Protestation

Joseph Goebbels: Principle of the method of contagion. Gathering various adversaries into a single category or individual; The adversaries must be constituted in an individualized sum.

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

John F. Kennedy: We are not here to curse the darkness, but to light the candle that can guide us through that darkness to a safe and sane future.

John F. Kennedy: Only an educated and informed people will be a free people.

Deng Xiaoping: One of the basic concepts of Marxism is that the socialist system must be defended by the dictatorship of the proletariat. Marx once said the theory of class struggle was not his discovery. His real discovery was the theory of the dictatorship of the proletariat. History has proved that a new, rising class that has just taken power is, generally speaking, weaker than the opposing classes. It must therefore resort to dictatorship to consolidate its power. Democracy is practiced within the ranks of the people and dictatorship over the enemy. This is the people's democratic dictatorship. It is right to consolidate the people's power by employing the force of the people's democratic dictatorship. There is nothing wrong in that. We have been building socialism for only a few decades and are still in the primary stage. It will take a very long historical period to consolidate and develop the socialist system, and it will require persistent struggle by many generations, a dozen or even several dozens. We can never rest on our oars.

John F. Kennedy: There can be no progress if people have no faith in tomorrow.

John F. Kennedy: The high office of the President has been used to foment a plot to destroy the American's freedom and before I leave office, I must inform the citizens of this plight.

John F. Kennedy: Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.

John F. Kennedy: Mankind must put an end to war before war puts an end to mankind.

John F. Kennedy: Don't ask 'Why', ask instead, 'Why not'.

John F. Kennedy: Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future.

John F. Kennedy: The state is the servant of the citizen, and not his master.

John F. Kennedy: There are risks and costs to action. But they are far less than the long range risks of comfortable inaction.

John F. Kennedy: All of us do not have equal talent, but all of us should have an equal opportunity to develop our talent.

W. E. B. Du Bois: This is not Europe gone mad; this is not aberration nor insanity; this is Europe. This seeming terrible is the true soul of white culture.

George Carlin: Israeli terrorists are called "commandos" Arab commandos are called "Terrorists".

Ovid: Happy are those who dare courageously to defend what they love.

Ovid: The lamp burns bright when wick and oil are clean.

Ovid: The cause is hidden; the effect is visible to all.

Ovid: At times it is folly to hasten at other times, to delay. The wise do everything in its proper time.

Ovid: Dripping water hollows out stone, not through force but through persistence.

Lenin: 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! Imagine the suffering and privation they are enduring. But they are holding out because they want to defend the Soviets, because they want freedom and communism. Yes, our working women are magnificent class fighters. They are worthy of admiration and love.

Antonio Machado: And when the day arrives for the final voyage and the ship of no return is set to sail, you’ll find me aboard, traveling light, almost naked, like the children of the sea.

Jean-Paul Sartre: Tomorrow, after my death, some men may decide to establish fascism, and others may be so cowardly or so slack as to let them do so. If so, fascism will then be the truth of man, and so much the worse for us.

John F. Kennedy: History is a relentless master. It has no present, only the past rushing into the future. To try to hold fast is to be swept aside.

John F. Kennedy: Let us not seek the Republican answer or the Democratic answer, but the right answer. Let us not seek to fix the blame for the past. Let us accept our own responsibility for the future.

John F. Kennedy: Things do not happen. Things are made to happen.

John F. Kennedy: Effort and courage are not enough without purpose and direction.

John F. Kennedy: Today, we need a nation of Minutemen, citizens who are not only prepared to take arms, but citizens who regard the preservation of freedom as the basic purpose of their daily life and who are willing to consciously work and sacrifice for that freedom.

John F. Kennedy: I will splinter the CIA into a thousand pieces and scatter it into the winds.

Simón Bolívar: The United States appear to be destined by Providence to plague America with misery in the name of liberty.

George Orwell: The past was erased, the erasure was forgotten, the lie became the truth.

Mark Twain: A half-truth is the most cowardly of lies.

Robert Louis Stevenson: The cruelest lies are often told in silence.

Winston Churchill: A small lie needs a bodyguard of bigger lies to protect it.

Jonah Goldberg: As we all know, the most effective lies are the ones sprinkled with the most actual truths.

Sophocles: A lie never lives to be old.

Tell a lie and then tell the truth: it will be considered a lie (Sumerian proverb). - anonymous

Michel de Montaigne: Who is not sure of his memory should not attempt lying.

Isaac Watts: And he that does one fault at first, and lies to hide it, makes it two.

H. G. Wells: An animal may be cunning and ferocious enough, but it takes a real man to tell a lie.

Leila Khaled: The Palestinian liberation movement is a progressive national movement against the forces of aggression and imperialism. The link between the interests of imperialism and the continued existence of Israel will make our war against the latter basically a war against imperialism.

