a free market at all. It is simply a myth. (Antonio Negri)

      • To fasten on the facts while forgetting the social content is to fall prey to a mystifying immediacy. In an antagonistic society, appearance and essence, immediacy and mediacy, diverge; things are not what they seem to be. (Russell Jacoby)

      • The process by which banks create money is so simple that the mind is repelled. (John Kenneth Galbraith)

      • The so-called Great Powers have long been exploiting and enslaving a whole number of small and weak nations. And the imperialist war is a war for the division and redivision of this kind of booty. (Lenin)

      • We say: our aim is to achieve a socialist system of society, which, by eliminating the division of mankind into classes, by eliminating all exploitation of man by man and nation by nation, will inevitably eliminate the very possibility of war. (Lenin)

      • They cripple the bird’s wing, and then condemn it for not flying as fast as they. (Malcolm X)

      • Marxism is always moving, is always growing. It is the exact opposite of a ready-made, fixed body of dogmas as its enemies always present it. It cannot be that because it is an interpretation of the real world. The real world is always changing and moving, and therefore the theory has always to develop with the development of the real world. Marxism can never stand still. (R. Palme Dutt)

      • Trotsky’s “permanent revolution” was a project of the British Empire. (Daniel Estulin)

      • Look at the history of the revolutionary movement, and you will find more than one connection between imperialism and those who take positions that appear to be on the extreme left. (Fidel Castro)

      • You have to make clear that it’s social democratic bullshit to claim that imperialism along with all the Neubauers and Westmorelands, Bonn, the senate, the State Youth Welfare Office and district offices, that the whole filth can be undermined, duped, overpowered, intimidated, and eliminated without a fight. Make it clear that the revolution will not be an Easter stroll. (Gudrun Ensslin)

      • [The] Soviet government is the expression of the most complete and most fully developed democracy. At the same time, it is the expression of the dictatorship of the working class, which secures the very possibility of democracy for the people. Soviet democracy and proletarian dictatorship are two aspects of one and the same phenomenon. (Andrei Yanuaryevich Vyshinsky)

      • Why can the rulers of the most advanced “civilised” capitalist states offer to the people nothing but unlimited barbarism, destruction, economic chaos, spreading famine and disease, terror and slaughter? (R. Palme Dutt)

      • For all arms with which to fight must be drawn from society as it is and the fatal conditions of this struggle have the misfortune of not being easily adapted to the idealistic fantasies which these doctors in social science have exalted as divinities, under the names of Freedom, Autonomy, Anarchy. (Karl Marx)

      • And the most important thing in all this is that Social-Democracy is the main channel of imperialist pacifism within the working class — consequently, it is capitalism’s main support among the working class in preparing for new wars and intervention. (Stalin)

      • The powers of financial capitalism had a far-reaching (plan), nothing less than to create a world system of financial control in private hands able to dominate the political system of each country and the economy of the world as a whole. (Carroll Quigley)

      • When goods do not cross borders, soldiers will. (Frédéric Bastiat)

      • When the modern corporation acquires power over markets, power in the community, power over the state and power over belief, it is a political instrument, different in degree but not in kind from the state itself. To hold otherwise — to deny the political character of the modern corporation — is not merely to avoid the reality. It is to disguise the reality. The victims of that disguise are those we instruct in error. The beneficiaries are the institutions whose power we so disguise. Let there be no question: economics, so long as it is thus taught, becomes, however unconsciously, a part of the arrangement by which the citizen or student is kept from seeing how he or she is, or will be, governed. (John Kenneth Galbraith)

      • For it was after Stalin that the Russian state began to fall into its present state of decay. (Huey P. Newton)

      • Fascism aims at the most unbridled exploitation of the masses, but it approaches them with the most artful anti-capitalist demagogy, taking advantage of the deep hatred of the working people against the plundering bourgeoisie, the banks, trusts and financial magnates, and advancing those slogans which at the given moment are most alluring to the politically immature masses. (Georgi Dimitrov)

      • Homeland or death! Socialism or death! We shall overcome! (Fidel Castro)

      • Central to all the disquisitions of the self-determination opponents is the claim that it is generally “unachievable” under capitalism or imperialism. (Lenin)

      • The cause of Communism is the greatest cause in the history of mankind, because it seeks to remove from society all forms of oppression and exploitation to liberate mankind, and to ensure peace and prosperity to all. (Nelson Mandela)

      • To become the ruling class and defeat the bourgeoisie for good the proletariat must be schooled, because the skill this implies does not come ready-made. The proletariat must do its learning in the struggle, and stubborn, desperate struggle in earnest is the only meal teacher. The greater the extremes of the exploiters’ resistance, the more vigorously, firmly, ruthlessly and successfully will they be suppressed by the exploited. The more varied the exploiters’ attempts to uphold the old, the sooner will the proletariat learn to ferret out its enemies from their last nook and corner, to pull up the roots of their domination, and cut the very ground which could (and had to) breed wage-slavery, mass poverty and the profiteering and effrontery of the money-bags. (Lenin)

      • Socialism or barbarism! (Rosa Luxemburg)

      • This vagueness and ambiguity of conventional common places to describe its basic aims is not accidental in Fascism, but inherent and inevitable. This terminology is the standard vague and deceitful terminology of all capitalist parties to cover the realities of class-rule and class-exploitation under empty phrases of “the community,” “the national welfare,” “the State above classes,” etc. (R. Palme Dutt)

      • Principle of renewal. It is necessary to constantly issue new information and arguments at a rate such that when the adversary responds the public is already interested in something else. The adversary’s responses should never be able to counteract the increasing level of accusations. (Joseph Goebbels)

      • The British ruling class are not fighting to liberate the people of Europe from fascism and reaction. They have always been, for a century and a-half, the main stranglers of every popular revolution in every country. The war aims of Churchill, for which the British workers; are asked to die, are the war aims of British imperialism; to protect and maintain the domination of the British Empire over a-quarter of the world; to smash the rival German imperialism and inflict a new super-Versailles; to maintain the reactionary interests of capitalist class rule against the world Socialist Revolution. There is nothing they fear more than a real popular revolution in Europe, which they know would lead to the victory of Socialism. (R. Palme Dutt)

      • Thereby I state that we are extremely interested in not letting eastern nations unite. On the contrary, we must spit them into small groups and branches. As for separate nations, we are not going to allow them to get closer and bigger, let alone allowing them to cultivate the sense of national identity and culture. Quite the contrary, we are concerned with splintering them into numerous small groups… (Heinrich Himmler)

      • If you throw a stone, it’s a crime. If a thousand stones are thrown, that’s political. If you set fire to a car it’s a crime; if a hundred cars are set on fire that’s political. (Ulrike Meinhof)

      • Politics is the entertainment branch of industry. (Frank Zappa)

      • I must add further that no programme is worthy the acceptance of the working classes that stops short of the abolition of private property in the means of production. Any other programme is misleading and dishonest… (William Morris)

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    First Amendment: Thus if the First Amendment means anything in this field, it must allow protests even against the moral code that the standard of the day sets for the community. In other words, literature should not be suppressed merely because it offends the moral code of the censor. https://protestationblog.wordpress.com/quotes8/#quotenr4177
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      • If you must break the law, do it to seize power; in all other cases observe it. (Julius Caesar)

      • [Israel will] create in the course of the next 10 or 20 years conditions which would attract natural and voluntary migration of the refugees from the Gaza Strip and the west Bank to Jordan. To achieve this we have to come to agreement with King Hussein and not with Yasser Arafat. (Yitzhak Rabin)

      • The natural scientist must be a modern materialist, a conscious adherent of the materialism represented by Marx, i.e., he must be a dialectical materialist. (Lenin)

      • If the war is lost, the nation will also perish. This fate is inevitable. There is no necessity to take into consideration the basis which the people will need to continue even a most primitive existence. On the contrary, it will be better to destroy these things ourselves, because this nation will have proved to be the weaker one and the future will belong solely to the stronger eastern nation (Russia). Besides, those who will remain after the battle are only the inferior ones, for the good ones have all been killed. (Hitler)

      • The proof of Communism does not lie in a theory; it lies in the facts of the world around us. (R. Palme Dutt)

      • Struggle against imperialism that is not closely linked with the struggle against opportunism is either an empty phrase or a fraud. (Lenin)

      • Leninism grew up and took shape under the conditions of imperialism, when the contradictions of capitalism had reached an extreme point, when the proletarian revolution had become an immediate practical question, when the old period of preparation of the working class for revolution had arrived at and passed into a new period, that of direct assault on capitalism. Lenin called imperialism “moribund capitalism.” Why? Because imperialism carries the contradictions of capitalism to their last bounds, to the extreme limit, beyond which revolution begins. Of these contradictions, there are three which must be regarded as the most important. The first contradiction is the contradiction between labour and capital. Imperialism is the omnipotence of the monopolist trusts and syndicates, of the banks and the financial oligarchy, in the industrial countries. In the fight against this omnipotence, the customary methods of the working class-trade unions and cooperatives, parliamentary parties and the parliamentary struggle-have proved to be totally inadequate. Either place yourself at the mercy of capital, eke out a wretched existence as of old and sink lower and lower, or adopt a new weapon-this is the alternative imperialism puts before the vast masses of the proletariat. Imperialism brings the working class to revolution. The second contradiction is the contradiction among the various financial groups and imperialist Powers in their struggle for sources of raw materials, for foreign territory. Imperialism is the export of capital to the sources of raw materials, the frenzied struggle for monopolist possession of these sources, the struggle for a re-division of the already divided world, a struggle waged with particular fury by new financial groups and Powers seeking a “place in the sun” against the old groups and Powers, which cling tenaciously to what they have seized. This frenzied struggle among the various groups of capitalists is notable in that it includes as an inevitable element imperialist wars, wars for the annexation of foreign territory. This circumstance, in its turn, is notable in that it leads to the mutual weakening of the imperialists, to the weakening of the position of capitalism in general, to the acceleration of the advent of the proletarian revolution and to the practical necessity of this revolution. The third contradiction is the contradiction between the handful of ruling, “civilised” nations and the hundreds of millions of the colonial and dependent peoples of the world. Imperialism is the most barefaced exploitation and the most inhumane oppression of hundreds of millions of people inhabiting vast colonies and dependent countries. The purpose of this exploitation and of this oppression is to squeeze out super-profits. But in exploiting these countries imperialism is compelled to build these railways, factories and mills, industrial and commercial centers. The appearance of a class of proletarians, the emergence of a native intelligentsia, the awakening of national consciousness, the growth of the liberation movement-such are the inevitable results of this “policy.” The growth of the revolutionary movement in all colonies and dependent countries without exception clearly testifies to this fact. This circumstance is of importance for the proletariat inasmuch as it saps radically the position of capitalism by converting the colonies and dependent countries from reserves of imperialism into reserves of the proletarian revolution. (Stalin)

      • Life is not determined by consciousness, but consciousness by life. (Karl Marx)

      • Long-haired preachers come out every night,\ Try to tell you what’s wrong and what’s right;\ But when asked how ’bout something to eat\ They will answer with voices so sweet:\ You will eat, bye and bye,\ In that glorious land above the sky;\ Work and pray, live on hay,\ You’ll get pie in the sky when you die. (Joe Hill)

      • I die like a true blue rebel. Don’t waste any time in mourning. Organize! (Joe Hill)

      • Any fool can know. The point is to understand. (Albert Einstein)

      • Try not to become a man of success. Rather become a man of value. (Albert Einstein)

      • Governments in capitalist society are but committees of the rich to manage the affairs of the capitalist class. (James Connolly)

      • I am not only the conqueror but also the executor of Marxism. (Hitler)

      • We thank Marx, Engels, Lenin and Stalin for giving us a weapon. This weapon is not a machine-gun, but Marxism-Leninism. (Mao Zedong)

      • The bank mania… is raising up a moneyed aristocracy in our country which has already set the government at defiance, and although forced at length to yield a little on this first essay of their strength, their principles are unyielded and unyielding. These have taken deep root in the hearts of that class from which our legislators are drawn, and the sop to Cerberus from fable has become history. Their principles lay hold of the good, their pelf of the bad, and thus those whom the Constitution had placed as guards to its portals, are sophisticated or suborned from their duties. (Thomas Jefferson)

      • Poverty is the parent of revolution and crime. (Aristotélēs)

      • Thus if the First Amendment means anything in this field, it must allow protests even against the moral code that the standard of the day sets for the community. In other words, literature should not be suppressed merely because it offends the moral code of the censor. (First Amendment)

      • A great revolution is never the fault of the people, but of the government. (Goethe)

      • The history of the human race always has been, and most likely always will be, that of evolution and revolution. (Lewis F. Korns)

      • Let the welfare of the people be the ultimate law. (Marcus Tullius Cicero)

      • If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor. (Desmond Tutu)

      • Workers of the world you have nothing to lose but your chains nothing to gain but your freedom. Workers of the world unite. (Karl Marx)

      • Political Freedom without economic equality is a pretense, a fraud, a lie; and the workers want no lying. (Bakunin)

      • The main object of a revolution is the liberation of man… (Jean Genet)

      • The revolution is not a moment or a day, the revolution is a way of life. (Tupac Shakur)

      • Revolution is the larva of civilization. (Victor Hugo)

      • Those who suppress freedom always do so in the name of law and order. (John V. Lindsay)

      • You cannot buy the Revolution. You cannot make the Revolution. You can only be the Revolution. It is in your spirit or, it is nowhere. (Ursula K. Le Guin)

      • Advance, and never halt. Advance and do not fear the thorns in the path, for they draw only corrupt blood. (Khalil Gibran)

      • Power never takes a back step only in the face of more power. (Malcolm X)

      • My children can live without me, but not without dignity. (Aminatou Haidar)

      • Capitalism has now it has become more cowardly, like the vulture, and it can only suck the blood of the helpless. (Malcolm X)

      • There are two ways to conquer and enslave a nation. One is by sword. The other is by debt. (John Adams)

      • There is no peace but the Pax Romana, a “peace” maintained by violence and threat of violence, by the greed of the privileged and the oppression of the weak and the lowly. … The people of God knew, however, that this was no true peace. The peace and prosperity of the Roman empire depended on the continued oppression and enslavement of almost 95 percent of the population of the known world. The “peace” was meant for the privileged, the top 5 percent who dwelt in the palaces and courts of Rome. (Allan Boesak)

      • Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty. The obedient must be slaves. (Henry David Thoreau)

      • The revolution has always been in the hands of the young. The young always inherit the revolution. (Huey P. Newton)

      • Education is a better safeguard of liberty than a standing army. (Edward Everett)

      • When I refuse to obey an unjust law, I do not contest the right of the majority to command, but I simply appeal from the sovereignty of the people to the sovereignty of mankind. (Alexis de Tocqueville)

      • You only have the freedoms you are willing to fight and die for. (Thomas Jefferson)

      • Once a government is committed to the principle of silencing the voice of opposition, it has only one way to go, and that is down the path of increasingly repressive measures, until it becomes a source of terror to all its citizens and creates a country where everyone lives in fear. (Harry Truman)

      • Beware the leader who bangs the drums of war in order to whip the citizenry into a patriotic fervor, for patriotism is indeed a double-edged sword. It both emboldens the blood, just as it narrows the mind. And when the drums of war have reached a fever pitch and the blood boils with hate and the mind has closed, the leader will have no need in seizing the rights of the citizenry. Rather, the citizenry, infused with fear and blinded by patriotism, will offer up all of their rights unto the leader and gladly so. (Albert J. Beveridge)

      • We cannot defend freedom abroad by deserting it at home. (Thomas Jefferson)

      • All just power is derived from the consent of the governed. (John Locke)

      • No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear. (Edmund Burke)

      • Those who cast the votes decide nothing, Those who count the votes decide everything. (Stalin)

      • The evils of government are directly proportional to the tolerance of the people. (Frank Kent)

      • Those who already walk submissively will say there is no cause for alarm. But submissiveness is not our heritage. The First Amendment was designed to allow rebellion to remain as our heritage. The Constitution was designed to keep government off the backs of the people. The Bill of Rights was added to keep the precincts of belief and expression, of the press, of political and social activities free from surveillance. The Bill of Rights was designed to keep agents of government and official eavesdroppers away from assemblies of people. The aim was to allow men to be free and independent and to assert their rights against government. (Justice William O. Douglas)

      • With terror, tyranny came to power, and with terror, it holds onto its power. The sciences have been subordinated to authoritarian rule. Biology has been falsified, in order to externalize the privileges of the propertied classes. (Manifesto)

      • The great masses of people will more easily fall victims to a big lie than to a small one. Especially if it is repeated over and over. (Hitler)

      • Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. (Nietzsche)

      • Every ambitious would-be empire, clarions it abroad that she is conquering the world to bring it peace, security and freedom, and is sacrificing her sons only for the most noble and humanitarian purposes. That is a lie, and it is an ancient lie, yet generations still rise and believe it. (Henry David Thoreau)

      • Where you have a concentration of power in a few hands, all too frequently men with the mentality of gangsters get control. (Lord Acton)

      • Fellow workers and peasants, this is the socialist and democratic revolution of the working people, with the working people, and for the working people. And for this revolution of the working people, by the working people, and for the working people we are prepared to give our lives. (Fidel Castro)

      • I am not Christ or a philanthropist. I fight for the things I believe in, with all the weapons at my disposal. (Che Guevara)

      • We must not tolerate oppressive government or industrial oligarchy in the form of monopolies and cartels. (Henry A. Wallace)

      • The technotronic era involves the gradual appearance of a more controlled society. Such a society would be dominated by an elite, unrestrained by traditional values. Soon it will be possible to assert almost continuous surveillance over every citizen and maintain up-to-date complete files containing even the most personal information about the citizen. These files will be subject to instantaneous retrieval by the authorities. (Zbigniew Brzezinski)

      • The mistakes of the Iraq war are not only tactical and strategic, but historical. It is essentially a war of colonialism, attempted in the post-colonial age. (Zbigniew Brzezinski)

      • Power is the great aphrodisiac. (Henry Kissinger)

      • Capitalism is the legitimate racket of the ruling class. (Al Capone)

      • The ideas of the ruling class are in every epoch the ruling ideas, i.e. the class which is the ruling material force of society, is at the same time its ruling intellectual force. The class which has the means of material production at its disposal, has control at the same time over the means of mental production, so that thereby, generally speaking, the ideas of those who lack the means of mental production are subject to it. The ruling ideas are nothing more than the ideal expression of the dominant material relationships, the dominant material relationships grasped as ideas; hence of the relationships which make the one class the ruling one, therefore, the ideas of its dominance. The individuals composing the ruling class possess among other things consciousness, and therefore think. Insofar, therefore, as they rule as a class and determine the extent and compass of an epoch, it is self-evident that they do this in its whole range, hence among other things rule also as thinkers, as producers of ideas, and regulate the production and distribution of the ideas of their age: thus their ideas are the ruling ideas of the epoch. For instance, in an age and in a country where royal power, aristocracy, and bourgeoisie are contending for mastery and where, therefore, mastery is shared, the doctrine of the separation of powers proves to be the dominant idea and is expressed as an “eternal law.” (Karl Marx)

      • I think the best way of doing good to the poor, is not making them easy in poverty, but leading or driving them out of it. (Benjamin Franklin)

      • All issues are political issues, and politics itself is a mass of lies, evasions, folly, hatred, and schizophrenia. (George Orwell)

      • Against the workers the capitalists of all nations and religions are united, but they strive to divide and weaken the workers by national strife! (Lenin)

      • Relief would do no good. Indians breed like rabbits and will outstrip any available food supply. (Churchill)

      • Politicians are the lowest form of life on earth. Liberal Democrats are the lowest form of politicians. (George Patton)

      • The dialectics of history were such that the theoretical victory of Marxism compelled its enemies to disguise themselves as Marxists. Liberalism, rotten within, tried to revive itself in the form of socialist opportunism. They interpreted the period of preparing the forces for great battles as renunciation of these battles. Improvement of the conditions of the slaves to fight against wage slavery they took to mean the sale by the slaves of their right to liberty for a few pence. They cravenly preached “social peace” (i.e., peace with the slave-owners), renunciation of the class struggle, etc. They had very many adherents among socialist members of parliament, various officials of the working-class movement, and the “sympathising” intelligentsia. (Lenin)

      • For the bourgeoisie, freedom of the press meant freedom for the rich to publish and for the capitalists to control the newspapers, a practice which in all countries, including even the freest, produced a corrupt press. (Lenin)

      • Einstein’s relativity work is a magnificent mathematical garb which fascinates, dazzles and makes people blind to the underlying errors. The theory is like a beggar clothed in purple whom ignorant people take for a king… its exponents are brilliant men but they are metaphysicists rather than scientists. (Nikola Tesla)

      • The real truth of the matter is, as you and I know, that a financial element in the larger centers has owned the Government ever since the days of Andrew Jackson. (Franklin D. Roosevelt)

      • The Marxist doctrine is omnipotent because it is true. It is comprehensive and harmonious, and provides men with an integral world outlook irreconcilable with any form of superstition, reaction, or defence of bourgeois oppression. It is the legitimate successor to the best that man produced in the nineteenth century, as represented by German philosophy, English political economy and French socialism. (Lenin)

      • The opportunists are a section of the petty bourgeoisie and of a certain strata of the working class who have been bribed out of imperialist superprofits and converted to watchdogs of capitalism and corruptors of the labour movement. (Lenin)

      • Joseph Stalin was a great man; few other men of the 20th century approach his stature. He was simple, calm and courageous. He seldom lost his poise; pondered his problems slowly, made his decisions clearly and firmly; never yielded to ostentation nor coyly refrained from holding his rightful place with dignity. He was the son of a serf but stood calmly before the great without hesitation or nerves. But also – and this was the highest proof of his greatness – he knew the common man, felt his problems, followed his fate. (W. E. B. Du Bois)

      • The economic anarchy of capitalist society as it exists today is, in my opinion, the real source of the evil. We see before us a huge community of producers the members of which are unceasingly striving to deprive each other of the fruits of their collective labour…I am convinced there is only one way to eliminate these grave evils, namely through the establishment of a socialist economy, accompanied by an educational system which would be oriented toward social goals. (Albert Einstein)

      • Powerful people in the American ruling class fear democracy. (Tim Robbins)

      • In Germany they first came for the Communists, and I didn’t speak up because I wasn’t a Communist. Then they came for the Jews, and I didn’t speak up because I wasn’t a Jew. Then they came for the trade unionists, and I didn’t speak up because I wasn’t a trade unionist. Then they came for the Catholics, and I didn’t speak up because I was a protestant. Then they came for me, and by that time there was nobody left to speak up. (Martin Niemöller)

      • It is the function of the CIA to keep the world unstable, and to propagandize and teach the American people to hate, so we will let the Establishment spend any amount of money on arms. (John Stockwell)

      • I want to tell you something very clear, don’t worry about American pressure on Israel, we, the Jewish people control America, and the Americans know it. (Ariel Sharon)

      • We Jews regard our race as superior to all humanity, and look forward, not to its ultimate union with other races, but to its triumph over them. (Goldwin Smith)

      • I never would have agreed to the formulation of the Central Intelligence Agency back in ’47, if I had known it would become the American Gestapo. (Harry Truman)

      • We have come to be one of the worst ruled, one of the most completely controlled and dominated Governments in the world – no longer a Government of free opinion, no longer a Government by conviction and vote of the majority, but a Government by the opinion and duress of small groups of dominant men. (Thomas Woodrow Wilson)

      • All over the world, people need change. The change? Getting control over the power and resources they need to solve their problems. (Jeremy Brecher)

      • We must find new lands from which we can easily obtain raw materials and at the same time exploit the cheap slave labor that is available from the natives of the colonies. The colonies would also provide a dumping ground for the surplus goods produced in our factories. (Cecil Rhodes)

      • We have a single system, and in that system the only question is the price at which the proletariat is to be bought and sold, the bread and circuses.” ” The whole fabric of society will go to wrack if we really lay hands of reform on our rotten institutions. From top to bottom the whole system is a fraud, all of us know it, laborers and capitalists alike, and all of us are consenting parties to it. (Henry Adams)

      • If you liked El Salvador, you’re going to love Colombia. It’s the same death squads, the same military aid, and the same whitewash from Washington. (Carlos Salinas)

      • Today, the United States and Somalia are the only two countries in the world which haven’t ratified the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child. And since Somalia is a country with no internationally recognized government, the United States essentially stands alone as the last holdout to legally guarantee children the same full range of human rights … agreed to by 191 other sovereign states. (Catherine Langevin-Falcon)

      • America is today the leader of a world-wide anti-revolutionary movement in the defense of vested interests. She now stands for what Rome stood for. Rome consistently supported the rich against the poor in all foreign communities that fell under her sway; and, since the poor, so far, have always and everywhere been far more numerous than the rich, Rome’s policy made for inequality, for injustice, and for the least happiness of the greatest number. (Arnold Joseph Toynbee)

      • All the emphasis on crime and drugs and pornography used to justify the suppression of the internet is really aimed at suppressing knowledge of the radical politic alternatives that are now available. (Tony Benn)

      • This antagonism is artificially kept alive and intensified by the press, the pulpit, the comic papers, in short, by all the means at the disposal of the ruling classes. This antagonism is the secret of the impotence of the English working class, despite its organisation. It is the secret by which the capitalist class maintains its power. And the latter is quite aware of this. (Karl Marx)

      • Fascism is a reactionary force which is trying to preserve the old system by means of violence. What will you do with the fascists? Argue with them? Try to convince them? But this will have no effect upon them at all. Communists do not in the least idealise the methods of violence. But they, the Communists, do not want to be taken by surprise, they cannot count on the old world voluntarily departing from the stage, they see that the old system is violently defending itself, and that is why the Communists say to the working class : Answer violence with violence; do all you can to prevent the old dying order from crushing you, do not permit it to put manacles on your hands, on the hands with which you will overthrow the old system. As you see, the Communists regard the substitution of one social system for another, not simply as a spontaneous and peaceful process, but as a complicated, long and violent process. Communists cannot ignore facts. (Stalin)

      • The Deep State not only holds the nation’s capital in thrall, but it also controls Wall Street (“which supplies the cash that keeps the political machine quiescent and operating as a diversionary marionette theater”) and Silicon Valley. This is fascism in its most covert form, hiding behind public agencies and private companies to carry out its dirty deeds. It is a marriage between government bureaucrats and corporate fat cats. (John W. Whitehead)

      • Real liberty can exist only where exploitation has been abolished, where there is no oppression of some by others, where there is no unemployment and poverty, where a man is not haunted by the fear of being tomorrow deprived of work, of home and of bread. Only in such a society is real, and not paper, personal and every other liberty possible. (Stalin)

      • In one way or another, all official and liberal science defends wage-slavery, whereas Marxism has declared relentless war on that slavery. (Lenin)

      • All that modern nations have achieved is to disguise slavery at home and import it openly into the New World. (Karl Marx)

      • Trotsky groups all the enemies of Marxism. (Lenin)

      • The West won the world not by the superiority of its ideas or values or religion (to which few members of other civilizations were converted) but rather by its superiority in applying organized violence. Westerners often forget this fact; non-Westerners never do. (Samuel P. Huntington)

      • Of course, I am against fascism with its spread of color prejudice and race hatred and working class oppression. How could any sensible Negro be otherwise? (Aldous Huxley)

      • Fascism presented itself not only as an alternative, but also as the heir to socialism. (J.L. Talmon)

      • The laws of social development are not identical with the laws in the natural sciences. The content of the social laws is not nature but second nature: coagulated history. They are manmade, but they also make men; they are dialectical, at once subject and object. (Russell Jacoby)

      • Since those who rule in the city do so because they own a lot, I suppose they’re unwilling to enact laws to prevent young people who’ve had no discipline from spending and wasting their wealth, so that by making loans to them, secured by the young people’s property, and then calling those loans in, they themselves become even richer and more honored. (Plátōn)

      • There is no flag large enough to cover the shame of killing innocent people. (Howard Zinn)

      • A party is the vanguard of a class, and its duty is to lead the masses and not merely to reflect the average political level of the masses. (Lenin)

      • The rich have grown richer, but their tax rate has declined. The poor have grown poorer, but their taxes have increased. (Michael Parenti)

      • There is no escape for capitalism save the escape of death. Do what they may, they cannot get out of the continual circle of ever-rising prices, piling debts, unemployment, war and threats, of war, and all the time the rising tide of the anger of the people at home and in the subject countries abroad. It is their knowledge of this which inspires their panic fear of Bolshevism, even when the actual movement is as weak as a child; until by the very noise of their panic they help to create what they are seeking to destroy. It is their knowledge of this which is making them fight with all the ferocity and violence of a trapped animal. They are in panic because they know their failure; they are violent because they know they are not strong. And it is this same knowledge, which gives the confidence of absolute assurance to the Communist struggle. (R. Palme Dutt)

      • The smallest act of kindness is worth more than the greatest intention. (Khalil Gibran)

      • Of course, in the United States of America, in Britain, as also in France, there are aggressive forces thirsting for a new war. They need war to obtain super-profits, to plunder other countries. These are the billionaires and millionaires who regard war as an item of income which gives colossal profits. (Stalin)

      • Only Socialism can finally end imperialist wars by ending their cause—the class system of society. The victory of Socialism in the leading countries of the world means the end of war, because it ends the jungle-fight of the exploiters over the spoils; it ends the fight for profits, spheres of influence, colonies, markets and monopolist domination. Socialism means the freedom and brotherhood of all nations without distinction of race or colour. Socialism means that all peoples freely organise their production for use, for common advantage. (R. Palme Dutt)

      • Compared to feudalism, capitalism was an historical advance along the road of “liberty”, “equality”, “democracy” and “civilisation”. Nevertheless capitalism was, and remains, a system of wage-slavery, of the enslavement of millions of working people, workers and peasants, by an insignificant minority of modern slave-owners, landowners and capitalists. Bourgeois democracy, as compared to feudalism, has changed the form of this economic slavery, has created a brilliant screen for it but has not, and could not, change its essence. Capitalism and bourgeois democracy are wage-slavery. (Lenin)

      • Let her sleep, for when she wakes, she will shake the world. (Napoléon Bonaparte)

      • Two basic steps are thus required: first to identify the geostrategically dynamic Eurasian states that have the power to cause a potentially important shift in the international distribution of power and to decipher the central external goals of their respective political elites and the likely consequences of their seeking to attain them; […] second to formulate specific U.S. policies to offset, co-opt, and/or control the above. (Zbigniew Brzezinski)

      • If the American people ever find out what we have done, they would chase us down the street and lynch us. (George H. W. Bush)

      • Any country that has Milton Friedman as an adviser has nothing to fear from a few million Arabs. (John Kenneth Galbraith)

      • There are men who struggle for a day and they are good. There are men who struggle for a year and they are better. There are men who struggle many years, and they are better still. But there are those who struggle all their lives: These are the indispensable ones. (Bertolt Brecht)

      • Stalin is the savior of all the oppressed. (Mao Zedong)

      • I am a Communist and my painting is Communist painting. (Picasso)

      • The colonists usually say that it was they who brought us into history: today we show that this is not so. They made us leave history, our history, to follow them, right at the back, to follow the progress of their history. (Amilcar Cabral)

      • The state is a special organization of force: it is an organization of violence for the suppression of some class. What class must the proletariat suppress? Naturally, only the exploiting class, i.e., the bourgeoisie. The working people need the state only to suppress the resistance of the exploiters, and only the proletariat can direct this suppression, can carry it out. For the proletariat is the only class that is consistently revolutionary, the only class that can unite all the working and exploited people in the struggle against the bourgeoisie, in completely removing it. (Lenin)

      • All over the world, wherever there are capitalists, freedom of the press means freedom to buy up newspapers, to buy writers, to bribe, buy and fake “public opinion” for the benefit of the bourgeoisie. (Lenin)

      • The state is a machine for the oppression of one class by another, a machine for holding in obedience to one class other, subordinated classes. There are various forms of this machine. The slave-owning state could be a monarchy, an aristocratic republic or even a democratic republic. In fact the forms of government varied extremely, but their essence was always the same: the slaves enjoyed no rights and constituted an oppressed class; they were not regarded as human beings. We find the same thing in the feudal state. (Lenin)

      • Capitalism reveals itself in fact, with the increase of concentration and the power of production, not as a growingly harmonious and organised system of world production, but as a growingly violent system of antagonisms. (R. Palme Dutt)

      • The old ignorant Malthusian notions of absolute “overpopulation,” or the modern lugubrious chants of birth-control as the necessary solution of poverty, are thus abundantly exploded by facts. It is worth noting that this reactionary propaganda is still maintained, not only in clerical and con- servative quarters, but also by the would-be “progressive” (actually, as we shall have occasion to see, one of the real bulwarks of conservatism in England) Labour Party. (R. Palme Dutt)

      • Fascism accordingly requires for its full realisation the “totalitarian” terroristic class-State. Social Democracy controls the workers most favourably and successfully in the liberal-parliamentary class-State, utilising its own “internal” methods of discipline, and occasional State coercion, for the suppression of all militant struggle. Fascism operates primarily by coercion alongside of deception. Social Democracy operates primarily by deception, alongside of coercion. It is this combined relationship of difference in method and parallelism in basic aim and role that underlies Stalin’s definition, given already in 1924 (“Main Factors of the Present International Situation,” Communist International, English edition 1924, No. 6), that “Social Democracy objectively represents the moderate wing of Fascism.” (R. Palme Dutt)

      • Fascism by all the above tests is economically identical with Capitalism, representing only a special method to maintain its power and hold down the workers. Fascism is profit-making society, is class-society, is society based on exploitation. Alike in Italy and in Germany, production is carried on for profit; the means of production are the property of a small minority, the upper strata of whom draw large incomes through their ownership; the mass of the workers are cut off from ownership, and work for a wage, producing surplus-value for the owners, or are left unemployed, if it is not profitable to employ them. All these are the familiar characteristics of capitalism in all countries, as are equally the crisis, depression, decline of production and mass unemployment. The Fascist countries show no difference from the other capitalist countries in any of these respects. Fascist Italy and Fascist Germany are no better off than non-Fascist France and non-Fascist Britain (in fact worse off, but for reasons not necessarily connected with Fascism); they are all economically in the same boat, in the capitalist boat. The only contrast is provided by the land of socialist construction, the Soviet Union, with its ending of unemployment and gigantic rise of production alongside the decline in all Fascist or other capitalist countries. (R. Palme Dutt)

      • Principle of the transfusion. As a rule propaganda always operates from a preexisting substrate, be it a national mythology or a complex of traditional hatreds and prejudices; It is a matter of spreading arguments that can be rooted in primitive attitudes. (Joseph Goebbels)

      • I will say then that I am not, nor ever have been in favor of bringing about in anyway the social and political equality of the white and black races – that I am not nor ever have been in favor of making voters or jurors of negroes, nor of qualifying them to hold office, nor to intermarry with white people; and I will say in addition to this that there is a physical difference between the white and black races which I believe will forever forbid the two races living together on terms of social and political equality. And inasmuch as they cannot so live, while they do remain together there must be the position of superior and inferior, and I as much as any other man am in favor of having the superior position assigned to the white race. (Abraham Lincoln)

      • The owners of the Washington Post long ago acknowledged that the Post is the government’s voice to the people. In 1981, Katherine Graham, who owns the Post and Newsweek announced that her editors would “cooperate with the national security interests.” National security in this context means “CIA.” (John Stockwell)

      • The few own the many because they possess the means of livelihood of all … The country is governed for the richest, for the corporations, the bankers, the land speculators, and for the exploiters of labor. The majority of mankind are working people. So long as their fair demands – the ownership and control of their livelihoods – are set at naught, we can have neither men’s rights nor women’s rights. The majority of mankind is ground down by industrial oppression in order that the small remnant may live in ease. (Helen Keller)

      • Marxism differs from all primitive forms of socialism by not binding the movement to any one particular form of struggle. It recognises the most varied forms of struggle; and it does not “concoct” them, but only generalises, organises, gives conscious expression to those forms of struggle of the revolutionary classes which arise of themselves in the course of the movement. Absolutely hostile to all abstract formulas and to all doctrinaire recipes, Marxism demands an attentive attitude to the mass struggle in progress, which, as the movement develops, as the class-consciousness of the masses grows, as economic and political crises become acute, continually gives rise to new and more varied methods of defence and attack. Marxism, therefore, positively does not reject any form of struggle. (Lenin)

      • Pre-Marxist socialism has been defeated. It is continuing the struggle, no longer on its own independent ground, but on the general ground of Marxism, as revisionism. (Lenin)

      • The traitors, blockheads and pedants of the Second International could never understand such dialectics; the proletariat cannot achieve victory if it does not win the majority of the population to its side. But to limit that winning to polling a majority of votes in an election under the rule of the bourgeoisie, or to make it the condition for it, is crass stupidity, or else sheer deception of the workers. In order to win the majority of the population to its side the proletariat must, in the first p]ace, overthrow the bourgeoisie and seize state power; secondly, it must introduce Soviet power and complete]y smash the old state apparatus, whereby it immediately undermines the rule, prestige and influence of the bourgeoisie and petty-bourgeois compromisers over the non-proletarian working people. Thirdly, it must entirely destroy the influence of the bourgeoisie and petty-bourgeois compromisers over the majority of the non-proletarian masses by satisfying their economic needs in a revolutionary way at the expense of the exploiters. (Lenin)

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      • Marxism is not only the theory of socialism, it is an integral world outlook, a philosophical system, from which Marx’s proletarian socialism logically follows. This philosophical system is called dialectical materialism. (Stalin)

      • The bestiality of imperialism, a bestiality that knows no limits, that has no national boundaries. (Che Guevara)

      • For capitalist countries war is just as natural and legitimate a condition of things as the exploitation of the working class. (Stalin)

      • The real grand corruption is in the [capitalist] system, itself. (Glen Ford)

      • The dominant, almost general, idea of revolution — particularly the Socialist idea — is that revolution is a violent change of social conditions through which one social class, the working class, becomes dominant over another class, the capitalist class. (Emma Goldman)

      • We have, in this country, one of the most corrupt institutions the world has ever known. I refer to the Federal Reserve Board. This evil institution has impoverished the people of the United States and has practically bankrupted our government. It has done this through the corrupt practices of the moneyed vultures who control it. (Louis T. McFadden)

      • In theory, everybody buys the best and cheapest commodities offered to him on the market. In practice, if every one went around pricing, and chemically testing before purchasing, the dozens of soaps or fabrics or brands of bread which are for sale, economic life would become hopelessly jammed. (Edward Bernays)

      • Firstly, it is not true that fascism is only the fighting organisation of the bourgeoisie. Fascism is not only a military-technical category. Fascism is the bourgeoisie’s fighting organisation that relies on the active support of Social-Democracy. Social-Democracy is objectively the moderate wing of fascism. There is no ground for assuming that the fighting organisation of the bourgeoisie can achieve decisive successes in battles, or in governing the country, without the active support of Social-Democracy. There is just as little ground for thinking that Social-Democracy can achieve decisive successes in battles, or in governing the country, without the active support of the fighting organisation of the bourgeoisie. These organisations do not negate, but supplement each other. They are not antipodes, they are twins. Fascism is an informal political bloc of these two chief organisations; a bloc, which arose in the circumstances of the post-war crisis of imperialism, and which is intended for combating the proletarian revolution. The bourgeoisie cannot retain power without such a bloc. It would therefore be a mistake to think that “pacifism” signifies the liquidation of fascism. In the present situation, “pacifism” is the strengthening of fascism with its moderate, Social-Democratic wing pushed into the forefront. (Stalin)

      • This is an age of mass production. In the mass production of materials a broad technique has been developed and applied to their distribution. In this age, too, there must be a technique for the mass distribution of ideas. (Edward Bernays)

      • In order to rally people, governments need enemies. They want us to be afraid, to hate, so we will rally behind them. And if they do not have a real enemy, they will invent one in order to mobilize us. (Thích Nhất Hạnh)

      • The farmer and manufacturer can no more live without profit than the labourer without wages. (David Ricardo)

      • By destroying small-scale production, capital leads to an increase in productivity of labour and to the creation of a monopoly position for the associations of big capitalists. (Lenin)

      • Israel should have exploited the repression of the demonstrations in China, when world attention focused on that country, to carry out mass expulsions among the Arabs of the territories. (Benjamin Netanyahu)

      • We have been ruled more by deceit than by force, and we have been degraded more by vice than by superstition. Slavery is the daughter of darkness: an ignorant people is a blind instrument of its own destruction. (Simón Bolívar)

      • It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not. (André Gide)

      • There is only one power which really counts. The power of political pressure. We Jews are the most powerful people on earth, because we have this power, and we know how to apply it. (Vladimir Jabotinsky)

      • When Stalin was still alive, I saw things differently, but as I look back over this century, I can state that Stalin was the greatest individual of this century, the greatest political genius. To adopt a scientific attitude about someone is quite different from one’s personal attitude. (Alexander Zinoviev)

      • If any of you in any way hate homosexuals, people of different color, or women, please do this one favor for us – leave us the fuck alone! Don’t come to our shows and don’t buy our records. (Kurt Cobain)

      • Along the way, I had the opportunity to pass through the dominions of the United Fruit, convincing me once again of just how terrible these capitalist octopuses are. I have sworn before a picture of the old and mourned comrade Stalin that I won’t rest until I see these capitalist octopuses annihilated. (Che Guevara)

      • Everywhere revolutions are painful yet fruitful gestations of a people: they shed blood but create light, they eliminate men but elaborate ideas. (Goethe)

      • Disobedience, in the eyes of any one who has read history, is man’s original virtue. It is through disobedience that progress has been made, through disobedience and through rebellion. (Oscar Wilde)

      • While there is a lower class, I am in it, while there is a criminal element, I am of it, and while there is a soul in prison, I am not free. (Eugene V. Debs)

      • The Revolution will not be televised. The Revolution will be no rerun, brothers. The Revolution — will be live. (Gilbert Scott-Heron)

      • As to the history of the revolution, my ideas may be peculiar, perhaps singular. What do we mean by the Revolution? The war? That was no part of the revolution; it was only an effect and consequence of it. The revolution was in the minds of the people, and this was effected … before a drop of blood was shed. (John Adams)

      • None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free. (Goethe)

      • If the people understood the banking system, there would be a revolution tomorrow. (Henry Ford)

      • Give me liberty or give me death. (Patrick Henry)

      • Every revolution has its counterrevolution – that is a sign the revolution is for real. (C. Wright Mills)

      • Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves. (Abraham Lincoln)

      • Just see these superfluous ones! They steal the works of the inventors and the treasures of the wise. Culture, they call their theft—and everything becometh sickness and trouble unto them! Just see these superfluous ones! Sick are they always; they vomit their bile and call it a newspaper. They devour one another, and cannot even digest themselves. Just see these superfluous ones! Wealth they acquire and become poorer thereby. Power they seek for, and above all, the lever of power, much money—these impotent ones! See them clamber, these nimble apes! They clamber over one another, and thus scuffle into the mud and the abyss. Towards the throne they all strive: it is their madness—as if happiness sat on the throne! Ofttimes sitteth filth on the throne.—and ofttimes also the throne on filth. Madmen they all seem to me, and clambering apes, and too eager. Badly smelleth their idol to me, the cold monster: badly they all smell to me, these idolaters. My brethren, will ye suffocate in the fumes of their maws and appetites! Better break the windows and jump into the open air! Do go out of the way of the bad odour! Withdraw from the idolatry of the superfluous! Do go out of the way of the bad odour! Withdraw from the steam of these human sacrifices! Open still remaineth the earth for great souls. Empty are still many sites for lone ones and twain ones, around which floateth the odour of tranquil seas. Open still remaineth a free life for great souls. Verily, he who possesseth little is so much the less possessed: blessed be moderate poverty! (Nietzsche)

      • The common people suffer when the powerful disagree. (Plátōn)

      • Imperialism is the monopoly stage of capitalism. (Lenin)

      • In this Revolution no plans have been written for retreat. (Martin Luther King, Jr.)

      • Tell the children the truth. (Bob Marley)

      • They got money for wars, but wont feed the poor. (Tupac Shakur)

      • When you are right you cannot be too radical; when you are wrong, you cannot be too conservative. (Martin Luther King, Jr.)

      • Revolution is not an action, it is a process. (Huey P. Newton)

      • I would rather die on my feet than live on my knees. (Huey P. Newton)

      • Armaments, universal debt and planned obsolescence — those are the three pillars of Western prosperity. (Aldous Huxley)

      • The greatest revolution of our generation is the discovery that human beings can change their lives. (William James)

      • The modern banking system manufactures money out of nothing. The process is perhaps the most astounding piece of sleight of hand that was ever invented. Banking was conceived in iniquity and born in sin. Bankers own the earth. Take it away from them, but leave them the power to create money and control credit, and with the flick of a pen, they will create enough money to buy it back again. Take this great power away from the bankers and all the great fortunes like mine will disappear, and they ought to disappear, for this would be a better and happier world to live in. But if you want to continue the slaves of bankers and pay the cost of your own slavery, let them continue to create money and to control credit. (Sir Josiah Stamp)

      • One day, in retrospect, the years of struggle will strike you as the most beautiful. (Sigmund Freud)

      • When injustice becomes law, resistance becomes duty. (Thomas Jefferson)

      • When even one American — who has done nothing wrong — is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth, then all Americans are in peril. (Harry Truman)

      • When you control opinion, as corporate America controls opinion in the United States by owning the media, you can make the masses believe almost anything you want, and guide them as you please. (Gore Vidal)

      • An informed citizenry is the only true repository of the public will. (Thomas Jefferson)

      • The lie can be maintained only for such time as the State can shield the people from the political, economic and/or military consequences of the lie. It thus becomes vitally important for the State to use all of its powers to repress dissent, for the truth is the mortal enemy of the lie, and thus by extension, the truth becomes the greatest enemy of the State. (Joseph Goebbels)

      • Single acts of tyranny may be ascribed to the accidental opinion of a day. But a series of oppressions, begun at a distinguished period, and pursued unalterably through every change of ministers (administrations), too plainly proves a deliberate systematic plan of reducing us to slavery. (Thomas Jefferson)

      • There is nothing more frightening than active ignorance. (Goethe)

      • The Central Intelligence Agency owns everyone of any significance in the major media. (William Colby)

      • The liberty of a democracy is not safe if the people tolerate the growth of private power to a point where it becomes stronger than their democratic State itself. That, in its essence, is Fascism – ownership of government by an individual, by a group or by any controlling private power. (Franklin D. Roosevelt)

      • In the counsels of Government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the Military Industrial Complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists, and will persist. We must never let the weight of this combination endanger our liberties or democratic processes. We should take nothing for granted. Only an alert and knowledgeable citizenry can compel the proper meshing of the huge industrial and military machinery of defense with our peaceful methods and goals so that security and liberty may prosper together. (Dwight Eisenhower)

      • The millions of people armed in the holy cause of liberty… are invincible by any force which our enemy can send against us. (Patrick Henry)

      • The perfect totalitarian state is one where the all powerful political bosses and their army of managers, control a population of slaves who do not have to be coerced because they love their servitude. (Aldous Huxley)

      • I think that on balance the moral influence of religion has been awful. With or without religion, good people can behave well and bad people can do evil; but for good people to do evil—that takes religion. (Steven Weinberg)

      • Every war when it comes, or before it comes, is represented not as a war but as an act of self-defense against a homicidal maniac. (George Orwell)

      • Warfare is a means and not an end. Warfare is a tool of revolutionaries. The important thing is the revolution! The important thing is the revolutionary cause, revolutionary ideas, revolutionary objectives, revolutionary sentiments, revolutionary virtues! (Fidel Castro)

      • The revolution is not about putting a different kind of person in power but a different kind of power in people. (Stephanie Van Hook)

      • They are patriotic in time of war because it is to their interest to be so, but in time of peace they follow power and the dollar wherever they may lead. (Henry A. Wallace)

      • In the technotronic society the trend would seem to be towards the aggregation of the individual support of millions of uncoordinated citizens, easily within the reach of magnetic and attractive personalities exploiting the latest communications techniques to manipulate emotions and control reason. (Zbigniew Brzezinski)

      • It is no coincidence that the growth of modern tyrants has in every case been heralded by the growth of prejudice. (Henry A. Wallace)

      • Genuine equality between the sexes can only be realized in the process of the socialist transformation of society as a whole. (Mao Zedong)

      • Unity is a great thing and a great slogan. But what the workers’ cause needs is the unity of Marxists, not unity between Marxists, and opponents and distorters of Marxism. (Lenin)

      • History repeats itself, first as tragedy, second as farce. (Karl Marx)

      • Machines were, it may be said, the weapon employed by the capitalists to quell the revolt of specialized labor. (Karl Marx)

      • Our task is that of ruthless criticism, and much more against ostensible friends than against open enemies; and in maintaining this our position we gladly forego cheap democratic popularity. (Karl Marx)

      • I have come to communism because of daddy Stalin. (Che Guevara)

      • It comes down to the ability to expropriate others’ labor. (Robert Bettinger)

      • It is an act of insanity and national humiliation to have a law prohibiting the President from ordering assassination. (Henry Kissinger)

      • Without revolutionary theory there can be no revolutionary movement. This idea cannot be insisted upon too strongly at a time when the fashionable preaching of opportunism goes hand in hand with an infatuation for the narrowest forms of practical activity. (Lenin)

      • I belong to the American resistance movement which fights against American imperialism, just as the resistance movement fought against Hitler. (Paul Robeson)

      • Every class struggle is a political struggle. (Lenin)

      • What is the burgling of a bank to the founding of a bank? (Bertolt Brecht)

      • All doctrines of non-class socialism and non-class politics proved to be sheer nonsense. (Lenin)

      • Corporations are in a sense moral monsters; we say they behave as such and we are disposed to treat them as such. The standard of international morality, particularly in matters of commercial intercourse, is on a still lower level. (John A. Hobson)

      • Trotsky has never yet held a firm opinion on any important question of Marxism. He always contrives to worm his way into the cracks of any given difference of opinion, and desert one side for the other. At the present moment he is in the company of the Bundists and the liquidators. (Lenin)

      • For us, those veterans who fought in that ferocious war – and the Soviet Union made great sacrifices, for it offered over 26 million martyrs, and as far as we know the number was closer to 30 million – were the main force; and today they offer a role model for the present generation and for future generations. They provide a role model of resilience and standing fast. Who could expect the siege of Stalingrad at that time to end the way it did without the steadfastness of those heroes? Who could expect that the initial retreat of the Soviet army would turn into a victory later? Without the victory of the Soviet Union, the Normandy landings for Western states wouldn’t have been possible. This is what many in the West are trying to obscure, i.e. the more important role played by the peoples of the Soviet Union at that time – including your people – in defeating Nazism. Today, these veterans play a vital role in strengthening the spirit of steadfastness, because you too are facing something similar to what Syria has been facing for decades. (Bashar al-Assad)

      • The range of debate between the dominant U.S. [political] parties tends to closely resemble the range of debate within the business class. (Robert McChesney)

      • Military intervention to maintain the global status quo will become a constant feature of international relations, whether this is justified in terms of fighting drugs, fighting terrorism, containing “rogue states, ” opposing “Islamic fundamentalism, ” or containing China. (Walden Bello)

      • I came to America because of the great, great freedom which I heard existed in this country. I made a mistake in selecting America as a land of freedom, a mistake I cannot repair in the balance of my lifetime. (Albert Einstein)

      • The state…. must see the sword as the main if not the only, instrument with which to keep its morale high and to retain its moral tension. Toward this end it may no it MUST invent dangers, and to do this it must adopt the method of provocation and revenge…. And above all, let us hope for a new war with the Arab countries so that we may finally get rid of our troubles and acquire our space. (Moshe Sharett)

      • Spirit the penniless population across the frontier by denying it employment… Both the process of expropriation and the removal of the poor must be carried out discreetly and circumspectly. (Theodore Herzl)

      • We will have a world government whether you like it or not. The only question is whether that government will be achieved by conquest or consent. (Paul Warburg)

      • The interests behind the Bush Administration, such as the CFR, The Trilateral Commission – founded by Brzezinski for David Rockefeller – and the Bilderberger Group, have prepared for and are now moving to implement open world dictatorship within the next five years. They are not fighting against terrorists. They are fighting against citizens. (Dr. Johannes B. Koeppl)

      • There is a systematic plan to use the concepts of war to rearrange the chess pieces on the world playing board. It has to do with the New World Order, Globalism and the attack on national sovereignty we are seeing. Occasionally, the globalists who want One World Government have to turn to war to accelerate things. (Joel Skousen)

      • The first casualty when war comes is the truth. (Hiram Johnson)

      • The recent quantum leap in the ability of transnational corporations to relocate their facilities around the world in effect makes all workers, communities and countries competitors for these corporations’ favor. The consequence is a “race to the bottom” in which wages and social conditions tend to fall to the level of the most desperate. (Jeremy Brecher)

      • The corporation has evolved to serve the interests of whoever controls it, at the expense of whomever does not. (William Dugger)

      • Because of its power and global interests U.S. leaders have committed crimes as a matter of course and structural necessity. A strict application of international law would … have given every U.S. president of the past 50 years Nuremberg treatment. (Edward Herman)

      • … the United States has given frequent and enthusiastic support to the overthrow of democracy in favor of “investor friendly” regimes. The World Bank, IMF, and private banks have consistently lavished huge sums on terror regimes, following their displacement of democratic governments, and a number of quantitative studies have shown a systematic positive relationship between U.S. and IMF / World Bank aid to countries and their violations of human rights. (Edward Herman)

      • The hidden hand of the market will never work without a hidden fist. McDonald’s cannot flourish without McDonnell Douglas, the designer of the F-15. And the hidden fist that keeps the world safe for Silicon Valley’s technologies to flourish is called the US Army, Air Force, Navy and Marine Corps. (Thomas Friedman)

      • … the media serve the interests of state and corporate power, which are closely interlinked, framing their reporting and analysis in a manner supportive of established privilege and limiting debate and discussion accordingly. (Noam Chomsky)

      • All propaganda must be so popular and on such an intellectual level, that even the most stupid of those toward whom it is directed will understand it… Through clever and constant application of propaganda, people can be made to see paradise as hell, and also the other way around, to consider the most wretched sort of life as paradise. (Hitler)

      • The reader will understand that I despise these “yellows”; they are utterly without honor, they are vulgar and cruel; and yet, in spite of all their vices, I count them less dangerous to society than the so-called “respectable” papers, which pretend to all the virtues, and set the smug and pious tone for good society — papers like the “New York Tribune” and the “Boston Evening Transcript” and the “Baltimore Sun, ” which are read by rich old gentlemen and maiden aunts, and can hardly ever be forced to admit to their columns any new or vital event or opinion. These are “kept” papers, in the strictest sense of the term, and do not have to hustle on the street for money. They serve the pocketbooks of the whole propertied class — which is the meaning of the term “respectability” in the bourgeois world. On the other hand the “yellow” journals, serving their own pocketbooks exclusively, will often print attacks on vested wealth, provided the attacks are startling and sensational, and provided the vested wealth in question is not a heavy advertiser. (Upton Sinclair)

      • The rich Jews, just like the rich Russians and the rich of all countries, are united in trampling upon, oppressing and dividing the workers. (R. F. Andrews)

      • There are innumerable principles of Marxism, but in the final analysis they can be summed up in one sentence: ‘To rebel is justified.’ For thousands of years everyone said, ‘Oppression is justified, exploitation is justified, rebellion is not justified.’ From the time that Marxism appeared on the scene, this old judgment was turned upside down, and this is a great contribution. This principle was derived by the proletariat from its struggles, but Marx drew the conclusion. In accordance with this principle, there was then resistance, there was struggle, and socialism was realized. What is Comrade Stalin’s contribution? He developed this principle, developed Marxism-Leninism, and produced a very clear, concrete, and living doctrine for the oppressed people of the whole world. This is the complete doctrine for establishing a revolutionary front, overthrowing imperialism, overthrowing capitalism, and establishing a socialist society. (Mao Zedong)

      • Reforms are concessions obtained from a ruling class that retains its rule. Revolution is the overthrow of the ruling class. (Lenin)

      • I am really two people. I am a private person and a political person. Of course, if there is a conflict, the political person comes first. (Kim Philby)

      • 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. (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. (Lenin)

      • The essence of a U.S.A. totalitarian socio-political capitalism is concealed behind the illusion of a mass participatory society. We must rip away its mask. Then the debate can end, and we can enter a new phase of struggle based on the development of an armed revolutionary culture that will triumph. (George Jackson)

      • In all countries, the Trotskyists give themselves fine names in order to mask their dirty work and banditry. For example: in Spain they call themselves the United Marxist Workers Party (POUM). Do you know that it’s they who constitute the nests of spies in Madrid in Barcelona and in other places in the service of Franco? (Ho Chi Minh)

      • Marxism taught me what society was. I was like a blindfolded man in a forest, who doesn’t even know where north or south is. If you don’t eventually come to truly understand the history of the class struggle, or at least have a clear idea that society is divided between the rich and the poor, and that some people subjugate and exploit other people, you’re lost in a forest, not knowing anything. (Fidel Castro)

      • Before we can unite, and in order that we may unite, we must first of all draw firm and definite lines of demarcation. (Lenin)

      • Under no circumstances must we underrate fascism’s power of ideological infection. On the contrary, we for our part must develop an extensive ideological struggle based on clear, popular arguments and a correct, well thought out approach to the peculiarities of the national psychology of the masses of the people. (Georgi Dimitrov)

      • All violence consists in some people forcing others, under threat of suffering or death, to do what they do not want to do. (Tolstoy)

      • Dialectics is the teaching which shows how Opposites can be and how they happen to be (how they become) identical,—under what conditions they are identical, becoming transformed into one another,—why the human mind should grasp these opposites not as dead, rigid, but as living, conditional, mobile, becoming transformed into one another. (Lenin)

      • Down with this contemptible fraud! There cannot be, nor is there nor will there ever be “equality” between the oppressed and the oppressors, between the exploited and the exploiters. There cannot be, nor is there nor will there ever be real “freedom” as long as there is no freedom for women from the privileges which the law grants to men, as long as there is no freedom for the workers from the yoke of capital, and no freedom for the toiling peasants from the yoke of the capitalists, landlords and merchants. (Lenin)

      • If one looks into the genealogies of many ‘old families,’ one discovers episodes of slave trafficking, bootlegging, gun running, opium trading, falsified land claims, violent acquisition of water and mineral rights, the extermination of indigenous peoples, sales of shoddy and unsafe goods, public funds used for private speculations, crooked deals in government bonds and vouchers, and payoffs for political favors. One finds fortunes built on slave labor, indentured labor, prison labor, immigrant labor, female labor, child labor, and scab labor — backed by the lethal force of gun thugs and militia. ‘Old money’ is often little more than dirty money laundered by several generations of possession. (Michael Parenti)

      • In the name of peace they waged the wars. Ain’t they got no shame? (Nikki Giovanni)

      • The Soviet state is the historically integrated form of the state during the transition period from capitalism to communism. (Andrei Yanuaryevich Vyshinsky)

