Protestation

Ray Bradbury: You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.

Enver Hoxha: The revolution has its own laws, which are universal and indispensable for any country. Denial of these laws leads to revisionism.

Enver Hoxha: The communists are sincere in their alliances with other social forces. They are resolute fighters for putting into practice the programs of united fronts, but at the same time, they make no secret of their ideals, and once they have accomplished their democratic and national tasks, they are determined not to stop half-way, but to carry the revolution forward to the triumph of socialism and communism.

Lenin: The bourgeoisie in our country has been conquered, but it has not yet been uprooted, not yet destroyed, and not even utterly broken. That is why we are faced with a new and higher form of struggle against the bourgeoisie, the transition from the very simple task of further expropriating the capitalists to the much more complicated and difficult task of creating conditions in which it will be impossible for the bourgeoisie to exist, or for a new bourgeoisie to arise. Clearly. this task is immeasurably more significant than the previous one; and until it is fulfilled there will be no socialism.

Lenin: One should know how to 𝒄𝒐𝒎𝒃𝒊𝒏𝒆 the struggle for democracy and the struggle for the socialist revolution, 𝒔𝒖𝒃𝒐𝒓𝒅𝒊𝒏𝒂𝒕𝒊𝒏𝒈 the first to the second. In this lies the whole difficulty; in this is the whole essence. The Tolstoyans and the anarchists throw out the first. Bukharin and Radek have become confused, failing to combine the first with the second. But I say: don’t lose sight of the 𝒎𝒂𝒊𝒏 thing (the socialist revolution); put it first (Junius has not done this); put 𝒂𝒍𝒍 the democratic demands, but subordinating them to it, co-ordinating them with it (Radek + Bukharin unwisely eliminate one of them), and bear in mind that the struggle for the main thing may blaze up even though it has begun with the struggle for something partial. In my opinion, only this conception of the matter is the right one.

Kwame Ture: The job of the slave master is to convince the slave that he is concerned about the interests of the slave more than his own interests.

Fidel Castro: China and Russia, the two countries called to lead a new world that would allow human survival if imperialism does not first unleash a criminal and exterminating war.

Seth MacFarlane: When a child kills an animal for fun, we fear mental illness. When an adult with the capacity to reason does it, we call it 'sport'.

Carl Sagan: Nothing disturbs me more than the glorification of stupidity.

Matthew Prior: For hope is but the dream of those that wake!

Desmond Tutu: Hope is being able to see that there is light despite all of the darkness.

Brad Henry: A good teacher can inspire hope, ignite the imagination, and instill a love of learning.