Charles de Gaulle: Stalin had tremendous authority and not only in Russia. He knew how not to panic when he lost and not to enjoy victories. And he has more victories than defeats. Stalin's Russia is not the old Russia that perished with the monarchy. But a Stalinist state without successors worthy of Stalin is doomed. Stalin did not become a thing of the past - he disappeared into the future. And Khrushchev wants to oppose himself literally in everything to Stalin and the Stalinist style. This deliberation is very often to the detriment of Khrushchev and the authority of the USSR.

Haile Selassie I: My meetings with Soviet leaders after Stalin convince him that there are no worthy successors in the country's leadership. Due to many reasons, the tough but effective system of governing the country, implemented under Stalin, is weakening after him. Becomes more demonstrative than real. And in my opinion, there is no continuity in the managerial, economic and other actions of Soviet leaders after Stalin.

Mao Zedong: In his last years of his life, fake “comrades-in-arms” did not allow Stalin to nominate young cadres to leading positions. We took into account this tragic lesson, which ended with Stalin's quick “departure” and the rise to power of the revisionists-degenerates.

Mahatma Gandhi: Remember that all through history, there have been tyrants and murderers, and for a time, they seem invincible. But in the end, they always fall. Always.

Karl Marx: The worker becomes all the poorer the more wealth he produces, the more his production increases in power and size. The worker becomes an ever cheaper commodity the more commodities he creates. The devaluation of the world of men is in direct proportion to the increasing value of the world of things. Labor produces not only commodities; it produces itself and the worker as a commodity – and this at the same rate at which it produces commodities in general.

Stan Mitchell: If you claim to be someone's ally but aren't getting hit by the stones thrown at them, you aren't standing close enough.

Sherko Bekas: The tide said to the fisherman: There are many reasons why my waves are in a rage. The most important is that I am for the freedom of the fish and against the net.

Karl Marx: Trade and industry ought to he protected, but the debatable point is precisely whether protective tariffs do in reality protect trade and industry. We regard such a system much more as the organisation of a state of war in time of peace, a state of war which, aimed in the first place against foreign countries, necessarily turns in its implementation against the country which organises it.

Malcolm X: It is a time for martyrs now, and if I am to be one, it will be for the cause of brotherhood. That’s the only thing that can save this country.

Malcolm X: The problem that exists in Palestine is not a religious problem... It is a question of colonialism. It is a question of a people who are being deprived of their homeland.

Malcolm X: Zionist logic is the same logic that brought Hitler and the Nazis into power... It is the same logic that says that because my grandfather came from Ireland, I have the right to go back to Ireland and take over the whole country.

Malcolm X: I don’t go for anything that’s non-violent and turn-the-other-cheekish. I don’t see how any revolution—I’ve never heard of a non-violent revolution or a revolution that was brought about by turning the other cheek, and so I believe that it is a crime for anyone to teach a person who is being brutalized to continue to accept that brutality without doing something to defend himself. If this is what the Christian-Gandhian philosophy teaches then it is criminal—a criminal philosophy.

Alexander Haig: Israel is the largest American aircraft carrier in the world that cannot be sunk, does not carry even one American soldier, and is located in a critical region for American national security.

Alexander Haig: That’s not a lie, it’s a terminological inexactitude.

Alexander Haig: To declare the Cold War over, and declare democracy has won out over totalitarianism, is a measure of arrogance and wrong-headedness.

Alexander Haig: The membership of a country in NATO is a guarantee against the development of certain revolutionary processes. I can't be more explicit.

Kevin Alfred Strom: 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?

Montesquieu: The laws of Rome had wisely divided public power among a large number of magistracies, which supported, checked and tempered each other. Since they all had only limited power, every citizen was qualified for them, and the people — seeing many persons pass before them one after the other — did not grow accustomed to any in particular. But in these times the system of the republic changed. Through the people the most powerful men gave themselves extraordinary commissions — which destroyed the authority of the people and magistrates, and placed all great matters in the hands of one man, or a few.

Leonardo da Vinci: Nothing strengthens authority so much as silence.

John Milton Hay: Better to reign in Hell then serve in Heaven.

Judy Garland: Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of somebody else.

George Monbiot: If wealth was the inevitable result of hard work and enterprise, every woman in Africa would be a millionaire.

Marcus Tullius Cicero: A slave dreams not of freedom, but of his own slaves.

Erich Honecker: Without the wall through #Berlin there could have been a nuclear war with thousands or millions of dead.