      • Social democracy is objectively the moderate wing of fascism…. These organisations (ie Fascism and social democracy) are not antipodes, they are twins. (Stalin)

      • The capitalists, the bourgeoisie, can at “best” put off the victory of socialism in one country or another at the cost of slaughtering further hundreds of thousands of workers and peasants. But they cannot save capitalism. The Soviet Republic has come to take the place of capitalism, the Republic which gives power to the working people and only to the working people, which entrusts the proletariat with the guidance of their liberation, which abolishes private property in land, factories and other means of production, because this private property is the source of the exploitation of the many by the few, the source of mass poverty, the source of predatory wars between nations, wars that enrich only the capitalists. (Lenin)

      • Tu put it in a terminology that harkens back to the more brutal age of ancient empires, the three grand imperatives of imperial geostrategy are to prevent collusion and maintain security dependance among the vassels, to keep tributaries pliant and protected, and to keep the barbarians from coming together. (Zbigniew Brzezinski)

      • I believe we should do things honestly, for without an honest attitude it is absolutely impossible to accomplish anything in this world. Which are the honest people? Marx, Engels, Lenin and Stalin are honest, men of science are honest. Which are the dishonest people? Trotsky, Bukharin, Chen Tu-hsiu and Chang Kuo-tao are extremely dishonest… (Mao Zedong)

      • Fascism is able to count on the assistance of the greater part of the State forces, of the higher army staffs, of the police authorities, and of the lawcourts and magistracy, who exert all their force to crush working-class opposition, while treating Fascist illegality with open connivance (banning of the Red Front alongside permission of the Storm Troops). Finally, has Fascism “conquered power” from the bourgeois state dictatorship? Fascism has never “conquered power” in any country. In every case Fascism has been placed in power from above by the bourgeois dictatorship. (R. Palme Dutt)

      • Educate ourselves, educate other people, the population in general, to fight fear and ignorance, to eliminate little by little the subjection to nature and natural forces which our economy has not yet mastered. (Amilcar Cabral)

      • The United States is also a one-party state but, with typical American extravagance, they have two of them. (Julius Nyerere)

      • The coloured people of Cardiff are mainly communists simply because no one else has seen fit to give them a helping hand. (Harold Moody)

      • There is a driving force more powerful than steam, electricity and nuclear power: the will. (Albert Einstein)

      • Bolshevism is knocking at our gates. We can’t afford to let it in. We have got to organize ourselves against it, and put our shoulders together and hold fast. We must keep America whole and safe and unspoiled. We must keep the worker away from red literature and red ruses; we must see that his mind remains healthy. (Al Capone)

      • The scientific conclusions of Malthus are “considerate” towards the ruling classes in general and towards the reactionary elements of the ruling classes in particular; in other words he falsifies science for these interests, But his conclusions are ruthless as far as they concern the subjugated classes. He is not only ruthless; he affects ruthlessness; he takes a cynical pleasure in it and exaggerates his conclusions in so far as they are directed against the poor wretches, even beyond the point which would be scientifically justified from his point of view. (Karl Marx)

      • Now more clearly than ever, the CIA, with its related institutions, is exposed as an agency of destabilization and repression. Throughout its history, it has organized secret wars that killed millions of people in the Third World who had no capability of doing physical harm to the United States. (John Stockwell)

      • In our day and generation there is only one class which can be depended upon for consistent revolutionary action. That class is the working class. (James Connolly)

      • Yes, friends, governments in capitalist society are but committees of the rich to manage the affairs of the capitalist class. (James Connolly)

      • During the lifetime of great revolutionaries, the oppressing classes constantly hounded them, received their theories with the most savage malice, the most furious hatred and the most unscrupulous campaigns of lies and slander. After their death, attempts are made to convert them into harmless icons, to canonize them, so to say, and to hallow their names to a certain extent for the “consolation” of the oppressed classes and with the object of duping the latter, while at the same time robbing the revolutionary theory of its substance, blunting its revolutionary edge and vulgarizing it. Today, the bourgeoisie and the opportunists within the labor movement concur in this doctoring of Marxism. They omit, obscure, or distort the revolutionary side of this theory, its revolutionary soul. They push to the foreground and extol what is or seems acceptable to the bourgeoisie. All the social-chauvinists are now “Marxists” (don’t laugh!). (Lenin)

      • Your ancestors dragged these black people from their homes by force; and in the white man’s quest for wealth and an easy life they have been ruthlessly suppressed and exploited, degraded into slavery. The modern prejudice against Negroes is the result of the desire to maintain this unworthy condition. (Albert Einstein)

      • Socialism is neither Protestant nor Catholic, Christian nor Freethinker, Buddhist, Mahometan, nor Jew; it is only HUMAN. We of the Socialist working class realise that as we suffer together we must work together that we may enjoy together. We reject the firebrand of capitalist warfare and offer you the olive leaf of brotherhood and justice to and for all. (James Connolly)

      • Pacifism, the preaching of peace in the abstract, is one of the means of duping the working class. Under capitalism, particularly in its imperialist stage, wars are inevitable. (Lenin)

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    Lenin: To seek out, investigate, predict, and grasp that which is nationally specific and nationally distinctive, in the concrete manner in which each country should tackle a single international task: victory over opportunism and Left doctrinairism within the working-class movement; the overthrow of the bourgeoisie; the establishment of a Soviet republic and a proletarian dictatorship—such is the basic task in the historical period that all the advanced countries (and not they alone) are going through. The chief thing—though, of course, far from everything—the chief thing, has already been achieved: the vanguard of the working class has been won over, has ranged itself on the side of Soviet government and against parliamentarianism, on the side of the dictatorship of the proletariat and against bourgeois democracy. All efforts and all attention should now be concentrated on the next step, which may seem—and from a certain viewpoint actually ... https://gnusocial.no/url/1741505
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      • Marxism is not only the theory of socialism, it is an integral world outlook, a philosophical system, from which Marx’s proletarian socialism logically follows. This philosophical system is called dialectical materialism. (Stalin)

      • The bestiality of imperialism, a bestiality that knows no limits, that has no national boundaries. (Che Guevara)

      • For capitalist countries war is just as natural and legitimate a condition of things as the exploitation of the working class. (Stalin)

      • The real grand corruption is in the [capitalist] system, itself. (Glen Ford)

      • The dominant, almost general, idea of revolution — particularly the Socialist idea — is that revolution is a violent change of social conditions through which one social class, the working class, becomes dominant over another class, the capitalist class. (Emma Goldman)

      • We have, in this country, one of the most corrupt institutions the world has ever known. I refer to the Federal Reserve Board. This evil institution has impoverished the people of the United States and has practically bankrupted our government. It has done this through the corrupt practices of the moneyed vultures who control it. (Louis T. McFadden)

      • In theory, everybody buys the best and cheapest commodities offered to him on the market. In practice, if every one went around pricing, and chemically testing before purchasing, the dozens of soaps or fabrics or brands of bread which are for sale, economic life would become hopelessly jammed. (Edward Bernays)

      • Firstly, it is not true that fascism is only the fighting organisation of the bourgeoisie. Fascism is not only a military-technical category. Fascism is the bourgeoisie’s fighting organisation that relies on the active support of Social-Democracy. Social-Democracy is objectively the moderate wing of fascism. There is no ground for assuming that the fighting organisation of the bourgeoisie can achieve decisive successes in battles, or in governing the country, without the active support of Social-Democracy. There is just as little ground for thinking that Social-Democracy can achieve decisive successes in battles, or in governing the country, without the active support of the fighting organisation of the bourgeoisie. These organisations do not negate, but supplement each other. They are not antipodes, they are twins. Fascism is an informal political bloc of these two chief organisations; a bloc, which arose in the circumstances of the post-war crisis of imperialism, and which is intended for combating the proletarian revolution. The bourgeoisie cannot retain power without such a bloc. It would therefore be a mistake to think that “pacifism” signifies the liquidation of fascism. In the present situation, “pacifism” is the strengthening of fascism with its moderate, Social-Democratic wing pushed into the forefront. (Stalin)

      • This is an age of mass production. In the mass production of materials a broad technique has been developed and applied to their distribution. In this age, too, there must be a technique for the mass distribution of ideas. (Edward Bernays)

      • In order to rally people, governments need enemies. They want us to be afraid, to hate, so we will rally behind them. And if they do not have a real enemy, they will invent one in order to mobilize us. (Thích Nhất Hạnh)

      • By destroying small-scale production, capital leads to an increase in productivity of labour and to the creation of a monopoly position for the associations of big capitalists. (Lenin)

      • We have been ruled more by deceit than by force, and we have been degraded more by vice than by superstition. Slavery is the daughter of darkness: an ignorant people is a blind instrument of its own destruction. (Simón Bolívar)

      • It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not. (André Gide)

      • There is only one power which really counts. The power of political pressure. We Jews are the most powerful people on earth, because we have this power, and we know how to apply it. (Vladimir Jabotinsky)

      • When Stalin was still alive, I saw things differently, but as I look back over this century, I can state that Stalin was the greatest individual of this century, the greatest political genius. To adopt a scientific attitude about someone is quite different from one’s personal attitude. (Alexander Zinoviev)

      • If any of you in any way hate homosexuals, people of different color, or women, please do this one favor for us – leave us the fuck alone! Don’t come to our shows and don’t buy our records. (Kurt Cobain)

      • To seek out, investigate, predict, and grasp that which is nationally specific and nationally distinctive, in the concrete manner in which each country should tackle a single international task: victory over opportunism and Left doctrinairism within the working-class movement; the overthrow of the bourgeoisie; the establishment of a Soviet republic and a proletarian dictatorship—such is the basic task in the historical period that all the advanced countries (and not they alone) are going through. The chief thing—though, of course, far from everything—the chief thing, has already been achieved: the vanguard of the working class has been won over, has ranged itself on the side of Soviet government and against parliamentarianism, on the side of the dictatorship of the proletariat and against bourgeois democracy. All efforts and all attention should now be concentrated on the next step, which may seem—and from a certain viewpoint actually is —less fundamental, but, on the other hand, is actually closer to a practical accomplishment of the task. That step is: the search after forms of the transition or the approach to the proletarian revolution. (Lenin)

      • Everywhere revolutions are painful yet fruitful gestations of a people: they shed blood but create light, they eliminate men but elaborate ideas. (Goethe)

      • Disobedience, in the eyes of any one who has read history, is man’s original virtue. It is through disobedience that progress has been made, through disobedience and through rebellion. (Oscar Wilde)

      • While there is a lower class, I am in it, while there is a criminal element, I am of it, and while there is a soul in prison, I am not free. (Eugene V. Debs)

      • The Revolution will not be televised. The Revolution will be no rerun, brothers. The Revolution — will be live. (Gilbert Scott-Heron)

      • As to the history of the revolution, my ideas may be peculiar, perhaps singular. What do we mean by the Revolution? The war? That was no part of the revolution; it was only an effect and consequence of it. The revolution was in the minds of the people, and this was effected … before a drop of blood was shed. (John Adams)

      • None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free. (Goethe)

      • If the people understood the banking system, there would be a revolution tomorrow. (Henry Ford)

      • Give me liberty or give me death. (Patrick Henry)

      • Just see these superfluous ones! They steal the works of the inventors and the treasures of the wise. Culture, they call their theft—and everything becometh sickness and trouble unto them! Just see these superfluous ones! Sick are they always; they vomit their bile and call it a newspaper. They devour one another, and cannot even digest themselves. Just see these superfluous ones! Wealth they acquire and become poorer thereby. Power they seek for, and above all, the lever of power, much money—these impotent ones! See them clamber, these nimble apes! They clamber over one another, and thus scuffle into the mud and the abyss. Towards the throne they all strive: it is their madness—as if happiness sat on the throne! Ofttimes sitteth filth on the throne.—and ofttimes also the throne on filth. Madmen they all seem to me, and clambering apes, and too eager. Badly smelleth their idol to me, the cold monster: badly they all smell to me, these idolaters. My brethren, will ye suffocate in the fumes of their maws and appetites! Better break the windows and jump into the open air! Do go out of the way of the bad odour! Withdraw from the idolatry of the superfluous! Do go out of the way of the bad odour! Withdraw from the steam of these human sacrifices! Open still remaineth the earth for great souls. Empty are still many sites for lone ones and twain ones, around which floateth the odour of tranquil seas. Open still remaineth a free life for great souls. Verily, he who possesseth little is so much the less possessed: blessed be moderate poverty! (Nietzsche)

      • Every revolution has its counterrevolution – that is a sign the revolution is for real. (C. Wright Mills)

      • Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves. (Abraham Lincoln)

      • The common people suffer when the powerful disagree. (Plátōn)

      • Imperialism is the monopoly stage of capitalism. (Lenin)

      • In this Revolution no plans have been written for retreat. (Martin Luther King, Jr.)

      • Tell the children the truth. (Bob Marley)

      • They got money for wars, but wont feed the poor. (Tupac Shakur)

      • When you are right you cannot be too radical; when you are wrong, you cannot be too conservative. (Martin Luther King, Jr.)

      • Revolution is not an action, it is a process. (Huey P. Newton)

      • I would rather die on my feet than live on my knees. (Huey P. Newton)

      • Armaments, universal debt and planned obsolescence — those are the three pillars of Western prosperity. (Aldous Huxley)

      • The greatest revolution of our generation is the discovery that human beings can change their lives. (William James)

      • The modern banking system manufactures money out of nothing. The process is perhaps the most astounding piece of sleight of hand that was ever invented. Banking was conceived in iniquity and born in sin. Bankers own the earth. Take it away from them, but leave them the power to create money and control credit, and with the flick of a pen, they will create enough money to buy it back again. Take this great power away from the bankers and all the great fortunes like mine will disappear, and they ought to disappear, for this would be a better and happier world to live in. But if you want to continue the slaves of bankers and pay the cost of your own slavery, let them continue to create money and to control credit. (Sir Josiah Stamp)

      • One day, in retrospect, the years of struggle will strike you as the most beautiful. (Sigmund Freud)

      • When injustice becomes law, resistance becomes duty. (Thomas Jefferson)

      • When even one American — who has done nothing wrong — is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth, then all Americans are in peril. (Harry Truman)

      • When you control opinion, as corporate America controls opinion in the United States by owning the media, you can make the masses believe almost anything you want, and guide them as you please. (Gore Vidal)

      • An informed citizenry is the only true repository of the public will. (Thomas Jefferson)

      • The lie can be maintained only for such time as the State can shield the people from the political, economic and/or military consequences of the lie. It thus becomes vitally important for the State to use all of its powers to repress dissent, for the truth is the mortal enemy of the lie, and thus by extension, the truth becomes the greatest enemy of the State. (Joseph Goebbels)

      • Single acts of tyranny may be ascribed to the accidental opinion of a day. But a series of oppressions, begun at a distinguished period, and pursued unalterably through every change of ministers (administrations), too plainly proves a deliberate systematic plan of reducing us to slavery. (Thomas Jefferson)

      • There is nothing more frightening than active ignorance. (Goethe)

      • The Central Intelligence Agency owns everyone of any significance in the major media. (William Colby)

      • The liberty of a democracy is not safe if the people tolerate the growth of private power to a point where it becomes stronger than their democratic State itself. That, in its essence, is Fascism – ownership of government by an individual, by a group or by any controlling private power. (Franklin D. Roosevelt)

      • In the counsels of Government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the Military Industrial Complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists, and will persist. We must never let the weight of this combination endanger our liberties or democratic processes. We should take nothing for granted. Only an alert and knowledgeable citizenry can compel the proper meshing of the huge industrial and military machinery of defense with our peaceful methods and goals so that security and liberty may prosper together. (Dwight Eisenhower)

      • The millions of people armed in the holy cause of liberty… are invincible by any force which our enemy can send against us. (Patrick Henry)

      • The perfect totalitarian state is one where the all powerful political bosses and their army of managers, control a population of slaves who do not have to be coerced because they love their servitude. (Aldous Huxley)

      • I think that on balance the moral influence of religion has been awful. With or without religion, good people can behave well and bad people can do evil; but for good people to do evil—that takes religion. (Steven Weinberg)

      • Every war when it comes, or before it comes, is represented not as a war but as an act of self-defense against a homicidal maniac. (George Orwell)

      • Warfare is a means and not an end. Warfare is a tool of revolutionaries. The important thing is the revolution! The important thing is the revolutionary cause, revolutionary ideas, revolutionary objectives, revolutionary sentiments, revolutionary virtues! (Fidel Castro)

      • The revolution is not about putting a different kind of person in power but a different kind of power in people. (Stephanie Van Hook)

      • They are patriotic in time of war because it is to their interest to be so, but in time of peace they follow power and the dollar wherever they may lead. (Henry A. Wallace)

      • In the technotronic society the trend would seem to be towards the aggregation of the individual support of millions of uncoordinated citizens, easily within the reach of magnetic and attractive personalities exploiting the latest communications techniques to manipulate emotions and control reason. (Zbigniew Brzezinski)

      • It is no coincidence that the growth of modern tyrants has in every case been heralded by the growth of prejudice. (Henry A. Wallace)

      • Genuine equality between the sexes can only be realized in the process of the socialist transformation of society as a whole. (Mao Zedong)

      • Unity is a great thing and a great slogan. But what the workers’ cause needs is the unity of Marxists, not unity between Marxists, and opponents and distorters of Marxism. (Lenin)

      • History repeats itself, first as tragedy, second as farce. (Karl Marx)

      • Machines were, it may be said, the weapon employed by the capitalists to quell the revolt of specialized labor. (Karl Marx)

      • Our task is that of ruthless criticism, and much more against ostensible friends than against open enemies; and in maintaining this our position we gladly forego cheap democratic popularity. (Karl Marx)

      • I have come to communism because of daddy Stalin. (Che Guevara)

      • It comes down to the ability to expropriate others’ labor. (Robert Bettinger)

      • It is an act of insanity and national humiliation to have a law prohibiting the President from ordering assassination. (Henry Kissinger)

      • Without revolutionary theory there can be no revolutionary movement. This idea cannot be insisted upon too strongly at a time when the fashionable preaching of opportunism goes hand in hand with an infatuation for the narrowest forms of practical activity. (Lenin)

      • Israel should have exploited the repression of the demonstrations in China, when world attention focused on that country, to carry out mass expulsions among the Arabs of the territories. (Benjamin Netanyahu)

      • I belong to the American resistance movement which fights against American imperialism, just as the resistance movement fought against Hitler. (Paul Robeson)

      • Every class struggle is a political struggle. (Lenin)

      • What is the burgling of a bank to the founding of a bank? (Bertolt Brecht)

      • All doctrines of non-class socialism and non-class politics proved to be sheer nonsense. (Lenin)

      • Corporations are in a sense moral monsters; we say they behave as such and we are disposed to treat them as such. The standard of international morality, particularly in matters of commercial intercourse, is on a still lower level. (John A. Hobson)

      • Along the way, I had the opportunity to pass through the dominions of the United Fruit, convincing me once again of just how terrible these capitalist octopuses are. I have sworn before a picture of the old and mourned comrade Stalin that I won’t rest until I see these capitalist octopuses annihilated. (Che Guevara)

      • Trotsky has never yet held a firm opinion on any important question of Marxism. He always contrives to worm his way into the cracks of any given difference of opinion, and desert one side for the other. At the present moment he is in the company of the Bundists and the liquidators. (Lenin)

      • The farmer and manufacturer can no more live without profit than the labourer without wages. (David Ricardo)

      • For us, those veterans who fought in that ferocious war – and the Soviet Union made great sacrifices, for it offered over 26 million martyrs, and as far as we know the number was closer to 30 million – were the main force; and today they offer a role model for the present generation and for future generations. They provide a role model of resilience and standing fast. Who could expect the siege of Stalingrad at that time to end the way it did without the steadfastness of those heroes? Who could expect that the initial retreat of the Soviet army would turn into a victory later? Without the victory of the Soviet Union, the Normandy landings for Western states wouldn’t have been possible. This is what many in the West are trying to obscure, i.e. the more important role played by the peoples of the Soviet Union at that time – including your people – in defeating Nazism. Today, these veterans play a vital role in strengthening the spirit of steadfastness, because you too are facing something similar to what Syria has been facing for decades. (Bashar al-Assad)

      • The range of debate between the dominant U.S. [political] parties tends to closely resemble the range of debate within the business class. (Robert McChesney)

      • Military intervention to maintain the global status quo will become a constant feature of international relations, whether this is justified in terms of fighting drugs, fighting terrorism, containing “rogue states, ” opposing “Islamic fundamentalism, ” or containing China. (Walden Bello)

      • I came to America because of the great, great freedom which I heard existed in this country. I made a mistake in selecting America as a land of freedom, a mistake I cannot repair in the balance of my lifetime. (Albert Einstein)

      • The state…. must see the sword as the main if not the only, instrument with which to keep its morale high and to retain its moral tension. Toward this end it may no it MUST invent dangers, and to do this it must adopt the method of provocation and revenge…. And above all, let us hope for a new war with the Arab countries so that we may finally get rid of our troubles and acquire our space. (Moshe Sharett)

      • Spirit the penniless population across the frontier by denying it employment… Both the process of expropriation and the removal of the poor must be carried out discreetly and circumspectly. (Theodore Herzl)

      • We will have a world government whether you like it or not. The only question is whether that government will be achieved by conquest or consent. (Paul Warburg)

      • The interests behind the Bush Administration, such as the CFR, The Trilateral Commission – founded by Brzezinski for David Rockefeller – and the Bilderberger Group, have prepared for and are now moving to implement open world dictatorship within the next five years. They are not fighting against terrorists. They are fighting against citizens. (Dr. Johannes B. Koeppl)

      • There is a systematic plan to use the concepts of war to rearrange the chess pieces on the world playing board. It has to do with the New World Order, Globalism and the attack on national sovereignty we are seeing. Occasionally, the globalists who want One World Government have to turn to war to accelerate things. (Joel Skousen)

      • The first casualty when war comes is the truth. (Hiram Johnson)

      • The recent quantum leap in the ability of transnational corporations to relocate their facilities around the world in effect makes all workers, communities and countries competitors for these corporations’ favor. The consequence is a “race to the bottom” in which wages and social conditions tend to fall to the level of the most desperate. (Jeremy Brecher)

      • The corporation has evolved to serve the interests of whoever controls it, at the expense of whomever does not. (William Dugger)

      • Because of its power and global interests U.S. leaders have committed crimes as a matter of course and structural necessity. A strict application of international law would … have given every U.S. president of the past 50 years Nuremberg treatment. (Edward Herman)

      • … the United States has given frequent and enthusiastic support to the overthrow of democracy in favor of “investor friendly” regimes. The World Bank, IMF, and private banks have consistently lavished huge sums on terror regimes, following their displacement of democratic governments, and a number of quantitative studies have shown a systematic positive relationship between U.S. and IMF / World Bank aid to countries and their violations of human rights. (Edward Herman)

      • The hidden hand of the market will never work without a hidden fist. McDonald’s cannot flourish without McDonnell Douglas, the designer of the F-15. And the hidden fist that keeps the world safe for Silicon Valley’s technologies to flourish is called the US Army, Air Force, Navy and Marine Corps. (Thomas Friedman)

      • … the media serve the interests of state and corporate power, which are closely interlinked, framing their reporting and analysis in a manner supportive of established privilege and limiting debate and discussion accordingly. (Noam Chomsky)

      • All propaganda must be so popular and on such an intellectual level, that even the most stupid of those toward whom it is directed will understand it… Through clever and constant application of propaganda, people can be made to see paradise as hell, and also the other way around, to consider the most wretched sort of life as paradise. (Hitler)

      • The reader will understand that I despise these “yellows”; they are utterly without honor, they are vulgar and cruel; and yet, in spite of all their vices, I count them less dangerous to society than the so-called “respectable” papers, which pretend to all the virtues, and set the smug and pious tone for good society — papers like the “New York Tribune” and the “Boston Evening Transcript” and the “Baltimore Sun, ” which are read by rich old gentlemen and maiden aunts, and can hardly ever be forced to admit to their columns any new or vital event or opinion. These are “kept” papers, in the strictest sense of the term, and do not have to hustle on the street for money. They serve the pocketbooks of the whole propertied class — which is the meaning of the term “respectability” in the bourgeois world. On the other hand the “yellow” journals, serving their own pocketbooks exclusively, will often print attacks on vested wealth, provided the attacks are startling and sensational, and provided the vested wealth in question is not a heavy advertiser. (Upton Sinclair)

      • The rich Jews, just like the rich Russians and the rich of all countries, are united in trampling upon, oppressing and dividing the workers. (R. F. Andrews)

      • There are innumerable principles of Marxism, but in the final analysis they can be summed up in one sentence: ‘To rebel is justified.’ For thousands of years everyone said, ‘Oppression is justified, exploitation is justified, rebellion is not justified.’ From the time that Marxism appeared on the scene, this old judgment was turned upside down, and this is a great contribution. This principle was derived by the proletariat from its struggles, but Marx drew the conclusion. In accordance with this principle, there was then resistance, there was struggle, and socialism was realized. What is Comrade Stalin’s contribution? He developed this principle, developed Marxism-Leninism, and produced a very clear, concrete, and living doctrine for the oppressed people of the whole world. This is the complete doctrine for establishing a revolutionary front, overthrowing imperialism, overthrowing capitalism, and establishing a socialist society. (Mao Zedong)

      • Reforms are concessions obtained from a ruling class that retains its rule. Revolution is the overthrow of the ruling class. (Lenin)

      • I am really two people. I am a private person and a political person. Of course, if there is a conflict, the political person comes first. (Kim Philby)

      • 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. (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. (Lenin)

      • The essence of a U.S.A. totalitarian socio-political capitalism is concealed behind the illusion of a mass participatory society. We must rip away its mask. Then the debate can end, and we can enter a new phase of struggle based on the development of an armed revolutionary culture that will triumph. (George Jackson)

      • In all countries, the Trotskyists give themselves fine names in order to mask their dirty work and banditry. For example: in Spain they call themselves the United Marxist Workers Party (POUM). Do you know that it’s they who constitute the nests of spies in Madrid in Barcelona and in other places in the service of Franco? (Ho Chi Minh)

      • Marxism taught me what society was. I was like a blindfolded man in a forest, who doesn’t even know where north or south is. If you don’t eventually come to truly understand the history of the class struggle, or at least have a clear idea that society is divided between the rich and the poor, and that some people subjugate and exploit other people, you’re lost in a forest, not knowing anything. (Fidel Castro)

      • Before we can unite, and in order that we may unite, we must first of all draw firm and definite lines of demarcation. (Lenin)

      • Under no circumstances must we underrate fascism’s power of ideological infection. On the contrary, we for our part must develop an extensive ideological struggle based on clear, popular arguments and a correct, well thought out approach to the peculiarities of the national psychology of the masses of the people. (Georgi Dimitrov)

      • All violence consists in some people forcing others, under threat of suffering or death, to do what they do not want to do. (Tolstoy)

      • Dialectics is the teaching which shows how Opposites can be and how they happen to be (how they become) identical,—under what conditions they are identical, becoming transformed into one another,—why the human mind should grasp these opposites not as dead, rigid, but as living, conditional, mobile, becoming transformed into one another. (Lenin)

      • Down with this contemptible fraud! There cannot be, nor is there nor will there ever be “equality” between the oppressed and the oppressors, between the exploited and the exploiters. There cannot be, nor is there nor will there ever be real “freedom” as long as there is no freedom for women from the privileges which the law grants to men, as long as there is no freedom for the workers from the yoke of capital, and no freedom for the toiling peasants from the yoke of the capitalists, landlords and merchants. (Lenin)

      • If one looks into the genealogies of many ‘old families,’ one discovers episodes of slave trafficking, bootlegging, gun running, opium trading, falsified land claims, violent acquisition of water and mineral rights, the extermination of indigenous peoples, sales of shoddy and unsafe goods, public funds used for private speculations, crooked deals in government bonds and vouchers, and payoffs for political favors. One finds fortunes built on slave labor, indentured labor, prison labor, immigrant labor, female labor, child labor, and scab labor — backed by the lethal force of gun thugs and militia. ‘Old money’ is often little more than dirty money laundered by several generations of possession. (Michael Parenti)

      • In the name of peace they waged the wars. Ain’t they got no shame? (Nikki Giovanni)

      • The Soviet state is the historically integrated form of the state during the transition period from capitalism to communism. (Andrei Yanuaryevich Vyshinsky)

      • The speed with which a party passes from one stage to another depends on objective conditions, as well as on the correctness of its own policies and the ability of its leadership. The aggravation of the general crisis of capitalism and the successes of the forces of socialism, and the increase in the political maturity and experience of the party membership, create in our days the prerequisites for all Communist Parties of the capitalist countries to rise to a higher level of development. (Otto Kuusinen)

      • The capitalists, the bourgeoisie, can at “best” put off the victory of socialism in one country or another at the cost of slaughtering further hundreds of thousands of workers and peasants. But they cannot save capitalism. The Soviet Republic has come to take the place of capitalism, the Republic which gives power to the working people and only to the working people, which entrusts the proletariat with the guidance of their liberation, which abolishes private property in land, factories and other means of production, because this private property is the source of the exploitation of the many by the few, the source of mass poverty, the source of predatory wars between nations, wars that enrich only the capitalists. (Lenin)

      • Further, the superstructure is a product of the base, but this by no means implies that it merely reflects the base, that it is passive, neutral, indifferent to the fate of its base, to the fate of the classes, to the character of the system. On the contrary, having come into being, it becomes an exceedingly active force, actively assisting its base to take shape and consolidate itself, and doing its utmost to help the new system to finish off and eliminate the old base and the old classes. It cannot be otherwise. The superstructure is created by the base precisely in order to serve it, to actively help it to take shape and consolidate itself, to actively fight for the elimination of the old, moribund base together with its old superstructure. The superstructure has only to renounce this role of auxiliary, it has only to pass from a position of active defense of its base to one of indifference towards it, to adopt an equal attitude to all classes, and it loses its virtue and ceases to be a superstructure. (Stalin)

      • A United States of the World (not of Europe alone) is the state form of the unification and freedom of nations which we associate with socialism—about the total disappearance of the state, including the democratic. (Lenin)

      • The more a society deviates from the truth, the more it will hate those who proclaim it. (George Orwell)

      • Just as mankind can achieve the abolition of classes only by passing through the transition period of the dictatorship of the oppressed class, so mankind can achieve the inevitable merging of nations only by passing through the transition period of complete liberation of all the oppressed nations, i.e., their freedom to secede. (Lenin)

      • Tu put it in a terminology that harkens back to the more brutal age of ancient empires, the three grand imperatives of imperial geostrategy are to prevent collusion and maintain security dependance among the vassels, to keep tributaries pliant and protected, and to keep the barbarians from coming together. (Zbigniew Brzezinski)

      • Whilst the cotton industry introduced child-slavery in England, it gave in the United States a stimulus to the transformation of the earlier, more or less patriarchal slavery, into a system of commercial exploitation. In fact, the veiled slavery of the wage workers in Europe needed, for its pedestal, slavery pure and simple in the new world. Tantae molis erat, to establish the “eternal laws of Nature” of the capitalist mode of production, to complete the process of separation between labourers and conditions of labour, to transform, at one pole, the social means of production and subsistence into capital, at the opposite pole, the mass of the population into wage labourers, into “free labouring poor,” that artificial product of modern society. (Karl Marx)

      • With the national debt arose an international credit system, which often conceals one of the sources of primitive accumulation in this or that people. Thus the villainies of the Venetian thieving system formed one of the secret bases of the capital-wealth of Holland to whom Venice in her decadence lent large sums of money. So also was it with Holland and England. By the beginning of the 18th century the Dutch manufactures were far outstripped. Holland had ceased to be the nation preponderant in commerce and industry. One of its main lines of business, therefore, from 1701-1776, is the lending out of enormous amounts of capital, especially to its great rival England. The same thing is going on today between England and the United States. A great deal of capital, which appears today in the United States without any certificate of birth, was yesterday, in England, the capitalised blood of children. (Karl Marx)

      • I believe we should do things honestly, for without an honest attitude it is absolutely impossible to accomplish anything in this world. Which are the honest people? Marx, Engels, Lenin and Stalin are honest, men of science are honest. Which are the dishonest people? Trotsky, Bukharin, Chen Tu-hsiu and Chang Kuo-tao are extremely dishonest… (Mao Zedong)

      • Fascism is able to count on the assistance of the greater part of the State forces, of the higher army staffs, of the police authorities, and of the lawcourts and magistracy, who exert all their force to crush working-class opposition, while treating Fascist illegality with open connivance (banning of the Red Front alongside permission of the Storm Troops). Finally, has Fascism “conquered power” from the bourgeois state dictatorship? Fascism has never “conquered power” in any country. In every case Fascism has been placed in power from above by the bourgeois dictatorship. (R. Palme Dutt)

      • Educate ourselves, educate other people, the population in general, to fight fear and ignorance, to eliminate little by little the subjection to nature and natural forces which our economy has not yet mastered. (Amilcar Cabral)

      • The United States is also a one-party state but, with typical American extravagance, they have two of them. (Julius Nyerere)

      • The coloured people of Cardiff are mainly communists simply because no one else has seen fit to give them a helping hand. (Harold Moody)

      • There is a driving force more powerful than steam, electricity and nuclear power: the will. (Albert Einstein)

      • Bolshevism is knocking at our gates. We can’t afford to let it in. We have got to organize ourselves against it, and put our shoulders together and hold fast. We must keep America whole and safe and unspoiled. We must keep the worker away from red literature and red ruses; we must see that his mind remains healthy. (Al Capone)

      • The scientific conclusions of Malthus are “considerate” towards the ruling classes in general and towards the reactionary elements of the ruling classes in particular; in other words he falsifies science for these interests, But his conclusions are ruthless as far as they concern the subjugated classes. He is not only ruthless; he affects ruthlessness; he takes a cynical pleasure in it and exaggerates his conclusions in so far as they are directed against the poor wretches, even beyond the point which would be scientifically justified from his point of view. (Karl Marx)

      • Now more clearly than ever, the CIA, with its related institutions, is exposed as an agency of destabilization and repression. Throughout its history, it has organized secret wars that killed millions of people in the Third World who had no capability of doing physical harm to the United States. (John Stockwell)

      • In our day and generation there is only one class which can be depended upon for consistent revolutionary action. That class is the working class. (James Connolly)

      • Yes, friends, governments in capitalist society are but committees of the rich to manage the affairs of the capitalist class. (James Connolly)

      • During the lifetime of great revolutionaries, the oppressing classes constantly hounded them, received their theories with the most savage malice, the most furious hatred and the most unscrupulous campaigns of lies and slander. After their death, attempts are made to convert them into harmless icons, to canonize them, so to say, and to hallow their names to a certain extent for the “consolation” of the oppressed classes and with the object of duping the latter, while at the same time robbing the revolutionary theory of its substance, blunting its revolutionary edge and vulgarizing it. Today, the bourgeoisie and the opportunists within the labor movement concur in this doctoring of Marxism. They omit, obscure, or distort the revolutionary side of this theory, its revolutionary soul. They push to the foreground and extol what is or seems acceptable to the bourgeoisie. All the social-chauvinists are now “Marxists” (don’t laugh!). (Lenin)

      • Your ancestors dragged these black people from their homes by force; and in the white man’s quest for wealth and an easy life they have been ruthlessly suppressed and exploited, degraded into slavery. The modern prejudice against Negroes is the result of the desire to maintain this unworthy condition. (Albert Einstein)

      • Socialism is neither Protestant nor Catholic, Christian nor Freethinker, Buddhist, Mahometan, nor Jew; it is only HUMAN. We of the Socialist working class realise that as we suffer together we must work together that we may enjoy together. We reject the firebrand of capitalist warfare and offer you the olive leaf of brotherhood and justice to and for all. (James Connolly)

      • Pacifism, the preaching of peace in the abstract, is one of the means of duping the working class. Under capitalism, particularly in its imperialist stage, wars are inevitable. (Lenin)

      • We are reproached with having no programme, or that the one we have is full of contradictions. But just because of this we shall gain the victory. (Joseph Goebbels)

      • Capitalism creates its own grave-digger, itself creates the elements of a new system, yet, at the same time, without a “leap” these individual elements change nothing in the general state of affairs and do not affect the rule of capital. It is Marxism, the theory of dialectical materialism, that is able to encompass these contradictions of living reality, of the living history of capitalism and the working-class movement. (Lenin)

      • Last night, I tell you, to watch that thing on television, as I did, to see those, those monkeys from those African countries — damn them — they’re still uncomfortable wearing shoes! (Ronald Reagan)

      • I think it is very beautiful for the poor to accept their lot, to share it with the passion of Christ. I think the world is being much helped by the suffering of the poor people. (Teresa of Calcutta)

      • The victorious proletariat can force no blessings of any kind upon any foreign nation without undermining its own victory by so doing. (Friedrich Engels)

      • It’s easier to fool people than to convince them that they have been fooled. (Mark Twain)

      • The capitalists divide the world, not out of any particular malice, but because the degree of concentration which has been reached forces them to adopt this method in order to obtain profits. And they divide it “in proportion to capital”, “in proportion to strength”, because there cannot be any other method of division under commodity production and capitalism. (Lenin)

      • Never in history has violence been initiated by the oppressed. How could they be the initiators, if they themselves are the result of violence? (Paulo Freire)

      • Concerning non-violence, it is criminal to teach a man not to defend himself when he is the constant victim of brutal attacks. (Malcolm X)

      • In capitalist society spare time is acquired for one class by converting the whole life-time of the masses into labour time. (Karl Marx)

      • Peace reigned in Europe, but this was because domination over hundreds of millions of people in the colonies by the European nations was sustained only through constant, incessant, interminable wars, which we Europeans do not regard as wars at all, since all too often they resembled, not wars, but brutal massacres, the wholesale slaughter of unarmed peoples. (Lenin)

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    Mao Zedong: The victory of the Chinese people’s revolution is absolutely inseparable from Comrade Stalin’s unceasing care, leadership, and support of over thirty years. Since the victory of the Chinese people’s revolution, Comrade Stalin and the people and government of the Soviet Union, under his leadership, have rendered generous and selfless assistance to the Chinese people’s cause of construction. Such a great and profound friendship as that which Comrade Stalin had for the Chinese people will be forever remembered with gratitude by the Chinese people. The immortal beacon of Comrade Stalin will forever illuminate the path on which the Chinese people march forward. https://protestationblog.wordpress.com/quotes9/#quotenr3808
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      • Dialectical logic is loyal to the contradictions, not by the reasoning of “on the one hand and the other” but by tracing the contradictions to their fractured source. (Russell Jacoby)

      • Any one who speaks in favor of bringing the Arab refugees back must also say how he expects to take the responsibility for it, if he is interested in the state of Israel. It is better that things are stated clearly and plainly: We shall not let this happen. (Golda Meir)

      • This is the pure form of servitude: to exist as an instrument. (Herbert Marcuse)

      • Ur-Fascism is still around us, sometimes in plainclothes. (Umberto Eco)

      • Everyone was at one time a Social Democrat. (Hitler)

      • (The Palestinians) would be crushed like grasshoppers … heads smashed against the boulders and walls. (Yizhak Shamir)

      • The real task of knowing is, through perception, to arrive at thought, to arrive step by step at the comprehension of the internal contradictions of objective things, of their laws and of the internal relations between one process and another, that is, to arrive at logical knowledge. To repeat, logical knowledge differs from perceptual knowledge in that perceptual knowledge pertains to the separate aspects, the phenomena and the external relations of things, whereas logical knowledge takes a big stride forward to reach the totality, the essence and the internal relations of things and discloses the inner contradictions in the surrounding world. Therefore, logical knowledge is capable of grasping the development of the surrounding world in its totality, in the internal relations of all its aspects. This dialectical-materialist theory of the process of development of knowledge, basing itself on practice and proceeding from the shallower to the deeper, was never worked out by anybody before the rise of Marxism. Marxist materialism solved this problem correctly for the first time, pointing out both materialistically and dialectically the deepening movement of cognition, the movement by which man in society progresses from perceptual knowledge to logical knowledge in his complex, constantly recurring practice of production and class struggle. (Mao Zedong)

      • LABOUR, like all other things which are purchased and sold, and which may be increased or diminished in quantity, has its natural and its market price. The natural price of labour is that price which is necessary to enable the labourers, on with another, to subsist and to perpetuate their race, without either increase or diminution. (David Ricardo)

      • When feudalism was overthrown and “free” capitalist society appeared in the world, it at once became apparent that this freedom meant a new system of oppression and exploitation of the working people. (Lenin)

      • Every German who remains alive will kill women, children and old folks. Dead Germans are harmless. Therefore, if I kill a German, I am saving lives. (Lyudmila Pavlichenko)

      • Mr. Churchill and his friends bear a striking resemblance to Hitler and his friends. (Stalin)

      • The victory of the Chinese people’s revolution is absolutely inseparable from Comrade Stalin’s unceasing care, leadership, and support of over thirty years. Since the victory of the Chinese people’s revolution, Comrade Stalin and the people and government of the Soviet Union, under his leadership, have rendered generous and selfless assistance to the Chinese people’s cause of construction. Such a great and profound friendship as that which Comrade Stalin had for the Chinese people will be forever remembered with gratitude by the Chinese people. The immortal beacon of Comrade Stalin will forever illuminate the path on which the Chinese people march forward. (Mao Zedong)

      • We consider the Trotskyist party to be acting against the revolution. (Che Guevara)

      • …I sincerely believe, with you, that banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies; and that the principle of spending money to be paid by posterity, under the name of funding, is but swindling futurity on a large scale. (Thomas Jefferson)

      • Those who do not move, do not notice their chains. (Rosa Luxemburg)

      • Our tradition is one of protest and revolt, and it is stultifying to celebrate the rebels of the past while we silence the rebels of the present. (Henry Steele Commager)

      • This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government, they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it, or exercise their revolutionary right to dismember or overthrow it. (Abraham Lincoln)

      • A constitution imperilled justifies revolution. (Edward Counsel)

      • The history of the world is none other than the progress of the consciousness of freedom. (G. W. F. Hegel)

      • You show me a capitalist, and I’ll show you a bloodsucker. (Malcolm X)

      • Nonviolence is fine as long as it works. (Malcolm X)

      • Freedom in capitalist society always remains about the same as it was in ancient Greek republics: Freedom for slave owners. (Lenin)

      • All civilization has from time to time become a thin crust over a volcano of revolution. (Henry Ellis)

      • We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools. (Martin Luther King, Jr.)

      • It is the old practice of despots to use a part of the people to keep the rest in order. (Thomas Jefferson)

      • The sin of silence when they should protest makes cowards of men. (Abraham Lincoln)

      • Revolution is not a one time event. (Audre Lorde)

      • Emancipate yourselves from mental slavery, none but ourselves can free our minds! (Bob Marley)

      • It is easier to pass a camel through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the Kingdom of Heaven. (Yēšū́aʿ)

      • Democracies cannot dispense with hypocrisy any more than dictatorships can with cynicism. (Georges Bernanos)

      • It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society. (Jiddu Krishnamurti)

      • All men recognize the right of revolution; to refuse allegiance to the govt when its tyranny is great & unendurable. (Henry David Thoreau)

      • America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves. (Abraham Lincoln)

      • Live your beliefs and you can turn the world around. (Henry David Thoreau)

      • A populace never rebels from passion for attack, but from impatience of suffering. (Edmund Burke)

      • The shepherd always tries to persuade the sheep that their interests and his own are the same. (Marie-Henri Beyle)

      • If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be… The People cannot be safe without information. When the press is free, and every man is able to read, all is safe. (Thomas Jefferson)

      • One cannot wage war under present conditions without the support of public opinion, which is tremendously molded by the press and other forms of propaganda. (General Douglas MacArthur)

      • Governments constantly choose between telling lies and fighting wars, with the end result always being the same. One will always lead to the other. (Thomas Jefferson)

      • The Constitution is not an instrument for the government to restrain the people, it is an instrument for the people to restrain the government — lest it come to dominate our lives and interests. (Patrick Henry)

      • We are all capable of believing things which we know to be untrue, and then, when we are finally proved wrong, impudently twisting the facts so as to show that we were right. Intellectually, it is possible to carry on this process for an indefinite time: the only check on it is that sooner or later a false belief bumps up against solid reality, usually on a battlefield. (George Orwell)

      • Dissent is the highest form of patriotism. (Howard Zinn)

      • Truth is violated by falsehood, but it is outraged by silence. (Henri Frederic Amiel)

      • When fascism comes to America, it will be wrapped in the flag and carrying the cross. (Sinclair Lewis)

      • The welfare of the people in particular has always been the alibi of tyrants. (Camus)

      • Our government has kept us in a perpetual state of fear — kept us in a continuous stampede of patriotic fervor — with the cry of grave national emergency. Always there has been some terrible evil at home or some monstrous foreign power that was going to gobble us up if we did not blindly rally behind it. (General Douglas MacArthur)

      • Power that controls the economy should be in the hands of elected representatives of the people, not in the hands of an industrial oligarchy. (Justice William O. Douglas)

      • One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly. (Nietzsche)

      • Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored. (Aldous Huxley)

      • Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction. (Blaise Pascal)

      • There are only two things we should fight for. One is the defense of our homes and the other is the Bill of Rights. (General Smedley Butler)

      • I find capitalism repugnant. It is filthy, it is gross, it is alienating… because it causes war, hypocrisy and competition. (Fidel Castro)

      • I would rather die standing than live on my knees! (Zapata)

      • The American fascists are most easily recognized by their deliberate perversion of truth and fact. Their newspapers and propaganda carefully cultivate every fissure of disunity, every crack in the common front against fascism. (Henry A. Wallace)

      • Most Americans are close to total ignorance about the world. They are ignorant. That is an unhealthy condition in a country in which foreign policy has to be endorsed by the people if it is to be pursued. And it makes it much more difficult for any president to pursue an intelligent policy that does justice to the complexity of the world. (Zbigniew Brzezinski)

      • It is also a fact that America is too democratic at home to be autocratic abroad. This limits the use of America’s power, especially its capacity for military intimidation. Never before has a populist democracy attained international supremacy. But the pursuit of power is not a goal that commands popular passion, except in conditions of a sudden threat or challenge to the public’s sense of domestic well-being. The economic self-denial (that is, defense spending) and the human sacrifice (casualties, even among professional soldiers) required in the effort are uncongenial to democratic instincts. Democracy is inimical to imperial mobilization. (Zbigniew Brzezinski)

      • The security of Israel is a moral imperative for all free peoples. (Henry Kissinger)

      • In a higher phase of communist society… only then can the narrow horizon of bourgeois right be fully left behind and society inscribe on its banners: from each according to his ability, to each according to his needs. (Karl Marx)

      • Nelson Mandela is a terrorist. (Margaret Thatcher)

      • Where speculation ends – in real life – there real, positive science begins: the representation of the practical activity, of the practical process of development of men. (Karl Marx)

      • The mass media are class media. (Michael Parenti)

      • The English have all the material requisites for the revolution. What they lack is the spirit of generalization and revolutionary ardour. (Karl Marx)

      • Fascism entirely agrees with Mr. Maynard Keynes. (Mussolini)

      • Laws: We know what they are, and what they are worth! They are spider webs for the rich and mighty, steel chains for the poor and weak, fishing nets in the hands of government. (Proudhon)

      • Freedom is not given to us by anyone; we have to cultivate it ourselves. It is a daily practice. (Thich Nhat Hanh)

      • For the workers’ and peasants’ government, freedom of the press means liberation of the press from capitalist oppression, and public ownership of paper mills and printing presses; equal right for public groups of a certain size (say, numbering 10, 000) to a fair share of newsprint stocks and a corresponding quantity of printers’ labour. (Lenin)

      • The superstructures of civil society are like the trench-systems of modern warfare. (Gramsci)

      • Where the bourgeois economists saw a relation between things (the exchange of one commodity for another) Marx revealed a relation between people. (Lenin)

      • All that glitters is not gold. There is much glitter and sound in Trotsky’s phrases, but they are meaningless. (Lenin)

      • Lenin and Stalin have evidenced their outstanding brilliance as mass leaders in every revolutionary requirement: in Marxian theory, political strategy, the building of mass organizations, and in the development of the mass struggle. The characteristic feature of their work is its many-sidedness. Both men of action as well as of thought, they have exemplified in their activities that coordination of theory and practice which is so indispensable to the success of the every-day struggles of the masses and the final establishment of socialism. Both have worked in the clearest realization of the twin truths that there can be no revolutionary movement without revolutionary theory, and that revolutionary theory unsupported by organized mass struggle must remain sterile. (William Z. Foster)

      • American fascism is trying to direct the disillusionment and discontent of these masses into reactionary fascist channels. (Georgi Dimitrov)

      • … the NSS [National Security State] is an instrument of class warfare, organized and designed to permit an elite, local and multinational, to operate without any constraint from democratic processes. This allows the bulk of the population to be treated as a mere cost of production. (Edward Herman)

      • Terrorism has become a sort of screen created since the end of the Cold War by policymakers in Washington … It is fabricated to keep the population afraid and insecure, and to justify what the United States wishes to do globally. (Edward Said)

      • …the CIA has overthrown functioning democracies in over 20 countries. (John Stockwell)

      • Israel may have the right to put others on trial, but certainly no one has the right to put the Jewish people and the State of Israel on trial. (Ariel Sharon)

      • The anti-Semites will become our most loyal friends, the anti-Semite nations will become our allies. (Theodore Herzl)

      • We Jews, we are the destroyers and will remain the destroyers. Nothing you can do will meet our demands and needs. We will forever destroy because we want a world of our own. (Maurice Samuels)

      • Do not fear the enemy, for your enemy can only take your life. It is far better that you fear the media, for they will steal your HONOR. That awful power, the public opinion of a nation, is created in America by a horde of ignorant, self-complacent simpletons who failed at ditching and shoemaking and fetched up in journalism on their way to the poorhouse. (Mark Twain)

      • We have about 60% of the world’s wealth but only 6.3% of its’ population. In this situation we cannot fail to be the object of envy and resentment. Our real task in the coming period is to devise a pattern of relationships which will permit us to maintain this position of disparity. We need not deceive ourselves that we can afford today the luxury of altruism and world benefaction. We should cease to talk about such vague and unreal objectives as human rights, the raising of living standards and democratization. The day is not far off when we are going to have to deal in straight power concepts. The less we are then hampered by idealistic slogans, the better. (George Kennan)

      • … there is a system of terroristic states — the real terror network — that has spread throughout Latin America and elsewhere over the past several decades, and which is deeply rooted in the corporate interest and sustaining political-military-financial propaganda mechanisms of the United States and its allies in the Free World. (Edward Herman)

      • The immiseration of the majority is an integral part of the Free World package for the Third World, the unsavory aspects of the package — the terror, the direct spoilation of people and resources, and western complicity — must be rationalized and, as far as possible, kept under the rug. (Edward Herman)

      • Liberties are not given; they are taken. (Aldous Huxley)

      • The propaganda system allows the U.S. Ieadership to commit crimes without limit and with no suggestion of misbehavior or criminality; in fact, major war criminals like Henry Kissinger appear regularly on TV to comment on the crimes of the derivative butchers. (Edward Herman)

      • If those in charge of our society – politicians, corporate executives, and owners of press and television – can dominate our ideas, they will be secure in their power. They will not need soldiers patrolling the streets. We will control ourselves. (Howard Zinn)

      • They made a wasteland and called it peace. (Cornelius Tacitus)

      • The greatest threat to our world and its peace comes from those who want war, who prepare for it, and who, by holding out vague promises of future peace or by instilling fear of foreign aggression, try to make us accomplices to their plans. (Hermann Hesse)

      • Killing Japanese didn’t bother me very much at that time… I suppose if I had lost the war, I would have been tried as a war criminal…. Every soldier thinks something of the moral aspects of what he is doing. But all war is immoral and if you let that bother you, you’re not a good soldier. (Curtis LeMay)

      • Marxism-Leninism is not a dogma, it is a guide to action and a creative theory. So, Marxism-Leninism can display its indestructible vitality only when it is applied creatively to suit the specific conditions of each country. The same applies to the experience of the fraternal parties. It will prove valuable to us only when we make a study of it, grasp its essence and properly apply it to our realities. (Kim Il Sung)

      • To betray, you must first belong. (Kim Philby)

      • 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. (Lenin)

      • The fascist arrangement has attempted to create the illusion of a mass society in which the traditional capitalist ruling class would continue to play its leading role. (George Jackson)

      • The biggest threat to America today is not communism. It’s moving America toward a fascist theocracy, and everything that’s happened during the Reagan administration is steering us right down that pipe. (Frank Zappa)

      • In politics, never retreat, never retract and never admit a mistake. (Napoléon Bonaparte)

      • Wars are made to make debt. (Ezra Pound)

      • The reality of Fascism is the violent attempt of decaying capitalism to defeat the proletarian revolution and forcibly arrest the growing contradictions of its whole development. All the rest is decoration and stage-play, whether conscious or unconscious, to cover and make presentable or attractive this basic reactionary aim, which cannot be openly stated without defeating its purpose. (R. Palme Dutt)

      • The passing of state power from one class to another is the first, the principal, the basic sign of a revolution, both in the strictly scientific and in the practical political meaning of that term. (Lenin)

      • The crucial role communists played in organizing industrial unions in the 1930s and struggling for social reforms, peace, and civil rights strengthened rather then undermined democratic forces. (Michael Parenti)

      • I will never apologize for the United States — never, ever! I don’t care what the facts are… I’m not an apologize-for-America kind of guy. (George W. Bush)

      • Our mills and factories are being run without capitalists. The work is directed by men and women of the people. That is what we call socialism in practice. In our fields the tillers of the land work without landlords and without kulaks. The work is directed by men and women of the people. That is what we call socialism in daily life, that is what we call a free, socialist life. (Stalin)

      • Imperialism is a system of exploitation that occurs not only in the brutal form of those who come with guns to conquer territory. Imperialism often occurs in more subtle forms, a loan, food aid, blackmail. (Thomas Sankara)

      • The proletarian state is a special form of leadership of the remaining masses of toilers by the proletariat. For precisely this reason it represents the highest form of democracy possible in a class society. (Andrei Yanuaryevich Vyshinsky)

      • From the point of view of Marxism, that is, of modern scientific socialism, the main issue in any discussion by socialists on how to assess the war and what attitude to adopt towards it is this: what is the war being waged for, and what classes staged and directed it. We Marxists do not belong to that category of people who are unqualified opponents of all war. We say: our aim is to achieve a socialist system of society, which, by eliminating the division of mankind into classes, by eliminating all exploitation of man by man and nation by nation, will inevitably eliminate the very possibility of war. But in the war to win that socialist system of society we are bound to encounter conditions under which the class struggle within each given nation may come up against a war between the different nations, a war conditioned by this very class struggle. Therefore, we cannot rule out the possibility of revolutionary wars, i.e., wars arising from the class struggle, wars waged by revolutionary classes, wars which are of direct and immediate revolutionary significance. (Lenin)

      • The gigantic progress of technology in general, and of means of transport in particular, and the tremendous growth of capital and banks have resulted in capitalism becoming mature and over mature. It has outlived itself. It has become the most reactionary hindrance to human progress. It has become reduced to the absolute power of a handful of millionaires and multimillionaires who send whole nations into a bloodbath to decide whether the German or the Anglo-French group of plunderers is to obtain the spoils of imperialism, power over the colonies, financial “spheres of influence” or “mandates to rule”, etc. (Lenin)

      • This war is not as in the past; whoever occupies a territory also imposes on it his own social system. Everyone imposes his own system as far as his army can reach. (Stalin)

      • If you aren’t careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed and loving the people who are doing the oppressing. (Malcolm X)

      • Those who take the meat from the table teach contentment. Those for whom the taxes are destined demand sacrifice. Those who eat their fill speak to the hungry of wonderful times to come. Those who lead the country into the abyss call ruling too difficult for ordinary men. (Bertolt Brecht)

      • By sowing chaos in Russia we imperceptibly replace their values with false ones, which will force them to believe. How? We’ll find our accomplices, helpers and allies in Russia herself. In a series of episodes, a tragedy, grandiose in scale, will be played out: the demise of the last unbroken nation on earth, the final irrevocable extinguishment of their national self-consciousness. From art and literature, for example, we’ll gradually exterminate the social element. We’ll retrain artists, discourage in them the desire to depict the world and examine those processes taking place in the masses of the people. Literature, the theatre and the cinema will all proclaim the basest of human feelings. We shall use all our means to support and promote those so-called creators who will hammer into the people’s consciousness the cult of sex, violence, sadism, and betrayal, in a word — immorality. (Allen Dulles)

      • Stalin is the leader of the world revolution. This is of paramount importance. It is a great event that mankind is blessed with Stalin. Since we have him, things can go well. As you all know, Marx is dead and so are Engels and Lenin. Had there been no Stalin, who would there be to give directions? But having him – this is really a blessing. Now there exists in the world a Soviet Union, a Communist Party and also a Stalin. Thus the affairs of the world can go well. (Mao Zedong)

      • We must walk rapidly but not run. We must not be opportunists, nor allow our enthusiasms to make us lose the vision of concrete reality. (Amilcar Cabral)

      • Napoleon, according to the memoirs of Chaptal, feared the slightest unrest among the workers more than a lost battle. But Napoleon had neither to deal with the modem conditions of mechanised production, nor with the modern working-class movement. (R. Palme Dutt)

      • The growth of production in every direction, whether of foodstuffs, raw materials or manufactures, has thus greatly exceeded the growth of world population. And the increase of productive power, which has only been partially and incompletely used under capitalist conditions, with many artificial limitations and restrictions, has been in reality enormously greater than the actual growth of production. But this gigantic increase of productive power has outstripped the capacity of capitalism to organise it. The outcome of this gigantic increase of productive power has been world crisis, stagnation and closing down of production, mass unemployment, mass impoverishment and the lowering of standards, on a scale without parallel since the beginning of capitalism, accompanied by growing social and political disturbance and recurrent war. This problem is the basic problem confronting present-day society. (R. Palme Dutt)

      • Social Democracy has thus throughout the world shown itself ready to adapt itself and enter into alliance with every counterrevolutionary, White Terrorist and Fascist Government, even entering directly into such Governments. Where Social Democracy has not been accepted into such open alliance, but has been forced under the carrying out its role of disruption of the working class under the form of opposition, this has not been for lack of trying on the part of the Social Democratic leadership, who have invariably exhausted every manoeuvre to endeavour to be admitted to the favoured circle under the protection of Fascism. The signal example of the latter process has been Germany. (R. Palme Dutt)

      • Behind the ranting megalomaniacs, bullies, drug-fiends and broken down bohemians who constitute the outer façade of Fascism, the business heads of finance-capital who pay the costs and pull the strings are perfectly cool, clear and intelligent. And it is with the real system of Fascism in this sense, rather than with the imaginary ideology created to gull the innocent, that we are here concerned. The second, the professed fantastic ideology, is only of importance in relation to the first, the real working system for the maintenance of capitalism in conditions of extreme crisis and weakening. (R. Palme Dutt)

      • Principle of unanimity. Reaching out to many people who think “like everyone else”, creating an impression of unanimity. (Joseph Goebbels)

      • The so-called “defense” corporations are multinational conglomerates that have no great loyalty to the United States; they are in fact no longer U.S. corporations but transnational entities loyal only to themselves. (John Stockwell)

      • A revolution will only be achieved when the ordinary people of the world, us, the working class, get up off our knees and take back what is rightfully ours. (James Connolly)

      • A revolution is certainly the most authoritarian thing there is; it is the act whereby one part of the population imposes its will upon the other part by means of rifles, bayonets and cannon — authoritarian means, if such there be at all; and if the victorious party does not want to have fought in vain, it must maintain this rule by means of the terror which its arms inspire in the reactionists. Would the Paris Commune have lasted a single day if it had not made use of this authority of the armed people against the bourgeois? Should we not, on the contrary, reproach it for not having used it freely enough? Therefore, either one of two things: either the anti-authoritarians don’t know what they’re talking about, in which case they are creating nothing but confusion; or they do know, and in that case they are betraying the movement of the proletariat. In either case they serve the reaction. (Karl Marx)

      • Earlier, the bourgeoisie, as the heads of nations, were for the rights and independence of nations and put that “above all.” Now there is no trace left of this “national principle.” Now the bourgeoisie sell the rights and independence of their nations for dollars. The banner of national independence and national sovereignty has been thrown overboard. Without doubt, you, the representatives of the communist and democratic parties must raise this banner and carry it forward if you want to be patriots of your countries, if you want to be the leading powers of the nations. There is nobody else to raise it. (Stalin)

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    Stalin: The dictatorship of the proletariat, the transition from capitalism to communism, must not be regarded as a fleeting period of "super-revolutionary" acts and decrees, but as an entire historical era, replete with civil wars and external conflicts, with persistent organisational work and economic construction, with advances and retreats, victories and defeats. https://protestationblog.wordpress.com/quotes5/#quotenr3674
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      • The settlement of the Land of Israel is the essence of Zionism. Without settlement, we will not fulfill Zionism. It’s that simple. (Yizhak Shamir)

      • Since 1967 it has become obvious that political Zionism has one monolithic aim: Maximum land in Palestine with a minimum of Palestinians on it. This aim is pursued with an inexcusable cruelty as demonstrated during the assault on Gaza. The cruelty is explicitly formulated in the Dahiye doctrine of the military and morally supported by the Holocaust religion. I am pained by the parallels I observe between my experiences in Germany prior to 1939 and those suffered by Palestinians today. I cannot help but hear echoes of the Nazi mythos of “blood and soil” in the rhetoric of settler fundamentalism which claims a sacred right to all the lands of biblical Judea and Samaria. The various forms of collective punishment visited upon the Palestinian people — coerced ghettoization behind a “security wall”; the bulldozing of homes and destruction of fields; the bombing of schools, mosques, and government buildings; an economic blockade that deprives people of the water, food, medicine, education and the basic necessities for dignified survival — force me to recall the deprivations and humiliations that I experienced in my youth. This century-long process of oppression means unimaginable suffering for Palestinians. (Hajo Meyer)

      • Imperialism is a specific historical stage of capitalism. Its specific character is threefold: imperialism is monopoly capitalism; parasitic, or decaying capitalism; moribund capitalism. The supplanting of free competition by monopoly is the fundamental economic feature, the quintessence of imperialism. Monopoly manifests itself in five principal forms: (1) cartels, syndicates and trusts—the concentration of production has reached a degree which gives rise to these monopolistic associations of capitalists; (2) the monopolistic position of the big banks—three, four or five giant banks manipulate the whole economic life of America, France, Germany; (3) seizure of the sources of raw material by the trusts and the financial oligarchy (finance capital is monopoly industrial capital merged with bank capital); (4) the (economic) partition of the world by the international cartels has begun. There are already over one hundred such international cartels, which command the entire world market and divide it “amicably” among themselves—until war redivides it. The export of capital, as distinct from the export of commodities under non-monopoly capitalism, is a highly characteristic phenomenon and is closely linked with the economic and territorial-political partition of the world; (5) the territorial partition of the world (colonies) is completed. (Lenin)

      • Ur-Fascism can come back under the most innocent of disguises. Our duty is to uncover it and point the finger at any of its new instances — every day and in every part of the world. (Umberto Eco)

      • Who are the people? At the present stage in China, they are the working class, the peasantry, the urban petty bourgeoisie and the national bourgeoisie. These classes, led by the working class and the Communist Party, unite to form their own state and elect their own government; they enforce their dictatorship over the running dogs of imperialism — the landlord class and bureaucrat-bourgeoisie, as well as the representatives of those classes, the Kuomintang reactionaries and their accomplices — suppress them, allow them only to behave themselves and not to be unruly in word or deed. If they speak or act in an unruly way, they will be promptly stopped and punished. Democracy is practiced within the ranks of the people, who enjoy the rights of freedom of speech, assembly, association and so on. The right to vote belongs only to the people, not to the reactionaries. The combination of these two aspects, democracy for the people and dictatorship over the reactionaries, is the people’s democratic dictatorship. (Mao Zedong)

      • The proletarian woman fights hand in hand with the man of her class against capitalist society. (Clara Zetkin)

      • Since trade ignores national boundaries and the manufacturer insists on having the world as a market, the flag of his nation must follow him, and the doors of the nations which are closed must be battered down… Concessions obtained by financiers must be safeguarded by ministers of state, even if the sovereignty of unwilling nations be outraged in the process. Colonies must be obtained or planted, in order that no useful corner of the world may be overlooked or left unused. (Thomas Woodrow Wilson)

      • It is sometimes possible to change the attitudes of millions but impossible to change the attitude of one man. (Edward Bernays)

      • The engineering of consent is the very essence of the democratic process, the freedom to persuade and suggest. (Edward Bernays)

      • Bourgeois society is continually producing politicians who love to assert they belong to no class, and opportunists who love to call themselves socialists, both of whom deliberately and systematically deceive the masses with the most florid and “radical” words. In times of crisis, however even well-meaning participants therein very often reveal a discrepancy between word and deed. The great and progressive significance of all crises, even the gravest, most arduous and painful, lies in the tremendous speed, force and clarity with which they expose and sweep aside rotten phrases, even if well meaning, and rotten institutions even if they are built on the best of intentions. (Lenin)

      • The workers have taken it into their heads that they, with their busy hands, are the necessary, and the rich capitalists, who do nothing, the surplus population. (Friedrich Engels)

      • The world as we have created it is a process of our thinking. It cannot be changed without changing our thinking. (Albert Einstein)

      • Principle of simplification and the single enemy. Adopt a single idea, a single Symbol; Individualizing the adversary into a single enemy. (Joseph Goebbels)

      • In Petrograd, here in Moscow, and in other cities and industrial centres, proletarian women showed up splendidly during the revolution. We would not have won without them, or hardly. That is my opinion. What courage they showed and how courageous they still are! (Lenin)

      • I found that the period of Soviet history with Stalin at the head has been completely distorted. Not just ‘a mistake here and there’, but basically a massive fraud, the biggest lie of the century. (Grover Furr)

      • The dictatorship of the proletariat, the transition from capitalism to communism, must not be regarded as a fleeting period of “super-revolutionary” acts and decrees, but as an entire historical era, replete with civil wars and external conflicts, with persistent organisational work and economic construction, with advances and retreats, victories and defeats. (Stalin)

      • If the abuse be enormous, nature will rise up, and claiming her original rights, overturn a corrupt political system. (Thomas Jefferson)

      • Advocates of capitalism are very apt to appeal to the sacred principles of liberty, which are embodied in one maxim: The fortunate must not be restrained in the exercise of tyranny over the unfortunate. (Bertrand Russell)

      • A revolution is not a dinner party, or writing an essay, or painting a picture, or doing embroidery. A revolution is an insurrection, an act of violence by which one class overthrows another. (Mao Zedong)

      • No matter that patriotism is too often the refuge of scoundrels. Dissent, rebellion, and all-around hell-raising remain the true duty of patriots. (Barbara Ehrenreich)

      • We are here, not because we are law-breakers; we are here in our efforts to become law-makers. (Emmeline Pankhurst)

      • A revolution is not a trail of roses.… A revolution is a fight to the death between the future and the past. (Fidel Castro)

      • The most heroic word in all languages is REVOLUTION. (Eugene V. Debs)

      • Fascism is capitalism in decay. (Lenin)

      • But every class struggle is a political struggle. (Karl Marx)

      • Freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed. (Martin Luther King, Jr.)