Jon Lee Anderson: I have yet to find a single credible source pointing to a case where Che executed 'an innocent'. Those persons executed by Guevara or on his orders were condemned for the usual crimes punishable by death at times of war or in its aftermath: desertion, treason or crimes such as rape, torture or murder. I should add that my research spanned five years, and included anti-Castro Cubans among the Cuban-American exile community in Miami and elsewhere.

Arthur Rosenberg: It is precisely the biggest and most powerful capitalists, the owners of giant monopolistic enterprises and of the fijinancial institutions linked to them who were the fijirst to abandon the hackneyed soil of liberalism and turn to the new imperialist methods. The vast majority of middling and small capitalists remained faithful to the liberal tradition for much longer. To capture state-power, the capitalists opposed to liberalism are compelled to enlist allies in other sectors of the population. The most astute leaders of the new imperialism manage to outdo even the liberals and the bourgeois democrats in their demagogy. Sometimes, under the slogan of national defence of the poor, they even fijight the ‘narrow-minded monied interests’ of liberalism. There is scarcely any doubt that modern fascism belongs with this type, and that it has developed the nationalist propaganda characteristic of this kind of politics to perfection.

Karl Marx: Mankind thus inevitably sets itself only such tasks as it is able to solve, since closer examination will always show that the problem itself arises only when the material conditions for its solution are already present or at least in the course of formation.

Karl Marx: To clamour for equal or even equitable retribution on the basis of the wages system is the same as to clamour for freedom on the basis of the slavery system.

Lenin: That the bourgeoisie hate us so passionately is one of the most striking proofs that we are showing the people the right ways and means of overthrowing the rule of the bourgeoisie.

Lenin: We must not only “terrorise” the capitalists, i.e., make them feel the omnipotence of the proletarian state and give up all idea of actively resisting it. We must also break passive resistance, which is undoubtedly more dangerous and harmful. We must not only break resistance of every kind. We must also compel the capitalists to work within the framework of the new state organisation. It is not enough to “remove” the capitalists; we must (after removing the undesirable and incorrigible “resisters”) employ them in the service of the new state. This applies both to the capitalists and to the upper section of the bourgeois intellectuals, office employees, etc.

Leila Khaled: In the beginning, all women had to prove that we could be equal to men in armed struggle. So we wanted to be like men -- even in our appearance… I no longer think it’s necessary to prove ourselves as women by imitating men. I have learned that a woman can be a fighter, a freedom fighter, a political activist, and that she can fall in love, and be loved, she can be married, have children, be a mother… Revolution must mean life also; every aspect of life.

James Connolly: They lower our wages—to prevent improvidence; they increase our rents—to prevent improvidence; they periodically suspend us from our employment—to prevent improvidence, and as soon as we are worn out in their service they send us to a semi-convict establishment, known as the workhouse, where we are scientifically starved to death—to prevent improvidence.

Amilcar Cabral: A basic principle of our struggle is our counting on our own forces, our own sacrifices, our own efforts, but considering the characteristic underdevelopment of our people, of our country, the economic backwardness of our country, it is very difficult for us to produce weapons. Taking into account these circumstances, taking into account the fact that in our country 99% of the people are illiterate, which makes the immediate existence of cadres difficult; and also taking into account that the enemy, which has no scruples, is aided by its NATO allies, in particular, the United States, Federal Germany, and some other countries, and above all by its South African racist allies-taking into account all this and also the essential characteristic of our times, which is the general struggle of the peoples against imperialism and the existence of a socialist camp, which is the greatest bulwark against imperialism, we accept and request aid from all the peoples that can give it to us. We do not ask for aid in manpower: there are enough of us to fight and defeat colonialism in our country. We ask for aid in weapons, in articles of prime necessity to supply our liberated regions, in medicines to heal our wounded and cure our sick and to provide medical care for the population of the liberated regions.

Mao Zedong: When I say the United States is evil, I mean its ruling class. The American people are pretty good. Many of them haven't awakened yet, but they will.

Linus Torvalds: A computer is like air conditioning - it becomes useless when you open Windows.

Lenin: Communists who have no illusions, who do not give way to despondency, and who preserve their strength and flexibility ‘to begin from the beginning’ over and over again in approaching an extremely dificult task, are not doomed (and in all probability will not perish).

Carl Sagan: Science is not only compatible with spirituality; it is a profound source of spirituality.

Harpal Brar: 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.

Jose Luis Sampedro: In these times it is easier to spread immorality than decency.

Kenneth Neill Cameron: If Stalin had accomplished for the world bourgeoisie what he did for the world proletariat, he would have long been hailed in bourgeois circles as one of the “greats” of all time, not only of the present century. The same general criteria should apply to Stalin’s reputation from the Marxist point of view. Stalin advanced the position of the world proletariat further than any person in history with the exception of Lenin. True, without the base Lenin laid, Stalin could not have built, but using this base he moved about as far as was possible in the existing situation. In short a new class of world leader has emerged, and Stalin is in its highest rank.