      • Our freedom must be had at all hazards. If the men of property will not help us they must fall. (Wolfe Tone)

      • An oppressed people are authorized whenever they can to rise and break their fetters. (Henry Clay)

      • To tell the truth is revolutionary. (Gramsci)

      • A conservative is a man who is too cowardly to fight and too fat to run. (Elbert Hubbard)

      • If you stop struggling, then you stop life. (Huey P. Newton)

      • The privileged class can never be overturned peacefully. (Johann Most)

      • I think what motivates people is not great hate, but great love for other people. (Huey P. Newton)

      • Historically, the most terrible things – war, genocide, and slavery – have resulted not from disobedience, but from obedience. (Howard Zinn)

      • Dignify and glorify common labor. It is at the bottom of life that we must begin, not at the top. (Booker T. Washington)

      • The cost of liberty is less than the price of repression. (W. E. B. Du Bois)

      • Our homeland is the whole world. Our law is liberty. We have but one thought, revolution in our hearts. (Dario Fo)

      • Revolutions are brought about by men, by men who think as men of action and act as men of thought. (Kwame Nkrumah)

      • Bourgeois democracy is democracy of pompous phrases, solemn words, exuberant promises and the high-sounding slogans of freedom and equality. But, in fact, it screens the non-freedom and inferiority of women, the non-freedom and inferiority of the toilers and exploited. (Lenin)

      • Unthinking respect for authority is the greatest enemy of truth. (Albert Einstein)

      • Talk of imminent threat to our national security through the application of external force is pure nonsense. Indeed it is part of the general pattern of misguided policy that our country is now geared to an arms economy which was bred in an artificially induced psychosis of war hysteria and nurtured upon an incessant propaganda of fear. (General Douglas MacArthur)

      • The bourgeoisie are today evading taxation by bribery and through their connections; we must close all loopholes. (Lenin)

      • It is weakness rather than wickedness which renders men unfit to be trusted with unlimited power. (John Adams)

      • We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark. The real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light. (Plátōn)

      • When men are able to influence so many others through their life and their example, they do not die. (Aleida Guevara March)

      • Great spirits have often encountered violent opposition from weak minds. (Albert Einstein)

      • A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and carries his banner openly. But the traitor moves amongst those within the gate freely, his sly whispers rustling through all the alleys, heard in the very halls of government itself. For the traitor appears not a traitor; he speaks in accents familiar to his victims, and he wears their face and their arguments, he appeals to the baseness that lies deep in the hearts of all men. He rots the soul of a nation, he works secretly and unknown in the night to undermine the pillars of the city, he infects the body politic so that it can no longer resist. A murderer is less to fear. (Marcus Tullius Cicero)

      • In America, the criminally insane rule and the rest of us, or the vast majority of the rest of us, either do not care, do not know, or are distracted and properly brainwashed into acquiescence. (Kurt Nimmo)

      • The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary. (Henry Louis Mencken)

      • Unless you become more watchful in your States and check this spirit of monopoly and thirst for exclusive privileges you will in the end find that the most important powers of Government have been given or bartered away, and the control of your dearest interests have been passed into the hands of these corporations. (Andrew Jackson)

      • Believe nothing, no matter where you read it, or who said it, no matter if I have said it, unless it agrees with your own reason and your own common sense. (Siddhārtha Gautama)

      • There is nothing worse than aggressive stupidity. (Goethe)

      • Government is not reason, it is not eloquence, it is force; like fire, a troublesome servant and a fearful master. Never for a moment should it be left to irresponsible action. (George Washington)

      • The people never give up their liberties but under some delusion. (Edmund Burke)

      • War is the continuation of Politik by other means. (Carl von Clausewitz)

      • If we put our trust in the common sense of common men and ‘with malice toward none and charity for all’ go forward on the great adventure of making political, economic and social democracy a practical reality, we shall not fail. (Henry A. Wallace)

      • The myth of fascist efficiency has deluded many people. (Henry A. Wallace)

      • The world became more aware that America-despite being the hope of many who have the personal drive and ambition to become part of the “American dream”-is beset by serious operational challenges: a massive and growing national debt, widening social inequality, a cornucopian culture that worships materialism, a financial system given to greedy speculation, and a polarized political system. (Zbigniew Brzezinski)

      • The guerrilla wins if he does not lose. The conventional army loses if it does not win. (Henry Kissinger)

      • A popular method always used by the bourgeois press in every country with unerring effect is to lie, scream, raise a hullabaloo, and keep on reiterating lies on the off-chance that “something may stick”. (Lenin)

      • … the most formidable military machine depends ultimately on the obedience of its soldiers, … the most powerful corporation becomes helpless when its workers stop working, when its customers refuse to buy its products. The strike, the boycott, the refusal to serve, the ability to paralyze the functioning of a complex social structure-these remain potent weapons against the most fearsome state or corporate power. (Howard Zinn)

      • One does not have to be a Marxist to know there is something very wrong in this society. (Michael Parenti)

      • Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without feminine upheaval. (Karl Marx)

      • In the 1950s and 1960s we put several thousand nuclear weapons into Europe. To be sure, we had no precise idea of what to do with them. (Henry Kissinger)

      • Democracy cannot consist solely of elections that are nearly always fictitious and managed by rich landowners and professional politicians. (Che Guevara)

      • Not even the dead can rest in peace in an oppressed country. (Fidel Castro)

      • There is something behind the throne greater than the King himself. (Sir William Pitt)

      • And one day we must ask the question, ‘Why are there forty million poor people in America? And when you begin to ask that question, you are raising questions about the economic system, about a broader distribution of wealth.’ When you ask that question, you begin to question the capitalistic economy. And I’m simply saying that more and more, we’ve got to begin to ask questions about the whole society. (Martin Luther King, Jr.)

      • So long as the state exists there is no freedom. When there is freedom, there will be no state. (Lenin)

      • If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of their currency, first by inflation, then by deflation, the banks and corporations that will grow up around them will deprive the people of all property until their children wake up homeless on the continent their Fathers conquered… I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies… The issuing power should be taken from the banks and restored to the people, to whom it properly belongs. (Thomas Jefferson)

      • The bourgeois intellectuals, including the Mensheviks and Socialist-Revolutionaries, are true to themselves in serving capital and in continuing to use absolutely false arguments. (Lenin)

      • Aside from the few who have jobs or professions, the women of the bourgeoisie do not take part in social production. They are nothing but co-consumers of the surplus value their men extort from the proletariat. They are parasites of the parasites of the social body. And consumers are usually even more rabid and cruel in defending their “right” to a parasite’s life than the direct agents of class rule and exploitation. The history of all great revolutionary struggles confirms this in a horrible way. Take the great French Revolution. After the fall of the Jacobins, when Robespierre was driven in chains to the place of execution the naked whores of the victory-drunk bourgeoisie danced in the streets, danced a shameless dance of joy around the fallen hero of the Revolution. And in 1871, in Paris, when the heroic workers’ Commune was defeated by machine guns, the raving bourgeois females surpassed even their bestial men in their bloody revenge against the suppressed proletariat. The women of the property-owning classes will always fanatically defend the exploitation and enslavement of the working people by which they indirectly receive the means for their socially useless existence. (Rosa Luxemburg)

      • Won’t let anyone speak badly of Stalin. Russia, today is still living on borrowed time thanks to his vision. (Daniel Estulin)

      • The working class must first take possession of the organised political power of the state and by its aid crush the resistance of the capitalist class and organise society anew. (Friedrich Engels)

      • The state is the executive committee of the ruling class. (Karl Marx)

      • American capitalism, based as it is on exploitation of the poor, with its fundamental motivation in personal greed, simply cannot survive without force – without a secret police force. Now, more than ever, each of us is forced to make a conscious choice whether to support the system of minority comfort and privilege with all its security apparatus and repression, or whether to struggle for real equality of opportunity and fair distribution of benefits for all of society, in the domestic as well as the international order. It’s harder now not to realize that there are two sides, harder not to understand each, and harder not to recognize that like it or not we contribute day in and day out either to the one side or to the other. (Philip Agee)

      • We in the West must bear in mind that the poor countries are poor primarily because we have exploited them through political or economic colonialism. (Martin Luther King, Jr.)

      • … the United States [is] cast in the role of Praetorian Guard, protecting the interests of the global financial order against fractious elements in the Third World. (John Stockwell)

      • A cynical, mercenary, demagogic press will produce in time a people as base as itself. (Joseph Pulitzer)

      • An elective despotism was not the government we fought for. (Thomas Jefferson)

      • It does not require a majority to prevail, but rather an irate, tireless minority keen to set brush fires in people’s minds. (Samuel Adams)

      • There exists a shadowy Government with its own Air Force, its own Navy, its own fundraising mechanism, and the ability to pursue its own ideas of national interest, free from all checks and balances, and free from the law itself. (Daniel K. Inouye)

      • If they do it it’s terrorism, if we do it, it’s fighting for freedom. (Anthony Quainton)

      • It is not power that corrupts but fear. The fear of losing power corrupts those who wield it, and fear of the scourge of power corrupts those who are subject to it. (Aung San Suu Kyi)

      • When do these corporations begin to lose their credibility? They fought Social Security, Medicare, auto safety. They fought every social justice movement in this country. (Ralph Nader)

      • It is only when a society shares caring values that its people can feel secure. (Michael Lerner)

      • The smart way to keep people passive and obedient is to strictly limit the spectrum of acceptable opinion, but allow very lively debate within that spectrum – even encourage the more critical and dissident views. That gives people the sense that there’s free thinking going on, while all the time the presuppositions of the system are being reinforced by the limits put on the range of the debate. (Noam Chomsky)

      • We are witnessing an unprecedented transfer of power from people and their governments to global institutions whose allegiance is to abstract free-market principle, and whose favored citizens are soulless corporate entities that have the power to shape and break nations. (Joel Bleifuss)

      • I’ve been around the ruling class all my life, and I’ve been quite aware of their total contempt for the people of the country. (Gore Vidal)

      • For us there is no valid definition of socialism other than the abolition of the exploitation of one human being by another. (Che Guevara)

      • Red Rosa now has vanished too. Where she lies is hid from view. She told the poor what life is about. And so now the rich have rubbed her out. (Epitaph 1919 – poem about Luxemburg after she was killed by right-wing death squads in 1919) (Bertolt Brecht)

      • You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you can not fool all of the people all of the time. (Abraham Lincoln)

      • Inequality can be done away with only by establishing a new society, where men and women will enjoy equal rights…Thus, the status of women will improve only with the elimination of the system that exploits them. (Thomas Sankara)

      • The unsuspecting Britons spoke of such novelties as ‘civilisation,’ when in fact they were only a feature of their enslavement. (Cornelius Tacitus)

      • It is perhaps difficult for white South Africans, with an ingrained prejudice against communism, to understand why experienced African politicians so readily accept communists as their friends. But to us the reason is obvious. Theoretical differences, amongst those fighting against oppression, is a luxury which cannot be afforded. What is more, for many decades communists were the only political group in South Africa who were prepared to treat Africans as human beings and as their equals; who were prepared to eat with us; talk with us, live with us, and work with us. They were the only political group which was prepared to work with the Africans for the attainment of political rights and a stake in society. Because of this, there are many Africans who today tend to equate freedom with communism. (Nelson Mandela)

      • Kautsky has made increasingly rapid progress in this art of being a Marxist in words and a lackey of the bourgeoisie in deeds, until he has become a virtuoso at it. (Lenin)

      • A revolution not guided by a correct idea, theory and method is doomed to go off course and wander like a ship without a compass. (Kim Jong-il)

      • 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. (Issac Don Levine)

      • I could have gone on flying through space forever. (Yuri Gagarin)

      • Paper money eventually returns to its intrinsic value: zero. (Voltaire)

      • In the form that it emerged at the turn of the century and developed in the 1920s and 1930s, the fascist ideology represented a synthesis of organic nationalism with the antimaterialist revision of Marxism. (Zeev Sternhell)

      • If by free market one means a market that is autonomous and spontaneous, free from political controls, then there is no such thing as a free market at all. It is simply a myth. (Antonio Negri)

      • To fasten on the facts while forgetting the social content is to fall prey to a mystifying immediacy. In an antagonistic society, appearance and essence, immediacy and mediacy, diverge; things are not what they seem to be. (Russell Jacoby)

      • The process by which banks create money is so simple that the mind is repelled. (John Kenneth Galbraith)

      • The so-called Great Powers have long been exploiting and enslaving a whole number of small and weak nations. And the imperialist war is a war for the division and redivision of this kind of booty. (Lenin)

      • We say: our aim is to achieve a socialist system of society, which, by eliminating the division of mankind into classes, by eliminating all exploitation of man by man and nation by nation, will inevitably eliminate the very possibility of war. (Lenin)

      • They cripple the bird’s wing, and then condemn it for not flying as fast as they. (Malcolm X)

      • Marxism is always moving, is always growing. It is the exact opposite of a ready-made, fixed body of dogmas as its enemies always present it. It cannot be that because it is an interpretation of the real world. The real world is always changing and moving, and therefore the theory has always to develop with the development of the real world. Marxism can never stand still. (R. Palme Dutt)

      • Trotsky’s “permanent revolution” was a project of the British Empire. (Daniel Estulin)

      • Look at the history of the revolutionary movement, and you will find more than one connection between imperialism and those who take positions that appear to be on the extreme left. (Fidel Castro)

      • You have to make clear that it’s social democratic bullshit to claim that imperialism along with all the Neubauers and Westmorelands, Bonn, the senate, the State Youth Welfare Office and district offices, that the whole filth can be undermined, duped, overpowered, intimidated, and eliminated without a fight. Make it clear that the revolution will not be an Easter stroll. (Gudrun Ensslin)

      • [The] Soviet government is the expression of the most complete and most fully developed democracy. At the same time, it is the expression of the dictatorship of the working class, which secures the very possibility of democracy for the people. Soviet democracy and proletarian dictatorship are two aspects of one and the same phenomenon. (Andrei Yanuaryevich Vyshinsky)

      • Why can the rulers of the most advanced “civilised” capitalist states offer to the people nothing but unlimited barbarism, destruction, economic chaos, spreading famine and disease, terror and slaughter? (R. Palme Dutt)

      • For all arms with which to fight must be drawn from society as it is and the fatal conditions of this struggle have the misfortune of not being easily adapted to the idealistic fantasies which these doctors in social science have exalted as divinities, under the names of Freedom, Autonomy, Anarchy. (Karl Marx)

      • And the most important thing in all this is that Social-Democracy is the main channel of imperialist pacifism within the working class — consequently, it is capitalism’s main support among the working class in preparing for new wars and intervention. (Stalin)

      • The powers of financial capitalism had a far-reaching (plan), nothing less than to create a world system of financial control in private hands able to dominate the political system of each country and the economy of the world as a whole. (Carroll Quigley)

      • When goods do not cross borders, soldiers will. (Frédéric Bastiat)

      • When the modern corporation acquires power over markets, power in the community, power over the state and power over belief, it is a political instrument, different in degree but not in kind from the state itself. To hold otherwise — to deny the political character of the modern corporation — is not merely to avoid the reality. It is to disguise the reality. The victims of that disguise are those we instruct in error. The beneficiaries are the institutions whose power we so disguise. Let there be no question: economics, so long as it is thus taught, becomes, however unconsciously, a part of the arrangement by which the citizen or student is kept from seeing how he or she is, or will be, governed. (John Kenneth Galbraith)

      • For it was after Stalin that the Russian state began to fall into its present state of decay. (Huey P. Newton)

      • Fascism aims at the most unbridled exploitation of the masses, but it approaches them with the most artful anti-capitalist demagogy, taking advantage of the deep hatred of the working people against the plundering bourgeoisie, the banks, trusts and financial magnates, and advancing those slogans which at the given moment are most alluring to the politically immature masses. (Georgi Dimitrov)

      • Homeland or death! Socialism or death! We shall overcome! (Fidel Castro)

      • Central to all the disquisitions of the self-determination opponents is the claim that it is generally “unachievable” under capitalism or imperialism. (Lenin)

      • The cause of Communism is the greatest cause in the history of mankind, because it seeks to remove from society all forms of oppression and exploitation to liberate mankind, and to ensure peace and prosperity to all. (Nelson Mandela)

      • To become the ruling class and defeat the bourgeoisie for good the proletariat must be schooled, because the skill this implies does not come ready-made. The proletariat must do its learning in the struggle, and stubborn, desperate struggle in earnest is the only meal teacher. The greater the extremes of the exploiters’ resistance, the more vigorously, firmly, ruthlessly and successfully will they be suppressed by the exploited. The more varied the exploiters’ attempts to uphold the old, the sooner will the proletariat learn to ferret out its enemies from their last nook and corner, to pull up the roots of their domination, and cut the very ground which could (and had to) breed wage-slavery, mass poverty and the profiteering and effrontery of the money-bags. (Lenin)

      • Socialism or barbarism! (Rosa Luxemburg)

      • This vagueness and ambiguity of conventional common places to describe its basic aims is not accidental in Fascism, but inherent and inevitable. This terminology is the standard vague and deceitful terminology of all capitalist parties to cover the realities of class-rule and class-exploitation under empty phrases of “the community,” “the national welfare,” “the State above classes,” etc. (R. Palme Dutt)

      • Principle of renewal. It is necessary to constantly issue new information and arguments at a rate such that when the adversary responds the public is already interested in something else. The adversary’s responses should never be able to counteract the increasing level of accusations. (Joseph Goebbels)

      • The British ruling class are not fighting to liberate the people of Europe from fascism and reaction. They have always been, for a century and a-half, the main stranglers of every popular revolution in every country. The war aims of Churchill, for which the British workers; are asked to die, are the war aims of British imperialism; to protect and maintain the domination of the British Empire over a-quarter of the world; to smash the rival German imperialism and inflict a new super-Versailles; to maintain the reactionary interests of capitalist class rule against the world Socialist Revolution. There is nothing they fear more than a real popular revolution in Europe, which they know would lead to the victory of Socialism. (R. Palme Dutt)

      • Thereby I state that we are extremely interested in not letting eastern nations unite. On the contrary, we must spit them into small groups and branches. As for separate nations, we are not going to allow them to get closer and bigger, let alone allowing them to cultivate the sense of national identity and culture. Quite the contrary, we are concerned with splintering them into numerous small groups… (Heinrich Himmler)

      • If you throw a stone, it’s a crime. If a thousand stones are thrown, that’s political. If you set fire to a car it’s a crime; if a hundred cars are set on fire that’s political. (Ulrike Meinhof)

      • Politics is the entertainment branch of industry. (Frank Zappa)

      • I must add further that no programme is worthy the acceptance of the working classes that stops short of the abolition of private property in the means of production. Any other programme is misleading and dishonest… (William Morris)

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    Gramsci: In short, "democracy" organized fascism when it felt it could no longer resist the pressure of the working class in conditions even of only formal freedom. Fascism, by shattering the working class, has restored to "democracy" the possibility of existing. In the intentions of the bourgeoisie, the division of labour should operate perfectly: the alternation of fascism and democracy should serve to exclude for ever any possibility of working-class resurgence. https://protestationblog.wordpress.com/quotes5/#quotenr3474
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      • The settlement of the Land of Israel is the essence of Zionism. Without settlement, we will not fulfill Zionism. It’s that simple. (Yizhak Shamir)

      • Since 1967 it has become obvious that political Zionism has one monolithic aim: Maximum land in Palestine with a minimum of Palestinians on it. This aim is pursued with an inexcusable cruelty as demonstrated during the assault on Gaza. The cruelty is explicitly formulated in the Dahiye doctrine of the military and morally supported by the Holocaust religion. I am pained by the parallels I observe between my experiences in Germany prior to 1939 and those suffered by Palestinians today. I cannot help but hear echoes of the Nazi mythos of “blood and soil” in the rhetoric of settler fundamentalism which claims a sacred right to all the lands of biblical Judea and Samaria. The various forms of collective punishment visited upon the Palestinian people — coerced ghettoization behind a “security wall”; the bulldozing of homes and destruction of fields; the bombing of schools, mosques, and government buildings; an economic blockade that deprives people of the water, food, medicine, education and the basic necessities for dignified survival — force me to recall the deprivations and humiliations that I experienced in my youth. This century-long process of oppression means unimaginable suffering for Palestinians. (Hajo Meyer)

      • Imperialism is a specific historical stage of capitalism. Its specific character is threefold: imperialism is monopoly capitalism; parasitic, or decaying capitalism; moribund capitalism. The supplanting of free competition by monopoly is the fundamental economic feature, the quintessence of imperialism. Monopoly manifests itself in five principal forms: (1) cartels, syndicates and trusts—the concentration of production has reached a degree which gives rise to these monopolistic associations of capitalists; (2) the monopolistic position of the big banks—three, four or five giant banks manipulate the whole economic life of America, France, Germany; (3) seizure of the sources of raw material by the trusts and the financial oligarchy (finance capital is monopoly industrial capital merged with bank capital); (4) the (economic) partition of the world by the international cartels has begun. There are already over one hundred such international cartels, which command the entire world market and divide it “amicably” among themselves—until war redivides it. The export of capital, as distinct from the export of commodities under non-monopoly capitalism, is a highly characteristic phenomenon and is closely linked with the economic and territorial-political partition of the world; (5) the territorial partition of the world (colonies) is completed. (Lenin)

      • Ur-Fascism can come back under the most innocent of disguises. Our duty is to uncover it and point the finger at any of its new instances — every day and in every part of the world. (Umberto Eco)

      • Who are the people? At the present stage in China, they are the working class, the peasantry, the urban petty bourgeoisie and the national bourgeoisie. These classes, led by the working class and the Communist Party, unite to form their own state and elect their own government; they enforce their dictatorship over the running dogs of imperialism — the landlord class and bureaucrat-bourgeoisie, as well as the representatives of those classes, the Kuomintang reactionaries and their accomplices — suppress them, allow them only to behave themselves and not to be unruly in word or deed. If they speak or act in an unruly way, they will be promptly stopped and punished. Democracy is practiced within the ranks of the people, who enjoy the rights of freedom of speech, assembly, association and so on. The right to vote belongs only to the people, not to the reactionaries. The combination of these two aspects, democracy for the people and dictatorship over the reactionaries, is the people’s democratic dictatorship. (Mao Zedong)

      • The proletarian woman fights hand in hand with the man of her class against capitalist society. (Clara Zetkin)

      • Since trade ignores national boundaries and the manufacturer insists on having the world as a market, the flag of his nation must follow him, and the doors of the nations which are closed must be battered down… Concessions obtained by financiers must be safeguarded by ministers of state, even if the sovereignty of unwilling nations be outraged in the process. Colonies must be obtained or planted, in order that no useful corner of the world may be overlooked or left unused. (Thomas Woodrow Wilson)

      • It is sometimes possible to change the attitudes of millions but impossible to change the attitude of one man. (Edward Bernays)

      • The engineering of consent is the very essence of the democratic process, the freedom to persuade and suggest. (Edward Bernays)

      • Bourgeois society is continually producing politicians who love to assert they belong to no class, and opportunists who love to call themselves socialists, both of whom deliberately and systematically deceive the masses with the most florid and “radical” words. In times of crisis, however even well-meaning participants therein very often reveal a discrepancy between word and deed. The great and progressive significance of all crises, even the gravest, most arduous and painful, lies in the tremendous speed, force and clarity with which they expose and sweep aside rotten phrases, even if well meaning, and rotten institutions even if they are built on the best of intentions. (Lenin)

      • The workers have taken it into their heads that they, with their busy hands, are the necessary, and the rich capitalists, who do nothing, the surplus population. (Friedrich Engels)

      • The world as we have created it is a process of our thinking. It cannot be changed without changing our thinking. (Albert Einstein)

      • Principle of simplification and the single enemy. Adopt a single idea, a single Symbol; Individualizing the adversary into a single enemy. (Joseph Goebbels)

      • In Petrograd, here in Moscow, and in other cities and industrial centres, proletarian women showed up splendidly during the revolution. We would not have won without them, or hardly. That is my opinion. What courage they showed and how courageous they still are! (Lenin)

      • I found that the period of Soviet history with Stalin at the head has been completely distorted. Not just ‘a mistake here and there’, but basically a massive fraud, the biggest lie of the century. (Grover Furr)

      • In short, “democracy” organized fascism when it felt it could no longer resist the pressure of the working class in conditions even of only formal freedom. Fascism, by shattering the working class, has restored to “democracy” the possibility of existing. In the intentions of the bourgeoisie, the division of labour should operate perfectly: the alternation of fascism and democracy should serve to exclude for ever any possibility of working-class resurgence. (Gramsci)

      • The dictatorship of the proletariat, the transition from capitalism to communism, must not be regarded as a fleeting period of “super-revolutionary” acts and decrees, but as an entire historical era, replete with civil wars and external conflicts, with persistent organisational work and economic construction, with advances and retreats, victories and defeats. (Stalin)

      • If the abuse be enormous, nature will rise up, and claiming her original rights, overturn a corrupt political system. (Thomas Jefferson)

      • Advocates of capitalism are very apt to appeal to the sacred principles of liberty, which are embodied in one maxim: The fortunate must not be restrained in the exercise of tyranny over the unfortunate. (Bertrand Russell)

      • A revolution is not a dinner party, or writing an essay, or painting a picture, or doing embroidery. A revolution is an insurrection, an act of violence by which one class overthrows another. (Mao Zedong)

      • No matter that patriotism is too often the refuge of scoundrels. Dissent, rebellion, and all-around hell-raising remain the true duty of patriots. (Barbara Ehrenreich)

      • We are here, not because we are law-breakers; we are here in our efforts to become law-makers. (Emmeline Pankhurst)

      • A revolution is not a trail of roses.… A revolution is a fight to the death between the future and the past. (Fidel Castro)

      • The most heroic word in all languages is REVOLUTION. (Eugene V. Debs)

      • Fascism is capitalism in decay. (Lenin)

      • But every class struggle is a political struggle. (Karl Marx)

      • Freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed. (Martin Luther King, Jr.)

      • Our freedom must be had at all hazards. If the men of property will not help us they must fall. (Wolfe Tone)

      • An oppressed people are authorized whenever they can to rise and break their fetters. (Henry Clay)

      • To tell the truth is revolutionary. (Gramsci)

      • A conservative is a man who is too cowardly to fight and too fat to run. (Elbert Hubbard)

      • If you stop struggling, then you stop life. (Huey P. Newton)

      • The privileged class can never be overturned peacefully. (Johann Most)

      • I think what motivates people is not great hate, but great love for other people. (Huey P. Newton)

      • Historically, the most terrible things – war, genocide, and slavery – have resulted not from disobedience, but from obedience. (Howard Zinn)

      • Dignify and glorify common labor. It is at the bottom of life that we must begin, not at the top. (Booker T. Washington)

      • The cost of liberty is less than the price of repression. (W. E. B. Du Bois)

      • Our homeland is the whole world. Our law is liberty. We have but one thought, revolution in our hearts. (Dario Fo)

      • Revolutions are brought about by men, by men who think as men of action and act as men of thought. (Kwame Nkrumah)

      • Bourgeois democracy is democracy of pompous phrases, solemn words, exuberant promises and the high-sounding slogans of freedom and equality. But, in fact, it screens the non-freedom and inferiority of women, the non-freedom and inferiority of the toilers and exploited. (Lenin)

      • Unthinking respect for authority is the greatest enemy of truth. (Albert Einstein)

      • Talk of imminent threat to our national security through the application of external force is pure nonsense. Indeed it is part of the general pattern of misguided policy that our country is now geared to an arms economy which was bred in an artificially induced psychosis of war hysteria and nurtured upon an incessant propaganda of fear. (General Douglas MacArthur)

      • The bourgeoisie are today evading taxation by bribery and through their connections; we must close all loopholes. (Lenin)

      • It is weakness rather than wickedness which renders men unfit to be trusted with unlimited power. (John Adams)

      • We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark. The real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light. (Plátōn)

      • When men are able to influence so many others through their life and their example, they do not die. (Aleida Guevara March)

      • Great spirits have often encountered violent opposition from weak minds. (Albert Einstein)

      • A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and carries his banner openly. But the traitor moves amongst those within the gate freely, his sly whispers rustling through all the alleys, heard in the very halls of government itself. For the traitor appears not a traitor; he speaks in accents familiar to his victims, and he wears their face and their arguments, he appeals to the baseness that lies deep in the hearts of all men. He rots the soul of a nation, he works secretly and unknown in the night to undermine the pillars of the city, he infects the body politic so that it can no longer resist. A murderer is less to fear. (Marcus Tullius Cicero)

      • In America, the criminally insane rule and the rest of us, or the vast majority of the rest of us, either do not care, do not know, or are distracted and properly brainwashed into acquiescence. (Kurt Nimmo)

      • The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary. (Henry Louis Mencken)

      • Unless you become more watchful in your States and check this spirit of monopoly and thirst for exclusive privileges you will in the end find that the most important powers of Government have been given or bartered away, and the control of your dearest interests have been passed into the hands of these corporations. (Andrew Jackson)

      • Believe nothing, no matter where you read it, or who said it, no matter if I have said it, unless it agrees with your own reason and your own common sense. (Siddhārtha Gautama)

      • There is nothing worse than aggressive stupidity. (Goethe)

      • Government is not reason, it is not eloquence, it is force; like fire, a troublesome servant and a fearful master. Never for a moment should it be left to irresponsible action. (George Washington)

      • The people never give up their liberties but under some delusion. (Edmund Burke)

      • War is the continuation of Politik by other means. (Carl von Clausewitz)

      • If we put our trust in the common sense of common men and ‘with malice toward none and charity for all’ go forward on the great adventure of making political, economic and social democracy a practical reality, we shall not fail. (Henry A. Wallace)

      • The myth of fascist efficiency has deluded many people. (Henry A. Wallace)

      • The world became more aware that America-despite being the hope of many who have the personal drive and ambition to become part of the “American dream”-is beset by serious operational challenges: a massive and growing national debt, widening social inequality, a cornucopian culture that worships materialism, a financial system given to greedy speculation, and a polarized political system. (Zbigniew Brzezinski)

      • The guerrilla wins if he does not lose. The conventional army loses if it does not win. (Henry Kissinger)

      • A popular method always used by the bourgeois press in every country with unerring effect is to lie, scream, raise a hullabaloo, and keep on reiterating lies on the off-chance that “something may stick”. (Lenin)

      • … the most formidable military machine depends ultimately on the obedience of its soldiers, … the most powerful corporation becomes helpless when its workers stop working, when its customers refuse to buy its products. The strike, the boycott, the refusal to serve, the ability to paralyze the functioning of a complex social structure-these remain potent weapons against the most fearsome state or corporate power. (Howard Zinn)

      • One does not have to be a Marxist to know there is something very wrong in this society. (Michael Parenti)

      • Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without feminine upheaval. (Karl Marx)

      • In the 1950s and 1960s we put several thousand nuclear weapons into Europe. To be sure, we had no precise idea of what to do with them. (Henry Kissinger)

      • Democracy cannot consist solely of elections that are nearly always fictitious and managed by rich landowners and professional politicians. (Che Guevara)

      • Not even the dead can rest in peace in an oppressed country. (Fidel Castro)

      • There is something behind the throne greater than the King himself. (Sir William Pitt)

      • And one day we must ask the question, ‘Why are there forty million poor people in America? And when you begin to ask that question, you are raising questions about the economic system, about a broader distribution of wealth.’ When you ask that question, you begin to question the capitalistic economy. And I’m simply saying that more and more, we’ve got to begin to ask questions about the whole society. (Martin Luther King, Jr.)

      • So long as the state exists there is no freedom. When there is freedom, there will be no state. (Lenin)

      • If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of their currency, first by inflation, then by deflation, the banks and corporations that will grow up around them will deprive the people of all property until their children wake up homeless on the continent their Fathers conquered… I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies… The issuing power should be taken from the banks and restored to the people, to whom it properly belongs. (Thomas Jefferson)

      • The bourgeois intellectuals, including the Mensheviks and Socialist-Revolutionaries, are true to themselves in serving capital and in continuing to use absolutely false arguments. (Lenin)

      • Aside from the few who have jobs or professions, the women of the bourgeoisie do not take part in social production. They are nothing but co-consumers of the surplus value their men extort from the proletariat. They are parasites of the parasites of the social body. And consumers are usually even more rabid and cruel in defending their “right” to a parasite’s life than the direct agents of class rule and exploitation. The history of all great revolutionary struggles confirms this in a horrible way. Take the great French Revolution. After the fall of the Jacobins, when Robespierre was driven in chains to the place of execution the naked whores of the victory-drunk bourgeoisie danced in the streets, danced a shameless dance of joy around the fallen hero of the Revolution. And in 1871, in Paris, when the heroic workers’ Commune was defeated by machine guns, the raving bourgeois females surpassed even their bestial men in their bloody revenge against the suppressed proletariat. The women of the property-owning classes will always fanatically defend the exploitation and enslavement of the working people by which they indirectly receive the means for their socially useless existence. (Rosa Luxemburg)

      • Won’t let anyone speak badly of Stalin. Russia, today is still living on borrowed time thanks to his vision. (Daniel Estulin)

      • The working class must first take possession of the organised political power of the state and by its aid crush the resistance of the capitalist class and organise society anew. (Friedrich Engels)

      • The state is the executive committee of the ruling class. (Karl Marx)

      • American capitalism, based as it is on exploitation of the poor, with its fundamental motivation in personal greed, simply cannot survive without force – without a secret police force. Now, more than ever, each of us is forced to make a conscious choice whether to support the system of minority comfort and privilege with all its security apparatus and repression, or whether to struggle for real equality of opportunity and fair distribution of benefits for all of society, in the domestic as well as the international order. It’s harder now not to realize that there are two sides, harder not to understand each, and harder not to recognize that like it or not we contribute day in and day out either to the one side or to the other. (Philip Agee)

      • We in the West must bear in mind that the poor countries are poor primarily because we have exploited them through political or economic colonialism. (Martin Luther King, Jr.)

      • … the United States [is] cast in the role of Praetorian Guard, protecting the interests of the global financial order against fractious elements in the Third World. (John Stockwell)

      • A cynical, mercenary, demagogic press will produce in time a people as base as itself. (Joseph Pulitzer)

      • An elective despotism was not the government we fought for. (Thomas Jefferson)

      • It does not require a majority to prevail, but rather an irate, tireless minority keen to set brush fires in people’s minds. (Samuel Adams)

      • There exists a shadowy Government with its own Air Force, its own Navy, its own fundraising mechanism, and the ability to pursue its own ideas of national interest, free from all checks and balances, and free from the law itself. (Daniel K. Inouye)

      • If they do it it’s terrorism, if we do it, it’s fighting for freedom. (Anthony Quainton)

      • It is not power that corrupts but fear. The fear of losing power corrupts those who wield it, and fear of the scourge of power corrupts those who are subject to it. (Aung San Suu Kyi)

      • When do these corporations begin to lose their credibility? They fought Social Security, Medicare, auto safety. They fought every social justice movement in this country. (Ralph Nader)

      • It is only when a society shares caring values that its people can feel secure. (Michael Lerner)

      • The smart way to keep people passive and obedient is to strictly limit the spectrum of acceptable opinion, but allow very lively debate within that spectrum – even encourage the more critical and dissident views. That gives people the sense that there’s free thinking going on, while all the time the presuppositions of the system are being reinforced by the limits put on the range of the debate. (Noam Chomsky)

      • We are witnessing an unprecedented transfer of power from people and their governments to global institutions whose allegiance is to abstract free-market principle, and whose favored citizens are soulless corporate entities that have the power to shape and break nations. (Joel Bleifuss)

      • I’ve been around the ruling class all my life, and I’ve been quite aware of their total contempt for the people of the country. (Gore Vidal)

      • For us there is no valid definition of socialism other than the abolition of the exploitation of one human being by another. (Che Guevara)

      • Red Rosa now has vanished too. Where she lies is hid from view. She told the poor what life is about. And so now the rich have rubbed her out. (Epitaph 1919 – poem about Luxemburg after she was killed by right-wing death squads in 1919) (Bertolt Brecht)

      • You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you can not fool all of the people all of the time. (Abraham Lincoln)

      • Inequality can be done away with only by establishing a new society, where men and women will enjoy equal rights…Thus, the status of women will improve only with the elimination of the system that exploits them. (Thomas Sankara)

      • The unsuspecting Britons spoke of such novelties as ‘civilisation,’ when in fact they were only a feature of their enslavement. (Cornelius Tacitus)

      • It is perhaps difficult for white South Africans, with an ingrained prejudice against communism, to understand why experienced African politicians so readily accept communists as their friends. But to us the reason is obvious. Theoretical differences, amongst those fighting against oppression, is a luxury which cannot be afforded. What is more, for many decades communists were the only political group in South Africa who were prepared to treat Africans as human beings and as their equals; who were prepared to eat with us; talk with us, live with us, and work with us. They were the only political group which was prepared to work with the Africans for the attainment of political rights and a stake in society. Because of this, there are many Africans who today tend to equate freedom with communism. (Nelson Mandela)

      • Kautsky has made increasingly rapid progress in this art of being a Marxist in words and a lackey of the bourgeoisie in deeds, until he has become a virtuoso at it. (Lenin)

      • A revolution not guided by a correct idea, theory and method is doomed to go off course and wander like a ship without a compass. (Kim Jong-il)

      • 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. (Issac Don Levine)

      • I could have gone on flying through space forever. (Yuri Gagarin)

      • Paper money eventually returns to its intrinsic value: zero. (Voltaire)

      • In the form that it emerged at the turn of the century and developed in the 1920s and 1930s, the fascist ideology represented a synthesis of organic nationalism with the antimaterialist revision of Marxism. (Zeev Sternhell)

      • If by free market one means a market that is autonomous and spontaneous, free from political controls, then there is no such thing as a free market at all. It is simply a myth. (Antonio Negri)

      • To fasten on the facts while forgetting the social content is to fall prey to a mystifying immediacy. In an antagonistic society, appearance and essence, immediacy and mediacy, diverge; things are not what they seem to be. (Russell Jacoby)

      • The process by which banks create money is so simple that the mind is repelled. (John Kenneth Galbraith)

      • The so-called Great Powers have long been exploiting and enslaving a whole number of small and weak nations. And the imperialist war is a war for the division and redivision of this kind of booty. (Lenin)

      • We say: our aim is to achieve a socialist system of society, which, by eliminating the division of mankind into classes, by eliminating all exploitation of man by man and nation by nation, will inevitably eliminate the very possibility of war. (Lenin)

      • They cripple the bird’s wing, and then condemn it for not flying as fast as they. (Malcolm X)

      • Marxism is always moving, is always growing. It is the exact opposite of a ready-made, fixed body of dogmas as its enemies always present it. It cannot be that because it is an interpretation of the real world. The real world is always changing and moving, and therefore the theory has always to develop with the development of the real world. Marxism can never stand still. (R. Palme Dutt)

      • Trotsky’s “permanent revolution” was a project of the British Empire. (Daniel Estulin)

      • Look at the history of the revolutionary movement, and you will find more than one connection between imperialism and those who take positions that appear to be on the extreme left. (Fidel Castro)

      • You have to make clear that it’s social democratic bullshit to claim that imperialism along with all the Neubauers and Westmorelands, Bonn, the senate, the State Youth Welfare Office and district offices, that the whole filth can be undermined, duped, overpowered, intimidated, and eliminated without a fight. Make it clear that the revolution will not be an Easter stroll. (Gudrun Ensslin)

      • [The] Soviet government is the expression of the most complete and most fully developed democracy. At the same time, it is the expression of the dictatorship of the working class, which secures the very possibility of democracy for the people. Soviet democracy and proletarian dictatorship are two aspects of one and the same phenomenon. (Andrei Yanuaryevich Vyshinsky)

      • Why can the rulers of the most advanced “civilised” capitalist states offer to the people nothing but unlimited barbarism, destruction, economic chaos, spreading famine and disease, terror and slaughter? (R. Palme Dutt)

      • For all arms with which to fight must be drawn from society as it is and the fatal conditions of this struggle have the misfortune of not being easily adapted to the idealistic fantasies which these doctors in social science have exalted as divinities, under the names of Freedom, Autonomy, Anarchy. (Karl Marx)

      • And the most important thing in all this is that Social-Democracy is the main channel of imperialist pacifism within the working class — consequently, it is capitalism’s main support among the working class in preparing for new wars and intervention. (Stalin)

      • The powers of financial capitalism had a far-reaching (plan), nothing less than to create a world system of financial control in private hands able to dominate the political system of each country and the economy of the world as a whole. (Carroll Quigley)

      • When goods do not cross borders, soldiers will. (Frédéric Bastiat)

      • When the modern corporation acquires power over markets, power in the community, power over the state and power over belief, it is a political instrument, different in degree but not in kind from the state itself. To hold otherwise — to deny the political character of the modern corporation — is not merely to avoid the reality. It is to disguise the reality. The victims of that disguise are those we instruct in error. The beneficiaries are the institutions whose power we so disguise. Let there be no question: economics, so long as it is thus taught, becomes, however unconsciously, a part of the arrangement by which the citizen or student is kept from seeing how he or she is, or will be, governed. (John Kenneth Galbraith)

      • For it was after Stalin that the Russian state began to fall into its present state of decay. (Huey P. Newton)

      • Fascism aims at the most unbridled exploitation of the masses, but it approaches them with the most artful anti-capitalist demagogy, taking advantage of the deep hatred of the working people against the plundering bourgeoisie, the banks, trusts and financial magnates, and advancing those slogans which at the given moment are most alluring to the politically immature masses. (Georgi Dimitrov)

      • Homeland or death! Socialism or death! We shall overcome! (Fidel Castro)

      • Central to all the disquisitions of the self-determination opponents is the claim that it is generally “unachievable” under capitalism or imperialism. (Lenin)

      • The cause of Communism is the greatest cause in the history of mankind, because it seeks to remove from society all forms of oppression and exploitation to liberate mankind, and to ensure peace and prosperity to all. (Nelson Mandela)

      • To become the ruling class and defeat the bourgeoisie for good the proletariat must be schooled, because the skill this implies does not come ready-made. The proletariat must do its learning in the struggle, and stubborn, desperate struggle in earnest is the only meal teacher. The greater the extremes of the exploiters’ resistance, the more vigorously, firmly, ruthlessly and successfully will they be suppressed by the exploited. The more varied the exploiters’ attempts to uphold the old, the sooner will the proletariat learn to ferret out its enemies from their last nook and corner, to pull up the roots of their domination, and cut the very ground which could (and had to) breed wage-slavery, mass poverty and the profiteering and effrontery of the money-bags. (Lenin)

      • Socialism or barbarism! (Rosa Luxemburg)

      • This vagueness and ambiguity of conventional common places to describe its basic aims is not accidental in Fascism, but inherent and inevitable. This terminology is the standard vague and deceitful terminology of all capitalist parties to cover the realities of class-rule and class-exploitation under empty phrases of “the community,” “the national welfare,” “the State above classes,” etc. (R. Palme Dutt)

      • Principle of renewal. It is necessary to constantly issue new information and arguments at a rate such that when the adversary responds the public is already interested in something else. The adversary’s responses should never be able to counteract the increasing level of accusations. (Joseph Goebbels)

      • The British ruling class are not fighting to liberate the people of Europe from fascism and reaction. They have always been, for a century and a-half, the main stranglers of every popular revolution in every country. The war aims of Churchill, for which the British workers; are asked to die, are the war aims of British imperialism; to protect and maintain the domination of the British Empire over a-quarter of the world; to smash the rival German imperialism and inflict a new super-Versailles; to maintain the reactionary interests of capitalist class rule against the world Socialist Revolution. There is nothing they fear more than a real popular revolution in Europe, which they know would lead to the victory of Socialism. (R. Palme Dutt)

      • There can be no real and effective “freedom” in a society based on the power of money, in a society in which the masses of working people live in poverty and the handful of rich live like parasites. (Lenin)

      • Thereby I state that we are extremely interested in not letting eastern nations unite. On the contrary, we must spit them into small groups and branches. As for separate nations, we are not going to allow them to get closer and bigger, let alone allowing them to cultivate the sense of national identity and culture. Quite the contrary, we are concerned with splintering them into numerous small groups… (Heinrich Himmler)

      • If you throw a stone, it’s a crime. If a thousand stones are thrown, that’s political. If you set fire to a car it’s a crime; if a hundred cars are set on fire that’s political. (Ulrike Meinhof)

      • Politics is the entertainment branch of industry. (Frank Zappa)

      • I must add further that no programme is worthy the acceptance of the working classes that stops short of the abolition of private property in the means of production. Any other programme is misleading and dishonest… (William Morris)

      • Private property based on the labour of the small proprietor, free competition, democracy, all the catchwords with which the capitalists and their press deceive the workers and the peasants are things of the distant past. Capitalism has grown into a world system of colonial oppression and of the financial strangulation of the overwhelming majority of the population of the world by a handful of “advanced” countries. (Lenin)

      • I am no longer accepting the things I cannot change. I am changing the things I cannot accept. (Angela Davis)

      • Neofascism will be the ultimate expression of libertarian social liberalism, of the unit which starts in May 68. Its specificity holds in this formula: All is allowed, but nothing is possible. The permissiveness of abundance, growth, new models of consumption, leaves the place to interdiction of the crisis, the shortage, the absolute impoverishment. These two historical components amalgamate in the head, in the spirit, thus creating the subjective conditions of the neofascism. From Cohn-Bendit (libertarian leftist) to Le Pen (French extreme nationalist), the loop is buckled: here comes the time of frustrated revanchists. (Michel Clouscard)

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      • Marxism is not only the theory of socialism, it is an integral world outlook, a philosophical system, from which Marx’s proletarian socialism logically follows. This philosophical system is called dialectical materialism. (Stalin)

      • The bestiality of imperialism, a bestiality that knows no limits, that has no national boundaries. (Che Guevara)

      • For capitalist countries war is just as natural and legitimate a condition of things as the exploitation of the working class. (Stalin)

      • The real grand corruption is in the [capitalist] system, itself. (Glen Ford)

      • The dominant, almost general, idea of revolution — particularly the Socialist idea — is that revolution is a violent change of social conditions through which one social class, the working class, becomes dominant over another class, the capitalist class. (Emma Goldman)

      • We have, in this country, one of the most corrupt institutions the world has ever known. I refer to the Federal Reserve Board. This evil institution has impoverished the people of the United States and has practically bankrupted our government. It has done this through the corrupt practices of the moneyed vultures who control it. (Louis T. McFadden)

      • In theory, everybody buys the best and cheapest commodities offered to him on the market. In practice, if every one went around pricing, and chemically testing before purchasing, the dozens of soaps or fabrics or brands of bread which are for sale, economic life would become hopelessly jammed. (Edward Bernays)

      • Firstly, it is not true that fascism is only the fighting organisation of the bourgeoisie. Fascism is not only a military-technical category. Fascism is the bourgeoisie’s fighting organisation that relies on the active support of Social-Democracy. Social-Democracy is objectively the moderate wing of fascism. There is no ground for assuming that the fighting organisation of the bourgeoisie can achieve decisive successes in battles, or in governing the country, without the active support of Social-Democracy. There is just as little ground for thinking that Social-Democracy can achieve decisive successes in battles, or in governing the country, without the active support of the fighting organisation of the bourgeoisie. These organisations do not negate, but supplement each other. They are not antipodes, they are twins. Fascism is an informal political bloc of these two chief organisations; a bloc, which arose in the circumstances of the post-war crisis of imperialism, and which is intended for combating the proletarian revolution. The bourgeoisie cannot retain power without such a bloc. It would therefore be a mistake to think that “pacifism” signifies the liquidation of fascism. In the present situation, “pacifism” is the strengthening of fascism with its moderate, Social-Democratic wing pushed into the forefront. (Stalin)

      • This is an age of mass production. In the mass production of materials a broad technique has been developed and applied to their distribution. In this age, too, there must be a technique for the mass distribution of ideas. (Edward Bernays)

      • In order to rally people, governments need enemies. They want us to be afraid, to hate, so we will rally behind them. And if they do not have a real enemy, they will invent one in order to mobilize us. (Thích Nhất Hạnh)

      • The farmer and manufacturer can no more live without profit than the labourer without wages. (David Ricardo)

      • By destroying small-scale production, capital leads to an increase in productivity of labour and to the creation of a monopoly position for the associations of big capitalists. (Lenin)

      • Israel should have exploited the repression of the demonstrations in China, when world attention focused on that country, to carry out mass expulsions among the Arabs of the territories. (Benjamin Netanyahu)

      • We have been ruled more by deceit than by force, and we have been degraded more by vice than by superstition. Slavery is the daughter of darkness: an ignorant people is a blind instrument of its own destruction. (Simón Bolívar)

      • It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not. (André Gide)

      • There is only one power which really counts. The power of political pressure. We Jews are the most powerful people on earth, because we have this power, and we know how to apply it. (Vladimir Jabotinsky)

      • When Stalin was still alive, I saw things differently, but as I look back over this century, I can state that Stalin was the greatest individual of this century, the greatest political genius. To adopt a scientific attitude about someone is quite different from one’s personal attitude. (Alexander Zinoviev)

      • If any of you in any way hate homosexuals, people of different color, or women, please do this one favor for us – leave us the fuck alone! Don’t come to our shows and don’t buy our records. (Kurt Cobain)

      • Along the way, I had the opportunity to pass through the dominions of the United Fruit, convincing me once again of just how terrible these capitalist octopuses are. I have sworn before a picture of the old and mourned comrade Stalin that I won’t rest until I see these capitalist octopuses annihilated. (Che Guevara)

      • Everywhere revolutions are painful yet fruitful gestations of a people: they shed blood but create light, they eliminate men but elaborate ideas. (Goethe)

      • Disobedience, in the eyes of any one who has read history, is man’s original virtue. It is through disobedience that progress has been made, through disobedience and through rebellion. (Oscar Wilde)

      • While there is a lower class, I am in it, while there is a criminal element, I am of it, and while there is a soul in prison, I am not free. (Eugene V. Debs)

      • The Revolution will not be televised. The Revolution will be no rerun, brothers. The Revolution — will be live. (Gilbert Scott-Heron)

      • As to the history of the revolution, my ideas may be peculiar, perhaps singular. What do we mean by the Revolution? The war? That was no part of the revolution; it was only an effect and consequence of it. The revolution was in the minds of the people, and this was effected … before a drop of blood was shed. (John Adams)

      • None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free. (Goethe)

      • If the people understood the banking system, there would be a revolution tomorrow. (Henry Ford)

      • Give me liberty or give me death. (Patrick Henry)

      • Every revolution has its counterrevolution – that is a sign the revolution is for real. (C. Wright Mills)

      • Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves. (Abraham Lincoln)

      • Just see these superfluous ones! They steal the works of the inventors and the treasures of the wise. Culture, they call their theft—and everything becometh sickness and trouble unto them! Just see these superfluous ones! Sick are they always; they vomit their bile and call it a newspaper. They devour one another, and cannot even digest themselves. Just see these superfluous ones! Wealth they acquire and become poorer thereby. Power they seek for, and above all, the lever of power, much money—these impotent ones! See them clamber, these nimble apes! They clamber over one another, and thus scuffle into the mud and the abyss. Towards the throne they all strive: it is their madness—as if happiness sat on the throne! Ofttimes sitteth filth on the throne.—and ofttimes also the throne on filth. Madmen they all seem to me, and clambering apes, and too eager. Badly smelleth their idol to me, the cold monster: badly they all smell to me, these idolaters. My brethren, will ye suffocate in the fumes of their maws and appetites! Better break the windows and jump into the open air! Do go out of the way of the bad odour! Withdraw from the idolatry of the superfluous! Do go out of the way of the bad odour! Withdraw from the steam of these human sacrifices! Open still remaineth the earth for great souls. Empty are still many sites for lone ones and twain ones, around which floateth the odour of tranquil seas. Open still remaineth a free life for great souls. Verily, he who possesseth little is so much the less possessed: blessed be moderate poverty! (Nietzsche)

      • The common people suffer when the powerful disagree. (Plátōn)

      • Imperialism is the monopoly stage of capitalism. (Lenin)

      • In this Revolution no plans have been written for retreat. (Martin Luther King, Jr.)

      • Tell the children the truth. (Bob Marley)

      • They got money for wars, but wont feed the poor. (Tupac Shakur)

      • When you are right you cannot be too radical; when you are wrong, you cannot be too conservative. (Martin Luther King, Jr.)

      • Revolution is not an action, it is a process. (Huey P. Newton)

      • I would rather die on my feet than live on my knees. (Huey P. Newton)

      • Armaments, universal debt and planned obsolescence — those are the three pillars of Western prosperity. (Aldous Huxley)

      • The greatest revolution of our generation is the discovery that human beings can change their lives. (William James)

      • The modern banking system manufactures money out of nothing. The process is perhaps the most astounding piece of sleight of hand that was ever invented. Banking was conceived in iniquity and born in sin. Bankers own the earth. Take it away from them, but leave them the power to create money and control credit, and with the flick of a pen, they will create enough money to buy it back again. Take this great power away from the bankers and all the great fortunes like mine will disappear, and they ought to disappear, for this would be a better and happier world to live in. But if you want to continue the slaves of bankers and pay the cost of your own slavery, let them continue to create money and to control credit. (Sir Josiah Stamp)

      • One day, in retrospect, the years of struggle will strike you as the most beautiful. (Sigmund Freud)

      • When injustice becomes law, resistance becomes duty. (Thomas Jefferson)

      • When even one American — who has done nothing wrong — is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth, then all Americans are in peril. (Harry Truman)

      • When you control opinion, as corporate America controls opinion in the United States by owning the media, you can make the masses believe almost anything you want, and guide them as you please. (Gore Vidal)

      • An informed citizenry is the only true repository of the public will. (Thomas Jefferson)

      • The lie can be maintained only for such time as the State can shield the people from the political, economic and/or military consequences of the lie. It thus becomes vitally important for the State to use all of its powers to repress dissent, for the truth is the mortal enemy of the lie, and thus by extension, the truth becomes the greatest enemy of the State. (Joseph Goebbels)

      • Single acts of tyranny may be ascribed to the accidental opinion of a day. But a series of oppressions, begun at a distinguished period, and pursued unalterably through every change of ministers (administrations), too plainly proves a deliberate systematic plan of reducing us to slavery. (Thomas Jefferson)

      • There is nothing more frightening than active ignorance. (Goethe)

      • The Central Intelligence Agency owns everyone of any significance in the major media. (William Colby)

      • The liberty of a democracy is not safe if the people tolerate the growth of private power to a point where it becomes stronger than their democratic State itself. That, in its essence, is Fascism – ownership of government by an individual, by a group or by any controlling private power. (Franklin D. Roosevelt)

      • In the counsels of Government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the Military Industrial Complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists, and will persist. We must never let the weight of this combination endanger our liberties or democratic processes. We should take nothing for granted. Only an alert and knowledgeable citizenry can compel the proper meshing of the huge industrial and military machinery of defense with our peaceful methods and goals so that security and liberty may prosper together. (Dwight Eisenhower)

      • The millions of people armed in the holy cause of liberty… are invincible by any force which our enemy can send against us. (Patrick Henry)

      • The perfect totalitarian state is one where the all powerful political bosses and their army of managers, control a population of slaves who do not have to be coerced because they love their servitude. (Aldous Huxley)

      • I think that on balance the moral influence of religion has been awful. With or without religion, good people can behave well and bad people can do evil; but for good people to do evil—that takes religion. (Steven Weinberg)

      • Every war when it comes, or before it comes, is represented not as a war but as an act of self-defense against a homicidal maniac. (George Orwell)

      • Warfare is a means and not an end. Warfare is a tool of revolutionaries. The important thing is the revolution! The important thing is the revolutionary cause, revolutionary ideas, revolutionary objectives, revolutionary sentiments, revolutionary virtues! (Fidel Castro)

      • The revolution is not about putting a different kind of person in power but a different kind of power in people. (Stephanie Van Hook)

      • They are patriotic in time of war because it is to their interest to be so, but in time of peace they follow power and the dollar wherever they may lead. (Henry A. Wallace)

      • In the technotronic society the trend would seem to be towards the aggregation of the individual support of millions of uncoordinated citizens, easily within the reach of magnetic and attractive personalities exploiting the latest communications techniques to manipulate emotions and control reason. (Zbigniew Brzezinski)

      • It is no coincidence that the growth of modern tyrants has in every case been heralded by the growth of prejudice. (Henry A. Wallace)

      • Genuine equality between the sexes can only be realized in the process of the socialist transformation of society as a whole. (Mao Zedong)

      • Unity is a great thing and a great slogan. But what the workers’ cause needs is the unity of Marxists, not unity between Marxists, and opponents and distorters of Marxism. (Lenin)

      • History repeats itself, first as tragedy, second as farce. (Karl Marx)

      • Machines were, it may be said, the weapon employed by the capitalists to quell the revolt of specialized labor. (Karl Marx)

      • Our task is that of ruthless criticism, and much more against ostensible friends than against open enemies; and in maintaining this our position we gladly forego cheap democratic popularity. (Karl Marx)

      • I have come to communism because of daddy Stalin. (Che Guevara)

      • It comes down to the ability to expropriate others’ labor. (Robert Bettinger)

      • It is an act of insanity and national humiliation to have a law prohibiting the President from ordering assassination. (Henry Kissinger)

      • Without revolutionary theory there can be no revolutionary movement. This idea cannot be insisted upon too strongly at a time when the fashionable preaching of opportunism goes hand in hand with an infatuation for the narrowest forms of practical activity. (Lenin)

      • I belong to the American resistance movement which fights against American imperialism, just as the resistance movement fought against Hitler. (Paul Robeson)

      • Every class struggle is a political struggle. (Lenin)

      • What is the burgling of a bank to the founding of a bank? (Bertolt Brecht)

      • All doctrines of non-class socialism and non-class politics proved to be sheer nonsense. (Lenin)

      • Corporations are in a sense moral monsters; we say they behave as such and we are disposed to treat them as such. The standard of international morality, particularly in matters of commercial intercourse, is on a still lower level. (John A. Hobson)

      • Trotsky has never yet held a firm opinion on any important question of Marxism. He always contrives to worm his way into the cracks of any given difference of opinion, and desert one side for the other. At the present moment he is in the company of the Bundists and the liquidators. (Lenin)

      • For us, those veterans who fought in that ferocious war – and the Soviet Union made great sacrifices, for it offered over 26 million martyrs, and as far as we know the number was closer to 30 million – were the main force; and today they offer a role model for the present generation and for future generations. They provide a role model of resilience and standing fast. Who could expect the siege of Stalingrad at that time to end the way it did without the steadfastness of those heroes? Who could expect that the initial retreat of the Soviet army would turn into a victory later? Without the victory of the Soviet Union, the Normandy landings for Western states wouldn’t have been possible. This is what many in the West are trying to obscure, i.e. the more important role played by the peoples of the Soviet Union at that time – including your people – in defeating Nazism. Today, these veterans play a vital role in strengthening the spirit of steadfastness, because you too are facing something similar to what Syria has been facing for decades. (Bashar al-Assad)

      • The range of debate between the dominant U.S. [political] parties tends to closely resemble the range of debate within the business class. (Robert McChesney)

      • Military intervention to maintain the global status quo will become a constant feature of international relations, whether this is justified in terms of fighting drugs, fighting terrorism, containing “rogue states, ” opposing “Islamic fundamentalism, ” or containing China. (Walden Bello)

      • I came to America because of the great, great freedom which I heard existed in this country. I made a mistake in selecting America as a land of freedom, a mistake I cannot repair in the balance of my lifetime. (Albert Einstein)

      • The state…. must see the sword as the main if not the only, instrument with which to keep its morale high and to retain its moral tension. Toward this end it may no it MUST invent dangers, and to do this it must adopt the method of provocation and revenge…. And above all, let us hope for a new war with the Arab countries so that we may finally get rid of our troubles and acquire our space. (Moshe Sharett)

      • Spirit the penniless population across the frontier by denying it employment… Both the process of expropriation and the removal of the poor must be carried out discreetly and circumspectly. (Theodore Herzl)

      • We will have a world government whether you like it or not. The only question is whether that government will be achieved by conquest or consent. (Paul Warburg)

      • The interests behind the Bush Administration, such as the CFR, The Trilateral Commission – founded by Brzezinski for David Rockefeller – and the Bilderberger Group, have prepared for and are now moving to implement open world dictatorship within the next five years. They are not fighting against terrorists. They are fighting against citizens. (Dr. Johannes B. Koeppl)

      • There is a systematic plan to use the concepts of war to rearrange the chess pieces on the world playing board. It has to do with the New World Order, Globalism and the attack on national sovereignty we are seeing. Occasionally, the globalists who want One World Government have to turn to war to accelerate things. (Joel Skousen)

      • The first casualty when war comes is the truth. (Hiram Johnson)

      • The recent quantum leap in the ability of transnational corporations to relocate their facilities around the world in effect makes all workers, communities and countries competitors for these corporations’ favor. The consequence is a “race to the bottom” in which wages and social conditions tend to fall to the level of the most desperate. (Jeremy Brecher)

      • The corporation has evolved to serve the interests of whoever controls it, at the expense of whomever does not. (William Dugger)

      • Because of its power and global interests U.S. leaders have committed crimes as a matter of course and structural necessity. A strict application of international law would … have given every U.S. president of the past 50 years Nuremberg treatment. (Edward Herman)

      • … the United States has given frequent and enthusiastic support to the overthrow of democracy in favor of “investor friendly” regimes. The World Bank, IMF, and private banks have consistently lavished huge sums on terror regimes, following their displacement of democratic governments, and a number of quantitative studies have shown a systematic positive relationship between U.S. and IMF / World Bank aid to countries and their violations of human rights. (Edward Herman)

      • The hidden hand of the market will never work without a hidden fist. McDonald’s cannot flourish without McDonnell Douglas, the designer of the F-15. And the hidden fist that keeps the world safe for Silicon Valley’s technologies to flourish is called the US Army, Air Force, Navy and Marine Corps. (Thomas Friedman)

      • … the media serve the interests of state and corporate power, which are closely interlinked, framing their reporting and analysis in a manner supportive of established privilege and limiting debate and discussion accordingly. (Noam Chomsky)

      • All propaganda must be so popular and on such an intellectual level, that even the most stupid of those toward whom it is directed will understand it… Through clever and constant application of propaganda, people can be made to see paradise as hell, and also the other way around, to consider the most wretched sort of life as paradise. (Hitler)

      • The reader will understand that I despise these “yellows”; they are utterly without honor, they are vulgar and cruel; and yet, in spite of all their vices, I count them less dangerous to society than the so-called “respectable” papers, which pretend to all the virtues, and set the smug and pious tone for good society — papers like the “New York Tribune” and the “Boston Evening Transcript” and the “Baltimore Sun, ” which are read by rich old gentlemen and maiden aunts, and can hardly ever be forced to admit to their columns any new or vital event or opinion. These are “kept” papers, in the strictest sense of the term, and do not have to hustle on the street for money. They serve the pocketbooks of the whole propertied class — which is the meaning of the term “respectability” in the bourgeois world. On the other hand the “yellow” journals, serving their own pocketbooks exclusively, will often print attacks on vested wealth, provided the attacks are startling and sensational, and provided the vested wealth in question is not a heavy advertiser. (Upton Sinclair)

      • The rich Jews, just like the rich Russians and the rich of all countries, are united in trampling upon, oppressing and dividing the workers. (R. F. Andrews)

      • There are innumerable principles of Marxism, but in the final analysis they can be summed up in one sentence: ‘To rebel is justified.’ For thousands of years everyone said, ‘Oppression is justified, exploitation is justified, rebellion is not justified.’ From the time that Marxism appeared on the scene, this old judgment was turned upside down, and this is a great contribution. This principle was derived by the proletariat from its struggles, but Marx drew the conclusion. In accordance with this principle, there was then resistance, there was struggle, and socialism was realized. What is Comrade Stalin’s contribution? He developed this principle, developed Marxism-Leninism, and produced a very clear, concrete, and living doctrine for the oppressed people of the whole world. This is the complete doctrine for establishing a revolutionary front, overthrowing imperialism, overthrowing capitalism, and establishing a socialist society. (Mao Zedong)

      • Reforms are concessions obtained from a ruling class that retains its rule. Revolution is the overthrow of the ruling class. (Lenin)

      • I am really two people. I am a private person and a political person. Of course, if there is a conflict, the political person comes first. (Kim Philby)

      • 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. (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. (Lenin)

      • The essence of a U.S.A. totalitarian socio-political capitalism is concealed behind the illusion of a mass participatory society. We must rip away its mask. Then the debate can end, and we can enter a new phase of struggle based on the development of an armed revolutionary culture that will triumph. (George Jackson)

      • In all countries, the Trotskyists give themselves fine names in order to mask their dirty work and banditry. For example: in Spain they call themselves the United Marxist Workers Party (POUM). Do you know that it’s they who constitute the nests of spies in Madrid in Barcelona and in other places in the service of Franco? (Ho Chi Minh)

      • Marxism taught me what society was. I was like a blindfolded man in a forest, who doesn’t even know where north or south is. If you don’t eventually come to truly understand the history of the class struggle, or at least have a clear idea that society is divided between the rich and the poor, and that some people subjugate and exploit other people, you’re lost in a forest, not knowing anything. (Fidel Castro)

      • Before we can unite, and in order that we may unite, we must first of all draw firm and definite lines of demarcation. (Lenin)

      • Under no circumstances must we underrate fascism’s power of ideological infection. On the contrary, we for our part must develop an extensive ideological struggle based on clear, popular arguments and a correct, well thought out approach to the peculiarities of the national psychology of the masses of the people. (Georgi Dimitrov)

      • All violence consists in some people forcing others, under threat of suffering or death, to do what they do not want to do. (Tolstoy)

      • Dialectics is the teaching which shows how Opposites can be and how they happen to be (how they become) identical,—under what conditions they are identical, becoming transformed into one another,—why the human mind should grasp these opposites not as dead, rigid, but as living, conditional, mobile, becoming transformed into one another. (Lenin)

      • Down with this contemptible fraud! There cannot be, nor is there nor will there ever be “equality” between the oppressed and the oppressors, between the exploited and the exploiters. There cannot be, nor is there nor will there ever be real “freedom” as long as there is no freedom for women from the privileges which the law grants to men, as long as there is no freedom for the workers from the yoke of capital, and no freedom for the toiling peasants from the yoke of the capitalists, landlords and merchants. (Lenin)

      • If one looks into the genealogies of many ‘old families,’ one discovers episodes of slave trafficking, bootlegging, gun running, opium trading, falsified land claims, violent acquisition of water and mineral rights, the extermination of indigenous peoples, sales of shoddy and unsafe goods, public funds used for private speculations, crooked deals in government bonds and vouchers, and payoffs for political favors. One finds fortunes built on slave labor, indentured labor, prison labor, immigrant labor, female labor, child labor, and scab labor — backed by the lethal force of gun thugs and militia. ‘Old money’ is often little more than dirty money laundered by several generations of possession. (Michael Parenti)

      • In the name of peace they waged the wars. Ain’t they got no shame? (Nikki Giovanni)

      • The Soviet state is the historically integrated form of the state during the transition period from capitalism to communism. (Andrei Yanuaryevich Vyshinsky)

      • Social democracy is objectively the moderate wing of fascism…. These organisations (ie Fascism and social democracy) are not antipodes, they are twins. (Stalin)

      • The capitalists, the bourgeoisie, can at “best” put off the victory of socialism in one country or another at the cost of slaughtering further hundreds of thousands of workers and peasants. But they cannot save capitalism. The Soviet Republic has come to take the place of capitalism, the Republic which gives power to the working people and only to the working people, which entrusts the proletariat with the guidance of their liberation, which abolishes private property in land, factories and other means of production, because this private property is the source of the exploitation of the many by the few, the source of mass poverty, the source of predatory wars between nations, wars that enrich only the capitalists. (Lenin)

      • Tu put it in a terminology that harkens back to the more brutal age of ancient empires, the three grand imperatives of imperial geostrategy are to prevent collusion and maintain security dependance among the vassels, to keep tributaries pliant and protected, and to keep the barbarians from coming together. (Zbigniew Brzezinski)

      • I believe we should do things honestly, for without an honest attitude it is absolutely impossible to accomplish anything in this world. Which are the honest people? Marx, Engels, Lenin and Stalin are honest, men of science are honest. Which are the dishonest people? Trotsky, Bukharin, Chen Tu-hsiu and Chang Kuo-tao are extremely dishonest… (Mao Zedong)

      • Fascism is able to count on the assistance of the greater part of the State forces, of the higher army staffs, of the police authorities, and of the lawcourts and magistracy, who exert all their force to crush working-class opposition, while treating Fascist illegality with open connivance (banning of the Red Front alongside permission of the Storm Troops). Finally, has Fascism “conquered power” from the bourgeois state dictatorship? Fascism has never “conquered power” in any country. In every case Fascism has been placed in power from above by the bourgeois dictatorship. (R. Palme Dutt)

      • Educate ourselves, educate other people, the population in general, to fight fear and ignorance, to eliminate little by little the subjection to nature and natural forces which our economy has not yet mastered. (Amilcar Cabral)

      • The United States is also a one-party state but, with typical American extravagance, they have two of them. (Julius Nyerere)

      • The coloured people of Cardiff are mainly communists simply because no one else has seen fit to give them a helping hand. (Harold Moody)

      • There is a driving force more powerful than steam, electricity and nuclear power: the will. (Albert Einstein)

      • Bolshevism is knocking at our gates. We can’t afford to let it in. We have got to organize ourselves against it, and put our shoulders together and hold fast. We must keep America whole and safe and unspoiled. We must keep the worker away from red literature and red ruses; we must see that his mind remains healthy. (Al Capone)

      • The scientific conclusions of Malthus are “considerate” towards the ruling classes in general and towards the reactionary elements of the ruling classes in particular; in other words he falsifies science for these interests, But his conclusions are ruthless as far as they concern the subjugated classes. He is not only ruthless; he affects ruthlessness; he takes a cynical pleasure in it and exaggerates his conclusions in so far as they are directed against the poor wretches, even beyond the point which would be scientifically justified from his point of view. (Karl Marx)

      • Now more clearly than ever, the CIA, with its related institutions, is exposed as an agency of destabilization and repression. Throughout its history, it has organized secret wars that killed millions of people in the Third World who had no capability of doing physical harm to the United States. (John Stockwell)

      • In our day and generation there is only one class which can be depended upon for consistent revolutionary action. That class is the working class. (James Connolly)

      • Yes, friends, governments in capitalist society are but committees of the rich to manage the affairs of the capitalist class. (James Connolly)

      • During the lifetime of great revolutionaries, the oppressing classes constantly hounded them, received their theories with the most savage malice, the most furious hatred and the most unscrupulous campaigns of lies and slander. After their death, attempts are made to convert them into harmless icons, to canonize them, so to say, and to hallow their names to a certain extent for the “consolation” of the oppressed classes and with the object of duping the latter, while at the same time robbing the revolutionary theory of its substance, blunting its revolutionary edge and vulgarizing it. Today, the bourgeoisie and the opportunists within the labor movement concur in this doctoring of Marxism. They omit, obscure, or distort the revolutionary side of this theory, its revolutionary soul. They push to the foreground and extol what is or seems acceptable to the bourgeoisie. All the social-chauvinists are now “Marxists” (don’t laugh!). (Lenin)

      • Your ancestors dragged these black people from their homes by force; and in the white man’s quest for wealth and an easy life they have been ruthlessly suppressed and exploited, degraded into slavery. The modern prejudice against Negroes is the result of the desire to maintain this unworthy condition. (Albert Einstein)

      • Socialism is neither Protestant nor Catholic, Christian nor Freethinker, Buddhist, Mahometan, nor Jew; it is only HUMAN. We of the Socialist working class realise that as we suffer together we must work together that we may enjoy together. We reject the firebrand of capitalist warfare and offer you the olive leaf of brotherhood and justice to and for all. (James Connolly)

      • Pacifism, the preaching of peace in the abstract, is one of the means of duping the working class. Under capitalism, particularly in its imperialist stage, wars are inevitable. (Lenin)

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    Joseph Goebbels: Principle of simplification and the single enemy. Adopt a single idea, a single Symbol; Individualizing the adversary into a single enemy. https://protestationblog.wordpress.com/quotes5/#quotenr3174
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      By Protestation from Protestation

      • The settlement of the Land of Israel is the essence of Zionism. Without settlement, we will not fulfill Zionism. It’s that simple. (Yizhak Shamir)

      • Since 1967 it has become obvious that political Zionism has one monolithic aim: Maximum land in Palestine with a minimum of Palestinians on it. This aim is pursued with an inexcusable cruelty as demonstrated during the assault on Gaza. The cruelty is explicitly formulated in the Dahiye doctrine of the military and morally supported by the Holocaust religion. I am pained by the parallels I observe between my experiences in Germany prior to 1939 and those suffered by Palestinians today. I cannot help but hear echoes of the Nazi mythos of “blood and soil” in the rhetoric of settler fundamentalism which claims a sacred right to all the lands of biblical Judea and Samaria. The various forms of collective punishment visited upon the Palestinian people — coerced ghettoization behind a “security wall”; the bulldozing of homes and destruction of fields; the bombing of schools, mosques, and government buildings; an economic blockade that deprives people of the water, food, medicine, education and the basic necessities for dignified survival — force me to recall the deprivations and humiliations that I experienced in my youth. This century-long process of oppression means unimaginable suffering for Palestinians. (Hajo Meyer)

      • Imperialism is a specific historical stage of capitalism. Its specific character is threefold: imperialism is monopoly capitalism; parasitic, or decaying capitalism; moribund capitalism. The supplanting of free competition by monopoly is the fundamental economic feature, the quintessence of imperialism. Monopoly manifests itself in five principal forms: (1) cartels, syndicates and trusts—the concentration of production has reached a degree which gives rise to these monopolistic associations of capitalists; (2) the monopolistic position of the big banks—three, four or five giant banks manipulate the whole economic life of America, France, Germany; (3) seizure of the sources of raw material by the trusts and the financial oligarchy (finance capital is monopoly industrial capital merged with bank capital); (4) the (economic) partition of the world by the international cartels has begun. There are already over one hundred such international cartels, which command the entire world market and divide it “amicably” among themselves—until war redivides it. The export of capital, as distinct from the export of commodities under non-monopoly capitalism, is a highly characteristic phenomenon and is closely linked with the economic and territorial-political partition of the world; (5) the territorial partition of the world (colonies) is completed. (Lenin)

      • Ur-Fascism can come back under the most innocent of disguises. Our duty is to uncover it and point the finger at any of its new instances — every day and in every part of the world. (Umberto Eco)

      • Who are the people? At the present stage in China, they are the working class, the peasantry, the urban petty bourgeoisie and the national bourgeoisie. These classes, led by the working class and the Communist Party, unite to form their own state and elect their own government; they enforce their dictatorship over the running dogs of imperialism — the landlord class and bureaucrat-bourgeoisie, as well as the representatives of those classes, the Kuomintang reactionaries and their accomplices — suppress them, allow them only to behave themselves and not to be unruly in word or deed. If they speak or act in an unruly way, they will be promptly stopped and punished. Democracy is practiced within the ranks of the people, who enjoy the rights of freedom of speech, assembly, association and so on. The right to vote belongs only to the people, not to the reactionaries. The combination of these two aspects, democracy for the people and dictatorship over the reactionaries, is the people’s democratic dictatorship. (Mao Zedong)

      • The proletarian woman fights hand in hand with the man of her class against capitalist society. (Clara Zetkin)

      • Since trade ignores national boundaries and the manufacturer insists on having the world as a market, the flag of his nation must follow him, and the doors of the nations which are closed must be battered down… Concessions obtained by financiers must be safeguarded by ministers of state, even if the sovereignty of unwilling nations be outraged in the process. Colonies must be obtained or planted, in order that no useful corner of the world may be overlooked or left unused. (Thomas Woodrow Wilson)

      • It is sometimes possible to change the attitudes of millions but impossible to change the attitude of one man. (Edward Bernays)

      • The engineering of consent is the very essence of the democratic process, the freedom to persuade and suggest. (Edward Bernays)

      • Bourgeois society is continually producing politicians who love to assert they belong to no class, and opportunists who love to call themselves socialists, both of whom deliberately and systematically deceive the masses with the most florid and “radical” words. In times of crisis, however even well-meaning participants therein very often reveal a discrepancy between word and deed. The great and progressive significance of all crises, even the gravest, most arduous and painful, lies in the tremendous speed, force and clarity with which they expose and sweep aside rotten phrases, even if well meaning, and rotten institutions even if they are built on the best of intentions. (Lenin)

      • The workers have taken it into their heads that they, with their busy hands, are the necessary, and the rich capitalists, who do nothing, the surplus population. (Friedrich Engels)

      • The world as we have created it is a process of our thinking. It cannot be changed without changing our thinking. (Albert Einstein)

      • Principle of simplification and the single enemy. Adopt a single idea, a single Symbol; Individualizing the adversary into a single enemy. (Joseph Goebbels)

      • In Petrograd, here in Moscow, and in other cities and industrial centres, proletarian women showed up splendidly during the revolution. We would not have won without them, or hardly. That is my opinion. What courage they showed and how courageous they still are! (Lenin)

      • I found that the period of Soviet history with Stalin at the head has been completely distorted. Not just ‘a mistake here and there’, but basically a massive fraud, the biggest lie of the century. (Grover Furr)

      • The dictatorship of the proletariat, the transition from capitalism to communism, must not be regarded as a fleeting period of “super-revolutionary” acts and decrees, but as an entire historical era, replete with civil wars and external conflicts, with persistent organisational work and economic construction, with advances and retreats, victories and defeats. (Stalin)

      • If the abuse be enormous, nature will rise up, and claiming her original rights, overturn a corrupt political system. (Thomas Jefferson)

      • Advocates of capitalism are very apt to appeal to the sacred principles of liberty, which are embodied in one maxim: The fortunate must not be restrained in the exercise of tyranny over the unfortunate. (Bertrand Russell)

      • A revolution is not a dinner party, or writing an essay, or painting a picture, or doing embroidery. A revolution is an insurrection, an act of violence by which one class overthrows another. (Mao Zedong)

      • No matter that patriotism is too often the refuge of scoundrels. Dissent, rebellion, and all-around hell-raising remain the true duty of patriots. (Barbara Ehrenreich)

      • We are here, not because we are law-breakers; we are here in our efforts to become law-makers. (Emmeline Pankhurst)

      • A revolution is not a trail of roses.… A revolution is a fight to the death between the future and the past. (Fidel Castro)

      • The most heroic word in all languages is REVOLUTION. (Eugene V. Debs)

      • Fascism is capitalism in decay. (Lenin)

      • But every class struggle is a political struggle. (Karl Marx)

      • Freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed. (Martin Luther King, Jr.)

      • Our freedom must be had at all hazards. If the men of property will not help us they must fall. (Wolfe Tone)

      • An oppressed people are authorized whenever they can to rise and break their fetters. (Henry Clay)

      • To tell the truth is revolutionary. (Gramsci)

      • A conservative is a man who is too cowardly to fight and too fat to run. (Elbert Hubbard)

      • If you stop struggling, then you stop life. (Huey P. Newton)

      • The privileged class can never be overturned peacefully. (Johann Most)

      • I think what motivates people is not great hate, but great love for other people. (Huey P. Newton)

      • Historically, the most terrible things – war, genocide, and slavery – have resulted not from disobedience, but from obedience. (Howard Zinn)

      • Dignify and glorify common labor. It is at the bottom of life that we must begin, not at the top. (Booker T. Washington)

      • The cost of liberty is less than the price of repression. (W. E. B. Du Bois)

      • Our homeland is the whole world. Our law is liberty. We have but one thought, revolution in our hearts. (Dario Fo)

      • Revolutions are brought about by men, by men who think as men of action and act as men of thought. (Kwame Nkrumah)

      • Bourgeois democracy is democracy of pompous phrases, solemn words, exuberant promises and the high-sounding slogans of freedom and equality. But, in fact, it screens the non-freedom and inferiority of women, the non-freedom and inferiority of the toilers and exploited. (Lenin)

      • Unthinking respect for authority is the greatest enemy of truth. (Albert Einstein)

      • Talk of imminent threat to our national security through the application of external force is pure nonsense. Indeed it is part of the general pattern of misguided policy that our country is now geared to an arms economy which was bred in an artificially induced psychosis of war hysteria and nurtured upon an incessant propaganda of fear. (General Douglas MacArthur)

      • The bourgeoisie are today evading taxation by bribery and through their connections; we must close all loopholes. (Lenin)

      • It is weakness rather than wickedness which renders men unfit to be trusted with unlimited power. (John Adams)

      • We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark. The real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light. (Plátōn)

      • When men are able to influence so many others through their life and their example, they do not die. (Aleida Guevara March)

      • Great spirits have often encountered violent opposition from weak minds. (Albert Einstein)

      • A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and carries his banner openly. But the traitor moves amongst those within the gate freely, his sly whispers rustling through all the alleys, heard in the very halls of government itself. For the traitor appears not a traitor; he speaks in accents familiar to his victims, and he wears their face and their arguments, he appeals to the baseness that lies deep in the hearts of all men. He rots the soul of a nation, he works secretly and unknown in the night to undermine the pillars of the city, he infects the body politic so that it can no longer resist. A murderer is less to fear. (Marcus Tullius Cicero)

      • In America, the criminally insane rule and the rest of us, or the vast majority of the rest of us, either do not care, do not know, or are distracted and properly brainwashed into acquiescence. (Kurt Nimmo)

      • The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary. (Henry Louis Mencken)

      • Unless you become more watchful in your States and check this spirit of monopoly and thirst for exclusive privileges you will in the end find that the most important powers of Government have been given or bartered away, and the control of your dearest interests have been passed into the hands of these corporations. (Andrew Jackson)

      • Believe nothing, no matter where you read it, or who said it, no matter if I have said it, unless it agrees with your own reason and your own common sense. (Siddhārtha Gautama)

      • There is nothing worse than aggressive stupidity. (Goethe)

      • Government is not reason, it is not eloquence, it is force; like fire, a troublesome servant and a fearful master. Never for a moment should it be left to irresponsible action. (George Washington)

      • The people never give up their liberties but under some delusion. (Edmund Burke)

      • War is the continuation of Politik by other means. (Carl von Clausewitz)

      • If we put our trust in the common sense of common men and ‘with malice toward none and charity for all’ go forward on the great adventure of making political, economic and social democracy a practical reality, we shall not fail. (Henry A. Wallace)

      • The myth of fascist efficiency has deluded many people. (Henry A. Wallace)

      • The world became more aware that America-despite being the hope of many who have the personal drive and ambition to become part of the “American dream”-is beset by serious operational challenges: a massive and growing national debt, widening social inequality, a cornucopian culture that worships materialism, a financial system given to greedy speculation, and a polarized political system. (Zbigniew Brzezinski)

      • The guerrilla wins if he does not lose. The conventional army loses if it does not win. (Henry Kissinger)

      • A popular method always used by the bourgeois press in every country with unerring effect is to lie, scream, raise a hullabaloo, and keep on reiterating lies on the off-chance that “something may stick”. (Lenin)

      • … the most formidable military machine depends ultimately on the obedience of its soldiers, … the most powerful corporation becomes helpless when its workers stop working, when its customers refuse to buy its products. The strike, the boycott, the refusal to serve, the ability to paralyze the functioning of a complex social structure-these remain potent weapons against the most fearsome state or corporate power. (Howard Zinn)

      • One does not have to be a Marxist to know there is something very wrong in this society. (Michael Parenti)

      • Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without feminine upheaval. (Karl Marx)

      • In the 1950s and 1960s we put several thousand nuclear weapons into Europe. To be sure, we had no precise idea of what to do with them. (Henry Kissinger)

      • Democracy cannot consist solely of elections that are nearly always fictitious and managed by rich landowners and professional politicians. (Che Guevara)

      • Not even the dead can rest in peace in an oppressed country. (Fidel Castro)

      • There is something behind the throne greater than the King himself. (Sir William Pitt)

      • And one day we must ask the question, ‘Why are there forty million poor people in America? And when you begin to ask that question, you are raising questions about the economic system, about a broader distribution of wealth.’ When you ask that question, you begin to question the capitalistic economy. And I’m simply saying that more and more, we’ve got to begin to ask questions about the whole society. (Martin Luther King, Jr.)

      • So long as the state exists there is no freedom. When there is freedom, there will be no state. (Lenin)

      • If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of their currency, first by inflation, then by deflation, the banks and corporations that will grow up around them will deprive the people of all property until their children wake up homeless on the continent their Fathers conquered… I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies… The issuing power should be taken from the banks and restored to the people, to whom it properly belongs. (Thomas Jefferson)

      • The bourgeois intellectuals, including the Mensheviks and Socialist-Revolutionaries, are true to themselves in serving capital and in continuing to use absolutely false arguments. (Lenin)

      • Aside from the few who have jobs or professions, the women of the bourgeoisie do not take part in social production. They are nothing but co-consumers of the surplus value their men extort from the proletariat. They are parasites of the parasites of the social body. And consumers are usually even more rabid and cruel in defending their “right” to a parasite’s life than the direct agents of class rule and exploitation. The history of all great revolutionary struggles confirms this in a horrible way. Take the great French Revolution. After the fall of the Jacobins, when Robespierre was driven in chains to the place of execution the naked whores of the victory-drunk bourgeoisie danced in the streets, danced a shameless dance of joy around the fallen hero of the Revolution. And in 1871, in Paris, when the heroic workers’ Commune was defeated by machine guns, the raving bourgeois females surpassed even their bestial men in their bloody revenge against the suppressed proletariat. The women of the property-owning classes will always fanatically defend the exploitation and enslavement of the working people by which they indirectly receive the means for their socially useless existence. (Rosa Luxemburg)

      • Won’t let anyone speak badly of Stalin. Russia, today is still living on borrowed time thanks to his vision. (Daniel Estulin)

      • The working class must first take possession of the organised political power of the state and by its aid crush the resistance of the capitalist class and organise society anew. (Friedrich Engels)

      • The state is the executive committee of the ruling class. (Karl Marx)

      • American capitalism, based as it is on exploitation of the poor, with its fundamental motivation in personal greed, simply cannot survive without force – without a secret police force. Now, more than ever, each of us is forced to make a conscious choice whether to support the system of minority comfort and privilege with all its security apparatus and repression, or whether to struggle for real equality of opportunity and fair distribution of benefits for all of society, in the domestic as well as the international order. It’s harder now not to realize that there are two sides, harder not to understand each, and harder not to recognize that like it or not we contribute day in and day out either to the one side or to the other. (Philip Agee)

      • We in the West must bear in mind that the poor countries are poor primarily because we have exploited them through political or economic colonialism. (Martin Luther King, Jr.)

      • … the United States [is] cast in the role of Praetorian Guard, protecting the interests of the global financial order against fractious elements in the Third World. (John Stockwell)

      • A cynical, mercenary, demagogic press will produce in time a people as base as itself. (Joseph Pulitzer)

      • An elective despotism was not the government we fought for. (Thomas Jefferson)

      • It does not require a majority to prevail, but rather an irate, tireless minority keen to set brush fires in people’s minds. (Samuel Adams)

      • There exists a shadowy Government with its own Air Force, its own Navy, its own fundraising mechanism, and the ability to pursue its own ideas of national interest, free from all checks and balances, and free from the law itself. (Daniel K. Inouye)

      • If they do it it’s terrorism, if we do it, it’s fighting for freedom. (Anthony Quainton)

      • It is not power that corrupts but fear. The fear of losing power corrupts those who wield it, and fear of the scourge of power corrupts those who are subject to it. (Aung San Suu Kyi)

      • When do these corporations begin to lose their credibility? They fought Social Security, Medicare, auto safety. They fought every social justice movement in this country. (Ralph Nader)

      • It is only when a society shares caring values that its people can feel secure. (Michael Lerner)

      • The smart way to keep people passive and obedient is to strictly limit the spectrum of acceptable opinion, but allow very lively debate within that spectrum – even encourage the more critical and dissident views. That gives people the sense that there’s free thinking going on, while all the time the presuppositions of the system are being reinforced by the limits put on the range of the debate. (Noam Chomsky)

      • We are witnessing an unprecedented transfer of power from people and their governments to global institutions whose allegiance is to abstract free-market principle, and whose favored citizens are soulless corporate entities that have the power to shape and break nations. (Joel Bleifuss)

      • I’ve been around the ruling class all my life, and I’ve been quite aware of their total contempt for the people of the country. (Gore Vidal)

      • For us there is no valid definition of socialism other than the abolition of the exploitation of one human being by another. (Che Guevara)

      • Red Rosa now has vanished too. Where she lies is hid from view. She told the poor what life is about. And so now the rich have rubbed her out. (Epitaph 1919 – poem about Luxemburg after she was killed by right-wing death squads in 1919) (Bertolt Brecht)

      • You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you can not fool all of the people all of the time. (Abraham Lincoln)

      • Inequality can be done away with only by establishing a new society, where men and women will enjoy equal rights…Thus, the status of women will improve only with the elimination of the system that exploits them. (Thomas Sankara)

      • The unsuspecting Britons spoke of such novelties as ‘civilisation,’ when in fact they were only a feature of their enslavement. (Cornelius Tacitus)

      • It is perhaps difficult for white South Africans, with an ingrained prejudice against communism, to understand why experienced African politicians so readily accept communists as their friends. But to us the reason is obvious. Theoretical differences, amongst those fighting against oppression, is a luxury which cannot be afforded. What is more, for many decades communists were the only political group in South Africa who were prepared to treat Africans as human beings and as their equals; who were prepared to eat with us; talk with us, live with us, and work with us. They were the only political group which was prepared to work with the Africans for the attainment of political rights and a stake in society. Because of this, there are many Africans who today tend to equate freedom with communism. (Nelson Mandela)

      • Kautsky has made increasingly rapid progress in this art of being a Marxist in words and a lackey of the bourgeoisie in deeds, until he has become a virtuoso at it. (Lenin)

      • A revolution not guided by a correct idea, theory and method is doomed to go off course and wander like a ship without a compass. (Kim Jong-il)

      • 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. (Issac Don Levine)

      • I could have gone on flying through space forever. (Yuri Gagarin)

      • Paper money eventually returns to its intrinsic value: zero. (Voltaire)

      • In the form that it emerged at the turn of the century and developed in the 1920s and 1930s, the fascist ideology represented a synthesis of organic nationalism with the antimaterialist revision of Marxism. (Zeev Sternhell)

      • If by free market one means a market that is autonomous and spontaneous, free from political controls, then there is no such thing as a free market at all. It is simply a myth. (Antonio Negri)

      • To fasten on the facts while forgetting the social content is to fall prey to a mystifying immediacy. In an antagonistic society, appearance and essence, immediacy and mediacy, diverge; things are not what they seem to be. (Russell Jacoby)

      • The process by which banks create money is so simple that the mind is repelled. (John Kenneth Galbraith)

      • The so-called Great Powers have long been exploiting and enslaving a whole number of small and weak nations. And the imperialist war is a war for the division and redivision of this kind of booty. (Lenin)

      • We say: our aim is to achieve a socialist system of society, which, by eliminating the division of mankind into classes, by eliminating all exploitation of man by man and nation by nation, will inevitably eliminate the very possibility of war. (Lenin)

      • They cripple the bird’s wing, and then condemn it for not flying as fast as they. (Malcolm X)

      • Marxism is always moving, is always growing. It is the exact opposite of a ready-made, fixed body of dogmas as its enemies always present it. It cannot be that because it is an interpretation of the real world. The real world is always changing and moving, and therefore the theory has always to develop with the development of the real world. Marxism can never stand still. (R. Palme Dutt)

      • Trotsky’s “permanent revolution” was a project of the British Empire. (Daniel Estulin)

      • Look at the history of the revolutionary movement, and you will find more than one connection between imperialism and those who take positions that appear to be on the extreme left. (Fidel Castro)

      • You have to make clear that it’s social democratic bullshit to claim that imperialism along with all the Neubauers and Westmorelands, Bonn, the senate, the State Youth Welfare Office and district offices, that the whole filth can be undermined, duped, overpowered, intimidated, and eliminated without a fight. Make it clear that the revolution will not be an Easter stroll. (Gudrun Ensslin)

      • [The] Soviet government is the expression of the most complete and most fully developed democracy. At the same time, it is the expression of the dictatorship of the working class, which secures the very possibility of democracy for the people. Soviet democracy and proletarian dictatorship are two aspects of one and the same phenomenon. (Andrei Yanuaryevich Vyshinsky)

      • Why can the rulers of the most advanced “civilised” capitalist states offer to the people nothing but unlimited barbarism, destruction, economic chaos, spreading famine and disease, terror and slaughter? (R. Palme Dutt)

      • For all arms with which to fight must be drawn from society as it is and the fatal conditions of this struggle have the misfortune of not being easily adapted to the idealistic fantasies which these doctors in social science have exalted as divinities, under the names of Freedom, Autonomy, Anarchy. (Karl Marx)

      • And the most important thing in all this is that Social-Democracy is the main channel of imperialist pacifism within the working class — consequently, it is capitalism’s main support among the working class in preparing for new wars and intervention. (Stalin)

      • The powers of financial capitalism had a far-reaching (plan), nothing less than to create a world system of financial control in private hands able to dominate the political system of each country and the economy of the world as a whole. (Carroll Quigley)

      • When goods do not cross borders, soldiers will. (Frédéric Bastiat)

      • When the modern corporation acquires power over markets, power in the community, power over the state and power over belief, it is a political instrument, different in degree but not in kind from the state itself. To hold otherwise — to deny the political character of the modern corporation — is not merely to avoid the reality. It is to disguise the reality. The victims of that disguise are those we instruct in error. The beneficiaries are the institutions whose power we so disguise. Let there be no question: economics, so long as it is thus taught, becomes, however unconsciously, a part of the arrangement by which the citizen or student is kept from seeing how he or she is, or will be, governed. (John Kenneth Galbraith)

      • For it was after Stalin that the Russian state began to fall into its present state of decay. (Huey P. Newton)

      • Fascism aims at the most unbridled exploitation of the masses, but it approaches them with the most artful anti-capitalist demagogy, taking advantage of the deep hatred of the working people against the plundering bourgeoisie, the banks, trusts and financial magnates, and advancing those slogans which at the given moment are most alluring to the politically immature masses. (Georgi Dimitrov)

      • Homeland or death! Socialism or death! We shall overcome! (Fidel Castro)

      • Central to all the disquisitions of the self-determination opponents is the claim that it is generally “unachievable” under capitalism or imperialism. (Lenin)

      • The cause of Communism is the greatest cause in the history of mankind, because it seeks to remove from society all forms of oppression and exploitation to liberate mankind, and to ensure peace and prosperity to all. (Nelson Mandela)

      • To become the ruling class and defeat the bourgeoisie for good the proletariat must be schooled, because the skill this implies does not come ready-made. The proletariat must do its learning in the struggle, and stubborn, desperate struggle in earnest is the only meal teacher. The greater the extremes of the exploiters’ resistance, the more vigorously, firmly, ruthlessly and successfully will they be suppressed by the exploited. The more varied the exploiters’ attempts to uphold the old, the sooner will the proletariat learn to ferret out its enemies from their last nook and corner, to pull up the roots of their domination, and cut the very ground which could (and had to) breed wage-slavery, mass poverty and the profiteering and effrontery of the money-bags. (Lenin)

      • Socialism or barbarism! (Rosa Luxemburg)

      • This vagueness and ambiguity of conventional common places to describe its basic aims is not accidental in Fascism, but inherent and inevitable. This terminology is the standard vague and deceitful terminology of all capitalist parties to cover the realities of class-rule and class-exploitation under empty phrases of “the community,” “the national welfare,” “the State above classes,” etc. (R. Palme Dutt)

      • Principle of renewal. It is necessary to constantly issue new information and arguments at a rate such that when the adversary responds the public is already interested in something else. The adversary’s responses should never be able to counteract the increasing level of accusations. (Joseph Goebbels)

      • The British ruling class are not fighting to liberate the people of Europe from fascism and reaction. They have always been, for a century and a-half, the main stranglers of every popular revolution in every country. The war aims of Churchill, for which the British workers; are asked to die, are the war aims of British imperialism; to protect and maintain the domination of the British Empire over a-quarter of the world; to smash the rival German imperialism and inflict a new super-Versailles; to maintain the reactionary interests of capitalist class rule against the world Socialist Revolution. There is nothing they fear more than a real popular revolution in Europe, which they know would lead to the victory of Socialism. (R. Palme Dutt)

      • Thereby I state that we are extremely interested in not letting eastern nations unite. On the contrary, we must spit them into small groups and branches. As for separate nations, we are not going to allow them to get closer and bigger, let alone allowing them to cultivate the sense of national identity and culture. Quite the contrary, we are concerned with splintering them into numerous small groups… (Heinrich Himmler)

      • If you throw a stone, it’s a crime. If a thousand stones are thrown, that’s political. If you set fire to a car it’s a crime; if a hundred cars are set on fire that’s political. (Ulrike Meinhof)

      • Politics is the entertainment branch of industry. (Frank Zappa)

      • I must add further that no programme is worthy the acceptance of the working classes that stops short of the abolition of private property in the means of production. Any other programme is misleading and dishonest… (William Morris)

      • Private property based on the labour of the small proprietor, free competition, democracy, all the catchwords with which the capitalists and their press deceive the workers and the peasants are things of the distant past. Capitalism has grown into a world system of colonial oppression and of the financial strangulation of the overwhelming majority of the population of the world by a handful of “advanced” countries. (Lenin)

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      • Marxism is not only the theory of socialism, it is an integral world outlook, a philosophical system, from which Marx’s proletarian socialism logically follows. This philosophical system is called dialectical materialism. (Stalin)

      • The bestiality of imperialism, a bestiality that knows no limits, that has no national boundaries. (Che Guevara)

      • For capitalist countries war is just as natural and legitimate a condition of things as the exploitation of the working class. (Stalin)

      • The real grand corruption is in the [capitalist] system, itself. (Glen Ford)

      • The dominant, almost general, idea of revolution — particularly the Socialist idea — is that revolution is a violent change of social conditions through which one social class, the working class, becomes dominant over another class, the capitalist class. (Emma Goldman)

      • We have, in this country, one of the most corrupt institutions the world has ever known. I refer to the Federal Reserve Board. This evil institution has impoverished the people of the United States and has practically bankrupted our government. It has done this through the corrupt practices of the moneyed vultures who control it. (Louis T. McFadden)

      • In theory, everybody buys the best and cheapest commodities offered to him on the market. In practice, if every one went around pricing, and chemically testing before purchasing, the dozens of soaps or fabrics or brands of bread which are for sale, economic life would become hopelessly jammed. (Edward Bernays)

      • Firstly, it is not true that fascism is only the fighting organisation of the bourgeoisie. Fascism is not only a military-technical category. Fascism is the bourgeoisie’s fighting organisation that relies on the active support of Social-Democracy. Social-Democracy is objectively the moderate wing of fascism. There is no ground for assuming that the fighting organisation of the bourgeoisie can achieve decisive successes in battles, or in governing the country, without the active support of Social-Democracy. There is just as little ground for thinking that Social-Democracy can achieve decisive successes in battles, or in governing the country, without the active support of the fighting organisation of the bourgeoisie. These organisations do not negate, but supplement each other. They are not antipodes, they are twins. Fascism is an informal political bloc of these two chief organisations; a bloc, which arose in the circumstances of the post-war crisis of imperialism, and which is intended for combating the proletarian revolution. The bourgeoisie cannot retain power without such a bloc. It would therefore be a mistake to think that “pacifism” signifies the liquidation of fascism. In the present situation, “pacifism” is the strengthening of fascism with its moderate, Social-Democratic wing pushed into the forefront. (Stalin)

      • This is an age of mass production. In the mass production of materials a broad technique has been developed and applied to their distribution. In this age, too, there must be a technique for the mass distribution of ideas. (Edward Bernays)

      • In order to rally people, governments need enemies. They want us to be afraid, to hate, so we will rally behind them. And if they do not have a real enemy, they will invent one in order to mobilize us. (Thích Nhất Hạnh)

      • The farmer and manufacturer can no more live without profit than the labourer without wages. (David Ricardo)

      • By destroying small-scale production, capital leads to an increase in productivity of labour and to the creation of a monopoly position for the associations of big capitalists. (Lenin)

      • Israel should have exploited the repression of the demonstrations in China, when world attention focused on that country, to carry out mass expulsions among the Arabs of the territories. (Benjamin Netanyahu)

      • We have been ruled more by deceit than by force, and we have been degraded more by vice than by superstition. Slavery is the daughter of darkness: an ignorant people is a blind instrument of its own destruction. (Simón Bolívar)

      • It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not. (André Gide)

      • There is only one power which really counts. The power of political pressure. We Jews are the most powerful people on earth, because we have this power, and we know how to apply it. (Vladimir Jabotinsky)

      • When Stalin was still alive, I saw things differently, but as I look back over this century, I can state that Stalin was the greatest individual of this century, the greatest political genius. To adopt a scientific attitude about someone is quite different from one’s personal attitude. (Alexander Zinoviev)

      • If any of you in any way hate homosexuals, people of different color, or women, please do this one favor for us – leave us the fuck alone! Don’t come to our shows and don’t buy our records. (Kurt Cobain)

      • Along the way, I had the opportunity to pass through the dominions of the United Fruit, convincing me once again of just how terrible these capitalist octopuses are. I have sworn before a picture of the old and mourned comrade Stalin that I won’t rest until I see these capitalist octopuses annihilated. (Che Guevara)

      • Everywhere revolutions are painful yet fruitful gestations of a people: they shed blood but create light, they eliminate men but elaborate ideas. (Goethe)

      • Disobedience, in the eyes of any one who has read history, is man’s original virtue. It is through disobedience that progress has been made, through disobedience and through rebellion. (Oscar Wilde)

      • While there is a lower class, I am in it, while there is a criminal element, I am of it, and while there is a soul in prison, I am not free. (Eugene V. Debs)

      • The Revolution will not be televised. The Revolution will be no rerun, brothers. The Revolution — will be live. (Gilbert Scott-Heron)

      • As to the history of the revolution, my ideas may be peculiar, perhaps singular. What do we mean by the Revolution? The war? That was no part of the revolution; it was only an effect and consequence of it. The revolution was in the minds of the people, and this was effected … before a drop of blood was shed. (John Adams)

      • None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free. (Goethe)

      • If the people understood the banking system, there would be a revolution tomorrow. (Henry Ford)

      • Give me liberty or give me death. (Patrick Henry)

      • Every revolution has its counterrevolution – that is a sign the revolution is for real. (C. Wright Mills)

      • Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves. (Abraham Lincoln)

      • Just see these superfluous ones! They steal the works of the inventors and the treasures of the wise. Culture, they call their theft—and everything becometh sickness and trouble unto them! Just see these superfluous ones! Sick are they always; they vomit their bile and call it a newspaper. They devour one another, and cannot even digest themselves. Just see these superfluous ones! Wealth they acquire and become poorer thereby. Power they seek for, and above all, the lever of power, much money—these impotent ones! See them clamber, these nimble apes! They clamber over one another, and thus scuffle into the mud and the abyss. Towards the throne they all strive: it is their madness—as if happiness sat on the throne! Ofttimes sitteth filth on the throne.—and ofttimes also the throne on filth. Madmen they all seem to me, and clambering apes, and too eager. Badly smelleth their idol to me, the cold monster: badly they all smell to me, these idolaters. My brethren, will ye suffocate in the fumes of their maws and appetites! Better break the windows and jump into the open air! Do go out of the way of the bad odour! Withdraw from the idolatry of the superfluous! Do go out of the way of the bad odour! Withdraw from the steam of these human sacrifices! Open still remaineth the earth for great souls. Empty are still many sites for lone ones and twain ones, around which floateth the odour of tranquil seas. Open still remaineth a free life for great souls. Verily, he who possesseth little is so much the less possessed: blessed be moderate poverty! (Nietzsche)

      • The common people suffer when the powerful disagree. (Plátōn)

      • Imperialism is the monopoly stage of capitalism. (Lenin)

      • In this Revolution no plans have been written for retreat. (Martin Luther King, Jr.)

      • Tell the children the truth. (Bob Marley)

      • They got money for wars, but wont feed the poor. (Tupac Shakur)

      • When you are right you cannot be too radical; when you are wrong, you cannot be too conservative. (Martin Luther King, Jr.)