Leila Khaled: I do not see how my oppressor could sit in judgment on my response to his oppressive actions against me. He is in no position to render an impartial judgment or to accuse me of air piracy and hijacking when he has hijacked my home and hijacked me and my people out of our land. If the enemy defines morality and legality in his own terms and decides to apply his ethical and legal doctrines against me because he has the power as well as the means of communications to justify his inhumanity, I am under no moral obligation to listen, let alone obey his dictates. Indeed, I am under a moral obligation to resist and to fight to death the enemy's moral corruption. My deed cannot be evaluated without examining the underlying causes. The revolutionary deed I carried out on August 29, 1969 was an assertion of my spurned humanity, a declaration of the humanity of Palestinians. It was an act of protest against the West for its pro-Zionist (therefore anti-Palestinian) posture. The list of the sins of the West is overwhelming.

John Steinbeck: Socialism never took root in America because the poor see themselves not as an exploited proletariat but as temporarily embarrassed millionaires.

Ronald Wright: If civilization is to survive, it must live on the interest, not the capital, of nature.

Ronald Wright: Each time history repeats itself, the price goes up.

Ronald Wright: The most compelling reason for reforming our system is that the system is in no one's interest. It is a suicide machine.

Ronald Wright: In times of war or crisis, power is easily stolen from the many by the few on a promise of security. The more elusive the or imaginary the foe, the better for manufacturing consent.

Ronald Wright: Our word “lord” comes from the Old English hlaford, or “loafward,” he who guarded the bread supply — and was expected to share it.

Friedrich Engels: The demand for equality in the mouth of the proletariat has therefore a double meaning. It is either — as was the case especially at the very start, for example in the Peasant War (see Engels’ work Peasant War in Germany)— the spontaneous reaction against the crying social inequalities, against the contrast between rich and poor, the feudal lords and their serfs, the surfeiters and the starving; as such it is simply an expression of the revolutionary instinct, and finds its justification in that, and in that only. Or, on the other hand, this demand has arisen as a reaction against the bourgeois demand for equality, drawing more or less correct and more far-reaching demands from this bourgeois demand, and serving as an agitational means in order to stir up the workers against the capitalists with the aid of the capitalists’ own assertions; and in this case it stands or falls with bourgeois equality itself. In both cases the real content of the proletarian demand for equality is the demand for the abolition of classes. Any demand for equality which goes beyond that, of necessity passes into absurdity.

Fernando Pessoa: The value of things is not in the time they last, but in the intensity with which they occur. That’s why there are unforgettable moments, unexplained things and incomparable people.

Saramago: The world is turning into a cave just like Plato's: everyone looking at images believing they are reality.

William Randolph Hearst: You furnish the pictures. I'll furnish the war.

William Randolph Hearst: A politician will do anything to keep his job-even become a patriot.

William Randolph Hearst: Whatever is right can be achieved through the irresistible power of awakened and informed public opinion. Our object, therefore, is not to enquire whether a thing can be done, but whether it ought to be done, to so exert the forces of publicity that public opinion will compel it be done.

Friedrich Engels: No nation will put up with production conducted by trusts, with so barefaced an exploitation of the community by a small band of dividend-mongers.

Lenin: The Treaty of Brest-Litovsk dictated by monarchist Germany, and the subsequent much more brutal and despicable Treaty of Versailles dictated by the “democratic” republics of America and France and also by “free” Britain, have rendered a most useful service to humanity by exposing both imperialism’s hired coolies of the pen and petty- bourgeois reactionaries who, although they call themselves pacifists and socialists, sang praises to “Wilsonism”, and insisted that peace and reforms were possible under imperialism.

Lenin: The tens of millions of dead and maimed left by the war—a war to decide whether the British or German group of financial plunderers is to receive the most booty—and those two “peace treaties”, are with unprecedented rapidity opening the eyes of the millions and tens of millions of people who are downtrodden, oppressed, deceived and duped by the bourgeoisie. Thus, out of the universal ruin caused by the war a world-wide revolutionary crisis is arising which, however prolonged and arduous its stages may be, cannot end otherwise than in a proletarian revolution and in its victory.

Subcomandante Marcos: Another world is possible, but only on top of the corpse of capitalism.

Frantz Fanon: Two centuries ago, a former European colony decided to catch up with Europe. It succeeded so well that the United States of America became a monster, in which the taints, the sickness and the inhumanity of Europe have grown to appalling dimensions.