      • Revolution is not an action, it is a process. (Huey P. Newton)

      • I would rather die on my feet than live on my knees. (Huey P. Newton)

      • Armaments, universal debt and planned obsolescence — those are the three pillars of Western prosperity. (Aldous Huxley)

      • The greatest revolution of our generation is the discovery that human beings can change their lives. (William James)

      • The modern banking system manufactures money out of nothing. The process is perhaps the most astounding piece of sleight of hand that was ever invented. Banking was conceived in iniquity and born in sin. Bankers own the earth. Take it away from them, but leave them the power to create money and control credit, and with the flick of a pen, they will create enough money to buy it back again. Take this great power away from the bankers and all the great fortunes like mine will disappear, and they ought to disappear, for this would be a better and happier world to live in. But if you want to continue the slaves of bankers and pay the cost of your own slavery, let them continue to create money and to control credit. (Sir Josiah Stamp)

      • One day, in retrospect, the years of struggle will strike you as the most beautiful. (Sigmund Freud)

      • When injustice becomes law, resistance becomes duty. (Thomas Jefferson)

      • When even one American — who has done nothing wrong — is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth, then all Americans are in peril. (Harry Truman)

      • When you control opinion, as corporate America controls opinion in the United States by owning the media, you can make the masses believe almost anything you want, and guide them as you please. (Gore Vidal)

      • An informed citizenry is the only true repository of the public will. (Thomas Jefferson)

      • The lie can be maintained only for such time as the State can shield the people from the political, economic and/or military consequences of the lie. It thus becomes vitally important for the State to use all of its powers to repress dissent, for the truth is the mortal enemy of the lie, and thus by extension, the truth becomes the greatest enemy of the State. (Joseph Goebbels)

      • Single acts of tyranny may be ascribed to the accidental opinion of a day. But a series of oppressions, begun at a distinguished period, and pursued unalterably through every change of ministers (administrations), too plainly proves a deliberate systematic plan of reducing us to slavery. (Thomas Jefferson)

      • There is nothing more frightening than active ignorance. (Goethe)

      • The Central Intelligence Agency owns everyone of any significance in the major media. (William Colby)

      • The liberty of a democracy is not safe if the people tolerate the growth of private power to a point where it becomes stronger than their democratic State itself. That, in its essence, is Fascism – ownership of government by an individual, by a group or by any controlling private power. (Franklin D. Roosevelt)

      • In the counsels of Government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the Military Industrial Complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists, and will persist. We must never let the weight of this combination endanger our liberties or democratic processes. We should take nothing for granted. Only an alert and knowledgeable citizenry can compel the proper meshing of the huge industrial and military machinery of defense with our peaceful methods and goals so that security and liberty may prosper together. (Dwight Eisenhower)

      • The millions of people armed in the holy cause of liberty… are invincible by any force which our enemy can send against us. (Patrick Henry)

      • The perfect totalitarian state is one where the all powerful political bosses and their army of managers, control a population of slaves who do not have to be coerced because they love their servitude. (Aldous Huxley)

      • I think that on balance the moral influence of religion has been awful. With or without religion, good people can behave well and bad people can do evil; but for good people to do evil—that takes religion. (Steven Weinberg)

      • Every war when it comes, or before it comes, is represented not as a war but as an act of self-defense against a homicidal maniac. (George Orwell)

      • Warfare is a means and not an end. Warfare is a tool of revolutionaries. The important thing is the revolution! The important thing is the revolutionary cause, revolutionary ideas, revolutionary objectives, revolutionary sentiments, revolutionary virtues! (Fidel Castro)

      • The revolution is not about putting a different kind of person in power but a different kind of power in people. (Stephanie Van Hook)

      • They are patriotic in time of war because it is to their interest to be so, but in time of peace they follow power and the dollar wherever they may lead. (Henry A. Wallace)

      • In the technotronic society the trend would seem to be towards the aggregation of the individual support of millions of uncoordinated citizens, easily within the reach of magnetic and attractive personalities exploiting the latest communications techniques to manipulate emotions and control reason. (Zbigniew Brzezinski)

      • It is no coincidence that the growth of modern tyrants has in every case been heralded by the growth of prejudice. (Henry A. Wallace)

      • Genuine equality between the sexes can only be realized in the process of the socialist transformation of society as a whole. (Mao Zedong)

      • Unity is a great thing and a great slogan. But what the workers’ cause needs is the unity of Marxists, not unity between Marxists, and opponents and distorters of Marxism. (Lenin)

      • History repeats itself, first as tragedy, second as farce. (Karl Marx)

      • Machines were, it may be said, the weapon employed by the capitalists to quell the revolt of specialized labor. (Karl Marx)

      • Our task is that of ruthless criticism, and much more against ostensible friends than against open enemies; and in maintaining this our position we gladly forego cheap democratic popularity. (Karl Marx)

      • I have come to communism because of daddy Stalin. (Che Guevara)

      • It comes down to the ability to expropriate others’ labor. (Robert Bettinger)

      • It is an act of insanity and national humiliation to have a law prohibiting the President from ordering assassination. (Henry Kissinger)

      • Without revolutionary theory there can be no revolutionary movement. This idea cannot be insisted upon too strongly at a time when the fashionable preaching of opportunism goes hand in hand with an infatuation for the narrowest forms of practical activity. (Lenin)

      • I belong to the American resistance movement which fights against American imperialism, just as the resistance movement fought against Hitler. (Paul Robeson)

      • Every class struggle is a political struggle. (Lenin)

      • What is the burgling of a bank to the founding of a bank? (Bertolt Brecht)

      • All doctrines of non-class socialism and non-class politics proved to be sheer nonsense. (Lenin)

      • Corporations are in a sense moral monsters; we say they behave as such and we are disposed to treat them as such. The standard of international morality, particularly in matters of commercial intercourse, is on a still lower level. (John A. Hobson)

      • Trotsky has never yet held a firm opinion on any important question of Marxism. He always contrives to worm his way into the cracks of any given difference of opinion, and desert one side for the other. At the present moment he is in the company of the Bundists and the liquidators. (Lenin)

      • For us, those veterans who fought in that ferocious war – and the Soviet Union made great sacrifices, for it offered over 26 million martyrs, and as far as we know the number was closer to 30 million – were the main force; and today they offer a role model for the present generation and for future generations. They provide a role model of resilience and standing fast. Who could expect the siege of Stalingrad at that time to end the way it did without the steadfastness of those heroes? Who could expect that the initial retreat of the Soviet army would turn into a victory later? Without the victory of the Soviet Union, the Normandy landings for Western states wouldn’t have been possible. This is what many in the West are trying to obscure, i.e. the more important role played by the peoples of the Soviet Union at that time – including your people – in defeating Nazism. Today, these veterans play a vital role in strengthening the spirit of steadfastness, because you too are facing something similar to what Syria has been facing for decades. (Bashar al-Assad)

      • The range of debate between the dominant U.S. [political] parties tends to closely resemble the range of debate within the business class. (Robert McChesney)

      • Military intervention to maintain the global status quo will become a constant feature of international relations, whether this is justified in terms of fighting drugs, fighting terrorism, containing “rogue states, ” opposing “Islamic fundamentalism, ” or containing China. (Walden Bello)

      • I came to America because of the great, great freedom which I heard existed in this country. I made a mistake in selecting America as a land of freedom, a mistake I cannot repair in the balance of my lifetime. (Albert Einstein)

      • The state…. must see the sword as the main if not the only, instrument with which to keep its morale high and to retain its moral tension. Toward this end it may no it MUST invent dangers, and to do this it must adopt the method of provocation and revenge…. And above all, let us hope for a new war with the Arab countries so that we may finally get rid of our troubles and acquire our space. (Moshe Sharett)

      • Spirit the penniless population across the frontier by denying it employment… Both the process of expropriation and the removal of the poor must be carried out discreetly and circumspectly. (Theodore Herzl)

      • We will have a world government whether you like it or not. The only question is whether that government will be achieved by conquest or consent. (Paul Warburg)

      • The interests behind the Bush Administration, such as the CFR, The Trilateral Commission – founded by Brzezinski for David Rockefeller – and the Bilderberger Group, have prepared for and are now moving to implement open world dictatorship within the next five years. They are not fighting against terrorists. They are fighting against citizens. (Dr. Johannes B. Koeppl)

      • There is a systematic plan to use the concepts of war to rearrange the chess pieces on the world playing board. It has to do with the New World Order, Globalism and the attack on national sovereignty we are seeing. Occasionally, the globalists who want One World Government have to turn to war to accelerate things. (Joel Skousen)

      • The first casualty when war comes is the truth. (Hiram Johnson)

      • The recent quantum leap in the ability of transnational corporations to relocate their facilities around the world in effect makes all workers, communities and countries competitors for these corporations’ favor. The consequence is a “race to the bottom” in which wages and social conditions tend to fall to the level of the most desperate. (Jeremy Brecher)

      • The corporation has evolved to serve the interests of whoever controls it, at the expense of whomever does not. (William Dugger)

      • Because of its power and global interests U.S. leaders have committed crimes as a matter of course and structural necessity. A strict application of international law would … have given every U.S. president of the past 50 years Nuremberg treatment. (Edward Herman)

      • … the United States has given frequent and enthusiastic support to the overthrow of democracy in favor of “investor friendly” regimes. The World Bank, IMF, and private banks have consistently lavished huge sums on terror regimes, following their displacement of democratic governments, and a number of quantitative studies have shown a systematic positive relationship between U.S. and IMF / World Bank aid to countries and their violations of human rights. (Edward Herman)

      • The hidden hand of the market will never work without a hidden fist. McDonald’s cannot flourish without McDonnell Douglas, the designer of the F-15. And the hidden fist that keeps the world safe for Silicon Valley’s technologies to flourish is called the US Army, Air Force, Navy and Marine Corps. (Thomas Friedman)

      • … the media serve the interests of state and corporate power, which are closely interlinked, framing their reporting and analysis in a manner supportive of established privilege and limiting debate and discussion accordingly. (Noam Chomsky)

      • All propaganda must be so popular and on such an intellectual level, that even the most stupid of those toward whom it is directed will understand it… Through clever and constant application of propaganda, people can be made to see paradise as hell, and also the other way around, to consider the most wretched sort of life as paradise. (Hitler)

      • The reader will understand that I despise these “yellows”; they are utterly without honor, they are vulgar and cruel; and yet, in spite of all their vices, I count them less dangerous to society than the so-called “respectable” papers, which pretend to all the virtues, and set the smug and pious tone for good society — papers like the “New York Tribune” and the “Boston Evening Transcript” and the “Baltimore Sun, ” which are read by rich old gentlemen and maiden aunts, and can hardly ever be forced to admit to their columns any new or vital event or opinion. These are “kept” papers, in the strictest sense of the term, and do not have to hustle on the street for money. They serve the pocketbooks of the whole propertied class — which is the meaning of the term “respectability” in the bourgeois world. On the other hand the “yellow” journals, serving their own pocketbooks exclusively, will often print attacks on vested wealth, provided the attacks are startling and sensational, and provided the vested wealth in question is not a heavy advertiser. (Upton Sinclair)

      • The rich Jews, just like the rich Russians and the rich of all countries, are united in trampling upon, oppressing and dividing the workers. (R. F. Andrews)

      • There are innumerable principles of Marxism, but in the final analysis they can be summed up in one sentence: ‘To rebel is justified.’ For thousands of years everyone said, ‘Oppression is justified, exploitation is justified, rebellion is not justified.’ From the time that Marxism appeared on the scene, this old judgment was turned upside down, and this is a great contribution. This principle was derived by the proletariat from its struggles, but Marx drew the conclusion. In accordance with this principle, there was then resistance, there was struggle, and socialism was realized. What is Comrade Stalin’s contribution? He developed this principle, developed Marxism-Leninism, and produced a very clear, concrete, and living doctrine for the oppressed people of the whole world. This is the complete doctrine for establishing a revolutionary front, overthrowing imperialism, overthrowing capitalism, and establishing a socialist society. (Mao Zedong)

      • Reforms are concessions obtained from a ruling class that retains its rule. Revolution is the overthrow of the ruling class. (Lenin)

      • I am really two people. I am a private person and a political person. Of course, if there is a conflict, the political person comes first. (Kim Philby)

      • 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. (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. (Lenin)

      • The essence of a U.S.A. totalitarian socio-political capitalism is concealed behind the illusion of a mass participatory society. We must rip away its mask. Then the debate can end, and we can enter a new phase of struggle based on the development of an armed revolutionary culture that will triumph. (George Jackson)

      • In all countries, the Trotskyists give themselves fine names in order to mask their dirty work and banditry. For example: in Spain they call themselves the United Marxist Workers Party (POUM). Do you know that it’s they who constitute the nests of spies in Madrid in Barcelona and in other places in the service of Franco? (Ho Chi Minh)

      • Marxism taught me what society was. I was like a blindfolded man in a forest, who doesn’t even know where north or south is. If you don’t eventually come to truly understand the history of the class struggle, or at least have a clear idea that society is divided between the rich and the poor, and that some people subjugate and exploit other people, you’re lost in a forest, not knowing anything. (Fidel Castro)

      • Before we can unite, and in order that we may unite, we must first of all draw firm and definite lines of demarcation. (Lenin)

      • Under no circumstances must we underrate fascism’s power of ideological infection. On the contrary, we for our part must develop an extensive ideological struggle based on clear, popular arguments and a correct, well thought out approach to the peculiarities of the national psychology of the masses of the people. (Georgi Dimitrov)

      • All violence consists in some people forcing others, under threat of suffering or death, to do what they do not want to do. (Tolstoy)

      • Dialectics is the teaching which shows how Opposites can be and how they happen to be (how they become) identical,—under what conditions they are identical, becoming transformed into one another,—why the human mind should grasp these opposites not as dead, rigid, but as living, conditional, mobile, becoming transformed into one another. (Lenin)

      • Down with this contemptible fraud! There cannot be, nor is there nor will there ever be “equality” between the oppressed and the oppressors, between the exploited and the exploiters. There cannot be, nor is there nor will there ever be real “freedom” as long as there is no freedom for women from the privileges which the law grants to men, as long as there is no freedom for the workers from the yoke of capital, and no freedom for the toiling peasants from the yoke of the capitalists, landlords and merchants. (Lenin)

      • If one looks into the genealogies of many ‘old families,’ one discovers episodes of slave trafficking, bootlegging, gun running, opium trading, falsified land claims, violent acquisition of water and mineral rights, the extermination of indigenous peoples, sales of shoddy and unsafe goods, public funds used for private speculations, crooked deals in government bonds and vouchers, and payoffs for political favors. One finds fortunes built on slave labor, indentured labor, prison labor, immigrant labor, female labor, child labor, and scab labor — backed by the lethal force of gun thugs and militia. ‘Old money’ is often little more than dirty money laundered by several generations of possession. (Michael Parenti)

      • In the name of peace they waged the wars. Ain’t they got no shame? (Nikki Giovanni)

      • The Soviet state is the historically integrated form of the state during the transition period from capitalism to communism. (Andrei Yanuaryevich Vyshinsky)

      • Social democracy is objectively the moderate wing of fascism…. These organisations (ie Fascism and social democracy) are not antipodes, they are twins. (Stalin)

      • The capitalists, the bourgeoisie, can at “best” put off the victory of socialism in one country or another at the cost of slaughtering further hundreds of thousands of workers and peasants. But they cannot save capitalism. The Soviet Republic has come to take the place of capitalism, the Republic which gives power to the working people and only to the working people, which entrusts the proletariat with the guidance of their liberation, which abolishes private property in land, factories and other means of production, because this private property is the source of the exploitation of the many by the few, the source of mass poverty, the source of predatory wars between nations, wars that enrich only the capitalists. (Lenin)

      • Tu put it in a terminology that harkens back to the more brutal age of ancient empires, the three grand imperatives of imperial geostrategy are to prevent collusion and maintain security dependance among the vassels, to keep tributaries pliant and protected, and to keep the barbarians from coming together. (Zbigniew Brzezinski)

      • I believe we should do things honestly, for without an honest attitude it is absolutely impossible to accomplish anything in this world. Which are the honest people? Marx, Engels, Lenin and Stalin are honest, men of science are honest. Which are the dishonest people? Trotsky, Bukharin, Chen Tu-hsiu and Chang Kuo-tao are extremely dishonest… (Mao Zedong)

      • Fascism is able to count on the assistance of the greater part of the State forces, of the higher army staffs, of the police authorities, and of the lawcourts and magistracy, who exert all their force to crush working-class opposition, while treating Fascist illegality with open connivance (banning of the Red Front alongside permission of the Storm Troops). Finally, has Fascism “conquered power” from the bourgeois state dictatorship? Fascism has never “conquered power” in any country. In every case Fascism has been placed in power from above by the bourgeois dictatorship. (R. Palme Dutt)

      • Educate ourselves, educate other people, the population in general, to fight fear and ignorance, to eliminate little by little the subjection to nature and natural forces which our economy has not yet mastered. (Amilcar Cabral)

      • The United States is also a one-party state but, with typical American extravagance, they have two of them. (Julius Nyerere)

      • The coloured people of Cardiff are mainly communists simply because no one else has seen fit to give them a helping hand. (Harold Moody)

      • There is a driving force more powerful than steam, electricity and nuclear power: the will. (Albert Einstein)

      • Bolshevism is knocking at our gates. We can’t afford to let it in. We have got to organize ourselves against it, and put our shoulders together and hold fast. We must keep America whole and safe and unspoiled. We must keep the worker away from red literature and red ruses; we must see that his mind remains healthy. (Al Capone)

      • The scientific conclusions of Malthus are “considerate” towards the ruling classes in general and towards the reactionary elements of the ruling classes in particular; in other words he falsifies science for these interests, But his conclusions are ruthless as far as they concern the subjugated classes. He is not only ruthless; he affects ruthlessness; he takes a cynical pleasure in it and exaggerates his conclusions in so far as they are directed against the poor wretches, even beyond the point which would be scientifically justified from his point of view. (Karl Marx)

      • Now more clearly than ever, the CIA, with its related institutions, is exposed as an agency of destabilization and repression. Throughout its history, it has organized secret wars that killed millions of people in the Third World who had no capability of doing physical harm to the United States. (John Stockwell)

      • In our day and generation there is only one class which can be depended upon for consistent revolutionary action. That class is the working class. (James Connolly)

      • Yes, friends, governments in capitalist society are but committees of the rich to manage the affairs of the capitalist class. (James Connolly)

      • During the lifetime of great revolutionaries, the oppressing classes constantly hounded them, received their theories with the most savage malice, the most furious hatred and the most unscrupulous campaigns of lies and slander. After their death, attempts are made to convert them into harmless icons, to canonize them, so to say, and to hallow their names to a certain extent for the “consolation” of the oppressed classes and with the object of duping the latter, while at the same time robbing the revolutionary theory of its substance, blunting its revolutionary edge and vulgarizing it. Today, the bourgeoisie and the opportunists within the labor movement concur in this doctoring of Marxism. They omit, obscure, or distort the revolutionary side of this theory, its revolutionary soul. They push to the foreground and extol what is or seems acceptable to the bourgeoisie. All the social-chauvinists are now “Marxists” (don’t laugh!). (Lenin)

      • Your ancestors dragged these black people from their homes by force; and in the white man’s quest for wealth and an easy life they have been ruthlessly suppressed and exploited, degraded into slavery. The modern prejudice against Negroes is the result of the desire to maintain this unworthy condition. (Albert Einstein)

      • Socialism is neither Protestant nor Catholic, Christian nor Freethinker, Buddhist, Mahometan, nor Jew; it is only HUMAN. We of the Socialist working class realise that as we suffer together we must work together that we may enjoy together. We reject the firebrand of capitalist warfare and offer you the olive leaf of brotherhood and justice to and for all. (James Connolly)

      • Pacifism, the preaching of peace in the abstract, is one of the means of duping the working class. Under capitalism, particularly in its imperialist stage, wars are inevitable. (Lenin)

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      • If you must break the law, do it to seize power; in all other cases observe it. (Julius Caesar)

      • [Israel will] create in the course of the next 10 or 20 years conditions which would attract natural and voluntary migration of the refugees from the Gaza Strip and the west Bank to Jordan. To achieve this we have to come to agreement with King Hussein and not with Yasser Arafat. (Yitzhak Rabin)

      • The natural scientist must be a modern materialist, a conscious adherent of the materialism represented by Marx, i.e., he must be a dialectical materialist. (Lenin)

      • If the war is lost, the nation will also perish. This fate is inevitable. There is no necessity to take into consideration the basis which the people will need to continue even a most primitive existence. On the contrary, it will be better to destroy these things ourselves, because this nation will have proved to be the weaker one and the future will belong solely to the stronger eastern nation (Russia). Besides, those who will remain after the battle are only the inferior ones, for the good ones have all been killed. (Hitler)

      • The proof of Communism does not lie in a theory; it lies in the facts of the world around us. (R. Palme Dutt)

      • Struggle against imperialism that is not closely linked with the struggle against opportunism is either an empty phrase or a fraud. (Lenin)

      • Leninism grew up and took shape under the conditions of imperialism, when the contradictions of capitalism had reached an extreme point, when the proletarian revolution had become an immediate practical question, when the old period of preparation of the working class for revolution had arrived at and passed into a new period, that of direct assault on capitalism. Lenin called imperialism “moribund capitalism.” Why? Because imperialism carries the contradictions of capitalism to their last bounds, to the extreme limit, beyond which revolution begins. Of these contradictions, there are three which must be regarded as the most important. The first contradiction is the contradiction between labour and capital. Imperialism is the omnipotence of the monopolist trusts and syndicates, of the banks and the financial oligarchy, in the industrial countries. In the fight against this omnipotence, the customary methods of the working class-trade unions and cooperatives, parliamentary parties and the parliamentary struggle-have proved to be totally inadequate. Either place yourself at the mercy of capital, eke out a wretched existence as of old and sink lower and lower, or adopt a new weapon-this is the alternative imperialism puts before the vast masses of the proletariat. Imperialism brings the working class to revolution. The second contradiction is the contradiction among the various financial groups and imperialist Powers in their struggle for sources of raw materials, for foreign territory. Imperialism is the export of capital to the sources of raw materials, the frenzied struggle for monopolist possession of these sources, the struggle for a re-division of the already divided world, a struggle waged with particular fury by new financial groups and Powers seeking a “place in the sun” against the old groups and Powers, which cling tenaciously to what they have seized. This frenzied struggle among the various groups of capitalists is notable in that it includes as an inevitable element imperialist wars, wars for the annexation of foreign territory. This circumstance, in its turn, is notable in that it leads to the mutual weakening of the imperialists, to the weakening of the position of capitalism in general, to the acceleration of the advent of the proletarian revolution and to the practical necessity of this revolution. The third contradiction is the contradiction between the handful of ruling, “civilised” nations and the hundreds of millions of the colonial and dependent peoples of the world. Imperialism is the most barefaced exploitation and the most inhumane oppression of hundreds of millions of people inhabiting vast colonies and dependent countries. The purpose of this exploitation and of this oppression is to squeeze out super-profits. But in exploiting these countries imperialism is compelled to build these railways, factories and mills, industrial and commercial centers. The appearance of a class of proletarians, the emergence of a native intelligentsia, the awakening of national consciousness, the growth of the liberation movement-such are the inevitable results of this “policy.” The growth of the revolutionary movement in all colonies and dependent countries without exception clearly testifies to this fact. This circumstance is of importance for the proletariat inasmuch as it saps radically the position of capitalism by converting the colonies and dependent countries from reserves of imperialism into reserves of the proletarian revolution. (Stalin)

      • Life is not determined by consciousness, but consciousness by life. (Karl Marx)

      • Long-haired preachers come out every night,\ Try to tell you what’s wrong and what’s right;\ But when asked how ’bout something to eat\ They will answer with voices so sweet:\ You will eat, bye and bye,\ In that glorious land above the sky;\ Work and pray, live on hay,\ You’ll get pie in the sky when you die. (Joe Hill)

      • I die like a true blue rebel. Don’t waste any time in mourning. Organize! (Joe Hill)

      • Any fool can know. The point is to understand. (Albert Einstein)

      • Try not to become a man of success. Rather become a man of value. (Albert Einstein)

      • Governments in capitalist society are but committees of the rich to manage the affairs of the capitalist class. (James Connolly)

      • I am not only the conqueror but also the executor of Marxism. (Hitler)

      • We thank Marx, Engels, Lenin and Stalin for giving us a weapon. This weapon is not a machine-gun, but Marxism-Leninism. (Mao Zedong)

      • The bank mania… is raising up a moneyed aristocracy in our country which has already set the government at defiance, and although forced at length to yield a little on this first essay of their strength, their principles are unyielded and unyielding. These have taken deep root in the hearts of that class from which our legislators are drawn, and the sop to Cerberus from fable has become history. Their principles lay hold of the good, their pelf of the bad, and thus those whom the Constitution had placed as guards to its portals, are sophisticated or suborned from their duties. (Thomas Jefferson)

      • Poverty is the parent of revolution and crime. (Aristotélēs)

      • Thus if the First Amendment means anything in this field, it must allow protests even against the moral code that the standard of the day sets for the community. In other words, literature should not be suppressed merely because it offends the moral code of the censor. (First Amendment)

      • A great revolution is never the fault of the people, but of the government. (Goethe)

      • The history of the human race always has been, and most likely always will be, that of evolution and revolution. (Lewis F. Korns)

      • Let the welfare of the people be the ultimate law. (Marcus Tullius Cicero)

      • If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor. (Desmond Tutu)

      • Workers of the world you have nothing to lose but your chains nothing to gain but your freedom. Workers of the world unite. (Karl Marx)

      • Political Freedom without economic equality is a pretense, a fraud, a lie; and the workers want no lying. (Bakunin)

      • The main object of a revolution is the liberation of man… (Jean Genet)

      • The revolution is not a moment or a day, the revolution is a way of life. (Tupac Shakur)

      • Revolution is the larva of civilization. (Victor Hugo)

      • Those who suppress freedom always do so in the name of law and order. (John V. Lindsay)

      • You cannot buy the Revolution. You cannot make the Revolution. You can only be the Revolution. It is in your spirit or, it is nowhere. (Ursula K. Le Guin)

      • Advance, and never halt. Advance and do not fear the thorns in the path, for they draw only corrupt blood. (Khalil Gibran)

      • Power never takes a back step only in the face of more power. (Malcolm X)

      • My children can live without me, but not without dignity. (Aminatou Haidar)

      • Capitalism has now it has become more cowardly, like the vulture, and it can only suck the blood of the helpless. (Malcolm X)

      • There are two ways to conquer and enslave a nation. One is by sword. The other is by debt. (John Adams)

      • There is no peace but the Pax Romana, a “peace” maintained by violence and threat of violence, by the greed of the privileged and the oppression of the weak and the lowly. … The people of God knew, however, that this was no true peace. The peace and prosperity of the Roman empire depended on the continued oppression and enslavement of almost 95 percent of the population of the known world. The “peace” was meant for the privileged, the top 5 percent who dwelt in the palaces and courts of Rome. (Allan Boesak)

      • Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty. The obedient must be slaves. (Henry David Thoreau)

      • The revolution has always been in the hands of the young. The young always inherit the revolution. (Huey P. Newton)

      • Education is a better safeguard of liberty than a standing army. (Edward Everett)

      • When I refuse to obey an unjust law, I do not contest the right of the majority to command, but I simply appeal from the sovereignty of the people to the sovereignty of mankind. (Alexis de Tocqueville)

      • You only have the freedoms you are willing to fight and die for. (Thomas Jefferson)

      • Once a government is committed to the principle of silencing the voice of opposition, it has only one way to go, and that is down the path of increasingly repressive measures, until it becomes a source of terror to all its citizens and creates a country where everyone lives in fear. (Harry Truman)

      • Beware the leader who bangs the drums of war in order to whip the citizenry into a patriotic fervor, for patriotism is indeed a double-edged sword. It both emboldens the blood, just as it narrows the mind. And when the drums of war have reached a fever pitch and the blood boils with hate and the mind has closed, the leader will have no need in seizing the rights of the citizenry. Rather, the citizenry, infused with fear and blinded by patriotism, will offer up all of their rights unto the leader and gladly so. (Albert J. Beveridge)

      • We cannot defend freedom abroad by deserting it at home. (Thomas Jefferson)

      • All just power is derived from the consent of the governed. (John Locke)

      • No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear. (Edmund Burke)

      • Those who cast the votes decide nothing, Those who count the votes decide everything. (Stalin)

      • The evils of government are directly proportional to the tolerance of the people. (Frank Kent)

      • Those who already walk submissively will say there is no cause for alarm. But submissiveness is not our heritage. The First Amendment was designed to allow rebellion to remain as our heritage. The Constitution was designed to keep government off the backs of the people. The Bill of Rights was added to keep the precincts of belief and expression, of the press, of political and social activities free from surveillance. The Bill of Rights was designed to keep agents of government and official eavesdroppers away from assemblies of people. The aim was to allow men to be free and independent and to assert their rights against government. (Justice William O. Douglas)

      • With terror, tyranny came to power, and with terror, it holds onto its power. The sciences have been subordinated to authoritarian rule. Biology has been falsified, in order to externalize the privileges of the propertied classes. (Manifesto)

      • The great masses of people will more easily fall victims to a big lie than to a small one. Especially if it is repeated over and over. (Hitler)

      • Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. (Nietzsche)

      • Every ambitious would-be empire, clarions it abroad that she is conquering the world to bring it peace, security and freedom, and is sacrificing her sons only for the most noble and humanitarian purposes. That is a lie, and it is an ancient lie, yet generations still rise and believe it. (Henry David Thoreau)

      • Where you have a concentration of power in a few hands, all too frequently men with the mentality of gangsters get control. (Lord Acton)

      • Fellow workers and peasants, this is the socialist and democratic revolution of the working people, with the working people, and for the working people. And for this revolution of the working people, by the working people, and for the working people we are prepared to give our lives. (Fidel Castro)

      • I am not Christ or a philanthropist. I fight for the things I believe in, with all the weapons at my disposal. (Che Guevara)

      • We must not tolerate oppressive government or industrial oligarchy in the form of monopolies and cartels. (Henry A. Wallace)

      • The technotronic era involves the gradual appearance of a more controlled society. Such a society would be dominated by an elite, unrestrained by traditional values. Soon it will be possible to assert almost continuous surveillance over every citizen and maintain up-to-date complete files containing even the most personal information about the citizen. These files will be subject to instantaneous retrieval by the authorities. (Zbigniew Brzezinski)

      • The mistakes of the Iraq war are not only tactical and strategic, but historical. It is essentially a war of colonialism, attempted in the post-colonial age. (Zbigniew Brzezinski)

      • Power is the great aphrodisiac. (Henry Kissinger)

      • Capitalism is the legitimate racket of the ruling class. (Al Capone)

      • The ideas of the ruling class are in every epoch the ruling ideas, i.e. the class which is the ruling material force of society, is at the same time its ruling intellectual force. The class which has the means of material production at its disposal, has control at the same time over the means of mental production, so that thereby, generally speaking, the ideas of those who lack the means of mental production are subject to it. The ruling ideas are nothing more than the ideal expression of the dominant material relationships, the dominant material relationships grasped as ideas; hence of the relationships which make the one class the ruling one, therefore, the ideas of its dominance. The individuals composing the ruling class possess among other things consciousness, and therefore think. Insofar, therefore, as they rule as a class and determine the extent and compass of an epoch, it is self-evident that they do this in its whole range, hence among other things rule also as thinkers, as producers of ideas, and regulate the production and distribution of the ideas of their age: thus their ideas are the ruling ideas of the epoch. For instance, in an age and in a country where royal power, aristocracy, and bourgeoisie are contending for mastery and where, therefore, mastery is shared, the doctrine of the separation of powers proves to be the dominant idea and is expressed as an “eternal law.” (Karl Marx)

      • I think the best way of doing good to the poor, is not making them easy in poverty, but leading or driving them out of it. (Benjamin Franklin)

      • All issues are political issues, and politics itself is a mass of lies, evasions, folly, hatred, and schizophrenia. (George Orwell)

      • Against the workers the capitalists of all nations and religions are united, but they strive to divide and weaken the workers by national strife! (Lenin)

      • Relief would do no good. Indians breed like rabbits and will outstrip any available food supply. (Churchill)

      • Politicians are the lowest form of life on earth. Liberal Democrats are the lowest form of politicians. (George Patton)

      • The dialectics of history were such that the theoretical victory of Marxism compelled its enemies to disguise themselves as Marxists. Liberalism, rotten within, tried to revive itself in the form of socialist opportunism. They interpreted the period of preparing the forces for great battles as renunciation of these battles. Improvement of the conditions of the slaves to fight against wage slavery they took to mean the sale by the slaves of their right to liberty for a few pence. They cravenly preached “social peace” (i.e., peace with the slave-owners), renunciation of the class struggle, etc. They had very many adherents among socialist members of parliament, various officials of the working-class movement, and the “sympathising” intelligentsia. (Lenin)

      • For the bourgeoisie, freedom of the press meant freedom for the rich to publish and for the capitalists to control the newspapers, a practice which in all countries, including even the freest, produced a corrupt press. (Lenin)

      • Einstein’s relativity work is a magnificent mathematical garb which fascinates, dazzles and makes people blind to the underlying errors. The theory is like a beggar clothed in purple whom ignorant people take for a king… its exponents are brilliant men but they are metaphysicists rather than scientists. (Nikola Tesla)

      • The real truth of the matter is, as you and I know, that a financial element in the larger centers has owned the Government ever since the days of Andrew Jackson. (Franklin D. Roosevelt)

      • The Marxist doctrine is omnipotent because it is true. It is comprehensive and harmonious, and provides men with an integral world outlook irreconcilable with any form of superstition, reaction, or defence of bourgeois oppression. It is the legitimate successor to the best that man produced in the nineteenth century, as represented by German philosophy, English political economy and French socialism. (Lenin)

      • The opportunists are a section of the petty bourgeoisie and of a certain strata of the working class who have been bribed out of imperialist superprofits and converted to watchdogs of capitalism and corruptors of the labour movement. (Lenin)

      • Joseph Stalin was a great man; few other men of the 20th century approach his stature. He was simple, calm and courageous. He seldom lost his poise; pondered his problems slowly, made his decisions clearly and firmly; never yielded to ostentation nor coyly refrained from holding his rightful place with dignity. He was the son of a serf but stood calmly before the great without hesitation or nerves. But also – and this was the highest proof of his greatness – he knew the common man, felt his problems, followed his fate. (W. E. B. Du Bois)

      • The economic anarchy of capitalist society as it exists today is, in my opinion, the real source of the evil. We see before us a huge community of producers the members of which are unceasingly striving to deprive each other of the fruits of their collective labour…I am convinced there is only one way to eliminate these grave evils, namely through the establishment of a socialist economy, accompanied by an educational system which would be oriented toward social goals. (Albert Einstein)

      • Powerful people in the American ruling class fear democracy. (Tim Robbins)

      • In Germany they first came for the Communists, and I didn’t speak up because I wasn’t a Communist. Then they came for the Jews, and I didn’t speak up because I wasn’t a Jew. Then they came for the trade unionists, and I didn’t speak up because I wasn’t a trade unionist. Then they came for the Catholics, and I didn’t speak up because I was a protestant. Then they came for me, and by that time there was nobody left to speak up. (Martin Niemöller)

      • It is the function of the CIA to keep the world unstable, and to propagandize and teach the American people to hate, so we will let the Establishment spend any amount of money on arms. (John Stockwell)

      • I want to tell you something very clear, don’t worry about American pressure on Israel, we, the Jewish people control America, and the Americans know it. (Ariel Sharon)

      • We Jews regard our race as superior to all humanity, and look forward, not to its ultimate union with other races, but to its triumph over them. (Goldwin Smith)

      • I never would have agreed to the formulation of the Central Intelligence Agency back in ’47, if I had known it would become the American Gestapo. (Harry Truman)

      • We have come to be one of the worst ruled, one of the most completely controlled and dominated Governments in the world – no longer a Government of free opinion, no longer a Government by conviction and vote of the majority, but a Government by the opinion and duress of small groups of dominant men. (Thomas Woodrow Wilson)

      • All over the world, people need change. The change? Getting control over the power and resources they need to solve their problems. (Jeremy Brecher)

      • We must find new lands from which we can easily obtain raw materials and at the same time exploit the cheap slave labor that is available from the natives of the colonies. The colonies would also provide a dumping ground for the surplus goods produced in our factories. (Cecil Rhodes)

      • We have a single system, and in that system the only question is the price at which the proletariat is to be bought and sold, the bread and circuses.” ” The whole fabric of society will go to wrack if we really lay hands of reform on our rotten institutions. From top to bottom the whole system is a fraud, all of us know it, laborers and capitalists alike, and all of us are consenting parties to it. (Henry Adams)

      • If you liked El Salvador, you’re going to love Colombia. It’s the same death squads, the same military aid, and the same whitewash from Washington. (Carlos Salinas)

      • Today, the United States and Somalia are the only two countries in the world which haven’t ratified the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child. And since Somalia is a country with no internationally recognized government, the United States essentially stands alone as the last holdout to legally guarantee children the same full range of human rights … agreed to by 191 other sovereign states. (Catherine Langevin-Falcon)

      • America is today the leader of a world-wide anti-revolutionary movement in the defense of vested interests. She now stands for what Rome stood for. Rome consistently supported the rich against the poor in all foreign communities that fell under her sway; and, since the poor, so far, have always and everywhere been far more numerous than the rich, Rome’s policy made for inequality, for injustice, and for the least happiness of the greatest number. (Arnold Joseph Toynbee)

      • All the emphasis on crime and drugs and pornography used to justify the suppression of the internet is really aimed at suppressing knowledge of the radical politic alternatives that are now available. (Tony Benn)

      • This antagonism is artificially kept alive and intensified by the press, the pulpit, the comic papers, in short, by all the means at the disposal of the ruling classes. This antagonism is the secret of the impotence of the English working class, despite its organisation. It is the secret by which the capitalist class maintains its power. And the latter is quite aware of this. (Karl Marx)

      • Fascism is a reactionary force which is trying to preserve the old system by means of violence. What will you do with the fascists? Argue with them? Try to convince them? But this will have no effect upon them at all. Communists do not in the least idealise the methods of violence. But they, the Communists, do not want to be taken by surprise, they cannot count on the old world voluntarily departing from the stage, they see that the old system is violently defending itself, and that is why the Communists say to the working class : Answer violence with violence; do all you can to prevent the old dying order from crushing you, do not permit it to put manacles on your hands, on the hands with which you will overthrow the old system. As you see, the Communists regard the substitution of one social system for another, not simply as a spontaneous and peaceful process, but as a complicated, long and violent process. Communists cannot ignore facts. (Stalin)

      • The Deep State not only holds the nation’s capital in thrall, but it also controls Wall Street (“which supplies the cash that keeps the political machine quiescent and operating as a diversionary marionette theater”) and Silicon Valley. This is fascism in its most covert form, hiding behind public agencies and private companies to carry out its dirty deeds. It is a marriage between government bureaucrats and corporate fat cats. (John W. Whitehead)

      • Real liberty can exist only where exploitation has been abolished, where there is no oppression of some by others, where there is no unemployment and poverty, where a man is not haunted by the fear of being tomorrow deprived of work, of home and of bread. Only in such a society is real, and not paper, personal and every other liberty possible. (Stalin)

      • In one way or another, all official and liberal science defends wage-slavery, whereas Marxism has declared relentless war on that slavery. (Lenin)

      • All that modern nations have achieved is to disguise slavery at home and import it openly into the New World. (Karl Marx)

      • Trotsky groups all the enemies of Marxism. (Lenin)

      • The West won the world not by the superiority of its ideas or values or religion (to which few members of other civilizations were converted) but rather by its superiority in applying organized violence. Westerners often forget this fact; non-Westerners never do. (Samuel P. Huntington)

      • Of course, I am against fascism with its spread of color prejudice and race hatred and working class oppression. How could any sensible Negro be otherwise? (Aldous Huxley)

      • Fascism presented itself not only as an alternative, but also as the heir to socialism. (J.L. Talmon)

      • The laws of social development are not identical with the laws in the natural sciences. The content of the social laws is not nature but second nature: coagulated history. They are manmade, but they also make men; they are dialectical, at once subject and object. (Russell Jacoby)

      • Since those who rule in the city do so because they own a lot, I suppose they’re unwilling to enact laws to prevent young people who’ve had no discipline from spending and wasting their wealth, so that by making loans to them, secured by the young people’s property, and then calling those loans in, they themselves become even richer and more honored. (Plátōn)

      • There is no flag large enough to cover the shame of killing innocent people. (Howard Zinn)

      • A party is the vanguard of a class, and its duty is to lead the masses and not merely to reflect the average political level of the masses. (Lenin)

      • The rich have grown richer, but their tax rate has declined. The poor have grown poorer, but their taxes have increased. (Michael Parenti)

      • There is no escape for capitalism save the escape of death. Do what they may, they cannot get out of the continual circle of ever-rising prices, piling debts, unemployment, war and threats, of war, and all the time the rising tide of the anger of the people at home and in the subject countries abroad. It is their knowledge of this which inspires their panic fear of Bolshevism, even when the actual movement is as weak as a child; until by the very noise of their panic they help to create what they are seeking to destroy. It is their knowledge of this which is making them fight with all the ferocity and violence of a trapped animal. They are in panic because they know their failure; they are violent because they know they are not strong. And it is this same knowledge, which gives the confidence of absolute assurance to the Communist struggle. (R. Palme Dutt)

      • The smallest act of kindness is worth more than the greatest intention. (Khalil Gibran)

      • Of course, in the United States of America, in Britain, as also in France, there are aggressive forces thirsting for a new war. They need war to obtain super-profits, to plunder other countries. These are the billionaires and millionaires who regard war as an item of income which gives colossal profits. (Stalin)

      • Only Socialism can finally end imperialist wars by ending their cause—the class system of society. The victory of Socialism in the leading countries of the world means the end of war, because it ends the jungle-fight of the exploiters over the spoils; it ends the fight for profits, spheres of influence, colonies, markets and monopolist domination. Socialism means the freedom and brotherhood of all nations without distinction of race or colour. Socialism means that all peoples freely organise their production for use, for common advantage. (R. Palme Dutt)

      • Compared to feudalism, capitalism was an historical advance along the road of “liberty”, “equality”, “democracy” and “civilisation”. Nevertheless capitalism was, and remains, a system of wage-slavery, of the enslavement of millions of working people, workers and peasants, by an insignificant minority of modern slave-owners, landowners and capitalists. Bourgeois democracy, as compared to feudalism, has changed the form of this economic slavery, has created a brilliant screen for it but has not, and could not, change its essence. Capitalism and bourgeois democracy are wage-slavery. (Lenin)

      • Let her sleep, for when she wakes, she will shake the world. (Napoléon Bonaparte)

      • Two basic steps are thus required: first to identify the geostrategically dynamic Eurasian states that have the power to cause a potentially important shift in the international distribution of power and to decipher the central external goals of their respective political elites and the likely consequences of their seeking to attain them; […] second to formulate specific U.S. policies to offset, co-opt, and/or control the above. (Zbigniew Brzezinski)

      • If the American people ever find out what we have done, they would chase us down the street and lynch us. (George H. W. Bush)

      • Any country that has Milton Friedman as an adviser has nothing to fear from a few million Arabs. (John Kenneth Galbraith)

      • There are men who struggle for a day and they are good. There are men who struggle for a year and they are better. There are men who struggle many years, and they are better still. But there are those who struggle all their lives: These are the indispensable ones. (Bertolt Brecht)

      • Stalin is the savior of all the oppressed. (Mao Zedong)

      • I am a Communist and my painting is Communist painting. (Picasso)

      • The colonists usually say that it was they who brought us into history: today we show that this is not so. They made us leave history, our history, to follow them, right at the back, to follow the progress of their history. (Amilcar Cabral)

      • The state is a special organization of force: it is an organization of violence for the suppression of some class. What class must the proletariat suppress? Naturally, only the exploiting class, i.e., the bourgeoisie. The working people need the state only to suppress the resistance of the exploiters, and only the proletariat can direct this suppression, can carry it out. For the proletariat is the only class that is consistently revolutionary, the only class that can unite all the working and exploited people in the struggle against the bourgeoisie, in completely removing it. (Lenin)

      • All over the world, wherever there are capitalists, freedom of the press means freedom to buy up newspapers, to buy writers, to bribe, buy and fake “public opinion” for the benefit of the bourgeoisie. (Lenin)

      • The state is a machine for the oppression of one class by another, a machine for holding in obedience to one class other, subordinated classes. There are various forms of this machine. The slave-owning state could be a monarchy, an aristocratic republic or even a democratic republic. In fact the forms of government varied extremely, but their essence was always the same: the slaves enjoyed no rights and constituted an oppressed class; they were not regarded as human beings. We find the same thing in the feudal state. (Lenin)

      • Capitalism reveals itself in fact, with the increase of concentration and the power of production, not as a growingly harmonious and organised system of world production, but as a growingly violent system of antagonisms. (R. Palme Dutt)

      • The old ignorant Malthusian notions of absolute “overpopulation,” or the modern lugubrious chants of birth-control as the necessary solution of poverty, are thus abundantly exploded by facts. It is worth noting that this reactionary propaganda is still maintained, not only in clerical and con- servative quarters, but also by the would-be “progressive” (actually, as we shall have occasion to see, one of the real bulwarks of conservatism in England) Labour Party. (R. Palme Dutt)

      • Fascism accordingly requires for its full realisation the “totalitarian” terroristic class-State. Social Democracy controls the workers most favourably and successfully in the liberal-parliamentary class-State, utilising its own “internal” methods of discipline, and occasional State coercion, for the suppression of all militant struggle. Fascism operates primarily by coercion alongside of deception. Social Democracy operates primarily by deception, alongside of coercion. It is this combined relationship of difference in method and parallelism in basic aim and role that underlies Stalin’s definition, given already in 1924 (“Main Factors of the Present International Situation,” Communist International, English edition 1924, No. 6), that “Social Democracy objectively represents the moderate wing of Fascism.” (R. Palme Dutt)

      • Fascism by all the above tests is economically identical with Capitalism, representing only a special method to maintain its power and hold down the workers. Fascism is profit-making society, is class-society, is society based on exploitation. Alike in Italy and in Germany, production is carried on for profit; the means of production are the property of a small minority, the upper strata of whom draw large incomes through their ownership; the mass of the workers are cut off from ownership, and work for a wage, producing surplus-value for the owners, or are left unemployed, if it is not profitable to employ them. All these are the familiar characteristics of capitalism in all countries, as are equally the crisis, depression, decline of production and mass unemployment. The Fascist countries show no difference from the other capitalist countries in any of these respects. Fascist Italy and Fascist Germany are no better off than non-Fascist France and non-Fascist Britain (in fact worse off, but for reasons not necessarily connected with Fascism); they are all economically in the same boat, in the capitalist boat. The only contrast is provided by the land of socialist construction, the Soviet Union, with its ending of unemployment and gigantic rise of production alongside the decline in all Fascist or other capitalist countries. (R. Palme Dutt)

      • Principle of the transfusion. As a rule propaganda always operates from a preexisting substrate, be it a national mythology or a complex of traditional hatreds and prejudices; It is a matter of spreading arguments that can be rooted in primitive attitudes. (Joseph Goebbels)

      • I will say then that I am not, nor ever have been in favor of bringing about in anyway the social and political equality of the white and black races – that I am not nor ever have been in favor of making voters or jurors of negroes, nor of qualifying them to hold office, nor to intermarry with white people; and I will say in addition to this that there is a physical difference between the white and black races which I believe will forever forbid the two races living together on terms of social and political equality. And inasmuch as they cannot so live, while they do remain together there must be the position of superior and inferior, and I as much as any other man am in favor of having the superior position assigned to the white race. (Abraham Lincoln)

      • The owners of the Washington Post long ago acknowledged that the Post is the government’s voice to the people. In 1981, Katherine Graham, who owns the Post and Newsweek announced that her editors would “cooperate with the national security interests.” National security in this context means “CIA.” (John Stockwell)

      • The few own the many because they possess the means of livelihood of all … The country is governed for the richest, for the corporations, the bankers, the land speculators, and for the exploiters of labor. The majority of mankind are working people. So long as their fair demands – the ownership and control of their livelihoods – are set at naught, we can have neither men’s rights nor women’s rights. The majority of mankind is ground down by industrial oppression in order that the small remnant may live in ease. (Helen Keller)

      • Marxism differs from all primitive forms of socialism by not binding the movement to any one particular form of struggle. It recognises the most varied forms of struggle; and it does not “concoct” them, but only generalises, organises, gives conscious expression to those forms of struggle of the revolutionary classes which arise of themselves in the course of the movement. Absolutely hostile to all abstract formulas and to all doctrinaire recipes, Marxism demands an attentive attitude to the mass struggle in progress, which, as the movement develops, as the class-consciousness of the masses grows, as economic and political crises become acute, continually gives rise to new and more varied methods of defence and attack. Marxism, therefore, positively does not reject any form of struggle. (Lenin)

      • Pre-Marxist socialism has been defeated. It is continuing the struggle, no longer on its own independent ground, but on the general ground of Marxism, as revisionism. (Lenin)

      • The traitors, blockheads and pedants of the Second International could never understand such dialectics; the proletariat cannot achieve victory if it does not win the majority of the population to its side. But to limit that winning to polling a majority of votes in an election under the rule of the bourgeoisie, or to make it the condition for it, is crass stupidity, or else sheer deception of the workers. In order to win the majority of the population to its side the proletariat must, in the first p]ace, overthrow the bourgeoisie and seize state power; secondly, it must introduce Soviet power and complete]y smash the old state apparatus, whereby it immediately undermines the rule, prestige and influence of the bourgeoisie and petty-bourgeois compromisers over the non-proletarian working people. Thirdly, it must entirely destroy the influence of the bourgeoisie and petty-bourgeois compromisers over the majority of the non-proletarian masses by satisfying their economic needs in a revolutionary way at the expense of the exploiters. (Lenin)

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      • Let nothing be called natural in an age of bloody confusion, ordered disorder, planned caprice, and dehumanized humanity, lest all things be held unalterable! (Bertolt Brecht)

      • Propaganda is the executive arm of the invisible government. (Edward Bernays)

      • Capitalism is the ultimate corruption, that never quits until it is stamped out. (Glen Ford)

      • It is ironic that some left intellectuals should deem class struggle to be largely irrelevant at the very time class power is becoming increasingly transparent, at the very time corporate concentration and profit accumulation is more rapacious than ever, and the tax system has become more regressive and oppressive, the upward transfer of income and wealth has accelerated, public sector assets are being privatized, corporate money exercises an increasing control over the political process, people at home and abroad are working harder for less, and throughout the world poverty is growing at a faster rate than overall population. (Michael Parenti)

      • Capitalism without bankruptcy is like Christianity without hell. (Frank Borman)

      • The issue is Socialism versus Capitalism. I am for Socialism because I am for humanity. We have been cursed with the reign of gold long enough. Money constitutes no proper basis of civilization. The time has come to regenerate society — we are on the eve of universal change. (Eugene V. Debs)

      • A reform is a correction of abuses; a revolution is a transfer of power. (Edward Bulwer-Lytton)

      • It is not guerrilla warfare which demoralises, but unorganised, irregular, non-party guerrilla acts. (Lenin)

      • A Marxist bases himself on the class struggle, and not social peace. (Lenin)

      • Only he is a Marxist who extends the recognition of the class struggle to the recognition of the dictatorship of the proletariat. (Lenin)

      • Above all, try always to be able to feel deeply any injustice committed against any person in any part of the world. It is the most beautiful quality of a revolutionary. (Che Guevara)

      • It is not the Jews who are the enemies of the working people. The enemies of the workers are the capitalists of all countries. Among the Jews there are working people, and they form the majority. They are our brothers, who, like us, are oppressed by capital; they are our comrades in the struggle for socialism. Among the Jews there are kulaks, exploiters and capitalists, just as there are among the Russians, and among people of all nations. The capitalists strive to sow and foment hatred between workers of different faiths, different nations and different races. Those who do not work are kept in power by the power and strength of capital. Rich Jews, like rich Russians, and the rich in all countries, are in alliance to oppress, crush, rob and disunite the workers. (Lenin)

      • There can be no greater error then in supposing that capital is increased by non-consumption. (David Ricardo)

      • 1) Things exist independently of our consciousness, independently of our perceptions, outside of us, for it is beyond doubt that alizarin existed in coal tar yesterday and it is equally beyond doubt that yesterday we knew nothing of the existence of this alizarin and received no sensations from it. 2) There is definitely no difference in principle between the phenomenon and the thing-in-itself, and there can be no such difference. The only difference is between what is known and what is not yet known. And philosophical inventions of specific boundaries between the one and the other, inventions to the effect that the thing-in-itself is “beyond” phenomena (Kant), or that we can and must fence ourselves off by some philosophical partition from the problem of a world which in one part or another is still unknown but which exists outside us (Hume)—all this is the sheerest nonsense, Schrulle, crotchet, invention. 3) In the theory of knowledge, as in every other branch of science, we must think dialectically, that is, we must not regard our knowledge as ready-made and unalterable, but must determine how knowledge emerges from ignorance, how incomplete, inexact knowledge becomes more complete and more exact. (Lenin)

      • Stalin systematically gives credit for all progress made to Lenin, whereas the credit has been in very large measure his own. (Henri Barbusse)

      • There is pow’r, there is pow’r\ In a band of workingmen.\ When they stand hand in hand,\ That’s a pow’r, that’s a pow’r\ That must rule in every land —\ One Industrial Union Grand. (Joe Hill)

      • I hate the indifferent. I believe that life means taking sides. One who is really alive, can be nothing if not citizen and partisan. Indifference is lethargy: it is parasitism, not life. Therefore, I hate the indifferent. (Gramsci)

      • Let us not ignore the truth among ourselves … politically we are the aggressors and they defend themselves… The country is theirs, because they inhabit it, whereas we want to come here and settle down, and in their view we want to take away from them their country. (David Ben Gurion)

      • The headlong stream is termed violent but the river bed hemming it in is termed violent by no one. (Bertolt Brecht)

      • Everyone knows that Leninism was born, grew up and became strong in relentless struggle against opportunism of every brand, including Centrism in the West (Kautsky) and Centrism in our country (Trotsky, etc.). This cannot be denied even by the downright enemies of Bolshevism. (Stalin)

      • In Britain with our democratic institutions and the need for a high degree of consent, some of the measures adopted in Chile are quite unacceptable. Our reform must be in line with our traditions and our Constitution. At times the process may seem painfully slow. But I am certain we shall achieve our reforms in our own way and in our own time. Then they will endure. (Margaret Thatcher)

      • Trotsky, along with Khrushchev, belongs to the category of the great revisionists. (Che Guevara)

      • There are some men who do not die. Stalin is among them. Stalin was an example of creativity, humanism and an edifying example of peace and heroism! … Everything he did, he did to serve the people. Our father Stalin is dead, but in remembering his example, our affection for him will make our arms grow strong towards building a great tomorrow, to secure a future in memory of his great example! (Salvador Allende)

      • When hopes and dreams are loose in the street, it is well for the timid to lock doors, shutter windows and lie low until the wrath has passed. (Che Guevara)

      • With rebellion, awareness is born. (Camus)

      • To be free, the workers must have choice. To have choice, they must retain in their own hands the right to determine under what conditions they will work. (Samuel Gompers)

      • I hold it that a little rebellion now and then is a good thing, and as necessary in the political world as storms in the physical. […] It is a medicine necessary for the sound health of government. (Thomas Jefferson)

      • Why should they ask me to put on a uniform and go 10, 000 miles from home and drop bombs and bullets on Brown people in Vietnam while so-called Negro people in Louisville are treated like dogs and denied simple human rights? No I. (Muhammad Ali)

      • It always seems impossible, until it is done. (Nelson Mandela)

      • Every generation needs a revolution. (Thomas Jefferson)

      • The desire to revolt against oppression is the highest desire there is. (Tupac Shakur)

      • The masses are the decisive element, they are the rock on which the final victory of the revolution will be built. (Rosa Luxemburg)

      • Whoever finishes a revolution only halfway, digs his own grave. (Georg Buchner)

      • If the freedom of speech is taken away then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter. (George Washington)

      • The evils of tyranny are rarely seen but by him who resists it. (John Milton Hay)

      • I am not a liberator. Liberators do not exist. The people liberate themselves. (Che Guevara)

      • In a revolution, as in a novel, the most difficult part to invent is the end. (Alexis de Tocqueville)

      • All the forces in the world are not so powerful as an idea whose time has come: the revolution. (Victor Hugo)

      • A great revolution in just one single individual will help achieve a change in the destiny of a society. (Daisaku Ikeda)

      • Human salvation lies in the hands of the creatively maladjusted. (Martin Luther King, Jr.)

      • Older rich men declare war. But it is the poor youth that must fight and die. (Herbert Hoover)

      • How strangely will the tools of a tyrant pervert the plain meaning of words! (Samuel Adams)

      • Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it. (George Santayana)

      • We must expel Arabs and take their places. (David Ben Gurion)

      • Salvation for a race, nation or class must come from within. (A. Philip Randolph)

      • Monopolies, oligarchy, the striving for domination and not for freedom, the exploitation of an increasing number of small or weak nations by a handful of the richest or most powerful nations — all these have given birth to those distinctive characteristics of imperialism which compel us to define it as parasitic or decaying capitalism. (Lenin)

      • Who will govern the governors? There is only one force in the nation that can be depended upon to keep the government pure and the governors honest, and that is the people themselves. They alone, if well informed, are capable of preventing the corruption of power, and of restoring the nation to its rightful course if it should go astray. They alone are the safest depository of the ultimate powers of government. (Thomas Jefferson)

      • We the People are the rightful masters of both congress and the courts — not to overthrow the Constitution, but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution. (Abraham Lincoln)

      • The corporate grip on opinion in the United States is one of the wonders of the Western world. No First World country has ever managed to eliminate so entirely from its media all objectivity – much less dissent. (Gore Vidal)

      • Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of Liberty. (Thomas Jefferson)

      • The duty of youth is to challenge corruption. (Kurt Cobain)

      • Patriotism means to stand by the country. It does not mean to stand by the President. (Theodore Roosevelt)

      • Fear can only prevail when victims are ignorant of the facts. (Thomas Jefferson)

      • To ravage, to slaughter, to usurp under false titles, they call empire; and where they make a desert, they call it peace. (Cornelius Tacitus)

      • This and no other is the root from which a tyrant springs; when he first appears he is a protector. (Plátōn)

      • History records that the money changers have used every form of abuse, intrigue, deceit, and violent means possible to maintain their control over governments by controlling the money and its issuance. (James Madison)

      • It has become a sarcastic proverb that a thing must be true if you saw it in a newspaper. That is the opinion intelligent people have of that lying vehicle in a nutshell. But the trouble is that the stupid people, who constitute the grand overwhelming majority of this and all other nations, do believe and are moulded and convinced by what they get out of a newspaper. And there is where is the harm lies. (Mark Twain)

      • …everyone but an idiot knows that the lower classes must be kept poor, or they will never be industrious. (Arthur Young)

      • Anyone who has the power to make you believe absurdities has the power to make you commit atrocities. (Voltaire)

      • A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler whom they consider god-fearing and pious. (Aristotélēs)

      • Political language is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind. (George Orwell)

      • The indifference to the plight of others and the cult of the self is what the corporate state seeks to instill in us. (Chris Hedges)

      • In this country, capitalism triumphed over democracy. (Fran Lebowitz)

      • Fascism is a worldwide disease. Its greatest threat to the United States will come after the war, either via Latin America or within the United States itself. (Henry A. Wallace)

      • [American exceptionalism] is a reaction to the inability of people to understand global complexity or important issues like American energy dependency. Therefore, they search for simplistic sources of comfort and clarity. And the people that they are now selecting to be, so to speak, the spokespersons of their anxieties are, in most cases, stunningly ignorant. (Zbigniew Brzezinski)

      • The worldwide, agelong struggle between fascism and democracy will not stop when the fighting ends in Germany and Japan. (Henry A. Wallace)

      • I believe the American people have a genuine and justifiable fear of government intrusion in what they instinctively know is going to be an ever more intrusive world. (Joe Biden)

      • In a dictatorship, censorship is used; in a democracy, manipulation. (Ryszard Kapuściński)

      • We created Al Qaeda (in order to fight the Soviet Union). (Hillary Clinton)

      • The issuing power should be taken from the banks and restored to the people, to whom it properly belongs. (Thomas Jefferson)

      • It is ironic that people of modest means sometimes become conservative out of a scarcity fear bred by the very capitalist system they support. (Michael Parenti)

      • “Don’t you want to abolish state power?” Yes, we do, but not right now; we cannot do it yet. Why? Because imperialism still exists, because domestic reaction still exists, because classes still exist in our country. Our present task is to strengthen the people’s state apparatus — mainly the people’s army, the people’s police and the people’s courts — in order to consolidate national defence and protect the people’s interests. Given this condition, China can develop steadily, under the leadership of the working class and the Communist Party, from an agricultural into an industrial country and from a new-democratic into a socialist and communist society, can abolish classes and realize the Great Harmony. (Mao Zedong)

      • In bourgeois society capital is independent and has individuality, while the living person is dependent and has no individuality. (Karl Marx)

      • A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the majority discovers it can vote itself largess out of the public treasury. After that, the majority always votes for the candidate promising the most benefits with the result the democracy collapses because of the loose fiscal policy ensuing, always to be followed by a dictatorship, then a monarchy. (Alexis de Tocqueville)

      • We must always take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented. (Elie Wiesel)

      • The liquidation of fascism must be the liquidation of the bourgeoisie that created it. (Gramsci)

      • They [Social-Democrats] are just as much traitors to socialism… They represent that top section of workers who have been bribed by the bourgeoisie… for in all the civilised, advanced countries the bourgeoisie rob—either by colonial oppression or by financially extracting ‘gain’ from formally independent weak countries—they rob a population many times larger than that of ‘their own’ country. This is the economic factor that enables the imperialist bourgeoisie to obtain superprofits, part of which is used to bribe the top section of the proletariat and convert it into a reformist, opportunist petty bourgeoisie that fears revolution. (Lenin)

      • It is the duty of Israeli leaders to explain to public opinion, clearly and courageously, a certain number of facts that are forgotten with time. The first of these is that there is no Zionism, colonialization, or Jewish State without the eviction of the Arabs and the expropriation of their lands. (Ariel Sharon)

      • The German army is a machine, and machines can be broken! (Konstantin Rokossovsky)

      • By exposing the fact that the opportunists and social-chauvinists are in reality betraying and selling the interests of the masses, that they are defending the temporary privileges of a minority of the workers, that they are the vehicles of bourgeois ideas and influences, that they are really allies and agents of the bourgeoisie, we teach the masses to appreciate their true political interests, to fight for socialism and for the revolution through all the long and painful vicissitudes of imperialist wars and imperialist armistices. (Lenin)

      • The worst illiterate is the political illiterate, he doesn’t hear, doesn’t speak, nor participates in the political events. He doesn’t know the cost of life, the price of the bean, of the fish, of the flour, of the rent, of the shoes and of the medicine, all depends on political decisions. The political illiterate is so stupid that he is proud and swells his chest saying that he hates politics. The imbecile doesn’t know that, from his political ignorance is born the prostitute, the abandoned child, and the worst thieves of all, the bad politician, corrupted and flunky of the national and multinational companies. (Bertolt Brecht)

      • What we need to do is to use the methods the terrorists use in order to overcome [the IRA]. (James Prior)

      • The richly nourished patriotism of war breeds divisions and antagonisms which are easily exploited afterwards by political, racial, religious, and cultural passions, but most of all by economic interests. (John A. Hobson)

      • This country was founded by a group of slave-owners who told us all men are created equal. Oh yeah, all men, except for Indians and niggers and women, right? I always like to use that authentic American language. (George Carlin)

      • The theory that the struggle between Bolshevism and Menshevism is a struggle for influence over an immature proletariat is not a new one. We have been encountering it since 1905 in innumerable books, pamphlets, and articles in the liberal press. Martov and Trotsky are putting before the German comrades liberal views with a Marxist coating… (Lenin)

      • The war fought today by our people is not only against the terrorists, but also against those who sponsor terrorism. Terrorism is only an instrument used by those Western states which want to apply the same Nazi mentality which aims at dominating everyone else and turning states and nations into slaves, turning them into satellites and controlling everything they have, materially and morally. (Bashar al-Assad)

      • Capital must protect itself in every way…Debts must be collected and loans and mortgages foreclosed as soon as possible. When through a process of law the common people have lost their homes, they will be more tractable and more easily governed by the strong arm of the law applied by the central power of leading financiers. People without homes will not quarrel with their leaders. This is well known among our principal men now engaged in forming an imperialism of capitalism to govern the world. By dividing the people we can get them to expend their energies in fighting over questions of no importance to us except as teachers of the common herd. (Civil Servants’ Year Book)

      • When you give food to the poor, they call you a saint. When you ask why the poor have no food, they call you a communist. (Hélder Câmara)

      • The men who possess real power in this country have no intention of ending the cold war. (Albert Einstein)

      • Israel controls the United States Senate. (James W. Fulbright)

      • A slave is one who waits for someone else to free him. (Rosellen Brown)

      • We will establish ourselves in Palestine whether you like it or not…You can hasten our arrival or you can equally retard it. It is however better for you to help us so as to avoid our constructive powers being turned into a destructive power which will overthrow the world. (Chaim Weizmann)

      • Knowledge makes a man unfit to be a slave. (Frederick Douglass)

      • Public sentiment is everything. With public sentiment nothing can fail. Without it nothing can succeed. He who molds opinion is greater than he who enacts laws. (Abraham Lincoln)

      • How dare Americans allow their government to cause such misery [in the world]. (Ramsey Clark)

      • … so long as the media are in corporate hands, the task of social change will be vastly more difficult, if not impossible … (Robert McChesney)

      • If the business community and political elite want to go to war they find it easy to mobilize domestic consent. (Edward Herman)

      • When the IMF and the World Bank force a country to cut wages, lay off workers, produce for export instead of their own people, and sell off public property to cronies for less than its value, that’s called “economic reform.” (Robert Naiman)

      • Not a nut or bolt shall reach Chile under Allende. Once Allende comes to power we shall do all within our power to condemn Chile and all Chileans to utmost deprivation and poverty… (Edward M. Korry)

      • We are not hated because we practice democracy, value freedom, or uphold human rights. We are hated because our government denies these things to people in Third World countries whose resources are coveted by our multinational corporations. That hatred we have sown has come back to haunt us in the form of terrorism and in the future, nuclear terrorism. (Robert Bowman)

      • How fortunate for governments that the people they administer don’t think. (Hitler)

      • A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler whom they consider god-fearing and pious. On the other hand, they do less easily move against him, believing that he has the gods on his side. (Aristotélēs)

      • American capitalism is predatory, and American politics are corrupt: The same thing is true in England and the same in France; but in all these three countries the dominating fact is that whenever the people get ready to change the government, they can change it. (Upton Sinclair)

      • The growing difficulties of the capitalists in all countries, multiplied by their ever-sharpening international rivalries, are prompting them to seek a way out through Fascist and nationalist dictatorships in their respective countries. Nearly all the Fascist propaganda bodies which are preparing the way for Fascism in Great Britain are quite openly anti-Semitic. This is not merely blind imitation of Hitler. The Fascists and the capitalist class generally would pay dearly for the chance of setting the British workers against some fancied “alien intruder” and thus diverting attacks from themselves. Those who imagine that there are no backward jingo sentiments among the British workers, on which the Fascists can play, are only fooling themselves. All the more reason, then, for every class-conscious worker realising the nature of the capitalist trap that lies behind the stinking bait of anti-Jew propaganda. (R. F. Andrews)

      • In the general course of human nature, a power over a man’s subsistence amounts to a power over his will. (Alexander Hamilton)

      • African blood flows in our veins. Many of our ancestors came as slaves from Africa to this land. As slaves they struggled quite a great deal. They fought as members of the liberating army of Cuba. We’re brothers and sisters of the people of Africa and we are ready to fight in their behalf. (Fidel Castro)

      • Like a tree that has sunk its roots deep in the earth, which does not fall no matter how fierce the storm may be, the party can remain firm in any circumstances only when it has sunk its roots deep in the broad masses. (Kim Jong-il)

      • However great your consciousness may be, you cannot stand up against bullets with bare hands! (Stalin)

      • The people of a nation are enslaved when, together, they are helpless to institute effective change, when the people serve the government more than the government serves them. (Gerry Spence)

      • Despite the fact that only the Nazi included into the title of their party designation ‘National Socialist’, fascism generally presented itself as socialist. (Mark Neocleous)

      • It is natural for a liberal to speak of “democracy” in general; but a Marxist will never forget to ask: “for what class?” (Lenin)

      • There is no hope other than communism. (@kazahann)

      • The time to buy is when there’s blood in the streets, even if the blood is your own. (Nathan Mayer Rothschild)

      • Obama wants to kill me, to take away the freedom of our country, to take away our free housing, our free medicine, our free education, our free food, and replace it with American style thievery, called “Capitalism“. (Muammar Gaddafi)

      • By means of the banking system the distribution of capital as a special business, a social function, is taken out of the hands of the private capitalists and usurers. But at the same time, banking and credit thus become the most potent means of driving capitalist production beyond its own limits, and one of the most effective vehicles of crises and swindle. (Karl Marx)

      • Prostitutes are the inevitable product of a society that places ultimate importance on money, possessions, and competition. (Jane Fonda)

      • The capitalists have always use the term “freedom” to mean freedom for the rich to get richer and for the workers to starve to death. And capitalist usage, freedom of the press means freedom of the rich to bribe the press, freedom to use their wealth to shape and fabricate so-called public opinion. (Lenin)

      • Everything comes in time to him who knows how to wait. (Tolstoy)

      • War cannot be abolished unless classes are abolished and Socialism is created. (Lenin)

      • Any army which does not train to use all the weapons, all the means and methods of warfare that the enemy possesses, or may possess, is behaving in an unwise or even criminal manner. This applies to politics even more than it does to the art of war. (Lenin)

      • When change threatens to rule, then the rules are changed. (Michael Parenti)

      • If every worker and every peasant had had a rifle like that in their hands, there would never have been a fascist coup. That is the great lesson to be learned for revolutionaries from events in Chile. (Fidel Castro)

      • The bourgeoisie turns everything into a commodity, hence also the writing of history. It is part of its being, of its condition for existence, to falsify all goods: it falsified the writing of history. And the best — paid historiography is that which is best falsified for the purposes of the bourgeoisie. (Friedrich Engels)

      • The U.S. imperialists are more afraid of the united strength of the revolutionary peoples of the world than of anything else. (Kim Il Sung)

      • All wars are inseparable from the political systems that engender them. The policy which a given state, a given class within that state, pursued for a long time before the war is inevitably continued by that same class during the war, the form of action alone being changed. (Lenin)

      • Marx is the teacher of revolution for the proletariat and working people all over the world, as well as the main founder of Marxism, creator of Marxist parties, pathfinder for international communism and the greatest thinker of modern times. (Xi Jinping)

      • They presented us to the world as a slave who is proud of their chains, which is an insult! (Rafael Cancel Miranda)

      • It is impossible to finish off capitalism without having finished off social democracy in the working-class movement. (Stalin)

      • They think that Marx and Lenin invented the science known as Marxism-Leninism. Marx and Lenin did not invent. They merely observed and recorded. That’s all they did. They’re no different to Newton. We call the laws of gravity Newton’s Laws. But Newton did not invent the laws of gravity. He merely observed and recorded. (Stokely Carmichael)

      • You must remember that we persecute nobody for religion. We regard religion as an error and fight it with education. (Mikhail Ivanovich Kalinin)

      • Neofascism abolishes civil liberties in the name of national security and brands whole groups as traitors and enemies of the people. It is the militarized instrument used by the ruling elites to maintain control, divide and tear apart the society and further accelerate pillage and social inequality. The ruling ideology, no longer credible, is replaced with the jackboot. (Chris Hedges)

      • Some say that it is impossible to acquire the great qualities of revolutionary geniuses like Marx, Engels, Lenin and Stalin and that it is impossible to raise our own qualities to the same level as theirs. But as long as Party members work hard and earnestly, never allow themselves to be isolated for one single moment from the day to day struggle of the people, and make serious efforts to study Marxist literature, learn from the experiences of other comrades and the masses of the people, and constantly strive to steel and cultivate themselves, they will be perfectly able to raise their qualities to the same level as that of Marx, Engels, Lenin and Stalin. (Nelson Mandela)

      • The revolution of 1848 struck a deadly blow at all these vociferous, motley and ostentatious forms of pre-Marxian socialism. In all countries, the revolution revealed the various classes of society in action. The shooting of the workers by the republican bourgeoisie in Paris in the June days of 1848 finally revealed that the proletariat alone was socialist by nature. The liberal bourgeoisie dreaded the independence of this class a hundred times more than it did any kind of reaction. The craven liberals grovelled before reaction. The peasantry were content with the abolition of the survivals of feudalism and joined the supporters of order, wavering but occasionally between workers’ democracy and bourgeois liberalism. All doctrines of non-class socialism and non-class politics proved to be sheer nonsense. (Lenin)

      • The daily press and the telegraph, which in a moment spreads inventions over the whole earth, fabricate more myths (and the bourgeois cattle believe and enlarge upon them) in one day than could have formerly been done in a century. (Karl Marx)

      • Fascists are not human. A snake is more human. (Hugo Chávez)

      • The white man supports Reverend Martin Luther King, subsidizes Reverend Martin Luther King, so that Reverend Martin Luther King can continue to teach the Negroes to be defenseless–that’s what you mean by nonviolent–be defenseless in the face of one of the most cruel beasts that has ever taken people into captivity–that’s this American white man, and they have proved it throughout the country by the police dogs and the police clubs. A hundred years ago they used to put on a white sheet and use a bloodhound against Negroes. Today they have taken off the white sheet and put on police uniforms and traded in the bloodhounds for police dogs, and they’re still doing the same thing. Just as Uncle Tom, back during slavery used to keep the Negroes from resisting the bloodhound or resisting the Ku Klux Klan by teaching them to love their enemies or pray for those who use them despitefully, today Martin Luther King is just a twentieth-century or modern Uncle Tom or religious Uncle Tom, who is doing the same thing today to keep Negroes defenseless in the face of attack that Uncle Tom did on the plantation to keep those Negroes defenseless in the face of the attack of the Klan in that day. (Malcolm X)

      • Historically, revolutions are bloody. Oh, yes, they are. They haven’t never had a bloodless revolution, or a nonviolent revolution. That don’t happen even in Hollywood. You don’t have a revolution in which you love your enemy, and you don’t have a revolution in which you are begging the system of exploitation to integrate you into it. Revolutions overturn systems. Revolutions destroy systems. (Malcolm X)

      • The chief endeavour of the bourgeoisie of all countries and of its reformist hangers-on is to kill in the working class faith in its own strength, faith in the possibility and inevitability of its victory, and thus to perpetuate capitalist slavery. For the bourgeoisie knows that if capitalism has not yet been overthrown and still continues to exist, it owes it not to its own merits, but to the fact that the proletariat has still not enough faith in the possibility of its victory. It cannot be said that the efforts of the bourgeoisie in this respect have been altogether unsuccessful. It must be confessed that the bourgeoisie and its agents among the working class have to some extent succeeded in poisoning the minds of the working class with the venom of doubt and scepticism. (Stalin)

      • None have more sincere concern and zeal than thieves to maintain the institution of private property, without which their profession would come to an end, and they would find themselves faced with the unpleasant alternative of having to work for their living. On the other hand, they cannot publicly proclaim the principles of thievery and gangsterism as the basis of their stand; for public purposes, they have to proclaim the most high moral principles, to maintain existing society “unspoiled” and to keep “the mind” of the worker “healthy.” (R. Palme Dutt)

      • Principle of transposition. Load on the opponent the own errors or defects, responding the attack with the attack. If you can not deny the bad news, invent others that distract them. (Joseph Goebbels)

      • This is the radical difference that distinguishes the psychology of the peasant, handicraftsman, intellectual, the petty bourgeois in general, from that of the proletarian. The petty bourgeois sees and feels that he is heading for ruin, that life is becoming more difficult, that the struggle for existence is ever more ruthless, and that his position and that of his family are becoming more and more hopeless. It is an indisputable fact, and the petty bourgeois protests against it. But how does he protest? He protests as the representative of a class that is hopelessly perishing, that despairs of its future, that is depressed and cowardly. There is nothing to be done … if only there were fewer children to suffer our torments and hard toil, our poverty and our humiliation—such is the cry of the petty bourgeois. The class-conscious worker is far from holding this point of view. He will not allow his consciousness to be dulled by such cries no matter how sincere and heartfelt they may be. Yes, we workers and the mass of small proprietors lead a life that is filled with unbearable oppression and suffering. Things are harder for our generation than they were for our fathers. But in one respect we are luckier than our fathers. We have begun to learn and are rapidly learning to fight—and to fight not as individuals, as the best of our fathers fought, not for the slogans of bourgeois speechifiers that are alien to us in spirit, but for our slogans, the slogans of our class. We are fighting better than our fathers did. Our children will fight better than we do, and they will be victorious. The working class is not perishing, it is growing, becoming stronger, gaining courage, consolidating itself, educating itself and becoming steeled in battle. We are pessimists as far as serfdom, capitalism and petty, production are concerned, but we are ardent optimists in what concerns the working-class movement and its aims. We are already laying the foundation of a new edifice and our children will complete its construction. That is the reason—the only reason—why we are unconditionally the enemies of neomalthusianism, suited only to unfeeling and egotistic petty-bourgeois couples, who whisper in scared voices: “God grant we manage somehow by our selves. So much the better if we have no children.” (Lenin)

      • To learn who rules over you, simply find out who you are not allowed to criticize. (Voltaire)

      • As the Praetorian Guard, fighting wars for multinational interests while also paying for such adventures, our relative economic stability, domestic social and material infrastructure, and the freedom and liberties of the American people may all be forfeited. (John Stockwell)

      • Lenin showed that imperialism is moribund capitalism, that imperialism is the eve of the Lenin on imperialism socialist revolution of the proletariat. In his work on the foundations of Leninism, Stalin points out that Marx and Engels lived and fought at a time when imperialism had not yet developed, in a period of the preparation of the proletariat for revolution, whereas Lenin’s revolutionary activity was effected within the period of developed imperialism, the period of the unfolding proletarian revolution. Leninism is the further development of Marxism under new conditions, under the conditions of the epoch of imperialism and proletarian revolutions. It follows, therefore, that at this time one cannot be a Marxist without being a Leninist. It also follows that to deny the Leninist theory of imperialism is to break away entirely from Marxism. It is clear from this that any distortion or mistake in the theory of imperialism inevitably means a break with revolutionary Marxism-Leninism. (R. Palme Dutt)

      • What are the Communists? Our capitalist Press and propaganda has for so many years built up a “Communist bogey” that for most non-political people a Communist is a mythical monstrosity. He is either just a man who is born lazy, or an agitator paid by foreign gold, who is remarkably successful in per- suading honest and intelligent workers to strike for no reason; he is in any case anti-social and unpatriotic. The real truth is very different; the Communists in every country have numbered in their ranks some of the most highly skilled and conscientious workers, scientists, teachers, and writers; they are on the whole well informed and read The Times and the Financial News assiduously! They spend a good part of their leisure in mastering the intricacies of Marxist phil- osophy, in studying and seeking to improve social conditions, and in Trade Union and political activities. They include people of wide general culture and lively intellect. And above all, they are international in their outlook, sympathy, and philosophy. All the gangsters and fools who were welcomed into the Nazi party are assiduously excluded from the Communist ranks. Their professional politicians live on limited salaries and must maintain a high standard of personal conduct; (this rule is particularly strict in the Soviet Union). For a practical example of the difference between a Communist and a Nazi, one may recall the superb con- trast of Dimitrov and Goering during the course of the Reichstag Fire Trial in 1933. (Denis Nowell Pritt)

      • At the present time, the propaganda of peace unaccompanied by a call for revolutionary mass action can only sow illusions and demoralise the proletariat, for it makes the proletariat believe that the bourgeoisie is humane, and turns it into a plaything in the hands of the secret diplomacy of the belligerent countries. In particular, the idea of a so-called democratic peace being possible without a series of revolutions is profoundly erroneous. (Lenin)

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      • The word god is for me nothing more than the expression and product of human weaknesses, the Bible a collection of honourable, but still primitive legends which are nevertheless pretty childish. (Albert Einstein)

      • When the Federal Reserve Act was passed, the people of these United States did not perceive that a world banking system was being set up here. A super-state controlled by international bankers and international industrialists acting together to enslave the world for their own pleasure. Every effort has been made by the Fed to conceal its powers but the truth is – The Fed has usurped the government. (Louis T. McFadden)

      • 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. (Ayn Rand)

      • Communists the world over are wiser than the bourgeoisie, they understand the laws governing the existence and development of things, they understand dialectics and they can see farther. The bourgeoisie does not welcome this truth because it does not want to be overthrown. To be overthrown is painful and is unbearable to contemplate for those overthrown, for example, for the Kuomintang reactionaries whom we are now overthrowing and for Japanese imperialism which we together with other peoples overthrew some time ago. But for the working class, the labouring people and the Communist Party the question is not one of being overthrown, but of working hard to create the conditions in which classes, state power and political parties will die out very naturally and mankind will enter the realm of Great Harmony. (Mao Zedong)

      • There is no such thing as a Palestinian people… It is not as if we came and threw them out and took their country. They didn’t exist. (Golda Meir)

      • When I came back to the United States, I decided that if you could use propaganda for war, you could certainly use it for peace. And “propaganda” got to be a bad word because of the Germans using it, so what I did was to try and find some other words so we found the words “public relations”. (Edward Bernays)

      • The imperialist bourgeoisie systematically bribed the upper stratum of skilled workers, the so-called labour aristocracy, by means of higher wages and other sops, using for this purpose part of the profits it derived from the colonies, from the exploitation of backward countries. This section of workers had produced quite a number of trade union and cooperative leaders, members of municipal and parliamentary bodies, journalists and functionaries of Social-Democratic organizations. When the war broke out, these people, fearing to lose their positions, became foes of revolution and most zealous defenders of their own bourgeoisies, of their own imperialist governments. (Stalin)

      • It is David Ricardo’s unique position in history that he was an innovating force in both capitalist and socialist thought. (John Kenneth Galbraith)

      • The conscious and intelligent manipulation of the organized habits and opinions of the masses is an important element in democratic society. Those who manipulate this unseen mechanism of society constitute an invisible government which is the true ruling power of our country. We are governed, our minds are molded, our tastes formed, our ideas suggested, largely by men we have never heard of. This is a logical result of the way in which our democratic society is organized. Vast numbers of human beings must cooperate in this manner if they are to live together as a smoothly functioning society. (Edward Bernays)

      • Liberalism denied the State in the interests of the particular individual; Fascism reaffirms the State as the true reality of the individual. And if liberty is to be the attribute of the real man, and not of that abstract puppet envisaged by individualistic Liberalism, Fascism is for liberty. And for the only liberty which can be a real thing, the liberty of the State and of the individual within the State. Therefore, for the Fascist, everything is in the State, and nothing human or spiritual exists, much less has value, outside the State. (Mussolini)

      • Under imperialism the powerful capitalist associations (monopolies) and the banks acquired a dominant position in the life of the capitalist states. Finance capital became master in the capitalist states. Finance capital demanded new markets, the seizure of new colonies, new fields for the export of capital, new sources of raw material. (Stalin)

      • Workingmen of all countries, unite,\ Side by side we for freedom will fight:\ When the world and its wealth we have gained\ To the grafters we’ll sing this refrain:\ You will eat, bye and bye,\ When you’ve learned how to cook and to fry\ Chop some wood, ’twill do you good,\ And you’ll eat in the sweet bye and bye. (Joe Hill)

      • Fascism is the violent attempt of decaying capitalism to defeat the proletarian revolution and forcibly retard its own demise. Fascism uses demagogy as a science for it dare not declare its aims openly, for it could build no mass support on the basis of its real aims. (Harpal Brar)

      • We are the opposite of the political parties of the bourgeoisie. They are afraid to speak of the extinction of classes, state power and parties. We, on the contrary, declare openly that we are striving hard to create the very conditions which will bring about their extinction. The leadership of the Communist Party and the state power of the people’s dictatorship are such conditions. Anyone who does not recognize this truth is no communist. (Mao Zedong)

      • When a man reaches old age, he will die; the same is true of a party. When classes disappear, all instruments of class struggle — parties and the state machinery — will lose their function, cease to be necessary, therefore gradually wither away and end their historical mission; and human society will move to a higher stage. (Mao Zedong)

      • The first lesson a revolutionary must learn is that he is a doomed man. Unless he understands this, he does not grasp the essential meaning of his life. (Abraham Lincoln)

      • All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing. (Edmund Burke)

      • Freedom is never granted; it is won. Justice is never given; it is exacted. Freedom and justice must be struggled for by the oppressed of all lands and races… (A. Philip Randolph)

      • Every rebellion implies some kind of unity. (Camus)

      • We who in engage in nonviolent direct action are not the creators of tension. We merely bring to the surface the hidden tension that is already alive. (Martin Luther King, Jr.)

      • I freed thousands of slaves. I could have freed thousands more, if they had known they were slaves. (Harriet Tubman)

      • The revolution is not an apple that falls when it is ripe. You have to make it fall. (Che Guevara)

      • When rich people fight wars with one another, poor people are the ones to die. (Jean-Paul Sartre)

      • The revolution is a dictatorship of the exploited against the exploiters. (Fidel Castro)

      • Either America will destroy ignorance or ignorance will destroy the United States. (W. E. B. Du Bois)

      • We have no right to believe that freedom can be won without struggle. (Che Guevara)

      • An Ounce of action is worth a ton of theory. (Friedrich Engels)

      • Any dictator would admire the uniformity and obedience of the U.S. media. (Noam Chomsky)

      • Better to fight for something than live for nothing. (George Patton)

      • A desire to resist oppression is implanted in the nature of man. (Cornelius Tacitus)

      • The working classes in every country only learn to fight in the course of their struggles. (Rosa Luxemburg)

      • No real social change has ever been brought about without a Revolution… Revolution is thought carried into action. (Emma Goldman)

      • Socialism is the science of example. (Che Guevara)

      • Truth is on the side of the oppressed. (Malcolm X)

      • Always remember, you have within you the strength, the patience, and the passion to change the world. (Harriet Tubman)

      • I have the people behind me and the people are my strength. (Huey P. Newton)

      • The fastest way to change society is to mobilize the women of the world. (Charles Malik)

      • The oppressed are allowed once every few years to decide which particular representatives of the oppressing class shall represent and repress them in parliament. (Lenin)

      • Of all the contrivances for cheating the laboring classes of mankind, none has been more effective than that which deludes them with paper money. (Daniel Webster)

      • Be the change you want to see in the world. (Mahatma Gandhi)

      • The real rulers in Washington are invisible, and exercise power from behind the scenes. (Felix Frankfurter)

      • Fascism: A system of government that exercises a dictatorship of the extreme right, typically through the merging of state and business leadership, together with belligerent nationalism. (The American Heritage Dictionary, 1983) (Anónimo)

      • A man of profound ideals, a man in whose mind stirred the dream of struggle. (Fidel Castro)

      • “It was never pleasing to the Romans, that a general should be killed by his own soldiers” or in another version more common in modern Portugal and Spain “Rome does not pay traitors who kill their chief”. (Quintus Servilius Caepio)

      • The man who never looks into a newspaper is better informed than he who reads them; inasmuch as he who knows nothing is nearer to truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors. (Thomas Jefferson)

      • He who conceals a useful truth is equally guilty with the propagator of an injurious falsehood. (Aurelius Augustinus)

      • When tyranny and oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign foe. (James Madison)

      • Prudence, indeed, will dictate that governments long established, should not be changed for light and transient causes; and, accordingly, all experience [has] shown that mankind are more disposed to suffer while evils are sufferable than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But, when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same object, evinces a design to reduce [the people] under absolute despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such government, and to provide new guards for their future security. (Thomas Jefferson)

      • When a well-packaged web of lies has been sold gradually to the masses over generations, the truth will seem utterly preposterous and its speaker a raving lunatic. (Dresden James)

      • Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet. Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich. (Napoléon Bonaparte)

      • When a stupid man is doing something he is ashamed of, he always declares that it is his duty. (George Bernard Shaw)

      • The most heinous and the cruelest crimes of which history has recorded have been committed under the cover of religion or equally noble motives. (Mahatma Gandhi)

      • Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime. (Ernest Hemingway)

      • The secret of great fortunes without apparent cause is a crime forgotten, for it was properly done. (Honoré de Balzac)

      • The symptoms of fascist thinking are colored by environment and adapted to immediate circumstances. But always and everywhere they can be identified by their appeal to prejudice and by the desire to play upon the fears and vanities of different groups in order to gain power. (Henry A. Wallace)

      • Persisting social crisis, the emergence of a charismatic personality, and the exploitation of mass media to obtain public confidence would be the steppingstones in the piecemeal transformation of the United States into a highly controlled society. (Zbigniew Brzezinski)

      • I don’t see why we need to stand by and watch a country go communist due to the irresponsibility of its people. The issues are much too important for the Chilean voters to be left to decide for themselves. (Henry Kissinger)

      • Somoza may be a son of a bitch, but he’s our son of a bitch. (Franklin D. Roosevelt)

      • The crucial role communists played in organizing industrial unions in the 1930s and struggling for social reforms, peace, and civil rights strengthened rather then undermined democratic forces. (Michael Parenti)

      • Religion is the opium of the masses. (Karl Marx)

      • If we understand the mechanism and motives of the group mind, it is now possible to control and regiment the masses according to our will without them knowing it. (Edward Bernays)

      • There are no such things as classes: they cannot be. Class means caste and caste means race. (Hitler)

      • People are often told about democracy by those who deny it on their own soil. (Fidel Castro)

      • A slave who has become conscious of his slavery and has risen to struggle for his emancipation has already half ceased to be a slave. (Lenin)

      • There are more prisoners in US penal system today than there ever were in Soviet camps. (Daniel Estulin)

      • Trotsky is the whore of fascism. (Gramsci)

      • The dream of capitalism is to co-opt people with higher living standards without redistributing any wealth. Without co-optation, widespread repression is the only guarantor of gross inequality. (Holly Sklar)

      • Among Latin American elites, a peasant asking for a higher wage or a priest helping organize a peasant cooperative is a communist. And someone going so far as to suggest land reform or a more equitable tax system is a communist fanatic. There is no word or act suggesting the desirability of elite generosity toward the poor, or the need for education, organization or material advance for the majority, that has not been branded communistic in Latin America in recent decades. … Since communism is the enemy and peasants trying to improve themselves, priests with the slightest humanistic proclivity, and naturally anyone seriously challenging the status quo, are communists, they are also, by definition, enemies. (Edward Herman)

      • One might call this the “Third World War.” It is a war that has been fought by the United States against the Third World. Others call it the Cold War and focus on the anti-Communist and anti-Soviet rationales, but the dead are not Soviets; they are people of the Third World. It might also be called the Forty-Year War, like the Thirty-Year and Hundred-Year Wars in Europe, for this one began when the CIA was founded in 1947 and continues today. Altogether, perhaps twenty million people died in the Cold War. As wars go, it has been the second or third most destructive of human life in all of history, after World War I and World War II. (John Stockwell)

      • We shall reduce the Arab population to a community of woodcutters and waiters. (Uri Lubrani)

      • The people of Asia were slaves, because they had not learned how to pronounce the word ‘no’. (Churchill)

      • And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music. (Nietzsche)

      • It is not the case as the naive might think that indoctrination is inconsistent with democracy, rather . . . it’s the essence of democracy. The point is that in a military state or a feudal state or what we would now call a totalitarian state, it doesn’t much matter because you’ve got a bludgeon over their heads and you can control what they do. But when the state loses the bludgeon, when you can’t control people by force, and when the voice of the people can be heard you have this problem—it may make people so curious and so arrogant that they don’t have the humility to submit to a civil rule, and therefore you have to control what people think. And the standard way to do this is to resort to what in more honest days used to be called propaganda, manufacture of consent, creation of necessary illusion. Various ways of either marginalizing the public or reducing them to apathy in some fashion. (Noam Chomsky)

      • … somehow we find it hard to sell our values, namely that the rich should plunder the poor. (John Foster Dulles)

      • We enjoy the economic stability that the Armed Forces guarantee us. This [economic] plan can be fulfilled dispite its lack of popular support. It has sufficient political support … that provided buy the Armed Forces. (Martinez de Hoz)

      • They are going to arrest us all and execute us for Shell. (Ken Saro-Wiwa)

      • We stand for the maintenance of private property… We shall protect free enterprise as the most expedient, or rather the sole possible economic order. (Hitler)

      • The U.S. public is depoliticized, poorly informed on foreign affairs … and strongly patriotic in the face of a struggle with “another Hitler”. Even though the public is normally averse to war, even with modest propaganda efforts … the public can be quickly transformed into enthusiastic supporters of war. (Edward Herman)

      • History will have to record that the greatest tragedy of this period of social transition was not the strident clamor of the bad people, but the appalling silence of the good people. (Martin Luther King, Jr.)

      • The United States is not only number one in military power but also in the effectiveness of its propaganda system. (Edward Herman)

      • Now we have a totalitarian government. And the totalitarian government wants to watch everybody, total surveillance of everyone. They listen to the telephone conversations, they look at your credit cards, they look where you travel. We are totally policed. This is contrary to everything in our Constitution. (Gore Vidal)

      • There are no innocent civilians. It is their government and you are fighting a people, you are not trying to fight an armed force anymore. So it doesn’t bother me so much to be killing the so-called innocent bystanders. (Curtis LeMay)

      • Socialism means the abolition of classes. The dictatorship of the proletariat has done all it could to abolish classes. But classes cannot be abolished at one stroke. And classes still remain and will remain in the era of the dictatorship of the proletariat. The dictatorship will become unnecessary when classes disappear. Without the dictatorship of the proletariat they will not disappear. Classes have remained, but in the era of the dictatorship of the proletariat every class has undergone a change, and the relations between the classes have also changed. The class struggle does not disappear under the dictatorship of the proletariat; it merely assumes different forms. Under capitalism the proletariat was an oppressed class, a class which had been deprived of the means of production, the only class which stood directly and completely opposed to the bourgeoisie, and therefore the only one capable of being revolutionary to the very end. Having overthrown the bourgeoisie and conquered political power, the proletariat has become the ruling class; it wields state power, it exercises control over means of production already socialised; it guides the wavering and intermediary elements and classes; it crushes the increasingly stubborn resistance of the exploiters. All these are specific tasks of the class struggle, tasks which the proletariat formerly did not and could not have set itself. The class of exploiters, the landowners and capitalists, has not disappeared and cannot disappear all at once under the dictatorship of the proletariat. The exploiters have been smashed, but not destroyed. They still have an inter national base in the form of international capital, of which they are a branch. They still retain certain means of production in part, they still have money, they still have vast social connections. Because they have been defeated, the energy of their resistance has increased a hundred and a thousandfold. The “art” of state, military and economic administration gives them a superiority, and a very great superiority, so that their importance is incomparably greater than their numerical proportion of the population. The class struggle waged by the overthrown exploiters against the victorious vanguard of the exploited, i.e., the proletariat, has become incomparably more bitter. And it cannot be otherwise in the case of a revolution, unless this concept is replaced (as it is by all the heroes of the Second International) by reformist illusions. (Lenin)

      • Communists must be ready at all times to stand up for the truth, because truth is in the interests of the people; Communists must be ready at all times to correct their mistakes, because mistakes are against the interests of the people. (Mao Zedong)

      • The struggle between socialism and capitalism is the struggle between collectivism and individualism and the superiority of socialism over capitalism is the superiority of collectivism over individualism. (Kim Jong-il)

      • Fascism historically has been used to secure the interests of large capitalist interests against the demands of popular democracy. Then and now, fascism has made irrational mass appeals in order to secure the rational ends of class domination. (Michael Parenti)

      • 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. (Lenin)

      • Fascism began as a rejection of the idea that reason could be used to understand society and resulted, Sternhell argues, in the formation of a ‘new generation of intellectuals [which] rose violently against the rationalist individuals of liberal society’. These intellectuals absorbed the synthesised socialism and nationalism and thus created a new ideology, ‘a socialism without the proletariat’, which duly became fascism. This ideology Sternhell describes as being ‘a synthesis of organic nationalism and anti-Marxist socialism,…’ (David Renton)

      • The law was made for one thing alone, for the exploitation of those who don’t understand it, or are prevented by naked misery from obeying it. (Bertolt Brecht)

      • We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office. (Aesop)

      • [The] fact of being within capital and sustaining capital is what defines the proletariat as a class. (Antonio Negri)

      • To Marx, Ricardo was the classic and best representative of bourgeois economics since he articulated the contradictions of bourgeois society without glossing them over. (Russell Jacoby)

      • Banks are the temples of America. This is a holy war. Our economy is our religion. (Giannina Braschi)

      • If tomorrow, Morocco were to declare war on France, India on England, Persia or China on Russia, and so forth, those would be “just” “defensive” wars, irrespective of who attacked first; and every Socialist would sympathise with the victory of the oppressed, dependent, unequal states against the oppressing, slave-owning, predatory “great” powers. (Lenin)

      • No natural science can hold its own in the struggle against the onslaught of bourgeois ideas and the restoration of the bourgeois world outlook unless it stands on solid philosophical ground. In order to hold his own in this struggle and carry it to a victorious finish, the natural scientist must be a modern materialist, a conscious adherent of the materialism represented by Marx, i.e., he must be a dialectical materialist. (Lenin)

      • If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking. (Haruki Murakami)

      • Defining the superiority of a nation according to biological or ethnic characteristics is the practice of reactionary, bourgeois ethnology. (Kim Jong-il)

      • We have applied the Marxist analysis and method to the contemporary scene. (Gudrun Ensslin)

      • The important thing to know about an assassination or an attempted assassination is not who fired the shot, but who paid for the bullet. (Eric Ambler)

      • The Soviet state represents the expression of the highest possible form of democracy. (Andrei Yanuaryevich Vyshinsky)

      • Marx’s philosophy is a consummate philosophical materialism which has provided mankind, and especially the working class, with powerful instruments of knowledge. (Lenin)

      • Fascist rebelliousness always occurs where fear of the truth turns a revolutionary emotion into illusions. (Wilhelm Reich)

      • If the state is the executive committee of the great corporation and the planning system, it is partly because neoclassical economics is its instrument for neutralizing the suspicion that this is so. (John Kenneth Galbraith)

      • The Party possesses all the necessary qualifications for this because, in the first place, it is the rallying centre of the finest elements in the working class, who have direct connections with the non-Party organisations of the proletariat and very frequently lead them; because, secondly, the Party, as the rallying centre of the finest members of the working class, is the best school for training leaders of the working class, capable of directing every form of organisation of their class; because, thirdly, the Party, as the best school for training leaders of the working class, is, by reason of its experience and prestige , the only organisation capable of centralising the leadership of the struggle of the proletariat, thus transforming each and every non-Party organisation of the working class into an auxiliary body and transmission belt linking the Party with the class. (Stalin)

      • It is terribly difficult to do this; we lack the men! But Preobrazhensky comes along and airily says that Stalin has jobs in two Commissariats. Who among us has not sinned in this way? who has not undertaking several duties at once? And how can we do otherwise? What can we do to preserve the Nationalities; to handle all the Turkestan, Caucasian, and other questions? These are all political questions! They have to be settled. These are questions that have engaged the attention of European states for hundreds of years, and only an infinitesimal number of them have been settled in democratic republics. We are settling them; and we need a man to whom the representatives of any of these nations can go and discuss their difficulties in all detail. Where can we find such a man? I don’t think Comrade Preobrazhensky could suggest any better candidate than Comrade Stalin. (Lenin)

      • The art of taxation consists in so plucking the goose as to obtain the largest [number] of feathers with the least possible amount of hissing. (Jean Baptiste Colbert)

      • A socialist of any of the oppressor nations (Britain. France, Germany, Japan, Russia, the United States of America, etc.) who does not recognise and does not struggle for the right of oppressed nations to self-determination (i.e., the right to secession) is in reality a chauvinist, not a socialist. (Lenin)

      • We want to help, not undermine you (Pinochet). You did a great service to the West in overthrowing Allende. (Henry Kissinger)

      • The workers are surrounded on all sides by such a sea of lies in the bourgeois newspapers that they must fight for the truth at all costs, they must learn to recognise falsehoods and reject them. The erroneous views of the liquidators of the workers’ party must be calmly refuted. (Lenin)

      • Is it possible that a few rich men — a small class of men — have persuaded a million poor men to attack and attempt to destroy another million men as poor as they, so that the rich may be richer still? They told them that this brutal war was the destiny of the race. It was for the glory of the emperor; it was for the honour of the state; it was for their king and country. False — false as hell! They make war to capture markets by murder, raw materials by rape. They find it cheaper to steal than to exchange, easier to butcher than to buy. This is the secret of war. It is the secret of all wars: profit. Business. Profit. Blood money. Threaten a reduction on the profit of their money and the beast in them awakens with a snarl. They become as ruthless as savages, brutal as madmen, remorseless as executioners. (Norman Bethune)

      • We never talked about men or clothes. It was always Marx, Lenin and revolution -real girls’ talk. (Nina Simone)

      • As long as the organization of schooling stays in the hands of the bourgeoisie, the vocational school will be a weapon directed against the interests of the working class. Only the working class can turn the vocational school into a tool for the transformation of contemporary society. (Nadezhda Konstantinovna Krupskaya)

      • I am convinced that the way to build a new and better world is not capitalism. Capitalism leads us straight to hell. (Hugo Chávez)

      • Principle of vulgarization. All propaganda must be popular, adapting its level to the least intelligent of the individuals to whom it is directed. The larger the mass to convince, the smaller the mental effort to perform. The receptive capacity of the masses is limited and their understanding scarce; Besides, they have great ease to forget. (Joseph Goebbels)

      • The traditional tactics and methods of domination of the American bourgeoisie are equally adapted to Fascism, in proportion as occasion arises. If they have not had the same experience as the British bourgeoisie in the domination of colonial peoples, save more recently and on a smaller scale, they have had plenty of experience in their own domain in the suppression of the twelve million Negroes within the United States and of the heavily exploited immigrant populations. The combination of violence, lawlessness and corruption for the maintenance of capitalist domination has reached classic heights in the United States. (R. Palme Dutt)

      • Apostles of Freedom are ever idolised when dead, but crucified when living. Universally true as this statement is, it applies with more than usual point to the revolutionary hero. (James Connolly)

      • All Socialists are agreed that the political state, and with it political authority, will disappear as a result of the coming social revolution, that is, that public functions will lose their political character and will be transformed into the simple administrative functions of watching over the true interests of society. (Karl Marx)

      • We must dare to invent the future. (Thomas Sankara)

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      • Since 1845 Marx and I have held the view that one of the ultimate results of the future proletarian revolution will be the gradual dissolution of the political organisation known by the name of state. The main object of this organisation has always been to secure, by armed force, the economic oppression of the labouring majority by the minority which alone possesses wealth. (Friedrich Engels)

      • Debt is the prolific mother of folly and of crime. (Benjamin Disraeli)

      • The revolutionary proletariat cannot be victorious unless this evil is combated, unless the opportunist, social-traitor leaders are exposed, discredited and expelled. That is the policy the Third International has embarked on. (Lenin)

      • For me the Jewish religion like all others is an incarnation of the most childish superstitions. (Albert Einstein)

      • Because they didn’t know better, they called it “civilization, ” when it was part of their slavery. (Cornelius Tacitus)

      • In those countries, it is actually capital that rules; that is, nothing more than a clique of a few hundred men who possess untold wealth and, as a consequence of the peculiar structure of their national life, are more or less independent and free. They say: ‘Here we have liberty.’ By this they mean, above all, an uncontrolled economy, and by an uncontrolled economy, the freedom not only to acquire capital but to make absolutely free use of it. That means freedom from national control or control by the people both in the acquisition of capital and in its employment. This is really what they mean when they speak of liberty. These capitalists create their own press and then speak of the ‘freedom of the press.’ In reality, every one of the newspapers has a master, and in every case this master is the capitalist, the owner. This master, not the editor, is the one who directs the policy of the paper. If the editor tries to write other than what suits the master, he is ousted the next day. This press, which is the absolutely submissive and characterless slave of the owners, molds public opinion. (Hitler)

      • The Chinese Trotskyists (like the Trotskyists of other countries) do not represent a political group, much less a political party. They are nothing but a band of evil-doers, the running dogs of Japanese fascism (and of international fascism). (Ho Chi Minh)

      • The process of revolution is — on a historical scale — synonymous with the process of the development of proletarian class consciousness. (György Lukács)

      • In Marx the dialectical method aims at understanding society as a whole. Bourgeois thought concerns itself with objects that arise either from the process of studying phenomena in isolation, or from the division of labor and specialisation in the different disciplines. (György Lukács)

      • From a very early stage the ideological history of the bourgeoisie was nothing but a desperate resistance to every insight into the true nature of the society it had created. (György Lukács)

      • In our progress toward a resumption of work we require two safeguards against a return of the evils of the old order; there must be a strict supervision of all banking and credits and investments; there must be an end to speculation with other people’s money, and there must be provision for an adequate but sound currency. (Franklin D. Roosevelt)

      • How small the vastest of human catastrophes may seem at a distance of a few million miles. (H. G. Wells)

      • Revolutions are not push button affairs; rather, they evolve only if there exists a reservoir of hope and grievance that can be galvanized into popular action. (Michael Parenti)

      • A nation is not a racial or tribal, but a historically constituted community of people. (Stalin)

      • It doesn’t matter whether the cat is black or white, as long as it catches mice. (Deng Xiaoping)

      • Once killing starts, it is difficult to draw the line. (Cornelius Tacitus)

      • The progressive historical role of capitalism may be summed up in two brief propositions: increase in the productive forces of social labour, and the socialisation of that labour. But both these facts manifest themselves in extremely diverse processes in different branches of the national economy. (Lenin)

      • Goebbels […] was using my book Crystallizing Public Opinion as a basis for his destructive campaign against the Jews of Germany. This shocked me. (Edward Bernays)

      • The Nazi state was created by the same oligarchical financial and political interests who today control what we call the mass media and television. Forget about whatever stories you have seen on television about how Hitler came to power: His path to power was cleared by the same oligarchs who employ the brainwashers that program your television. Over a period of years, following the First World War, Germany was brutalized by the economic policy of this international (ETK: Jewish) elite. Hitler’s Nazis were funded and promoted as a political option, and then steered into power in 1932-1933. Once in power, the Nazis maintained their hold through the use of terror as part of mass brainwashing. In many ways it were proper to view the Nazi period as an experiment in methods of mass brainwashing and social control. (Lonnie Wolfe)

      • Is that to say we are against Free Trade? No, we are for Free Trade, because by Free Trade all economical laws, with their most astounding contradictions, will act upon a larger scale, upon the territory of the whole earth; and because from the uniting of all these contradictions in a single group, where they will stand face to face, will result the struggle which will itself eventuate in the emancipation of the proletariat. (Karl Marx)

      • The voice of protest, of warning, of appeal is never more needed than when the clamor of fife and drum, echoed by the press and too often by the pulpit, is bidding all men fall in step and obey in silence the tyrannous word of command. Then, more than ever, it is the duty of the good citizen not to be silent. (Charles Eliot Norton)

      • A revolution is an idea which has found its bayonets. (Napoléon Bonaparte)

      • Revolutions never go backwards. (Wendell Phillips)

      • The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion. (Camus)

      • Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable. (JFK)

      • The basic law of capitalism is you or I, not both you and I. (Karl Liebknecht)

      • Capitalist states can maintain themselves only by crime. (Bakunin)

      • Reform is for people who have government connections, revolution is for the people! (Malcolm X)

      • Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter. (Martin Luther King, Jr.)

      • Tyrants have not yet discovered any chains that can fetter the mind. (C. C. Colton)

      • A society of sheep must in time beget a government of wolves. (Bertrand de Jouvenel)

      • Revolutions are the locomotives of history. (Karl Marx)

      • Fight the power that be. Fight the power. (Spike Lee)

      • A man who stands for nothing will fall for anything. (Malcolm X)

      • An injustice anywhere is an injustice everywhere. (Samuel Johnson)

      • The only thing that comes to a sleeping man is dreams. Wake up! (Tupac Shakur)

      • The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal. (Aristotélēs)

      • They that start by burning books will end by burning men. (Heinrich Heine)

      • I have no country to fight for; my country is the earth, and I am a citizen of the world. (Eugene V. Debs)

      • When all other rights are taken away, the right of rebellion is made perfect. (Thomas Paine)

      • When I was asked about any weapon capable of surpassing the power of the atomic bomb, I suggested the best of all: Peace. (Albert Einstein)

      • Experience has proved that, on certain very important questions of the proletarian revolution, all countries will inevitably have to do what Russia has done. (Lenin)

      • The price of freedom is eternal vigilance. (Thomas Jefferson)

      • Find out just what the people will submit to and you have found out the exact amount of injustice and wrong which will be imposed upon them; and these will continue until they are resisted with either words or blows, or with both. The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppress. (Frederick Douglass)

      • Terrorism is the best political weapon for nothing drives people harder than a fear of sudden death. (Hitler)

      • During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act. (George Orwell)

      • The Struggle of Guevara against the US was the struggle of the Spirit against Matter. (Ernesto Sábato)

      • No one could make a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little. (Edmund Burke)

      • The first stage of fascism should more appropriately be called Corporatism because it is a merger of State and corporate power. (Mussolini)

      • But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object, evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security. (The Declaration of Independence)

      • Hegel remarks somewhere that history tends to repeat itself. He forgot to add: the first time as tragedy, the second time as farce. (Karl Marx)

      • Behind the visible government there is an invisible government upon the throne that owes the people no loyalty and recognizes no responsibility. To destroy this invisible government, to undo the ungodly union between corrupt business and corrupt politics is the task of a statesman. (Theodore Roosevelt)

      • You let men in power assume power “for the Little Man”. But you yourself remain silent. You give men in power or impotent people with evil intentions the power to represent you. Only too late do you realize that again and again you are being defrauded. (Wilhelm Reich)

      • Knowledge will forever govern ignorance, and a people who mean to be their own governors, must arm themselves with the power knowledge gives. (James Madison)

      • The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions, that I wish it to be always kept alive. (Thomas Jefferson)

      • The biggest lesson I learned from Vietnam is not to trust [our own] government statements. (James W. Fulbright)

      • There is no honorable way to kill, no gentle way to destroy. There is nothing good in war… Except its ending. (Albert Einstein)

      • Ignorance and obscurantism have never produced anything other than flocks of slaves for tyranny. (Zapata)

      • With a fascist the problem is never how best to present the truth to the public but how best to use the news to deceive the public into giving the fascist and his group more money or more power. (Henry A. Wallace)

      • We have a large public that is very ignorant about public affairs and very susceptible to simplistic slogans by candidates who appear out of nowhere, have no track record, but mouth appealing slogans. (Zbigniew Brzezinski)

      • …foreign policy of a pluralistic democracy like the United States should be based on bipartisanship because bipartisanship is the means and the framework for formulating policies based on moderation and on the recognition of the complexity of the human condition. That has been the tradition since the days of Truman and Vandenberg all the way until recent times. (Zbigniew Brzezinski)

      • You can’t make war in the Middle East without Egypt and you can’t make peace without Syria. (Henry Kissinger)

      • Everybody now seems to be talking about democracy. I don’t understand this. As I think of it, democracy isn’t like a Sunday suit to be brought out and worn only for parades. It’s the kind of a life a decent man leads, it’s something to live for and to die for. (Dalton Trumbo)

      • The problem with capitalism is that it best rewards the worst part of us. (Michael Parenti)

      • The meaning of peace is the absence of opposition to socialism. (Karl Marx)

      • Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety. (Benjamin Franklin)

      • We had to struggle with the old enemies of peace: business and financial monopoly, speculation, reckless banking, class antagonism, sectionalism, war profiteering. They had begun to consider the Government of the United States as a mere appendage to their own affairs. We know now that Government by organized money is just as dangerous as Government by organized mob. (Franklin D. Roosevelt)

      • Today’s Conservatives Are Fascists: Torture, dictatorship, phony `elections, ‘ and endless war – it’s fascism with a `democratic’ face. (Justin Raimondo)

      • It is well known that the black race is the most oppressed and most exploited of the human family. It is well known that the spread of capitalism and the discovery of the New World had as an immediate result the rebirth of slavery which was, for centuries, a scourge for the Negroes and a bitter disgrace for mankind. What everyone does not perhaps know, is that after sixty-five years of so-called emancipation, American Negroes still endure atrocious moral and material sufferings, of which the most cruel and horrible is the custom of lynching. (Ho Chi Minh)

      • (To Benito Mussolini:) If I had been an Italian, I am sure I would have been entirely with you from the beginning to the end of your victorious struggle against the bestial appetites and passions of Leninism. (Churchill)

      • We’ll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false. (William Casey)

      • The world is governed by very different personages from what is imagined by those who are not behind the scenes. (Benjamin Disraeli)

      • Since there can be no talk of an independent ideology formulated by the working masses themselves in the process of their movement, the only choice is — either bourgeois or socialist ideology. There is no middle course (for mankind has not created a “third” ideology, and, moreover, in a society torn by class antagonisms there can never be a non-class or an above-class ideology). Hence, to belittle the socialist ideology in any way, to turn aside from it in the slightest degree means to strengthen bourgeois ideology. There is much talk of spontaneity. But the spontaneous development of the working-class movement leads to its subordination to bourgeois ideology, to its development along the lines of the Credo programme; for the spontaneous working-class movement is trade-unionism, is Nur-Gewerkschaftlerei, and trade unionism means the ideological enslavement of the workers by the bourgeoisie. (Lenin)

      • The obliging Trotsky is more dangerous than an enemy! (Lenin)

      • I know that after my death a pile of rubbish will be heaped on my grave, but the wind of History will sooner or later sweep it away without mercy. (Stalin)

      • Wealthy men can’t live in an island that is encircled by poverty. We all breathe the same air. We must give a chance to everyone, at least a basic chance. (Ayrton Senna)

      • The common elements of fascism — extreme nationalism, social Darwinism, the leadership principle, elitism, anti-liberalism, anti-egalitarianism, anti-democracy, intolerance, glorification of war, the supremacy of the state and anti-intellectualism — together form a rather loose doctrine. Fascism emphasises action rather than theory, and fascist theoretical writings are always weak. (Ian Adams)

      • In fascist countries capitalism only survives as Fascism, and Fascism can only be resisted as capitalism, as the most naked, brazen, offensive, and deceitful form of capitalism. (Bertolt Brecht)

      • But what counter-insurgency really comes down to is the protection of the capitalists back in America, their property and their privileges. US national security, as preached by US leaders, is the security of the capitalist class in the US, not the security of the rest of the people. (Philip Agee)

      • We now live in a state of permanent war – a global arms industry, apparently the largest single international business, must have its products used up so more can be sold. There must be profits for the capitalists and jobs for the proles… Are we not still in Caligula’s Rome? (David Watson)

      • … the media in the United States effectively represents the interests of corporate America, and … the media elite are the watchdogs of what constitutes acceptable ideological messages, the parameters of news and information content, and the general use of media resources. (Peter Phillips)

      • A considerable proportion of the developed world’s prosperity rests on paying the lowest possible prices for the poor countries’ primary products and on exporting high-cost capital and finished goods to those countries. Continuation of this kind of prosperity requires continuation of the relative gap between developed and underdeveloped countries – it means keeping poor people poor. Increasingly, the impoverished masses are understanding that the prosperity of the developed countries and of the privileged minorities in their own countries is founded on their poverty. (Philip Agee)

      • All national institutions of Churches appear to me no other than human inventions, set up to terrify and enslave mankind, and to monopolise power and profit. (Thomas Paine)

      • Don’t be deceived when they tell you things are better now. Even if there’s no poverty to be seen because the poverty’s been hidden. Even if you ever got more wages and could afford to buy more of these new and useless goods which industries foist on you and even if it seems to you that you never had so much, that is only the slogan of those who still have much more than you. Don’t be taken in when they paternally pat you on the shoulder and say that there’s no inequality worth speaking of and no more reason to fight because if you believe them they will be completely in charge in their marble homes and granite banks from which they rob the people of the world under the pretence of bringing them culture. Watch out, for as soon as it pleases them they’ll send you out to protect their gold in wars whose weapons, rapidly developed by servile scientists, will become more and more deadly until they can with a flick of the finger tear a million of you to pieces. (Jean-Paul Marat)

      • The U.S.A. has supplied arms, security equipment and training to governments and armed groups that have committed torture, political killings and other human rights abuses in countries around the world. (Amnesty International)

      • [Nationalism is] a set of beliefs taught to each generation in which the Motherland or the Fatherland is an object of veneration and becomes a burning cause for which one becomes willing to kill the children of other Motherlands or Fatherlands. (Howard Zinn)

      • There is …a huge tacit conspiracy between the U.S. government, its agencies and its multinational corporations, on the one hand, and local business and military cliques in the Third World, on the other, to assume complete control of these countries and “develop” them on a joint venture basis. The military leaders of the Third World were carefully nurtured by the U.S. security establishment to serve as the “enforcers” of this joint venture partnership, and they have been duly supplied with machine guns and the latest data on methods of interrogation of subversives. (Edward Herman)

      • Freedom of the Press belongs to the man who owns one. (A. J. Liebling)

      • In many respects, we now live in a society that is only formally democratic, as the great mass of citizens have minimal say on the major public issues of the day, and such issues are scarcely debated at all in any meaningful sense in the electoral arena. In our society, corporations and the wealthy enjoy a power every bit as immense as that assumed to have been enjoyed by the lords and royalty of feudal times. (Robert McChesney)

      • The actual state of violence composed of the malnutrition, ignorance, sickness and hunger of the vast majority of the Guatemalan population, is the direct result of a capitalist system that makes the defenseless Indian compete against the powerful and well-armed landowner. (Thomas Melville)

      • Propaganda is to a democracy what violence is to a dictatorship. (William Blum)

      • … several of the greatest American corporate leaders were in league with Nazi corporations before and after Pearl Harbor, including I.G. Farben, the colossal Nazi industrial trust that created Auschwitz. (Charles Higham)

      • How easy it is to make people believe a lie, and [how] hard it is to undo that work again! (Mark Twain)

      • Nor will there be planned economy. What is planned economy? What are some of its attributes? Planned economy tries to abolish unemployment. Let us suppose it is possible, while preserving the capitalist system, to reduce unemployment to a certain minimum. But surely, no capitalist would ever agree to the complete abolition of unemployment, to the abolition of the reserve army of unemployed, the purpose of which is to bring pressure on the labour market, to ensure a supply of cheap labour. You will never compel a capitalist to incur loss to himself and agree to a lower rate of profit for the sake of satisfying the needs of the people. (Stalin)

      • The slave is sold once and for all; the proletarian must sell himself daily and hourly. (Friedrich Engels)

      • A learned man is not one who uses complicated and difficult words in spoken and written language, but one who uses words that are easily understood by ordinary people. (Kim Jong-il)

      • Anti-social behavior is a trait of intelligence in a world full of conformists. (Nikola Tesla)

      • There’s a class warfare, all right, but it’s my class that’s making war, and we’re winning. (Warren Buffett)

      • 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. (Cecil Rhodes)

      • [Fascism is] a genuinely revolutionary, trans-class form of anti-liberal, and in the last analysis, anti conservative nationalism. As such it is an ideology deeply bound up with modernization and modernity, one which has assumed a considerable variety of external forms to adapt itself to the particular historical and national context in which it appears, and has drawn a wide range of cultural and intellectual currents, both left and right, anti-modern and pro-modern, to articulate itself as a body of ideas, slogans, and doctrine. In the inter-war period it manifested itself primarily in the form of an elite-led “armed party” which attempted, mostly unsuccessfully, to generate a populist mass movement through a liturgical style of politics and a programme of radical policies which promised to overcome a threat posed by international socialism, to end the degeneration affecting the nation under liberalism, and to bring about a radical renewal of its social, political and cultural life as part of what was widely imagined to be the new era being inaugurated in Western civilization. The core mobilizing myth of fascism which conditions its ideology, propaganda, style of politics and actions is the vision of the nation’s imminent rebirth from decadence. (Roger Griffin)

      • If the Fascist ideology cannot be described as a simple response to Marxism, its origins, on the other hand, were the direct result of very specific revision of Marxism. It was a revision of Marxism and not a variety of Marxism or a consequence of Marxism…It was the French and Italian Sorelians, the theoreticians of revolutionary syndicalism who made this new and original revision of Marxism, and precisely this was their contribution to the birth of the Fascist ideology. (Zeev Sternhell)

      • Existentialism is bourgeois ideology in the hour of its defeat. (Russell Jacoby)

      • The growth of the power of Athens, and the alarm which this inspired in Sparta, made war inevitable. (Thucydides)

      • If you live, live free or die like the trees, standing up. (Mahmoud Darwish)

      • The dictatorship of the proletariat, i.e., the organization of the vanguard of the oppressed as the ruling class for the purpose of suppressing the oppressors, cannot result merely in an expansion of democracy. Simultaneously with an immense expansion of democracy, which for the first time becomes democracy for the poor, democracy for the people, and not democracy for the money-bags, the dictatorship of the proletariat imposes a series of restrictions on the freedom of the oppressors, the exploiters, the capitalists. (Lenin)

      • It is ironic that people of modest means sometimes become conservative out of a scarcity fear bred by the very capitalist system they support. (Michael Parenti)

      • Radical simply means ‘grasping things at the root.’ (Angela Davis)

      • So long as wage-slavery exists, inevitably prostitution too will exist. All the oppressed and exploited classes throughout the history of human societies have always been forced (and it is in this that their exploitation consists) to give up to their oppressors, first, their unpaid labour and, second, their women as concubines for the “masters”. Slavery, feudalism and capitalism are identical in this respect. It is only the form of exploitation that changes; the exploitation itself remains. (Lenin)

      • Today literature, even that published “legally”, can be nine-tenths party literature. It must become party literature In contradistinction to bourgeois customs, to the profit-making, commercialised bourgeois press, to bourgeois literary careerism and individualism, “aristocratic anarchism” and drive for profit, the socialist proletariat must put forward the principle of party literature, must develop this principle and put it into practice as fully and completely as possible. (Lenin)

      • Develop the class struggles. Organize the proletariat. Start the armed resistance! (Gudrun Ensslin)

      • Thus, this war is a war of one set of exploiters against another set of exploiters. It is a war of rival capitalist Great Powers, like the last war: a war for world domination : for the largest share in the exploitation of the world; for possessions, profits, markets and spheres of influence; for the new division of the world. The interests of the working people in all countries are wholly opposed to this conflict of imperialist Powers for world domination, in which the people are sacrificed for the profit of the exploiters. (R. Palme Dutt)

      • This type of struggle provides us with the opportunity to become revolutionaries, the highest level of the human species. At the same time, it enables us to emerge fully as men. (Che Guevara)

      • The greater the wealth the thicker will be the dirt. (John Kenneth Galbraith)

      • You speak of your “devotion” to me. Perhaps it was just a chance phrase. Perhaps. . . . But if the phrase was not accidental I would advise you to discard the “principle” of devotion to persons. It is not the Bolshevik way. Be devoted to the working class, its Party, its state. That is a fine and useful thing. But do not confuse it with devotion to persons, this vain and useless bauble of weak-minded intellectuals. (Stalin)

      • He (Stalin) established unity in the Soviet Union. He consolidated what Lenin had begun: party unity. He gave the international revolutionary movement a new impetus. The USSR’s industrialization was one of Stalin’s wisest actions. (Fidel Castro)

      • Hide nothing from the masses of our people. Tell no lies. Expose lies whenever they are told. Mask no difficulties, mistakes, failures. Claim no easy victories. (Amilcar Cabral)

      • The state is, therefore, by no means a power forced on society from without; just as little is it ’the reality of the ethical idea’, ’the image and reality of reason’, as Hegel maintains. Rather, it is a product of society at a certain stage of development; it is the admission that this society has become entangled in an insoluble contradiction with itself, that it has split into irreconcilable antagonisms which it is powerless to dispel. But in order that these antagonisms, these classes with conflicting economic interests, might not consume themselves and society in fruitless struggle, it became necessary to have a power, seemingly standing above society, that would alleviate the conflict and keep it within the bounds of ’order’; and this power, arisen out of society but placing itself above it, and alienating itself more and more from it, is the state. (Friedrich Engels)

      • The state is a machine for maintaining the rule of one class over another. When there were no classes in society, when, before the epoch of slavery, people laboured in primitive conditions of greater equality, in conditions when the productivity of labour was still at its lowest, and when primitive man could barely procure the wherewithal for the crudest and most primitive existence, a special group of people whose function is to rule and to dominate the rest of society, had not and could not yet have emerged. Only when the first form of the division of society into classes appeared, only when slavery appeared, when a certain class of people, by concentrating on the crudest forms of agricultural labour, could produce a certain surplus, when this surplus was not absolutely essential for the most wretched existence of the slave and passed into the hands of the slave-owner, when in this way the existence of this class of slave-owners was secure—then in order that it might take firm root it was necessary for a state to appear. (Lenin)

      • Labor is a commodity, like any other, and its price is therefore determined by exactly the same laws that apply to other commodities. In a regime of big industry or of free competition – as we shall see, the two come to the same thing – the price of a commodity is, on the average, always equal to its cost of production. Hence, the price of labor is also equal to the cost of production of labor. But, the costs of production of labor consist of precisely the quantity of means of subsistence necessary to enable the worker to continue working, and to prevent the working class from dying out. The worker will therefore get no more for his labor than is necessary for this purpose; the price of labor, or the wage, will, in other words, be the lowest, the minimum, required for the maintenance of life. (Friedrich Engels)

      • Working class women have more in common with working class men than they do with women like Margaret Thatcher and Edwina Currie, because their oppression as women stems from the exploitation which all the working class suffers. Thatcher and Currie are representatives of the exploiting class, whose interests are in direct conflict with the interests of working class men and women. (Eleanor Leacock)

      • Fascism cannot be interpreted in terms of its own alleged political “theories,” but only in terms of its service to finance-capital. (R. Palme Dutt)

      • Principle of the silencing. To silence on the questions on which there are no arguments and to disguise the news that favors the adversary, also counterprogramando with the aid of related media. (Joseph Goebbels)

      • To pay for the arms race the nation has to cut thousands of social programs, … The nation cannot go wild on military expenditures and also afford to care for old people, poor people, disabled people, farmers, or students. (John Stockwell)

      • Official Washington cannot tell the American people that the real purpose of its gargantuan military expenditures and belligerent interventions is to make the world safe for General Motors, General Electric, General Dynamics, and all the other generals. (Michael Parenti)

      • Either materialism consistent to the end, or the falsehood and confusion of philosophical idealism. (Lenin)

      • The bourgeoisie needs hirelings who enjoy the trust of a section of the working class, whitewash and prettify the bourgeoisie with talk about the reformist path being possible, throw dust in the eyes of the people by such talk, and divert the people from revolution by giving glowing descriptions of the charms and possibilities of the reformist path. (Lenin)

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      • The settlement of the Land of Israel is the essence of Zionism. Without settlement, we will not fulfill Zionism. It’s that simple. (Yizhak Shamir)

      • Since 1967 it has become obvious that political Zionism has one monolithic aim: Maximum land in Palestine with a minimum of Palestinians on it. This aim is pursued with an inexcusable cruelty as demonstrated during the assault on Gaza. The cruelty is explicitly formulated in the Dahiye doctrine of the military and morally supported by the Holocaust religion. I am pained by the parallels I observe between my experiences in Germany prior to 1939 and those suffered by Palestinians today. I cannot help but hear echoes of the Nazi mythos of “blood and soil” in the rhetoric of settler fundamentalism which claims a sacred right to all the lands of biblical Judea and Samaria. The various forms of collective punishment visited upon the Palestinian people — coerced ghettoization behind a “security wall”; the bulldozing of homes and destruction of fields; the bombing of schools, mosques, and government buildings; an economic blockade that deprives people of the water, food, medicine, education and the basic necessities for dignified survival — force me to recall the deprivations and humiliations that I experienced in my youth. This century-long process of oppression means unimaginable suffering for Palestinians. (Hajo Meyer)

      • Imperialism is a specific historical stage of capitalism. Its specific character is threefold: imperialism is monopoly capitalism; parasitic, or decaying capitalism; moribund capitalism. The supplanting of free competition by monopoly is the fundamental economic feature, the quintessence of imperialism. Monopoly manifests itself in five principal forms: (1) cartels, syndicates and trusts—the concentration of production has reached a degree which gives rise to these monopolistic associations of capitalists; (2) the monopolistic position of the big banks—three, four or five giant banks manipulate the whole economic life of America, France, Germany; (3) seizure of the sources of raw material by the trusts and the financial oligarchy (finance capital is monopoly industrial capital merged with bank capital); (4) the (economic) partition of the world by the international cartels has begun. There are already over one hundred such international cartels, which command the entire world market and divide it “amicably” among themselves—until war redivides it. The export of capital, as distinct from the export of commodities under non-monopoly capitalism, is a highly characteristic phenomenon and is closely linked with the economic and territorial-political partition of the world; (5) the territorial partition of the world (colonies) is completed. (Lenin)

      • Ur-Fascism can come back under the most innocent of disguises. Our duty is to uncover it and point the finger at any of its new instances — every day and in every part of the world. (Umberto Eco)

      • Who are the people? At the present stage in China, they are the working class, the peasantry, the urban petty bourgeoisie and the national bourgeoisie. These classes, led by the working class and the Communist Party, unite to form their own state and elect their own government; they enforce their dictatorship over the running dogs of imperialism — the landlord class and bureaucrat-bourgeoisie, as well as the representatives of those classes, the Kuomintang reactionaries and their accomplices — suppress them, allow them only to behave themselves and not to be unruly in word or deed. If they speak or act in an unruly way, they will be promptly stopped and punished. Democracy is practiced within the ranks of the people, who enjoy the rights of freedom of speech, assembly, association and so on. The right to vote belongs only to the people, not to the reactionaries. The combination of these two aspects, democracy for the people and dictatorship over the reactionaries, is the people’s democratic dictatorship. (Mao Zedong)

      • The proletarian woman fights hand in hand with the man of her class against capitalist society. (Clara Zetkin)

      • Since trade ignores national boundaries and the manufacturer insists on having the world as a market, the flag of his nation must follow him, and the doors of the nations which are closed must be battered down… Concessions obtained by financiers must be safeguarded by ministers of state, even if the sovereignty of unwilling nations be outraged in the process. Colonies must be obtained or planted, in order that no useful corner of the world may be overlooked or left unused. (Thomas Woodrow Wilson)

      • It is sometimes possible to change the attitudes of millions but impossible to change the attitude of one man. (Edward Bernays)

      • The engineering of consent is the very essence of the democratic process, the freedom to persuade and suggest. (Edward Bernays)

      • Bourgeois society is continually producing politicians who love to assert they belong to no class, and opportunists who love to call themselves socialists, both of whom deliberately and systematically deceive the masses with the most florid and “radical” words. In times of crisis, however even well-meaning participants therein very often reveal a discrepancy between word and deed. The great and progressive significance of all crises, even the gravest, most arduous and painful, lies in the tremendous speed, force and clarity with which they expose and sweep aside rotten phrases, even if well meaning, and rotten institutions even if they are built on the best of intentions. (Lenin)

      • The workers have taken it into their heads that they, with their busy hands, are the necessary, and the rich capitalists, who do nothing, the surplus population. (Friedrich Engels)

      • The world as we have created it is a process of our thinking. It cannot be changed without changing our thinking. (Albert Einstein)

      • Principle of simplification and the single enemy. Adopt a single idea, a single Symbol; Individualizing the adversary into a single enemy. (Joseph Goebbels)

      • In Petrograd, here in Moscow, and in other cities and industrial centres, proletarian women showed up splendidly during the revolution. We would not have won without them, or hardly. That is my opinion. What courage they showed and how courageous they still are! (Lenin)

      • I found that the period of Soviet history with Stalin at the head has been completely distorted. Not just ‘a mistake here and there’, but basically a massive fraud, the biggest lie of the century. (Grover Furr)

      • The dictatorship of the proletariat, the transition from capitalism to communism, must not be regarded as a fleeting period of “super-revolutionary” acts and decrees, but as an entire historical era, replete with civil wars and external conflicts, with persistent organisational work and economic construction, with advances and retreats, victories and defeats. (Stalin)

      • If the abuse be enormous, nature will rise up, and claiming her original rights, overturn a corrupt political system. (Thomas Jefferson)

      • Advocates of capitalism are very apt to appeal to the sacred principles of liberty, which are embodied in one maxim: The fortunate must not be restrained in the exercise of tyranny over the unfortunate. (Bertrand Russell)

      • A revolution is not a dinner party, or writing an essay, or painting a picture, or doing embroidery. A revolution is an insurrection, an act of violence by which one class overthrows another. (Mao Zedong)

      • No matter that patriotism is too often the refuge of scoundrels. Dissent, rebellion, and all-around hell-raising remain the true duty of patriots. (Barbara Ehrenreich)

      • We are here, not because we are law-breakers; we are here in our efforts to become law-makers. (Emmeline Pankhurst)

      • A revolution is not a trail of roses.… A revolution is a fight to the death between the future and the past. (Fidel Castro)

      • The most heroic word in all languages is REVOLUTION. (Eugene V. Debs)

      • Fascism is capitalism in decay. (Lenin)

      • But every class struggle is a political struggle. (Karl Marx)

      • Freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed. (Martin Luther King, Jr.)

      • Our freedom must be had at all hazards. If the men of property will not help us they must fall. (Wolfe Tone)

      • An oppressed people are authorized whenever they can to rise and break their fetters. (Henry Clay)

      • To tell the truth is revolutionary. (Gramsci)

      • A conservative is a man who is too cowardly to fight and too fat to run. (Elbert Hubbard)

      • If you stop struggling, then you stop life. (Huey P. Newton)

      • The privileged class can never be overturned peacefully. (Johann Most)

      • I think what motivates people is not great hate, but great love for other people. (Huey P. Newton)

      • Historically, the most terrible things – war, genocide, and slavery – have resulted not from disobedience, but from obedience. (Howard Zinn)

      • Dignify and glorify common labor. It is at the bottom of life that we must begin, not at the top. (Booker T. Washington)

      • The cost of liberty is less than the price of repression. (W. E. B. Du Bois)

      • Our homeland is the whole world. Our law is liberty. We have but one thought, revolution in our hearts. (Dario Fo)

      • Revolutions are brought about by men, by men who think as men of action and act as men of thought. (Kwame Nkrumah)

      • Bourgeois democracy is democracy of pompous phrases, solemn words, exuberant promises and the high-sounding slogans of freedom and equality. But, in fact, it screens the non-freedom and inferiority of women, the non-freedom and inferiority of the toilers and exploited. (Lenin)

      • Unthinking respect for authority is the greatest enemy of truth. (Albert Einstein)

      • Talk of imminent threat to our national security through the application of external force is pure nonsense. Indeed it is part of the general pattern of misguided policy that our country is now geared to an arms economy which was bred in an artificially induced psychosis of war hysteria and nurtured upon an incessant propaganda of fear. (General Douglas MacArthur)

      • The bourgeoisie are today evading taxation by bribery and through their connections; we must close all loopholes. (Lenin)

      • It is weakness rather than wickedness which renders men unfit to be trusted with unlimited power. (John Adams)

      • We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark. The real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light. (Plátōn)

      • When men are able to influence so many others through their life and their example, they do not die. (Aleida Guevara March)

      • Great spirits have often encountered violent opposition from weak minds. (Albert Einstein)

      • A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and carries his banner openly. But the traitor moves amongst those within the gate freely, his sly whispers rustling through all the alleys, heard in the very halls of government itself. For the traitor appears not a traitor; he speaks in accents familiar to his victims, and he wears their face and their arguments, he appeals to the baseness that lies deep in the hearts of all men. He rots the soul of a nation, he works secretly and unknown in the night to undermine the pillars of the city, he infects the body politic so that it can no longer resist. A murderer is less to fear. (Marcus Tullius Cicero)

      • In America, the criminally insane rule and the rest of us, or the vast majority of the rest of us, either do not care, do not know, or are distracted and properly brainwashed into acquiescence. (Kurt Nimmo)

      • The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary. (Henry Louis Mencken)

      • Unless you become more watchful in your States and check this spirit of monopoly and thirst for exclusive privileges you will in the end find that the most important powers of Government have been given or bartered away, and the control of your dearest interests have been passed into the hands of these corporations. (Andrew Jackson)

      • Believe nothing, no matter where you read it, or who said it, no matter if I have said it, unless it agrees with your own reason and your own common sense. (Siddhārtha Gautama)

      • There is nothing worse than aggressive stupidity. (Goethe)

      • Government is not reason, it is not eloquence, it is force; like fire, a troublesome servant and a fearful master. Never for a moment should it be left to irresponsible action. (George Washington)

      • The people never give up their liberties but under some delusion. (Edmund Burke)

      • War is the continuation of Politik by other means. (Carl von Clausewitz)

      • If we put our trust in the common sense of common men and ‘with malice toward none and charity for all’ go forward on the great adventure of making political, economic and social democracy a practical reality, we shall not fail. (Henry A. Wallace)

      • The myth of fascist efficiency has deluded many people. (Henry A. Wallace)

      • The world became more aware that America-despite being the hope of many who have the personal drive and ambition to become part of the “American dream”-is beset by serious operational challenges: a massive and growing national debt, widening social inequality, a cornucopian culture that worships materialism, a financial system given to greedy speculation, and a polarized political system. (Zbigniew Brzezinski)

      • The guerrilla wins if he does not lose. The conventional army loses if it does not win. (Henry Kissinger)

      • A popular method always used by the bourgeois press in every country with unerring effect is to lie, scream, raise a hullabaloo, and keep on reiterating lies on the off-chance that “something may stick”. (Lenin)

      • … the most formidable military machine depends ultimately on the obedience of its soldiers, … the most powerful corporation becomes helpless when its workers stop working, when its customers refuse to buy its products. The strike, the boycott, the refusal to serve, the ability to paralyze the functioning of a complex social structure-these remain potent weapons against the most fearsome state or corporate power. (Howard Zinn)

      • One does not have to be a Marxist to know there is something very wrong in this society. (Michael Parenti)

      • Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without feminine upheaval. (Karl Marx)

      • In the 1950s and 1960s we put several thousand nuclear weapons into Europe. To be sure, we had no precise idea of what to do with them. (Henry Kissinger)

      • Democracy cannot consist solely of elections that are nearly always fictitious and managed by rich landowners and professional politicians. (Che Guevara)

      • Not even the dead can rest in peace in an oppressed country. (Fidel Castro)

      • There is something behind the throne greater than the King himself. (Sir William Pitt)

      • And one day we must ask the question, ‘Why are there forty million poor people in America? And when you begin to ask that question, you are raising questions about the economic system, about a broader distribution of wealth.’ When you ask that question, you begin to question the capitalistic economy. And I’m simply saying that more and more, we’ve got to begin to ask questions about the whole society. (Martin Luther King, Jr.)

      • So long as the state exists there is no freedom. When there is freedom, there will be no state. (Lenin)

      • If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of their currency, first by inflation, then by deflation, the banks and corporations that will grow up around them will deprive the people of all property until their children wake up homeless on the continent their Fathers conquered… I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies… The issuing power should be taken from the banks and restored to the people, to whom it properly belongs. (Thomas Jefferson)

      • The bourgeois intellectuals, including the Mensheviks and Socialist-Revolutionaries, are true to themselves in serving capital and in continuing to use absolutely false arguments. (Lenin)

      • Aside from the few who have jobs or professions, the women of the bourgeoisie do not take part in social production. They are nothing but co-consumers of the surplus value their men extort from the proletariat. They are parasites of the parasites of the social body. And consumers are usually even more rabid and cruel in defending their “right” to a parasite’s life than the direct agents of class rule and exploitation. The history of all great revolutionary struggles confirms this in a horrible way. Take the great French Revolution. After the fall of the Jacobins, when Robespierre was driven in chains to the place of execution the naked whores of the victory-drunk bourgeoisie danced in the streets, danced a shameless dance of joy around the fallen hero of the Revolution. And in 1871, in Paris, when the heroic workers’ Commune was defeated by machine guns, the raving bourgeois females surpassed even their bestial men in their bloody revenge against the suppressed proletariat. The women of the property-owning classes will always fanatically defend the exploitation and enslavement of the working people by which they indirectly receive the means for their socially useless existence. (Rosa Luxemburg)

      • Won’t let anyone speak badly of Stalin. Russia, today is still living on borrowed time thanks to his vision. (Daniel Estulin)

      • The working class must first take possession of the organised political power of the state and by its aid crush the resistance of the capitalist class and organise society anew. (Friedrich Engels)

      • The state is the executive committee of the ruling class. (Karl Marx)

      • American capitalism, based as it is on exploitation of the poor, with its fundamental motivation in personal greed, simply cannot survive without force – without a secret police force. Now, more than ever, each of us is forced to make a conscious choice whether to support the system of minority comfort and privilege with all its security apparatus and repression, or whether to struggle for real equality of opportunity and fair distribution of benefits for all of society, in the domestic as well as the international order. It’s harder now not to realize that there are two sides, harder not to understand each, and harder not to recognize that like it or not we contribute day in and day out either to the one side or to the other. (Philip Agee)

      • We in the West must bear in mind that the poor countries are poor primarily because we have exploited them through political or economic colonialism. (Martin Luther King, Jr.)

      • … the United States [is] cast in the role of Praetorian Guard, protecting the interests of the global financial order against fractious elements in the Third World. (John Stockwell)

      • A cynical, mercenary, demagogic press will produce in time a people as base as itself. (Joseph Pulitzer)

      • An elective despotism was not the government we fought for. (Thomas Jefferson)

      • It does not require a majority to prevail, but rather an irate, tireless minority keen to set brush fires in people’s minds. (Samuel Adams)

      • There exists a shadowy Government with its own Air Force, its own Navy, its own fundraising mechanism, and the ability to pursue its own ideas of national interest, free from all checks and balances, and free from the law itself. (Daniel K. Inouye)

      • If they do it it’s terrorism, if we do it, it’s fighting for freedom. (Anthony Quainton)

      • It is not power that corrupts but fear. The fear of losing power corrupts those who wield it, and fear of the scourge of power corrupts those who are subject to it. (Aung San Suu Kyi)

      • When do these corporations begin to lose their credibility? They fought Social Security, Medicare, auto safety. They fought every social justice movement in this country. (Ralph Nader)

      • It is only when a society shares caring values that its people can feel secure. (Michael Lerner)

      • The smart way to keep people passive and obedient is to strictly limit the spectrum of acceptable opinion, but allow very lively debate within that spectrum – even encourage the more critical and dissident views. That gives people the sense that there’s free thinking going on, while all the time the presuppositions of the system are being reinforced by the limits put on the range of the debate. (Noam Chomsky)

      • We are witnessing an unprecedented transfer of power from people and their governments to global institutions whose allegiance is to abstract free-market principle, and whose favored citizens are soulless corporate entities that have the power to shape and break nations. (Joel Bleifuss)

      • I’ve been around the ruling class all my life, and I’ve been quite aware of their total contempt for the people of the country. (Gore Vidal)

      • For us there is no valid definition of socialism other than the abolition of the exploitation of one human being by another. (Che Guevara)

      • Red Rosa now has vanished too. Where she lies is hid from view. She told the poor what life is about. And so now the rich have rubbed her out. (Epitaph 1919 – poem about Luxemburg after she was killed by right-wing death squads in 1919) (Bertolt Brecht)

      • You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you can not fool all of the people all of the time. (Abraham Lincoln)

      • Inequality can be done away with only by establishing a new society, where men and women will enjoy equal rights…Thus, the status of women will improve only with the elimination of the system that exploits them. (Thomas Sankara)

      • The unsuspecting Britons spoke of such novelties as ‘civilisation,’ when in fact they were only a feature of their enslavement. (Cornelius Tacitus)

      • It is perhaps difficult for white South Africans, with an ingrained prejudice against communism, to understand why experienced African politicians so readily accept communists as their friends. But to us the reason is obvious. Theoretical differences, amongst those fighting against oppression, is a luxury which cannot be afforded. What is more, for many decades communists were the only political group in South Africa who were prepared to treat Africans as human beings and as their equals; who were prepared to eat with us; talk with us, live with us, and work with us. They were the only political group which was prepared to work with the Africans for the attainment of political rights and a stake in society. Because of this, there are many Africans who today tend to equate freedom with communism. (Nelson Mandela)

      • Kautsky has made increasingly rapid progress in this art of being a Marxist in words and a lackey of the bourgeoisie in deeds, until he has become a virtuoso at it. (Lenin)

      • A revolution not guided by a correct idea, theory and method is doomed to go off course and wander like a ship without a compass. (Kim Jong-il)

      • 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. (Issac Don Levine)

      • I could have gone on flying through space forever. (Yuri Gagarin)

      • Paper money eventually returns to its intrinsic value: zero. (Voltaire)

      • In the form that it emerged at the turn of the century and developed in the 1920s and 1930s, the fascist ideology represented a synthesis of organic nationalism with the antimaterialist revision of Marxism. (Zeev Sternhell)

      • If by free market one means a market that is autonomous and spontaneous, free from political controls, then there is no such thing as a free market at all. It is simply a myth. (Antonio Negri)

      • To fasten on the facts while forgetting the social content is to fall prey to a mystifying immediacy. In an antagonistic society, appearance and essence, immediacy and mediacy, diverge; things are not what they seem to be. (Russell Jacoby)

      • The process by which banks create money is so simple that the mind is repelled. (John Kenneth Galbraith)

      • The so-called Great Powers have long been exploiting and enslaving a whole number of small and weak nations. And the imperialist war is a war for the division and redivision of this kind of booty. (Lenin)

      • We say: our aim is to achieve a socialist system of society, which, by eliminating the division of mankind into classes, by eliminating all exploitation of man by man and nation by nation, will inevitably eliminate the very possibility of war. (Lenin)

      • They cripple the bird’s wing, and then condemn it for not flying as fast as they. (Malcolm X)

      • Marxism is always moving, is always growing. It is the exact opposite of a ready-made, fixed body of dogmas as its enemies always present it. It cannot be that because it is an interpretation of the real world. The real world is always changing and moving, and therefore the theory has always to develop with the development of the real world. Marxism can never stand still. (R. Palme Dutt)

      • Trotsky’s “permanent revolution” was a project of the British Empire. (Daniel Estulin)

      • Look at the history of the revolutionary movement, and you will find more than one connection between imperialism and those who take positions that appear to be on the extreme left. (Fidel Castro)

      • You have to make clear that it’s social democratic bullshit to claim that imperialism along with all the Neubauers and Westmorelands, Bonn, the senate, the State Youth Welfare Office and district offices, that the whole filth can be undermined, duped, overpowered, intimidated, and eliminated without a fight. Make it clear that the revolution will not be an Easter stroll. (Gudrun Ensslin)

      • [The] Soviet government is the expression of the most complete and most fully developed democracy. At the same time, it is the expression of the dictatorship of the working class, which secures the very possibility of democracy for the people. Soviet democracy and proletarian dictatorship are two aspects of one and the same phenomenon. (Andrei Yanuaryevich Vyshinsky)

      • Why can the rulers of the most advanced “civilised” capitalist states offer to the people nothing but unlimited barbarism, destruction, economic chaos, spreading famine and disease, terror and slaughter? (R. Palme Dutt)

      • For all arms with which to fight must be drawn from society as it is and the fatal conditions of this struggle have the misfortune of not being easily adapted to the idealistic fantasies which these doctors in social science have exalted as divinities, under the names of Freedom, Autonomy, Anarchy. (Karl Marx)

      • And the most important thing in all this is that Social-Democracy is the main channel of imperialist pacifism within the working class — consequently, it is capitalism’s main support among the working class in preparing for new wars and intervention. (Stalin)

      • The powers of financial capitalism had a far-reaching (plan), nothing less than to create a world system of financial control in private hands able to dominate the political system of each country and the economy of the world as a whole. (Carroll Quigley)

      • When goods do not cross borders, soldiers will. (Frédéric Bastiat)

      • When the modern corporation acquires power over markets, power in the community, power over the state and power over belief, it is a political instrument, different in degree but not in kind from the state itself. To hold otherwise — to deny the political character of the modern corporation — is not merely to avoid the reality. It is to disguise the reality. The victims of that disguise are those we instruct in error. The beneficiaries are the institutions whose power we so disguise. Let there be no question: economics, so long as it is thus taught, becomes, however unconsciously, a part of the arrangement by which the citizen or student is kept from seeing how he or she is, or will be, governed. (John Kenneth Galbraith)

      • For it was after Stalin that the Russian state began to fall into its present state of decay. (Huey P. Newton)

      • Fascism aims at the most unbridled exploitation of the masses, but it approaches them with the most artful anti-capitalist demagogy, taking advantage of the deep hatred of the working people against the plundering bourgeoisie, the banks, trusts and financial magnates, and advancing those slogans which at the given moment are most alluring to the politically immature masses. (Georgi Dimitrov)

      • Homeland or death! Socialism or death! We shall overcome! (Fidel Castro)

      • Central to all the disquisitions of the self-determination opponents is the claim that it is generally “unachievable” under capitalism or imperialism. (Lenin)

      • The cause of Communism is the greatest cause in the history of mankind, because it seeks to remove from society all forms of oppression and exploitation to liberate mankind, and to ensure peace and prosperity to all. (Nelson Mandela)

      • To become the ruling class and defeat the bourgeoisie for good the proletariat must be schooled, because the skill this implies does not come ready-made. The proletariat must do its learning in the struggle, and stubborn, desperate struggle in earnest is the only meal teacher. The greater the extremes of the exploiters’ resistance, the more vigorously, firmly, ruthlessly and successfully will they be suppressed by the exploited. The more varied the exploiters’ attempts to uphold the old, the sooner will the proletariat learn to ferret out its enemies from their last nook and corner, to pull up the roots of their domination, and cut the very ground which could (and had to) breed wage-slavery, mass poverty and the profiteering and effrontery of the money-bags. (Lenin)

      • Socialism or barbarism! (Rosa Luxemburg)

      • This vagueness and ambiguity of conventional common places to describe its basic aims is not accidental in Fascism, but inherent and inevitable. This terminology is the standard vague and deceitful terminology of all capitalist parties to cover the realities of class-rule and class-exploitation under empty phrases of “the community,” “the national welfare,” “the State above classes,” etc. (R. Palme Dutt)

      • Principle of renewal. It is necessary to constantly issue new information and arguments at a rate such that when the adversary responds the public is already interested in something else. The adversary’s responses should never be able to counteract the increasing level of accusations. (Joseph Goebbels)

      • The British ruling class are not fighting to liberate the people of Europe from fascism and reaction. They have always been, for a century and a-half, the main stranglers of every popular revolution in every country. The war aims of Churchill, for which the British workers; are asked to die, are the war aims of British imperialism; to protect and maintain the domination of the British Empire over a-quarter of the world; to smash the rival German imperialism and inflict a new super-Versailles; to maintain the reactionary interests of capitalist class rule against the world Socialist Revolution. There is nothing they fear more than a real popular revolution in Europe, which they know would lead to the victory of Socialism. (R. Palme Dutt)

      • Thereby I state that we are extremely interested in not letting eastern nations unite. On the contrary, we must spit them into small groups and branches. As for separate nations, we are not going to allow them to get closer and bigger, let alone allowing them to cultivate the sense of national identity and culture. Quite the contrary, we are concerned with splintering them into numerous small groups… (Heinrich Himmler)

      • If you throw a stone, it’s a crime. If a thousand stones are thrown, that’s political. If you set fire to a car it’s a crime; if a hundred cars are set on fire that’s political. (Ulrike Meinhof)

      • Politics is the entertainment branch of industry. (Frank Zappa)

      • I must add further that no programme is worthy the acceptance of the working classes that stops short of the abolition of private property in the means of production. Any other programme is misleading and dishonest… (William Morris)

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      • I don’t believe in charity. I believe in solidarity. Charity is so vertical. It goes from the top to the bottom. Solidarity is horizontal. It respects the other person. I have a lot to learn from other people. (Eduardo Galeano)

      • The problem of Trotskyism is not a struggle between tendencies within the Chinese Communist Party, for between communists and Trotskyists there is no link, absolutely not one link: It is a question that concerns the entire people: the struggle against the Fatherland. (Ho Chi Minh)

      • The alternatives that confront humanity to-day are serious enough; but they are alternatives of the destruction and anarchy of capitalism, involving still greater poverty and misery in the midst of abundance and rising productive power, or the social organisation of production, bringing abundance for all. The “overpopulation” (like the simultaneous “overproduction”) is only relative to the capitalist conditions of production. (R. Palme Dutt)

      • When the bourgeoisie sees power slipping from its grasp, it has recourse to fascism to maintain itself. (Durruti)

      • Anarchism is a product of despair. The psychology of the unsettled intellectual or the vagabond and not of the proletarian. (Lenin)

      • Anarchism is bourgeois individualism in reverse. Individualism as the basis of the entire anarchist world outlook. (Lenin)

      • It has been my endeavour to show in this work that a fall of wages would have no other effect than to raise profits. (David Ricardo)

      • The sole “property” of matter with whose recognition philosophical materialism is bound up is the property of being an objective reality, of existing outside the mind. (Lenin)

      • Our democracy is but a name. We vote? What does that mean? It means that we choose between two bodies of real, though not avowed, autocrats. We choose between Tweedledum and Tweedledee.… (Helen Keller)

      • To determine the true rulers of any society, all you must do is ask yourself this question: Who is it that I am not permitted to criticize? (Kevin Alfred Strom)

      • Unhappy is the land that needs a hero. (Bertolt Brecht)

      • You no doubt know that the greatest part of this victory was achieved by the Soviet people, by the people who live in the republics of the former Soviet Union. Unfortunately, we used to believe that the 20th century was the bloodiest, but we now see in the 21st century a new danger to humanity in the form of terrorism. (Bashar al-Assad)

      • There has been Anti-Semitism, the Nazis, Hitler, Auschwitz, but was that their fault? They see but one thing: we have come and we have stolen their country. Why would they accept that? (David Ben Gurion)

      • An unjust law is itself a species of violence. (Mahatma Gandhi)

      • Pray for the dead and fight like hell for the living. (Mary Harris (Mother) Jones)

      • Every act of rebellion expresses a nostalgia for innocence and an appeal to the essence of being. (Camus)

      • Even a purely moral act that has no hope of any immediate and visible political effect can gradually and indirectly, over time, gain in political significance. (Vaclav Havel)

      • A riot is the language of the unheard. (Martin Luther King, Jr.)

      • Standing up for your rights does not make you a radical, it makes you a human being. (Tupac Shakur)

      • Above all, what socialist, without flushing with shame, maintains he is not a revolutionary? We say: none! (Johann Most)

      • When dictatorship is a fact, revolution becomes a right. (Victor Hugo)

      • I was born in revolution. (Mary Harris (Mother) Jones)

      • If nothing is left, one must scream, because silence is the biggest crime against humanity. (Nadezhda Mandelstam)

      • One of the symptoms of revolution is the sudden increase in the number of ordinary people who take an active interest in politics. (Lenin)

      • We cannot be sure of having something to live for unless we are willing to die for it. (Che Guevara)

      • First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win. (Mahatma Gandhi)

      • The king must die so that the country can live. (Robespierre)

      • To love without role, without power plays, is revolution. (Rita Mae Brown)

      • A right delayed is a right denied. (Martin Luther King, Jr.)

      • A man who has nothing for which he is willing to fight is a miserable creature. (John Stuart Mill)

      • The most potent weapon in the hands of the oppressor is the mind of the oppressed. (Steve Biko)

      • The spirit of revolution will not die while the hearts of these workers continue to beat. (Ernst Toller)

      • He is no revolutionist who would have the revolution of the proletariat only under the “condition” that it proceed smoothly. (Tchernychewski)

      • We know the road to freedom has always been stalked by death. (Angela Davis)

      • Democracy for an insignificant minority, democracy for the rich – that is the democracy of capitalist society. If we look more closely into the machinery of capitalist democracy, we see everywhere, in the “petty” – supposedly petty – details of the suffrage (residential qualifications, exclusion of women, etc.), in the technique of the representative institutions, in the actual obstacles to the right of assembly (public buildings are not for “paupers”!), in the purely capitalist organization of the daily press, etc., etc., – we see restriction after restriction upon democracy. These restrictions, exceptions, exclusions, obstacles for the poor seem slight, especially in the eyes of one who has never known want himself and has never been in close contact with the oppressed classes in their mass life (and nine out of 10, if not 99 out of 100, bourgeois publicists and politicians come under this category); but in their sum total these restrictions exclude and squeeze out the poor from politics, from active participation in democracy. (Lenin)

      • So long as the people do not care to exercise their freedom, those who wish to tyrannize will do so; for tyrants are active and ardent, and will devote themselves in the name of any number of gods, religious and otherwise, to put shackles upon sleeping men. (Voltaire)

      • I am a firm believer in the people. If given the truth, they can be depended upon to meet any national crisis. The great point is to bring them the real facts. (Abraham Lincoln)

      • In politics, nothing happens by accident, if it happens, you can be sure we planned it that way. (Franklin D. Roosevelt)

      • People who shut their eyes to reality simply invite their own destruction. (James Baldwin)

      • You can cut all the flowers but you cannot keep spring from coming. (Pablo Neruda)

      • That there are men in all countries who get their living by war, and by keeping up the quarrels of nations, is as shocking as it is true; but when those who are concerned in the government of a country, make it their study to sow discord, and cultivate prejudices between nations, it becomes the more unpardonable. The Rights of Man”, circa 1792 (Thomas Paine)

      • When the tyrant has disposed of foreign enemies by conquest or treaty, and there is nothing to fear from them, then he is always stirring up some war or other, in order that the people may require a leader. (Plátōn)

      • A nation of sheep will beget a government of wolves. (Edward R. Murrow)

      • If our nation is ever taken over, it will be taken over from within. (James Madison)

      • Of all the enemies to public liberty war is, perhaps, the most to be dreaded, because it comprises and develops the germ of every other. War is the parent of armies; from these proceed debts and taxes; and armies, and debts, and taxes are the known instruments for bringing the many under the domination of the few. In war, too, the discretionary power of the Executive is extended; its influence in dealing out offices, honors, and emoluments is multiplied; and all the means of seducing the minds, are added to those of subduing the force, of the people. The same malignant aspect in republicanism may be traced in the inequality of fortunes, and the opportunities of fraud, growing out of a state of war, and in the degeneracy of manners and of morals engendered by both. No nation could preserve its freedom in the midst of continual warfare. (James Madison)

      • The ideal tyranny is that which is ignorantly self-administered by its victims. The most perfect slaves are, therefore, those which blissfully and unawaredly enslave themselves. (Dresden James)

      • Money has no motherland; financiers are without patriotism and without decency; their sole object is gain. (Napoléon Bonaparte)

      • All murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets. (Voltaire)

      • All war is based on deception. (Sun Tzu)

      • All the promises of the free market have turned out to be lies. (Chris Hedges)

      • If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich. (JFK)

      • If we define an American fascist as one who in case of conflict puts money and power ahead of human beings, then there are undoubtedly several million fascists in the United States. (Henry A. Wallace)

      • Another threat, less overt but no less basic, confronts liberal democracy. More directly linked to the impact of technology, it involves the gradual appearance of a more controlled and directed society. Such a society would be dominated by an elite whose claim to political power would rest on allegedly superior scientific knowhow. Unhindered by the restraints of traditional liberal values, this elite would not hesitate to achieve its political ends by using the latest modern techniques for influencing public behavior and keeping society under close surveillance and control. Under such circumstances, the scientific and technological momentum of the country would not be reversed but would actually feed on the situation it exploits. (Zbigniew Brzezinski)

      • The obvious types of American fascists are dealt with on the air and in the press. These demagogues and stooges are fronts for others. Dangerous as these people may be, they are not so significant as thousands of other people who have never been mentioned. (Henry A. Wallace)

      • Materialism is the recognition of “objects in themselves”, or outside the mind; ideas and sensations are copies of images of those objects. (Lenin)

      • The one who follows the crowd will usually get no further than the crowd. The one who walks alone is likely to find himself in places no one has ever been. (Albert Einstein)

      • Rich men and crooks are two sides of the same coin, two of the main elements nourished by capitalism. (Lenin)

      • The friends of peace in bourgeois circles believe that world peace and disarmament can be realised within the frame-work of the present social order, whereas we, who base ourselves on the materialistic conception of history and on scientific socialism, are convinced that militarism can only be abolished from the world with the destruction of the capitalist class state. (Rosa Luxemburg)

      • A single factory, potentially capable of supplying a whole continent with its particular product, cannot afford to wait until the public asks for its product; it must maintain constant touch, through advertising and propaganda, with the vast public in order to assure itself the continuous demand which alone will make its costly plant profitable. (Edward Bernays)

      • Inside of many liberals is a fascist struggling to get out. (John McCarthy)

      • So you have two types of Negro. The old type and the new type. Most of you know the old type. When you read about him in history during slavery he was called “Uncle Tom.” He was the house Negro. And during slavery you had two Negroes. You had the house Negro and the field Negro. The house Negro usually lived close to his master. He dressed like his master. He wore his master’s second-hand clothes. He ate food that his master left on the table. And he lived in his master’s house–probably in the basement or the attic–but he still lived in the master’s house. So whenever that house Negro identified himself, he always identified himself in the same sense that his master identified himself. When his master said, “We have good food, ” the house Negro would say, “Yes, we have plenty of good food.” “We” have plenty of good food. When the master said that “we have a fine home here, ” the house Negro said, “Yes, we have a fine home here.” When the master would be sick, the house Negro identified himself so much with his master he’d say, “What’s the matter boss, we sick?” His master’s pain was his pain. And it hurt him more for his master to be sick than for him to be sick himself. When the house started burning down, that type of Negro would fight harder to put the master’s house out than the master himself would. But then you had another Negro out in the field. The house Negro was in the minority. The masses–the field Negroes were the masses. They were in the majority. When the master got sick, they prayed that he’d die. [Laughter] If his house caught on fire, they’d pray for a wind to come along and fan the breeze. If someone came to the house Negro and said, “Let’s go, let’s separate, ” naturally that Uncle Tom would say, “Go where? What could I do without boss? Where would I live? How would I dress? Who would look out for me?” That’s the house Negro. But if you went to the field Negro and said, “Let’s go, let’s separate, ” he wouldn’t even ask you where or how. He’d say, “Yes, let’s go.” And that one ended right there. (Malcolm X)

      • To fight against the impossible and win. (Fidel Castro)

      • Everybody has to move, run and grab as many (Palestinian) hilltops as they can to enlarge the (Jewish) settlements because everything we take now will stay ours…Everything we don’t grab will go to them. (Ariel Sharon)

      • The more numerous the laws, the more corrupt the government. (Cornelius Tacitus)

      • In the so called mistakes of Stalin lies the difference between a revolutionary attitude and a revisionist attitude. You have to look at Stalin in the historical context in which he moves, you don’t have to look at him as some kind of brute, but in that particular historical context. I have come to communism because of daddy Stalin and nobody must come and tell me that I mustn’t read Stalin. I read him when it was very bad to read him. That was another time. And because I’m not very bright, and a hard-headed person, I keep on reading him. Especially in this new period, now that it is worse to read him. Then, as well as now, I still find a Seri of things that are very good. (Che Guevara)

      • Now, to balance the scale, I’d like to talk about some things that bring us together, things that point out our similarities instead of our differences. ‘Cause that’s all you ever hear about in this country. It’s our differences. That’s all the media and the politicians are ever talking about—the things that separate us, things that make us different from one another. That’s the way the ruling class operates in any society. They try to divide the rest of the people. They keep the lower and the middle classes fighting with each other so that they, the rich, can run off with all the fucking money! Fairly simple thing. Happens to work. You know? Anything different—that’s what they’re gonna talk about—race, religion, ethnic and national background, jobs, income, education, social status, sexuality, anything they can do to keep us fighting with each other, so that they can keep going to the bank! You know how I define the economic and social classes in this country? The upper class keeps all of the money, pays none of the taxes. The middle class pays all of the taxes, does all of the work. The poor are there just to scare the shit out of the middle class. Keep ’em showing up at those jobs. (George Carlin)

      • You will burn in Hell for thousands of migrants from Africa and for supporting Al-Qaeda. (Muammar Gaddafi)

      • That white person you see calling himself a liberal is the most dangerous thing in the western hemisphere…he’s like a fox. (Malcolm X)

      • The big lie about capitalism is that everyone can be rich. That’s impossible. Capitalism works only if the vast majority of the population are kept poor enough to never quit working, are kept poor enough to accept distasteful jobs society cannot function without. If everyone were a millionaire, who would empty the trash or repair the sewers? It follows that the poorer the general population is made, the greater the worth of the money held by the wealthy, in terms of the lives which may be bought and sold with it. (Michael Rivero)

      • By the later years of the Reagan regime, a preferred nomenclature suited to U.S. interests became standardized for the Third World. In the case of nations to be rolled back (e.g., Nicaragua), governments were called terrorist and the insurgents were labeled democratic. In the case of countries to be supported against “communist” insurgencies (e.g., El Salvador and the Philippines), the governments were called democratic and the insurgents were labeled terrorists. (Thomas Bodenheimer)

      • Death squads have been created and used by the CIA around the world – particularly the Third World – since the late 1940s, a fact ignored by the elite-owned media. (Ralph McGehee)

      • We must use terror, assassination, intimidation, land confiscation, and the cutting of all social services to rid the Galilee of its Arab population. (Israel Koenig)

      • Americans are so enamored of equality that they would rather be equal in slavery than unequal in freedom. (Alexis de Tocqueville)

      • U.S. Naval psychologists specially selected men for these commando tasks from submarine crews, paratroops, and some convicted murderers were being released from prisons to become assassins. (Thomas Narut)

      • Authoritarian government required to speak, is silent…Representative government required to speak, LIES with impunity. (Napoléon Bonaparte)

      • The first casualty of war is truth. (Rudyard Kipling)

      • The modern liberal state … often uses deception to gain its ends — not so much deception of the foreign enemy, but of its own citizens, who have been taught to trust their leaders. (Howard Zinn)

      • … U. S. business wants a “favorable climate of investment” abroad, and … military regimes that will crush labor unions and otherwise serve foreign business meet that demand. (Edward Herman)

      • With unfailing consistancy, U.S. intervention has been on the side of the rich and powerful of various nations at the expense of the poor and needy. Rather than strengthening democracies, U.S. leaders have overthrown numerous democratically elected governments or other populist regimes in dozens of countries … whenever these nations give evidence of putting the interests of their people ahead of the interests of multinational corporate interests. (Michael Parenti)

      • U.S. Ieaders commit war crimes as a matter of institutional necessity, as their imperial role calls for keeping subordinate peoples in their proper place and assuring a “favorable climate of investment” everywhere. They do this by using their economic power, but also (by means of “bombs bursting in the air” and) by supporting Diem, Mobutu, Pinochet, Suharto, Savimbi, Marcos, Fujimori, Salinas, and scores of similar leaders. War crimes also come easily because U.S. Ieaders consider themselves to be the vehicles of a higher morality and truth and can operate in violation of law without cost. It is also immensely helpful that their mainstream media agree that their country is above the law and will support and rationalize each and every venture and the commission of war crimes. (Edward Herman)

      • As the mainstream media has become increasingly dependent on advertising revenues for support, it has become an anti-democratic force in society. (Robert McChesney)

      • Peace cannot exist without equality. (Edward Said)

      • The great masses of the people at the very bottom of their hearts tend to be corrupted rather than consciously evil … they more easily fall a victim to a big lie than to a little one, since they themselves lie in little things, but would be ashamed of lies that were too big. (Hitler)

      • We went over there and fought the war and eventually burned down every town in North Korea anyway, someway or another, and some in South Korea too.… Over a period of three years or so, we killed off — what — twenty percent of the population of Korea as direct casualties of war, or from starvation and exposure? (Curtis LeMay)

      • All art is propaganda. It is universally and inescapably propaganda; sometimes unconsciously, but often deliberately, propaganda. (Upton Sinclair)

      • Private property must, therefore, be abolished and in its place must come the common utilization of all instruments of production and the distribution of all products according to common agreement – in a word, what is called the communal ownership of goods. (Friedrich Engels)

      • Class-conscious workers stand for the complete unity of the workers of all countries in each and every educational, industrial, and political organisation. (R. F. Andrews)

      • In Lenin I honor a man, who in total sacrifice of his own person has committed his entire energy to realizing social justice. I do not find his methods advisable. One thing is certain, however: men like him are the guardians and renewers [Erneuerer] of mankind’s conscience. (Albert Einstein)

      • Between capitalist and communist society lies the period of the revolutionary transformation of the one into the other. There corresponds to this also a political transition period in which the state can be nothing but the revolutionary dictatorship of the proletariat. (Karl Marx)

      • Israel was created by Western imperialism and maintained by Western firepower. (Huey P. Newton)

      • The masses are the teachers of everything and the creators of everything. (Kim Jong-il)

      • Against the collective power of the propertied classes, the working class cannot act as a class except by constituting itself into a political party distinct from, and opposed to, all old parties formed from the propertied classes. (Karl Marx)

      • The Muslim Terrorist Apparatus was Created by US Intelligence as a Geopolitical Weapon. (Zbigniew Brzezinski)

      • 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. (Stalin)

      • We will not surrender. We will defeat them by any means. We are ready for the fight, whether it will be a short or a long one. We will be victorious in the end. This assault is by a bunch of fascists who will end up in the dustbin of history. (Muammar Gaddafi)

      • 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. (Frank Church)

      • Market society was born in England—yet it was on the Continent that its weaknesses engendered the most tragic complications. In order to comprehend German fascism, we must revert to Ricardian England. The nineteenth century, as cannot be overemphasized, was England’s century. The Industrial Revolution was an English event. Market economy, free trade, and the gold standard were English inventions. These institutions broke down in the twenties everywhere—in Germany, Italy, or Austria the event was merely more political and more dramatic. But whatever the scenery and the temperature of the final episodes, the long-run factors which wrecked that civilization should be studied in the birthplace of the Industrial Revolution, England. (Karl Polanyi)

      • Empire is emerging today as the center that supports the globalization of productive networks and casts its widely inclusive net to try to envelop all power relations within its world order — and yet at the same time it deploys a powerful police function against the new barbarians and the rebellious slaves who threaten its order. (Antonio Negri)

      • The substitution of one social system for another is a complicated and long revolutionary process. It is not simply a spontaneous process, but a struggle, it is a process connected with the clash of classes. Capitalism is decaying, but it must not be compared simply with a tree which has decayed to such an extent that it must fall to the ground of its own accord. No, revolution, the substitution of one social system for another, has always been a struggle, a painful and a cruel struggle, a life and death struggle. And every time the people of the new world came into power they had to defend themselves against the attempts of the old world to restore the old power by force; these people of the new world always had to be on the alert, always had to be ready to repel the attacks of the old world upon the new system. (Stalin)

      • For at least another hundred years we must pretend to ourselves and to everyone that fair is foul and foul is fair; for foul is useful and fair is not. Avarice and usury and precaution must be our gods for a little longer still. For only they can lead us out of the tunnel of economic necessity into daylight. (John Maynard Keynes)

      • All propaganda for socialism must be refashioned from abstract and general to concrete and directly practical. (Lenin)

      • Capitalism is religion. Banks are churches. Bankers are priests. Wealth is heaven. Poverty is hell. Rich people are saints. Poor people are sinners. Commodities are blessings. Money is God. (Miguel D. Lewis)

      • The only symbol of superiority that I know is kindness. (Beethoven)

      • We fully regard civil wars, i.e., wars waged by the oppressed class against the oppressing class, slaves against slave-owners, serfs against land-owners, and wage-workers against the bourgeoisie, as legitimate, progressive and necessary. (Lenin)

      • One of the biggest and most dangerous mistakes made by Communists is the idea that a revolution can be made by revolutionaries alone. On the contrary, to be successful, all serious revolutionary work requires that the idea that revolutionaries are capable of playing the part only of the vanguard of the truly virile and advanced class must be understood and translated into action. (Lenin)

      • I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library. (Jorge Luis Borges)

      • We now live in a nation where doctors destroy health, lawyers destroy justice, universities destroy knowledge, governments destroy freedom, the press destroys information, religion destroys morals, and our banks destroy the economy. (Chris Hedges)

      • I’m more and more convinced it’s only through communism that we can become human. (Frida Kahlo)

      • This fascist state intends to kill all of us. We must organize resistance. Violence can only be answered with violence. This is the generation of Auschwitz [referring to the West German government and society], you cannot argue with them. (Gudrun Ensslin)

      • Marxism-Leninism … teaches that the legal relationships (and, consequently, law itself) are rooted in the material conditions of life, and that law is merely the will of the dominant class, elevated into a statute. (Andrei Yanuaryevich Vyshinsky)

      • The class which has the means of material production at its disposal, has control at the same time over the means of mental production, so that thereby, generally speaking, the ideas of those who lack the means of mental production are subject to it. (Karl Marx)

      • If, by being revolutionary, one means rational rebellion against intolerable social conditions, if, by being radical, one means “going to the root of things,” the rational will to improve them, then fascism is never revolutionary. (Wilhelm Reich)

      • The whole history of my life, and in essence the whole history of the working class consists of this: that we have lived and fought under the leadership of Lenin and Stalin. (Mikhail Ivanovich Kalinin)

      • Do not be alarmed by simplification, complexity is often a device for claiming sophistication, or for evading simple truths. (John Kenneth Galbraith)

      • The present-day capitalist economy in China is a capitalist economy which for the most part is under the control of the People’s Government and which is linked with the state-owned socialist economy in various forms and supervised by the workers. It is not an ordinary but a particular kind of capitalist economy, namely, a state-capitalist economy of a new type. It exists not chiefly to make profits for the capitalists but to meet the needs of the people and the state. True, a share of the profits produced by the workers goes to the capitalists, but that is only a small part, about one quarter, of the total. The remaining three quarters are produced for the workers (in the form of the welfare fund), for the state (in the form of income tax) and for expanding productive capacity (a small part of which produces profits for the capitalists). Therefore, this state-capitalist economy of a new type takes on a socialist character to a very great extent and benefits the workers and the state. (Mao Zedong)

      • He who fights, can lose. He who doesn’t fight, has already lost. (Bertolt Brecht)

      • We have a marvelous Georgian who has sat down to write a big article for Prosveshcheniye, for which he has collected all the Austrian and other materials. (Lenin)

      • The crisis consists precisely in the fact that the old is dying and the new cannot be born; in this interregnum a great variety of morbid symptoms appear. (Gramsci)

      • Make the economy scream [in Chile] to prevent Allende from coming to power or to unseat him. (Richard Nixon)

      • You cannot trust in imperialism, not even a little bit… Not at all! (Che Guevara)

      • Modern bourgeois society, with its relations of production, of exchange and of property, a society that has conjured up such gigantic means of production and of exchange, is like the sorcerer who is no longer able to control the powers of the nether world whom he has called up by his spells. For many a decade past the history of industry and commerce is but the history of the revolt of modern productive forces against modern conditions of production, against the property relations that are the conditions for the existence of the bourgeois and of its rule. It is enough to mention the commercial crises that by their periodical return put the existence of the entire bourgeois society on its trial, each time more threateningly. In these crises, a great part not only of the existing products, but also of the previously created productive forces, are periodically destroyed. In these crises, there breaks out an epidemic that, in all earlier epochs, would have seemed an absurdity — the epidemic of over-production. Society suddenly finds itself put back into a state of momentary barbarism; it appears as if a famine, a universal war of devastation, had cut off the supply of every means of subsistence; industry and commerce seem to be destroyed; and why? Because there is too much civilisation, too much means of subsistence, too much industry, too much commerce. The productive forces at the disposal of society no longer tend to further the development of the conditions of bourgeois property; on the contrary, they have become too powerful for these conditions, by which they are fettered, and so soon as they overcome these fetters, they bring disorder into the whole of bourgeois society, endanger the existence of bourgeois property. The conditions of bourgeois society are too narrow to comprise the wealth created by them. And how does the bourgeoisie get over these crises? On the one hand by enforced destruction of a mass of productive forces; on the other, by the conquest of new markets, and by the more thorough exploitation of the old ones. That is to say, by paving the way for more extensive and more destructive crises, and by diminishing the means whereby crises are prevented. The weapons with which the bourgeoisie felled feudalism to the ground are now turned against the bourgeoisie itself. But not only has the bourgeoisie forged the weapons that bring death to itself; it has also called into existence the men who are to wield those weapons — the modern working class — the proletarians. In proportion as the bourgeoisie, i.e., capital, is developed, in the same proportion is the proletariat, the modern working class, developed — a class of labourers, who live only so long as they find work, and who find work only so long as their labour increases capital. These labourers, who must sell themselves piecemeal, are a commodity, like every other article of commerce, and are consequently exposed to all the vicissitudes of competition, to all the fluctuations of the market. (Karl Marx)

      • Principle of exaggeration and disfigurement. Make any anecdote, however small, a serious threat. (Joseph Goebbels)

      • The bourgeoisie will use any and every instrument of struggle as occasion arisese It is for the working class and its allies to be prepared for the fight in front. (R. Palme Dutt)

      • Every specific turn in history causes some change in the form of petty-bourgeois wavering, which always occurs alongside the proletariat, and which, in one degree or an other, always penetrates its midst. This wavering flows in two “streams”: petty-bourgeois reformism, i.e., servility to the bourgeoisie covered by a cloak of sentimental democratic and “Social”-Democratic phrases and fatuous wishes; and petty-bourgeois revolutionism—menacing, blustering and boastful in words, but a mere bubble of disunity, disruption and brainlessness in deeds. This wavering will inevitably occur until the taproot of capitalism is cut. (Lenin)

      • Since 1954, however, we have not parachuted teams into the Soviet Union – our number one enemy – to destabilize that country… Neither do we run these violent operations in England, France, Sweden, Norway, Belgium, or Switzerland. Since the mid-1950s they have all been conducted in Third World countries where governments do not have the power to force the United States to stop its brutal and destabilizing campaigns. (John Stockwell)

      • In essence, Marxism and Marxist notions need to evolve with the development of historical conditions. It is on the basis of Marxist methodology that Marxism evolves. In the conditions of the last stage of capitalism, imperialism, Marxism becomes Marxism-Leninism. Refuting Leninism is tantamount to decrying Marxism, as anti-Leninism is rendered a form of anti-Marxism. Marxism to- day cannot be understood without Lenin’s contribution to Marxism. (R. Palme Dutt)

      • Yet the Second World War began not as a war with the U.S.S.R., but as a war between capitalist countries. Why? Firstly, because war with the U.S.S.R., as a socialist land, is more dangerous to capitalism than war between capitalist countries; for whereas war between capitalist countries puts in question only the supremacy of certain capitalist countries over others, war with the U.S.S.R. must certainly put in question the existence of capitalism itself. Secondly, because the capitalists, although they clamour, for “propaganda” purposes, about the aggressiveness of the Soviet Union, do not themselves believe that it is aggressive, because they are aware of the Soviet Union’s peaceful policy and know that it will not itself attack capitalist countries. (Stalin)

      • It’s not my fault if reality is Marxist. (Che Guevara)

      • At the bottom of genuinely national wars, such as took place especially between 1789 and 1871, was a long process of mass national movements, of a struggle against absolutism and feudalism, the overthrow of national oppression, and the formation of states on a national basis, as a prerequisite of capitalist development. The national ideology created by that epoch left a deep impress on the mass of the petty bourgeoisie and a section of the proletariat. This is now being utilised in a totally different and imperialist epoch by the sophists of the bourgeoisie, and by the traitors to socialism who are following in their wake, so as to split the workers, and divert them from their class aims and from the revolutionary struggle against the bourgeoisie. The words in the Communist Manifesto that “the working men have no country” are today truer than ever before. Only the proletariat’s international struggle against the bourgeoisie can preserve what it has won, and open to the oppressed masses the road to a better future. (Lenin)

      • Since 1845 Marx and I have held the view that one of the ultimate results of the future proletarian revolution will be the gradual dissolution of the political organisation known by the name of state. The main object of this organisation has always been to secure, by armed force, the economic oppression of the labouring majority by the minority which alone possesses wealth. With the disappearance of an exclusively wealth-possessing minority there also disappears the necessity for the power of armed oppression, or state power. At the same time, however, it was always our view that in order to attain this and the other far more important aims of the future social revolution, the working class must first take possession of the organised political power of the state and by its aid crush the resistance of the capitalist class and organise society anew. (Friedrich Engels)

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      • Let nothing be called natural in an age of bloody confusion, ordered disorder, planned caprice, and dehumanized humanity, lest all things be held unalterable! (Bertolt Brecht)

      • Propaganda is the executive arm of the invisible government. (Edward Bernays)

      • Capitalism is the ultimate corruption, that never quits until it is stamped out. (Glen Ford)

      • It is ironic that some left intellectuals should deem class struggle to be largely irrelevant at the very time class power is becoming increasingly transparent, at the very time corporate concentration and profit accumulation is more rapacious than ever, and the tax system has become more regressive and oppressive, the upward transfer of income and wealth has accelerated, public sector assets are being privatized, corporate money exercises an increasing control over the political process, people at home and abroad are working harder for less, and throughout the world poverty is growing at a faster rate than overall population. (Michael Parenti)

      • Capitalism without bankruptcy is like Christianity without hell. (Frank Borman)

      • The issue is Socialism versus Capitalism. I am for Socialism because I am for humanity. We have been cursed with the reign of gold long enough. Money constitutes no proper basis of civilization. The time has come to regenerate society — we are on the eve of universal change. (Eugene V. Debs)

      • A reform is a correction of abuses; a revolution is a transfer of power. (Edward Bulwer-Lytton)

      • It is not guerrilla warfare which demoralises, but unorganised, irregular, non-party guerrilla acts. (Lenin)

      • A Marxist bases himself on the class struggle, and not social peace. (Lenin)

      • Only he is a Marxist who extends the recognition of the class struggle to the recognition of the dictatorship of the proletariat. (Lenin)

      • Above all, try always to be able to feel deeply any injustice committed against any person in any part of the world. It is the most beautiful quality of a revolutionary. (Che Guevara)

      • It is not the Jews who are the enemies of the working people. The enemies of the workers are the capitalists of all countries. Among the Jews there are working people, and they form the majority. They are our brothers, who, like us, are oppressed by capital; they are our comrades in the struggle for socialism. Among the Jews there are kulaks, exploiters and capitalists, just as there are among the Russians, and among people of all nations. The capitalists strive to sow and foment hatred between workers of different faiths, different nations and different races. Those who do not work are kept in power by the power and strength of capital. Rich Jews, like rich Russians, and the rich in all countries, are in alliance to oppress, crush, rob and disunite the workers. (Lenin)

      • There can be no greater error then in supposing that capital is increased by non-consumption. (David Ricardo)

      • 1) Things exist independently of our consciousness, independently of our perceptions, outside of us, for it is beyond doubt that alizarin existed in coal tar yesterday and it is equally beyond doubt that yesterday we knew nothing of the existence of this alizarin and received no sensations from it. 2) There is definitely no difference in principle between the phenomenon and the thing-in-itself, and there can be no such difference. The only difference is between what is known and what is not yet known. And philosophical inventions of specific boundaries between the one and the other, inventions to the effect that the thing-in-itself is “beyond” phenomena (Kant), or that we can and must fence ourselves off by some philosophical partition from the problem of a world which in one part or another is still unknown but which exists outside us (Hume)—all this is the sheerest nonsense, Schrulle, crotchet, invention. 3) In the theory of knowledge, as in every other branch of science, we must think dialectically, that is, we must not regard our knowledge as ready-made and unalterable, but must determine how knowledge emerges from ignorance, how incomplete, inexact knowledge becomes more complete and more exact. (Lenin)

      • Stalin systematically gives credit for all progress made to Lenin, whereas the credit has been in very large measure his own. (Henri Barbusse)

      • There is pow’r, there is pow’r\ In a band of workingmen.\ When they stand hand in hand,\ That’s a pow’r, that’s a pow’r\ That must rule in every land —\ One Industrial Union Grand. (Joe Hill)

      • I hate the indifferent. I believe that life means taking sides. One who is really alive, can be nothing if not citizen and partisan. Indifference is lethargy: it is parasitism, not life. Therefore, I hate the indifferent. (Gramsci)

      • Let us not ignore the truth among ourselves … politically we are the aggressors and they defend themselves… The country is theirs, because they inhabit it, whereas we want to come here and settle down, and in their view we want to take away from them their country. (David Ben Gurion)

      • The headlong stream is termed violent but the river bed hemming it in is termed violent by no one. (Bertolt Brecht)

      • Everyone knows that Leninism was born, grew up and became strong in relentless struggle against opportunism of every brand, including Centrism in the West (Kautsky) and Centrism in our country (Trotsky, etc.). This cannot be denied even by the downright enemies of Bolshevism. (Stalin)

      • In Britain with our democratic institutions and the need for a high degree of consent, some of the measures adopted in Chile are quite unacceptable. Our reform must be in line with our traditions and our Constitution. At times the process may seem painfully slow. But I am certain we shall achieve our reforms in our own way and in our own time. Then they will endure. (Margaret Thatcher)

      • Trotsky, along with Khrushchev, belongs to the category of the great revisionists. (Che Guevara)

      • There are some men who do not die. Stalin is among them. Stalin was an example of creativity, humanism and an edifying example of peace and heroism! … Everything he did, he did to serve the people. Our father Stalin is dead, but in remembering his example, our affection for him will make our arms grow strong towards building a great tomorrow, to secure a future in memory of his great example! (Salvador Allende)

      • When hopes and dreams are loose in the street, it is well for the timid to lock doors, shutter windows and lie low until the wrath has passed. (Che Guevara)

      • With rebellion, awareness is born. (Camus)

      • To be free, the workers must have choice. To have choice, they must retain in their own hands the right to determine under what conditions they will work. (Samuel Gompers)

      • I hold it that a little rebellion now and then is a good thing, and as necessary in the political world as storms in the physical. […] It is a medicine necessary for the sound health of government. (Thomas Jefferson)

      • Why should they ask me to put on a uniform and go 10, 000 miles from home and drop bombs and bullets on Brown people in Vietnam while so-called Negro people in Louisville are treated like dogs and denied simple human rights? No I. (Muhammad Ali)

      • It always seems impossible, until it is done. (Nelson Mandela)

      • Every generation needs a revolution. (Thomas Jefferson)

      • The desire to revolt against oppression is the highest desire there is. (Tupac Shakur)

      • The masses are the decisive element, they are the rock on which the final victory of the revolution will be built. (Rosa Luxemburg)

      • Whoever finishes a revolution only halfway, digs his own grave. (Georg Buchner)

      • If the freedom of speech is taken away then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter. (George Washington)

      • The evils of tyranny are rarely seen but by him who resists it. (John Milton Hay)

      • I am not a liberator. Liberators do not exist. The people liberate themselves. (Che Guevara)

      • In a revolution, as in a novel, the most difficult part to invent is the end. (Alexis de Tocqueville)

      • All the forces in the world are not so powerful as an idea whose time has come: the revolution. (Victor Hugo)

      • A great revolution in just one single individual will help achieve a change in the destiny of a society. (Daisaku Ikeda)

      • Human salvation lies in the hands of the creatively maladjusted. (Martin Luther King, Jr.)

      • Older rich men declare war. But it is the poor youth that must fight and die. (Herbert Hoover)

      • How strangely will the tools of a tyrant pervert the plain meaning of words! (Samuel Adams)

      • Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it. (George Santayana)

      • We must expel Arabs and take their places. (David Ben Gurion)

      • Salvation for a race, nation or class must come from within. (A. Philip Randolph)

      • Monopolies, oligarchy, the striving for domination and not for freedom, the exploitation of an increasing number of small or weak nations by a handful of the richest or most powerful nations — all these have given birth to those distinctive characteristics of imperialism which compel us to define it as parasitic or decaying capitalism. (Lenin)

      • Who will govern the governors? There is only one force in the nation that can be depended upon to keep the government pure and the governors honest, and that is the people themselves. They alone, if well informed, are capable of preventing the corruption of power, and of restoring the nation to its rightful course if it should go astray. They alone are the safest depository of the ultimate powers of government. (Thomas Jefferson)

      • We the People are the rightful masters of both congress and the courts — not to overthrow the Constitution, but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution. (Abraham Lincoln)

      • The corporate grip on opinion in the United States is one of the wonders of the Western world. No First World country has ever managed to eliminate so entirely from its media all objectivity – much less dissent. (Gore Vidal)

      • Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of Liberty. (Thomas Jefferson)

      • The duty of youth is to challenge corruption. (Kurt Cobain)

      • Patriotism means to stand by the country. It does not mean to stand by the President. (Theodore Roosevelt)

      • Fear can only prevail when victims are ignorant of the facts. (Thomas Jefferson)

      • To ravage, to slaughter, to usurp under false titles, they call empire; and where they make a desert, they call it peace. (Cornelius Tacitus)

      • This and no other is the root from which a tyrant springs; when he first appears he is a protector. (Plátōn)

      • History records that the money changers have used every form of abuse, intrigue, deceit, and violent means possible to maintain their control over governments by controlling the money and its issuance. (James Madison)

      • It has become a sarcastic proverb that a thing must be true if you saw it in a newspaper. That is the opinion intelligent people have of that lying vehicle in a nutshell. But the trouble is that the stupid people, who constitute the grand overwhelming majority of this and all other nations, do believe and are moulded and convinced by what they get out of a newspaper. And there is where is the harm lies. (Mark Twain)

      • …everyone but an idiot knows that the lower classes must be kept poor, or they will never be industrious. (Arthur Young)

      • Anyone who has the power to make you believe absurdities has the power to make you commit atrocities. (Voltaire)

      • A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler whom they consider god-fearing and pious. (Aristotélēs)

      • Political language is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind. (George Orwell)

      • The indifference to the plight of others and the cult of the self is what the corporate state seeks to instill in us. (Chris Hedges)

      • In this country, capitalism triumphed over democracy. (Fran Lebowitz)

      • Fascism is a worldwide disease. Its greatest threat to the United States will come after the war, either via Latin America or within the United States itself. (Henry A. Wallace)

      • [American exceptionalism] is a reaction to the inability of people to understand global complexity or important issues like American energy dependency. Therefore, they search for simplistic sources of comfort and clarity. And the people that they are now selecting to be, so to speak, the spokespersons of their anxieties are, in most cases, stunningly ignorant. (Zbigniew Brzezinski)

      • The worldwide, agelong struggle between fascism and democracy will not stop when the fighting ends in Germany and Japan. (Henry A. Wallace)

      • I believe the American people have a genuine and justifiable fear of government intrusion in what they instinctively know is going to be an ever more intrusive world. (Joe Biden)

      • In a dictatorship, censorship is used; in a democracy, manipulation. (Ryszard Kapuściński)

      • We created Al Qaeda (in order to fight the Soviet Union). (Hillary Clinton)

      • The issuing power should be taken from the banks and restored to the people, to whom it properly belongs. (Thomas Jefferson)

      • It is ironic that people of modest means sometimes become conservative out of a scarcity fear bred by the very capitalist system they support. (Michael Parenti)

      • “Don’t you want to abolish state power?” Yes, we do, but not right now; we cannot do it yet. Why? Because imperialism still exists, because domestic reaction still exists, because classes still exist in our country. Our present task is to strengthen the people’s state apparatus — mainly the people’s army, the people’s police and the people’s courts — in order to consolidate national defence and protect the people’s interests. Given this condition, China can develop steadily, under the leadership of the working class and the Communist Party, from an agricultural into an industrial country and from a new-democratic into a socialist and communist society, can abolish classes and realize the Great Harmony. (Mao Zedong)

      • In bourgeois society capital is independent and has individuality, while the living person is dependent and has no individuality. (Karl Marx)

      • A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the majority discovers it can vote itself largess out of the public treasury. After that, the majority always votes for the candidate promising the most benefits with the result the democracy collapses because of the loose fiscal policy ensuing, always to be followed by a dictatorship, then a monarchy. (Alexis de Tocqueville)

      • We must always take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented. (Elie Wiesel)

      • The liquidation of fascism must be the liquidation of the bourgeoisie that created it. (Gramsci)

      • They [Social-Democrats] are just as much traitors to socialism… They represent that top section of workers who have been bribed by the bourgeoisie… for in all the civilised, advanced countries the bourgeoisie rob—either by colonial oppression or by financially extracting ‘gain’ from formally independent weak countries—they rob a population many times larger than that of ‘their own’ country. This is the economic factor that enables the imperialist bourgeoisie to obtain superprofits, part of which is used to bribe the top section of the proletariat and convert it into a reformist, opportunist petty bourgeoisie that fears revolution. (Lenin)

      • It is the duty of Israeli leaders to explain to public opinion, clearly and courageously, a certain number of facts that are forgotten with time. The first of these is that there is no Zionism, colonialization, or Jewish State without the eviction of the Arabs and the expropriation of their lands. (Ariel Sharon)

      • The German army is a machine, and machines can be broken! (Konstantin Rokossovsky)

      • By exposing the fact that the opportunists and social-chauvinists are in reality betraying and selling the interests of the masses, that they are defending the temporary privileges of a minority of the workers, that they are the vehicles of bourgeois ideas and influences, that they are really allies and agents of the bourgeoisie, we teach the masses to appreciate their true political interests, to fight for socialism and for the revolution through all the long and painful vicissitudes of imperialist wars and imperialist armistices. (Lenin)

      • The worst illiterate is the political illiterate, he doesn’t hear, doesn’t speak, nor participates in the political events. He doesn’t know the cost of life, the price of the bean, of the fish, of the flour, of the rent, of the shoes and of the medicine, all depends on political decisions. The political illiterate is so stupid that he is proud and swells his chest saying that he hates politics. The imbecile doesn’t know that, from his political ignorance is born the prostitute, the abandoned child, and the worst thieves of all, the bad politician, corrupted and flunky of the national and multinational companies. (Bertolt Brecht)

      • What we need to do is to use the methods the terrorists use in order to overcome [the IRA]. (James Prior)

      • The richly nourished patriotism of war breeds divisions and antagonisms which are easily exploited afterwards by political, racial, religious, and cultural passions, but most of all by economic interests. (John A. Hobson)

      • This country was founded by a group of slave-owners who told us all men are created equal. Oh yeah, all men, except for Indians and niggers and women, right? I always like to use that authentic American language. (George Carlin)

      • The theory that the struggle between Bolshevism and Menshevism is a struggle for influence over an immature proletariat is not a new one. We have been encountering it since 1905 in innumerable books, pamphlets, and articles in the liberal press. Martov and Trotsky are putting before the German comrades liberal views with a Marxist coating… (Lenin)

      • The war fought today by our people is not only against the terrorists, but also against those who sponsor terrorism. Terrorism is only an instrument used by those Western states which want to apply the same Nazi mentality which aims at dominating everyone else and turning states and nations into slaves, turning them into satellites and controlling everything they have, materially and morally. (Bashar al-Assad)

      • Capital must protect itself in every way…Debts must be collected and loans and mortgages foreclosed as soon as possible. When through a process of law the common people have lost their homes, they will be more tractable and more easily governed by the strong arm of the law applied by the central power of leading financiers. People without homes will not quarrel with their leaders. This is well known among our principal men now engaged in forming an imperialism of capitalism to govern the world. By dividing the people we can get them to expend their energies in fighting over questions of no importance to us except as teachers of the common herd. (Civil Servants’ Year Book)

      • When you give food to the poor, they call you a saint. When you ask why the poor have no food, they call you a communist. (Hélder Câmara)

      • The men who possess real power in this country have no intention of ending the cold war. (Albert Einstein)

      • Israel controls the United States Senate. (James W. Fulbright)

      • A slave is one who waits for someone else to free him. (Rosellen Brown)

      • We will establish ourselves in Palestine whether you like it or not…You can hasten our arrival or you can equally retard it. It is however better for you to help us so as to avoid our constructive powers being turned into a destructive power which will overthrow the world. (Chaim Weizmann)

      • Knowledge makes a man unfit to be a slave. (Frederick Douglass)

      • Public sentiment is everything. With public sentiment nothing can fail. Without it nothing can succeed. He who molds opinion is greater than he who enacts laws. (Abraham Lincoln)

      • How dare Americans allow their government to cause such misery [in the world]. (Ramsey Clark)

      • … so long as the media are in corporate hands, the task of social change will be vastly more difficult, if not impossible … (Robert McChesney)

      • If the business community and political elite want to go to war they find it easy to mobilize domestic consent. (Edward Herman)

      • When the IMF and the World Bank force a country to cut wages, lay off workers, produce for export instead of their own people, and sell off public property to cronies for less than its value, that’s called “economic reform.” (Robert Naiman)

      • Not a nut or bolt shall reach Chile under Allende. Once Allende comes to power we shall do all within our power to condemn Chile and all Chileans to utmost deprivation and poverty… (Edward M. Korry)

      • We are not hated because we practice democracy, value freedom, or uphold human rights. We are hated because our government denies these things to people in Third World countries whose resources are coveted by our multinational corporations. That hatred we have sown has come back to haunt us in the form of terrorism and in the future, nuclear terrorism. (Robert Bowman)

      • How fortunate for governments that the people they administer don’t think. (Hitler)

      • A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler whom they consider god-fearing and pious. On the other hand, they do less easily move against him, believing that he has the gods on his side. (Aristotélēs)

      • American capitalism is predatory, and American politics are corrupt: The same thing is true in England and the same in France; but in all these three countries the dominating fact is that whenever the people get ready to change the government, they can change it. (Upton Sinclair)

      • The growing difficulties of the capitalists in all countries, multiplied by their ever-sharpening international rivalries, are prompting them to seek a way out through Fascist and nationalist dictatorships in their respective countries. Nearly all the Fascist propaganda bodies which are preparing the way for Fascism in Great Britain are quite openly anti-Semitic. This is not merely blind imitation of Hitler. The Fascists and the capitalist class generally would pay dearly for the chance of setting the British workers against some fancied “alien intruder” and thus diverting attacks from themselves. Those who imagine that there are no backward jingo sentiments among the British workers, on which the Fascists can play, are only fooling themselves. All the more reason, then, for every class-conscious worker realising the nature of the capitalist trap that lies behind the stinking bait of anti-Jew propaganda. (R. F. Andrews)

      • In the general course of human nature, a power over a man’s subsistence amounts to a power over his will. (Alexander Hamilton)

      • African blood flows in our veins. Many of our ancestors came as slaves from Africa to this land. As slaves they struggled quite a great deal. They fought as members of the liberating army of Cuba. We’re brothers and sisters of the people of Africa and we are ready to fight in their behalf. (Fidel Castro)

      • Like a tree that has sunk its roots deep in the earth, which does not fall no matter how fierce the storm may be, the party can remain firm in any circumstances only when it has sunk its roots deep in the broad masses. (Kim Jong-il)

      • However great your consciousness may be, you cannot stand up against bullets with bare hands! (Stalin)

      • The people of a nation are enslaved when, together, they are helpless to institute effective change, when the people serve the government more than the government serves them. (Gerry Spence)

      • Despite the fact that only the Nazi included into the title of their party designation ‘National Socialist’, fascism generally presented itself as socialist. (Mark Neocleous)

      • It is natural for a liberal to speak of “democracy” in general; but a Marxist will never forget to ask: “for what class?” (Lenin)

      • There is no hope other than communism. (@kazahann)

      • The time to buy is when there’s blood in the streets, even if the blood is your own. (Nathan Mayer Rothschild)

      • Obama wants to kill me, to take away the freedom of our country, to take away our free housing, our free medicine, our free education, our free food, and replace it with American style thievery, called “Capitalism“. (Muammar Gaddafi)

      • By means of the banking system the distribution of capital as a special business, a social function, is taken out of the hands of the private capitalists and usurers. But at the same time, banking and credit thus become the most potent means of driving capitalist production beyond its own limits, and one of the most effective vehicles of crises and swindle. (Karl Marx)

      • Prostitutes are the inevitable product of a society that places ultimate importance on money, possessions, and competition. (Jane Fonda)

      • The capitalists have always use the term “freedom” to mean freedom for the rich to get richer and for the workers to starve to death. And capitalist usage, freedom of the press means freedom of the rich to bribe the press, freedom to use their wealth to shape and fabricate so-called public opinion. (Lenin)

      • Everything comes in time to him who knows how to wait. (Tolstoy)

      • War cannot be abolished unless classes are abolished and Socialism is created. (Lenin)

      • Any army which does not train to use all the weapons, all the means and methods of warfare that the enemy possesses, or may possess, is behaving in an unwise or even criminal manner. This applies to politics even more than it does to the art of war. (Lenin)

      • When change threatens to rule, then the rules are changed. (Michael Parenti)

      • If every worker and every peasant had had a rifle like that in their hands, there would never have been a fascist coup. That is the great lesson to be learned for revolutionaries from events in Chile. (Fidel Castro)

      • The bourgeoisie turns everything into a commodity, hence also the writing of history. It is part of its being, of its condition for existence, to falsify all goods: it falsified the writing of history. And the best — paid historiography is that which is best falsified for the purposes of the bourgeoisie. (Friedrich Engels)

      • The U.S. imperialists are more afraid of the united strength of the revolutionary peoples of the world than of anything else. (Kim Il Sung)

      • All wars are inseparable from the political systems that engender them. The policy which a given state, a given class within that state, pursued for a long time before the war is inevitably continued by that same class during the war, the form of action alone being changed. (Lenin)

      • Marx is the teacher of revolution for the proletariat and working people all over the world, as well as the main founder of Marxism, creator of Marxist parties, pathfinder for international communism and the greatest thinker of modern times. (Xi Jinping)

      • They presented us to the world as a slave who is proud of their chains, which is an insult! (Rafael Cancel Miranda)

      • It is impossible to finish off capitalism without having finished off social democracy in the working-class movement. (Stalin)

      • They think that Marx and Lenin invented the science known as Marxism-Leninism. Marx and Lenin did not invent. They merely observed and recorded. That’s all they did. They’re no different to Newton. We call the laws of gravity Newton’s Laws. But Newton did not invent the laws of gravity. He merely observed and recorded. (Stokely Carmichael)

      • You must remember that we persecute nobody for religion. We regard religion as an error and fight it with education. (Mikhail Ivanovich Kalinin)

      • Neofascism abolishes civil liberties in the name of national security and brands whole groups as traitors and enemies of the people. It is the militarized instrument used by the ruling elites to maintain control, divide and tear apart the society and further accelerate pillage and social inequality. The ruling ideology, no longer credible, is replaced with the jackboot. (Chris Hedges)

      • Some say that it is impossible to acquire the great qualities of revolutionary geniuses like Marx, Engels, Lenin and Stalin and that it is impossible to raise our own qualities to the same level as theirs. But as long as Party members work hard and earnestly, never allow themselves to be isolated for one single moment from the day to day struggle of the people, and make serious efforts to study Marxist literature, learn from the experiences of other comrades and the masses of the people, and constantly strive to steel and cultivate themselves, they will be perfectly able to raise their qualities to the same level as that of Marx, Engels, Lenin and Stalin. (Nelson Mandela)

      • The revolution of 1848 struck a deadly blow at all these vociferous, motley and ostentatious forms of pre-Marxian socialism. In all countries, the revolution revealed the various classes of society in action. The shooting of the workers by the republican bourgeoisie in Paris in the June days of 1848 finally revealed that the proletariat alone was socialist by nature. The liberal bourgeoisie dreaded the independence of this class a hundred times more than it did any kind of reaction. The craven liberals grovelled before reaction. The peasantry were content with the abolition of the survivals of feudalism and joined the supporters of order, wavering but occasionally between workers’ democracy and bourgeois liberalism. All doctrines of non-class socialism and non-class politics proved to be sheer nonsense. (Lenin)

      • The daily press and the telegraph, which in a moment spreads inventions over the whole earth, fabricate more myths (and the bourgeois cattle believe and enlarge upon them) in one day than could have formerly been done in a century. (Karl Marx)

      • Fascists are not human. A snake is more human. (Hugo Chávez)

      • The white man supports Reverend Martin Luther King, subsidizes Reverend Martin Luther King, so that Reverend Martin Luther King can continue to teach the Negroes to be defenseless–that’s what you mean by nonviolent–be defenseless in the face of one of the most cruel beasts that has ever taken people into captivity–that’s this American white man, and they have proved it throughout the country by the police dogs and the police clubs. A hundred years ago they used to put on a white sheet and use a bloodhound against Negroes. Today they have taken off the white sheet and put on police uniforms and traded in the bloodhounds for police dogs, and they’re still doing the same thing. Just as Uncle Tom, back during slavery used to keep the Negroes from resisting the bloodhound or resisting the Ku Klux Klan by teaching them to love their enemies or pray for those who use them despitefully, today Martin Luther King is just a twentieth-century or modern Uncle Tom or religious Uncle Tom, who is doing the same thing today to keep Negroes defenseless in the face of attack that Uncle Tom did on the plantation to keep those Negroes defenseless in the face of the attack of the Klan in that day. (Malcolm X)

      • Historically, revolutions are bloody. Oh, yes, they are. They haven’t never had a bloodless revolution, or a nonviolent revolution. That don’t happen even in Hollywood. You don’t have a revolution in which you love your enemy, and you don’t have a revolution in which you are begging the system of exploitation to integrate you into it. Revolutions overturn systems. Revolutions destroy systems. (Malcolm X)

      • The chief endeavour of the bourgeoisie of all countries and of its reformist hangers-on is to kill in the working class faith in its own strength, faith in the possibility and inevitability of its victory, and thus to perpetuate capitalist slavery. For the bourgeoisie knows that if capitalism has not yet been overthrown and still continues to exist, it owes it not to its own merits, but to the fact that the proletariat has still not enough faith in the possibility of its victory. It cannot be said that the efforts of the bourgeoisie in this respect have been altogether unsuccessful. It must be confessed that the bourgeoisie and its agents among the working class have to some extent succeeded in poisoning the minds of the working class with the venom of doubt and scepticism. (Stalin)

      • None have more sincere concern and zeal than thieves to maintain the institution of private property, without which their profession would come to an end, and they would find themselves faced with the unpleasant alternative of having to work for their living. On the other hand, they cannot publicly proclaim the principles of thievery and gangsterism as the basis of their stand; for public purposes, they have to proclaim the most high moral principles, to maintain existing society “unspoiled” and to keep “the mind” of the worker “healthy.” (R. Palme Dutt)

      • Principle of transposition. Load on the opponent the own errors or defects, responding the attack with the attack. If you can not deny the bad news, invent others that distract them. (Joseph Goebbels)

      • This is the radical difference that distinguishes the psychology of the peasant, handicraftsman, intellectual, the petty bourgeois in general, from that of the proletarian. The petty bourgeois sees and feels that he is heading for ruin, that life is becoming more difficult, that the struggle for existence is ever more ruthless, and that his position and that of his family are becoming more and more hopeless. It is an indisputable fact, and the petty bourgeois protests against it. But how does he protest? He protests as the representative of a class that is hopelessly perishing, that despairs of its future, that is depressed and cowardly. There is nothing to be done … if only there were fewer children to suffer our torments and hard toil, our poverty and our humiliation—such is the cry of the petty bourgeois. The class-conscious worker is far from holding this point of view. He will not allow his consciousness to be dulled by such cries no matter how sincere and heartfelt they may be. Yes, we workers and the mass of small proprietors lead a life that is filled with unbearable oppression and suffering. Things are harder for our generation than they were for our fathers. But in one respect we are luckier than our fathers. We have begun to learn and are rapidly learning to fight—and to fight not as individuals, as the best of our fathers fought, not for the slogans of bourgeois speechifiers that are alien to us in spirit, but for our slogans, the slogans of our class. We are fighting better than our fathers did. Our children will fight better than we do, and they will be victorious. The working class is not perishing, it is growing, becoming stronger, gaining courage, consolidating itself, educating itself and becoming steeled in battle. We are pessimists as far as serfdom, capitalism and petty, production are concerned, but we are ardent optimists in what concerns the working-class movement and its aims. We are already laying the foundation of a new edifice and our children will complete its construction. That is the reason—the only reason—why we are unconditionally the enemies of neomalthusianism, suited only to unfeeling and egotistic petty-bourgeois couples, who whisper in scared voices: “God grant we manage somehow by our selves. So much the better if we have no children.” (Lenin)

      • To learn who rules over you, simply find out who you are not allowed to criticize. (Voltaire)

      • As the Praetorian Guard, fighting wars for multinational interests while also paying for such adventures, our relative economic stability, domestic social and material infrastructure, and the freedom and liberties of the American people may all be forfeited. (John Stockwell)

      • Lenin showed that imperialism is moribund capitalism, that imperialism is the eve of the Lenin on imperialism socialist revolution of the proletariat. In his work on the foundations of Leninism, Stalin points out that Marx and Engels lived and fought at a time when imperialism had not yet developed, in a period of the preparation of the proletariat for revolution, whereas Lenin’s revolutionary activity was effected within the period of developed imperialism, the period of the unfolding proletarian revolution. Leninism is the further development of Marxism under new conditions, under the conditions of the epoch of imperialism and proletarian revolutions. It follows, therefore, that at this time one cannot be a Marxist without being a Leninist. It also follows that to deny the Leninist theory of imperialism is to break away entirely from Marxism. It is clear from this that any distortion or mistake in the theory of imperialism inevitably means a break with revolutionary Marxism-Leninism. (R. Palme Dutt)

      • What are the Communists? Our capitalist Press and propaganda has for so many years built up a “Communist bogey” that for most non-political people a Communist is a mythical monstrosity. He is either just a man who is born lazy, or an agitator paid by foreign gold, who is remarkably successful in per- suading honest and intelligent workers to strike for no reason; he is in any case anti-social and unpatriotic. The real truth is very different; the Communists in every country have numbered in their ranks some of the most highly skilled and conscientious workers, scientists, teachers, and writers; they are on the whole well informed and read The Times and the Financial News assiduously! They spend a good part of their leisure in mastering the intricacies of Marxist phil- osophy, in studying and seeking to improve social conditions, and in Trade Union and political activities. They include people of wide general culture and lively intellect. And above all, they are international in their outlook, sympathy, and philosophy. All the gangsters and fools who were welcomed into the Nazi party are assiduously excluded from the Communist ranks. Their professional politicians live on limited salaries and must maintain a high standard of personal conduct; (this rule is particularly strict in the Soviet Union). For a practical example of the difference between a Communist and a Nazi, one may recall the superb con- trast of Dimitrov and Goering during the course of the Reichstag Fire Trial in 1933. (Denis Nowell Pritt)

      • At the present time, the propaganda of peace unaccompanied by a call for revolutionary mass action can only sow illusions and demoralise the proletariat, for it makes the proletariat believe that the bourgeoisie is humane, and turns it into a plaything in the hands of the secret diplomacy of the belligerent countries. In particular, the idea of a so-called democratic peace being possible without a series of revolutions is profoundly erroneous. (Lenin)

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      • I don’t believe in charity. I believe in solidarity. Charity is so vertical. It goes from the top to the bottom. Solidarity is horizontal. It respects the other person. I have a lot to learn from other people. (Eduardo Galeano)

      • The problem of Trotskyism is not a struggle between tendencies within the Chinese Communist Party, for between communists and Trotskyists there is no link, absolutely not one link: It is a question that concerns the entire people: the struggle against the Fatherland. (Ho Chi Minh)

      • The alternatives that confront humanity to-day are serious enough; but they are alternatives of the destruction and anarchy of capitalism, involving still greater poverty and misery in the midst of abundance and rising productive power, or the social organisation of production, bringing abundance for all. The “overpopulation” (like the simultaneous “overproduction”) is only relative to the capitalist conditions of production. (R. Palme Dutt)

      • When the bourgeoisie sees power slipping from its grasp, it has recourse to fascism to maintain itself. (Durruti)

      • Anarchism is a product of despair. The psychology of the unsettled intellectual or the vagabond and not of the proletarian. (Lenin)

      • Anarchism is bourgeois individualism in reverse. Individualism as the basis of the entire anarchist world outlook. (Lenin)

      • It has been my endeavour to show in this work that a fall of wages would have no other effect than to raise profits. (David Ricardo)

      • The sole “property” of matter with whose recognition philosophical materialism is bound up is the property of being an objective reality, of existing outside the mind. (Lenin)

      • Our democracy is but a name. We vote? What does that mean? It means that we choose between two bodies of real, though not avowed, autocrats. We choose between Tweedledum and Tweedledee.… (Helen Keller)

      • To determine the true rulers of any society, all you must do is ask yourself this question: Who is it that I am not permitted to criticize? (Kevin Alfred Strom)

      • Unhappy is the land that needs a hero. (Bertolt Brecht)

      • You no doubt know that the greatest part of this victory was achieved by the Soviet people, by the people who live in the republics of the former Soviet Union. Unfortunately, we used to believe that the 20th century was the bloodiest, but we now see in the 21st century a new danger to humanity in the form of terrorism. (Bashar al-Assad)

      • There has been Anti-Semitism, the Nazis, Hitler, Auschwitz, but was that their fault? They see but one thing: we have come and we have stolen their country. Why would they accept that? (David Ben Gurion)

      • An unjust law is itself a species of violence. (Mahatma Gandhi)

      • Pray for the dead and fight like hell for the living. (Mary Harris (Mother) Jones)

      • Every act of rebellion expresses a nostalgia for innocence and an appeal to the essence of being. (Camus)

      • Even a purely moral act that has no hope of any immediate and visible political effect can gradually and indirectly, over time, gain in political significance. (Vaclav Havel)

      • A riot is the language of the unheard. (Martin Luther King, Jr.)

      • Standing up for your rights does not make you a radical, it makes you a human being. (Tupac Shakur)

      • Above all, what socialist, without flushing with shame, maintains he is not a revolutionary? We say: none! (Johann Most)

      • When dictatorship is a fact, revolution becomes a right. (Victor Hugo)

      • I was born in revolution. (Mary Harris (Mother) Jones)

      • If nothing is left, one must scream, because silence is the biggest crime against humanity. (Nadezhda Mandelstam)

      • One of the symptoms of revolution is the sudden increase in the number of ordinary people who take an active interest in politics. (Lenin)

      • We cannot be sure of having something to live for unless we are willing to die for it. (Che Guevara)

      • First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win. (Mahatma Gandhi)

      • The king must die so that the country can live. (Robespierre)

      • To love without role, without power plays, is revolution. (Rita Mae Brown)

      • A right delayed is a right denied. (Martin Luther King, Jr.)

      • A man who has nothing for which he is willing to fight is a miserable creature. (John Stuart Mill)

      • The most potent weapon in the hands of the oppressor is the mind of the oppressed. (Steve Biko)

      • The spirit of revolution will not die while the hearts of these workers continue to beat. (Ernst Toller)

      • He is no revolutionist who would have the revolution of the proletariat only under the “condition” that it proceed smoothly. (Tchernychewski)

      • We know the road to freedom has always been stalked by death. (Angela Davis)

      • Democracy for an insignificant minority, democracy for the rich – that is the democracy of capitalist society. If we look more closely into the machinery of capitalist democracy, we see everywhere, in the “petty” – supposedly petty – details of the suffrage (residential qualifications, exclusion of women, etc.), in the technique of the representative institutions, in the actual obstacles to the right of assembly (public buildings are not for “paupers”!), in the purely capitalist organization of the daily press, etc., etc., – we see restriction after restriction upon democracy. These restrictions, exceptions, exclusions, obstacles for the poor seem slight, especially in the eyes of one who has never known want himself and has never been in close contact with the oppressed classes in their mass life (and nine out of 10, if not 99 out of 100, bourgeois publicists and politicians come under this category); but in their sum total these restrictions exclude and squeeze out the poor from politics, from active participation in democracy. (Lenin)

      • So long as the people do not care to exercise their freedom, those who wish to tyrannize will do so; for tyrants are active and ardent, and will devote themselves in the name of any number of gods, religious and otherwise, to put shackles upon sleeping men. (Voltaire)

      • I am a firm believer in the people. If given the truth, they can be depended upon to meet any national crisis. The great point is to bring them the real facts. (Abraham Lincoln)

      • In politics, nothing happens by accident, if it happens, you can be sure we planned it that way. (Franklin D. Roosevelt)

      • People who shut their eyes to reality simply invite their own destruction. (James Baldwin)

      • You can cut all the flowers but you cannot keep spring from coming. (Pablo Neruda)

      • That there are men in all countries who get their living by war, and by keeping up the quarrels of nations, is as shocking as it is true; but when those who are concerned in the government of a country, make it their study to sow discord, and cultivate prejudices between nations, it becomes the more unpardonable. The Rights of Man”, circa 1792 (Thomas Paine)

      • When the tyrant has disposed of foreign enemies by conquest or treaty, and there is nothing to fear from them, then he is always stirring up some war or other, in order that the people may require a leader. (Plátōn)

      • A nation of sheep will beget a government of wolves. (Edward R. Murrow)

      • If our nation is ever taken over, it will be taken over from within. (James Madison)

      • Of all the enemies to public liberty war is, perhaps, the most to be dreaded, because it comprises and develops the germ of every other. War is the parent of armies; from these proceed debts and taxes; and armies, and debts, and taxes are the known instruments for bringing the many under the domination of the few. In war, too, the discretionary power of the Executive is extended; its influence in dealing out offices, honors, and emoluments is multiplied; and all the means of seducing the minds, are added to those of subduing the force, of the people. The same malignant aspect in republicanism may be traced in the inequality of fortunes, and the opportunities of fraud, growing out of a state of war, and in the degeneracy of manners and of morals engendered by both. No nation could preserve its freedom in the midst of continual warfare. (James Madison)

      • The ideal tyranny is that which is ignorantly self-administered by its victims. The most perfect slaves are, therefore, those which blissfully and unawaredly enslave themselves. (Dresden James)

      • Money has no motherland; financiers are without patriotism and without decency; their sole object is gain. (Napoléon Bonaparte)

      • All murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets. (Voltaire)

      • All war is based on deception. (Sun Tzu)

      • All the promises of the free market have turned out to be lies. (Chris Hedges)

      • If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich. (JFK)

      • If we define an American fascist as one who in case of conflict puts money and power ahead of human beings, then there are undoubtedly several million fascists in the United States. (Henry A. Wallace)

      • Another threat, less overt but no less basic, confronts liberal democracy. More directly linked to the impact of technology, it involves the gradual appearance of a more controlled and directed society. Such a society would be dominated by an elite whose claim to political power would rest on allegedly superior scientific knowhow. Unhindered by the restraints of traditional liberal values, this elite would not hesitate to achieve its political ends by using the latest modern techniques for influencing public behavior and keeping society under close surveillance and control. Under such circumstances, the scientific and technological momentum of the country would not be reversed but would actually feed on the situation it exploits. (Zbigniew Brzezinski)

      • The obvious types of American fascists are dealt with on the air and in the press. These demagogues and stooges are fronts for others. Dangerous as these people may be, they are not so significant as thousands of other people who have never been mentioned. (Henry A. Wallace)

      • Materialism is the recognition of “objects in themselves”, or outside the mind; ideas and sensations are copies of images of those objects. (Lenin)

      • The one who follows the crowd will usually get no further than the crowd. The one who walks alone is likely to find himself in places no one has ever been. (Albert Einstein)

      • Rich men and crooks are two sides of the same coin, two of the main elements nourished by capitalism. (Lenin)

      • The friends of peace in bourgeois circles believe that world peace and disarmament can be realised within the frame-work of the present social order, whereas we, who base ourselves on the materialistic conception of history and on scientific socialism, are convinced that militarism can only be abolished from the world with the destruction of the capitalist class state. (Rosa Luxemburg)

      • A single factory, potentially capable of supplying a whole continent with its particular product, cannot afford to wait until the public asks for its product; it must maintain constant touch, through advertising and propaganda, with the vast public in order to assure itself the continuous demand which alone will make its costly plant profitable. (Edward Bernays)

      • Inside of many liberals is a fascist struggling to get out. (John McCarthy)

      • So you have two types of Negro. The old type and the new type. Most of you know the old type. When you read about him in history during slavery he was called “Uncle Tom.” He was the house Negro. And during slavery you had two Negroes. You had the house Negro and the field Negro. The house Negro usually lived close to his master. He dressed like his master. He wore his master’s second-hand clothes. He ate food that his master left on the table. And he lived in his master’s house–probably in the basement or the attic–but he still lived in the master’s house. So whenever that house Negro identified himself, he always identified himself in the same sense that his master identified himself. When his master said, “We have good food, ” the house Negro would say, “Yes, we have plenty of good food.” “We” have plenty of good food. When the master said that “we have a fine home here, ” the house Negro said, “Yes, we have a fine home here.” When the master would be sick, the house Negro identified himself so much with his master he’d say, “What’s the matter boss, we sick?” His master’s pain was his pain. And it hurt him more for his master to be sick than for him to be sick himself. When the house started burning down, that type of Negro would fight harder to put the master’s house out than the master himself would. But then you had another Negro out in the field. The house Negro was in the minority. The masses–the field Negroes were the masses. They were in the majority. When the master got sick, they prayed that he’d die. [Laughter] If his house caught on fire, they’d pray for a wind to come along and fan the breeze. If someone came to the house Negro and said, “Let’s go, let’s separate, ” naturally that Uncle Tom would say, “Go where? What could I do without boss? Where would I live? How would I dress? Who would look out for me?” That’s the house Negro. But if you went to the field Negro and said, “Let’s go, let’s separate, ” he wouldn’t even ask you where or how. He’d say, “Yes, let’s go.” And that one ended right there. (Malcolm X)

      • To fight against the impossible and win. (Fidel Castro)

      • Everybody has to move, run and grab as many (Palestinian) hilltops as they can to enlarge the (Jewish) settlements because everything we take now will stay ours…Everything we don’t grab will go to them. (Ariel Sharon)

      • The more numerous the laws, the more corrupt the government. (Cornelius Tacitus)

      • In the so called mistakes of Stalin lies the difference between a revolutionary attitude and a revisionist attitude. You have to look at Stalin in the historical context in which he moves, you don’t have to look at him as some kind of brute, but in that particular historical context. I have come to communism because of daddy Stalin and nobody must come and tell me that I mustn’t read Stalin. I read him when it was very bad to read him. That was another time. And because I’m not very bright, and a hard-headed person, I keep on reading him. Especially in this new period, now that it is worse to read him. Then, as well as now, I still find a Seri of things that are very good. (Che Guevara)

      • Now, to balance the scale, I’d like to talk about some things that bring us together, things that point out our similarities instead of our differences. ‘Cause that’s all you ever hear about in this country. It’s our differences. That’s all the media and the politicians are ever talking about—the things that separate us, things that make us different from one another. That’s the way the ruling class operates in any society. They try to divide the rest of the people. They keep the lower and the middle classes fighting with each other so that they, the rich, can run off with all the fucking money! Fairly simple thing. Happens to work. You know? Anything different—that’s what they’re gonna talk about—race, religion, ethnic and national background, jobs, income, education, social status, sexuality, anything they can do to keep us fighting with each other, so that they can keep going to the bank! You know how I define the economic and social classes in this country? The upper class keeps all of the money, pays none of the taxes. The middle class pays all of the taxes, does all of the work. The poor are there just to scare the shit out of the middle class. Keep ’em showing up at those jobs. (George Carlin)

      • You will burn in Hell for thousands of migrants from Africa and for supporting Al-Qaeda. (Muammar Gaddafi)

      • That white person you see calling himself a liberal is the most dangerous thing in the western hemisphere…he’s like a fox. (Malcolm X)

      • The big lie about capitalism is that everyone can be rich. That’s impossible. Capitalism works only if the vast majority of the population are kept poor enough to never quit working, are kept poor enough to accept distasteful jobs society cannot function without. If everyone were a millionaire, who would empty the trash or repair the sewers? It follows that the poorer the general population is made, the greater the worth of the money held by the wealthy, in terms of the lives which may be bought and sold with it. (Michael Rivero)

      • By the later years of the Reagan regime, a preferred nomenclature suited to U.S. interests became standardized for the Third World. In the case of nations to be rolled back (e.g., Nicaragua), governments were called terrorist and the insurgents were labeled democratic. In the case of countries to be supported against “communist” insurgencies (e.g., El Salvador and the Philippines), the governments were called democratic and the insurgents were labeled terrorists. (Thomas Bodenheimer)

      • Death squads have been created and used by the CIA around the world – particularly the Third World – since the late 1940s, a fact ignored by the elite-owned media. (Ralph McGehee)

      • We must use terror, assassination, intimidation, land confiscation, and the cutting of all social services to rid the Galilee of its Arab population. (Israel Koenig)

      • Americans are so enamored of equality that they would rather be equal in slavery than unequal in freedom. (Alexis de Tocqueville)

      • U.S. Naval psychologists specially selected men for these commando tasks from submarine crews, paratroops, and some convicted murderers were being released from prisons to become assassins. (Thomas Narut)

      • Authoritarian government required to speak, is silent…Representative government required to speak, LIES with impunity. (Napoléon Bonaparte)

      • The first casualty of war is truth. (Rudyard Kipling)

      • The modern liberal state … often uses deception to gain its ends — not so much deception of the foreign enemy, but of its own citizens, who have been taught to trust their leaders. (Howard Zinn)

      • … U. S. business wants a “favorable climate of investment” abroad, and … military regimes that will crush labor unions and otherwise serve foreign business meet that demand. (Edward Herman)

      • With unfailing consistancy, U.S. intervention has been on the side of the rich and powerful of various nations at the expense of the poor and needy. Rather than strengthening democracies, U.S. leaders have overthrown numerous democratically elected governments or other populist regimes in dozens of countries … whenever these nations give evidence of putting the interests of their people ahead of the interests of multinational corporate interests. (Michael Parenti)

      • U.S. Ieaders commit war crimes as a matter of institutional necessity, as their imperial role calls for keeping subordinate peoples in their proper place and assuring a “favorable climate of investment” everywhere. They do this by using their economic power, but also (by means of “bombs bursting in the air” and) by supporting Diem, Mobutu, Pinochet, Suharto, Savimbi, Marcos, Fujimori, Salinas, and scores of similar leaders. War crimes also come easily because U.S. Ieaders consider themselves to be the vehicles of a higher morality and truth and can operate in violation of law without cost. It is also immensely helpful that their mainstream media agree that their country is above the law and will support and rationalize each and every venture and the commission of war crimes. (Edward Herman)

      • As the mainstream media has become increasingly dependent on advertising revenues for support, it has become an anti-democratic force in society. (Robert McChesney)

      • Peace cannot exist without equality. (Edward Said)

      • The great masses of the people at the very bottom of their hearts tend to be corrupted rather than consciously evil … they more easily fall a victim to a big lie than to a little one, since they themselves lie in little things, but would be ashamed of lies that were too big. (Hitler)

      • We went over there and fought the war and eventually burned down every town in North Korea anyway, someway or another, and some in South Korea too.… Over a period of three years or so, we killed off — what — twenty percent of the population of Korea as direct casualties of war, or from starvation and exposure? (Curtis LeMay)

      • All art is propaganda. It is universally and inescapably propaganda; sometimes unconsciously, but often deliberately, propaganda. (Upton Sinclair)

      • Private property must, therefore, be abolished and in its place must come the common utilization of all instruments of production and the distribution of all products according to common agreement – in a word, what is called the communal ownership of goods. (Friedrich Engels)

      • Class-conscious workers stand for the complete unity of the workers of all countries in each and every educational, industrial, and political organisation. (R. F. Andrews)

      • In Lenin I honor a man, who in total sacrifice of his own person has committed his entire energy to realizing social justice. I do not find his methods advisable. One thing is certain, however: men like him are the guardians and renewers [Erneuerer] of mankind’s conscience. (Albert Einstein)

      • Between capitalist and communist society lies the period of the revolutionary transformation of the one into the other. There corresponds to this also a political transition period in which the state can be nothing but the revolutionary dictatorship of the proletariat. (Karl Marx)

      • Israel was created by Western imperialism and maintained by Western firepower. (Huey P. Newton)

      • The masses are the teachers of everything and the creators of everything. (Kim Jong-il)

      • Against the collective power of the propertied classes, the working class cannot act as a class except by constituting itself into a political party distinct from, and opposed to, all old parties formed from the propertied classes. (Karl Marx)

      • The Muslim Terrorist Apparatus was Created by US Intelligence as a Geopolitical Weapon. (Zbigniew Brzezinski)

      • 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. (Stalin)

      • We will not surrender. We will defeat them by any means. We are ready for the fight, whether it will be a short or a long one. We will be victorious in the end. This assault is by a bunch of fascists who will end up in the dustbin of history. (Muammar Gaddafi)

      • 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. (Frank Church)

      • Market society was born in England—yet it was on the Continent that its weaknesses engendered the most tragic complications. In order to comprehend German fascism, we must revert to Ricardian England. The nineteenth century, as cannot be overemphasized, was England’s century. The Industrial Revolution was an English event. Market economy, free trade, and the gold standard were English inventions. These institutions broke down in the twenties everywhere—in Germany, Italy, or Austria the event was merely more political and more dramatic. But whatever the scenery and the temperature of the final episodes, the long-run factors which wrecked that civilization should be studied in the birthplace of the Industrial Revolution, England. (Karl Polanyi)

      • Empire is emerging today as the center that supports the globalization of productive networks and casts its widely inclusive net to try to envelop all power relations within its world order — and yet at the same time it deploys a powerful police function against the new barbarians and the rebellious slaves who threaten its order. (Antonio Negri)

      • The substitution of one social system for another is a complicated and long revolutionary process. It is not simply a spontaneous process, but a struggle, it is a process connected with the clash of classes. Capitalism is decaying, but it must not be compared simply with a tree which has decayed to such an extent that it must fall to the ground of its own accord. No, revolution, the substitution of one social system for another, has always been a struggle, a painful and a cruel struggle, a life and death struggle. And every time the people of the new world came into power they had to defend themselves against the attempts of the old world to restore the old power by force; these people of the new world always had to be on the alert, always had to be ready to repel the attacks of the old world upon the new system. (Stalin)

      • For at least another hundred years we must pretend to ourselves and to everyone that fair is foul and foul is fair; for foul is useful and fair is not. Avarice and usury and precaution must be our gods for a little longer still. For only they can lead us out of the tunnel of economic necessity into daylight. (John Maynard Keynes)

      • All propaganda for socialism must be refashioned from abstract and general to concrete and directly practical. (Lenin)

      • Capitalism is religion. Banks are churches. Bankers are priests. Wealth is heaven. Poverty is hell. Rich people are saints. Poor people are sinners. Commodities are blessings. Money is God. (Miguel D. Lewis)

      • The only symbol of superiority that I know is kindness. (Beethoven)

      • We fully regard civil wars, i.e., wars waged by the oppressed class against the oppressing class, slaves against slave-owners, serfs against land-owners, and wage-workers against the bourgeoisie, as legitimate, progressive and necessary. (Lenin)

      • One of the biggest and most dangerous mistakes made by Communists is the idea that a revolution can be made by revolutionaries alone. On the contrary, to be successful, all serious revolutionary work requires that the idea that revolutionaries are capable of playing the part only of the vanguard of the truly virile and advanced class must be understood and translated into action. (Lenin)

      • I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library. (Jorge Luis Borges)

      • We now live in a nation where doctors destroy health, lawyers destroy justice, universities destroy knowledge, governments destroy freedom, the press destroys information, religion destroys morals, and our banks destroy the economy. (Chris Hedges)

      • I’m more and more convinced it’s only through communism that we can become human. (Frida Kahlo)

      • This fascist state intends to kill all of us. We must organize resistance. Violence can only be answered with violence. This is the generation of Auschwitz [referring to the West German government and society], you cannot argue with them. (Gudrun Ensslin)

      • Marxism-Leninism … teaches that the legal relationships (and, consequently, law itself) are rooted in the material conditions of life, and that law is merely the will of the dominant class, elevated into a statute. (Andrei Yanuaryevich Vyshinsky)

      • The class which has the means of material production at its disposal, has control at the same time over the means of mental production, so that thereby, generally speaking, the ideas of those who lack the means of mental production are subject to it. (Karl Marx)

      • If, by being revolutionary, one means rational rebellion against intolerable social conditions, if, by being radical, one means “going to the root of things,” the rational will to improve them, then fascism is never revolutionary. (Wilhelm Reich)

      • The whole history of my life, and in essence the whole history of the working class consists of this: that we have lived and fought under the leadership of Lenin and Stalin. (Mikhail Ivanovich Kalinin)

      • Do not be alarmed by simplification, complexity is often a device for claiming sophistication, or for evading simple truths. (John Kenneth Galbraith)

      • The present-day capitalist economy in China is a capitalist economy which for the most part is under the control of the People’s Government and which is linked with the state-owned socialist economy in various forms and supervised by the workers. It is not an ordinary but a particular kind of capitalist economy, namely, a state-capitalist economy of a new type. It exists not chiefly to make profits for the capitalists but to meet the needs of the people and the state. True, a share of the profits produced by the workers goes to the capitalists, but that is only a small part, about one quarter, of the total. The remaining three quarters are produced for the workers (in the form of the welfare fund), for the state (in the form of income tax) and for expanding productive capacity (a small part of which produces profits for the capitalists). Therefore, this state-capitalist economy of a new type takes on a socialist character to a very great extent and benefits the workers and the state. (Mao Zedong)

      • He who fights, can lose. He who doesn’t fight, has already lost. (Bertolt Brecht)

      • We have a marvelous Georgian who has sat down to write a big article for Prosveshcheniye, for which he has collected all the Austrian and other materials. (Lenin)

      • The crisis consists precisely in the fact that the old is dying and the new cannot be born; in this interregnum a great variety of morbid symptoms appear. (Gramsci)

      • Make the economy scream [in Chile] to prevent Allende from coming to power or to unseat him. (Richard Nixon)

      • You cannot trust in imperialism, not even a little bit… Not at all! (Che Guevara)

      • Modern bourgeois society, with its relations of production, of exchange and of property, a society that has conjured up such gigantic means of production and of exchange, is like the sorcerer who is no longer able to control the powers of the nether world whom he has called up by his spells. For many a decade past the history of industry and commerce is but the history of the revolt of modern productive forces against modern conditions of production, against the property relations that are the conditions for the existence of the bourgeois and of its rule. It is enough to mention the commercial crises that by their periodical return put the existence of the entire bourgeois society on its trial, each time more threateningly. In these crises, a great part not only of the existing products, but also of the previously created productive forces, are periodically destroyed. In these crises, there breaks out an epidemic that, in all earlier epochs, would have seemed an absurdity — the epidemic of over-production. Society suddenly finds itself put back into a state of momentary barbarism; it appears as if a famine, a universal war of devastation, had cut off the supply of every means of subsistence; industry and commerce seem to be destroyed; and why? Because there is too much civilisation, too much means of subsistence, too much industry, too much commerce. The productive forces at the disposal of society no longer tend to further the development of the conditions of bourgeois property; on the contrary, they have become too powerful for these conditions, by which they are fettered, and so soon as they overcome these fetters, they bring disorder into the whole of bourgeois society, endanger the existence of bourgeois property. The conditions of bourgeois society are too narrow to comprise the wealth created by them. And how does the bourgeoisie get over these crises? On the one hand by enforced destruction of a mass of productive forces; on the other, by the conquest of new markets, and by the more thorough exploitation of the old ones. That is to say, by paving the way for more extensive and more destructive crises, and by diminishing the means whereby crises are prevented. The weapons with which the bourgeoisie felled feudalism to the ground are now turned against the bourgeoisie itself. But not only has the bourgeoisie forged the weapons that bring death to itself; it has also called into existence the men who are to wield those weapons — the modern working class — the proletarians. In proportion as the bourgeoisie, i.e., capital, is developed, in the same proportion is the proletariat, the modern working class, developed — a class of labourers, who live only so long as they find work, and who find work only so long as their labour increases capital. These labourers, who must sell themselves piecemeal, are a commodity, like every other article of commerce, and are consequently exposed to all the vicissitudes of competition, to all the fluctuations of the market. (Karl Marx)

      • Principle of exaggeration and disfigurement. Make any anecdote, however small, a serious threat. (Joseph Goebbels)

      • The bourgeoisie will use any and every instrument of struggle as occasion arisese It is for the working class and its allies to be prepared for the fight in front. (R. Palme Dutt)

      • Every specific turn in history causes some change in the form of petty-bourgeois wavering, which always occurs alongside the proletariat, and which, in one degree or an other, always penetrates its midst. This wavering flows in two “streams”: petty-bourgeois reformism, i.e., servility to the bourgeoisie covered by a cloak of sentimental democratic and “Social”-Democratic phrases and fatuous wishes; and petty-bourgeois revolutionism—menacing, blustering and boastful in words, but a mere bubble of disunity, disruption and brainlessness in deeds. This wavering will inevitably occur until the taproot of capitalism is cut. (Lenin)

      • Since 1954, however, we have not parachuted teams into the Soviet Union – our number one enemy – to destabilize that country… Neither do we run these violent operations in England, France, Sweden, Norway, Belgium, or Switzerland. Since the mid-1950s they have all been conducted in Third World countries where governments do not have the power to force the United States to stop its brutal and destabilizing campaigns. (John Stockwell)

      • In essence, Marxism and Marxist notions need to evolve with the development of historical conditions. It is on the basis of Marxist methodology that Marxism evolves. In the conditions of the last stage of capitalism, imperialism, Marxism becomes Marxism-Leninism. Refuting Leninism is tantamount to decrying Marxism, as anti-Leninism is rendered a form of anti-Marxism. Marxism to- day cannot be understood without Lenin’s contribution to Marxism. (R. Palme Dutt)

      • Yet the Second World War began not as a war with the U.S.S.R., but as a war between capitalist countries. Why? Firstly, because war with the U.S.S.R., as a socialist land, is more dangerous to capitalism than war between capitalist countries; for whereas war between capitalist countries puts in question only the supremacy of certain capitalist countries over others, war with the U.S.S.R. must certainly put in question the existence of capitalism itself. Secondly, because the capitalists, although they clamour, for “propaganda” purposes, about the aggressiveness of the Soviet Union, do not themselves believe that it is aggressive, because they are aware of the Soviet Union’s peaceful policy and know that it will not itself attack capitalist countries. (Stalin)

      • It’s not my fault if reality is Marxist. (Che Guevara)

      • At the bottom of genuinely national wars, such as took place especially between 1789 and 1871, was a long process of mass national movements, of a struggle against absolutism and feudalism, the overthrow of national oppression, and the formation of states on a national basis, as a prerequisite of capitalist development. The national ideology created by that epoch left a deep impress on the mass of the petty bourgeoisie and a section of the proletariat. This is now being utilised in a totally different and imperialist epoch by the sophists of the bourgeoisie, and by the traitors to socialism who are following in their wake, so as to split the workers, and divert them from their class aims and from the revolutionary struggle against the bourgeoisie. The words in the Communist Manifesto that “the working men have no country” are today truer than ever before. Only the proletariat’s international struggle against the bourgeoisie can preserve what it has won, and open to the oppressed masses the road to a better future. (Lenin)

      • Since 1845 Marx and I have held the view that one of the ultimate results of the future proletarian revolution will be the gradual dissolution of the political organisation known by the name of state. The main object of this organisation has always been to secure, by armed force, the economic oppression of the labouring majority by the minority which alone possesses wealth. With the disappearance of an exclusively wealth-possessing minority there also disappears the necessity for the power of armed oppression, or state power. At the same time, however, it was always our view that in order to attain this and the other far more important aims of the future social revolution, the working class must first take possession of the organised political power of the state and by its aid crush the resistance of the capitalist class and organise society anew. (Friedrich Engels)

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