Protestation

Karl Marx: Capital is the endless and limitless drive to go beyond its limiting barrier. Every boundary is and has to be a barrier for it. Else it would cease to be capital – money as self reproductive.

Stalin: History teaches us that the class or social group which plays the principal role in social production and performs the main functions in production must, in the course of time, inevitably take control of that production.

George Seldes: Fascism and Reaction inevitably attack. They have won against disunion. They will fail if we unite.

Kim Il Sung: Those who walk about unkempt and unshaven in an attempt to show off a “proletarian fashion” are uncouth people who insult the working class. The working class is the noblest in the world. Some people try to find fault with people with neat appearance, regarding them as vain. They are seriously wrong. We are building communism so as to be well-off, not badly off. In former days proletarians were ill-clothed because they were poor.

Fidel Castro: 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.

Karl Marx: Labour is the substance, and the immanent measure of value, but has itself no value.

Che Guevara: And the imperialists? Will they sit with their arms crossed? No! The system they practice is the cause of the evils from which we are suffering, but they will try to obscure the facts with spurious allegations, of which they are masters. They will try to compromise the conference and sow disunity in the camp of the exploited countries by offering them pittances.

John F. Kennedy: The hottest places in hell are reserved for those who in times of great moral crisis maintain their neutrality.

Lenin: 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.

Kim Il Sung: To expect good results while sitting idle without building factories, would be like the Christians praying to “God” for a blessed life. Our freedom and happiness cannot come from Heaven. They must be won by our own efforts and struggle.

Friedrich Engels: The slave is sold once and for all; the proletarian must sell himself daily and hourly.

Stalin: 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.

Kim Il Sung: 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.

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

Hunter S. Thompson: The last half of the 20th century will seem like a wild party for rich kids, compared to what's coming now. The party's over, folks. . . (Censorship of the news) is a given in wartime, along with massive campaigns of deliberately-planted "Dis-information". That is routine behavior in Wartime — for all countries and all combatants — and it makes life difficult for people who value real news.

Vladimir Putin: If I was the President of Russia the time NATO invaded Libya, Muammar Gaddafi would still be alive because an invasion in any part of Africa by then would have meant an invasion in Russia.

Lenin: Those who are really convinced that they have made progress in science would not demand freedom for the new views to continue side by side with the old, but the substitution of the new views for the old.

Kim Il Sung: Peace secured by slavish submission is not peace.

Hunter S. Thompson: These horrifying digital snapshots of the American dream in action on foreign soil are worse than anything even I could have expected.

Hunter S. Thompson: The towers are gone now, reduced to bloody rubble, along with all hopes for Peace in Our Time, in the United States or any other country.

Hunter S. Thompson: He could shake your hand and stab you in the back at the same time.

Mao Zedong: Fight, fail, fight again, fail again, fight again . . . till their victory; that is the logic of the people, and they too will never go against this logic. This is another Marxist law. The Russian people's revolution followed this law, and so has the Chinese people's revolution.

Hunter S. Thompson: We have become a Nazi monster in the eyes of the whole world, a nation of bullies and bastards who would rather kill than live peacefully. We are not just Whores for power and oil, but killer whores with hate and fear in our hearts. We are human scum, and that is how history will judge us. No redeeming social value. Just whores. Get out of our way, or we'll kill you. Who does vote for these dishonest shitheads? Who among us can be happy and proud of having all this innocent blood on our hands? Who are these swine? These flag-sucking half-wits who get fleeced and fooled by stupid little rich kids like George Bush? They are the same ones who wanted to have Muhammad Ali locked up for refusing to kill gooks. They speak for all that is cruel and stupid and vicious in the American character. They are the racists and hate mongers among us; they are the Ku Klux Klan. I piss down the throats of these Nazis. And I am too old to worry about whether they like it or not. Fuck them.

Hunter S. Thompson: Not even the foulest atrocities of Adolf Hitler ever shocked me so badly as these Abu Ghraib photographs did.

Hunter S. Thompson: The TV business is uglier than most things.

Sócrates: Discussing politics through football is a form of activism.

Lenin: The only serious organizational principle the active workers of our movement can accept is strict secrecy, strict selection of members and the training of professional revolutionaries.

Samora Machel: The rich man's dog gets more in the way of vaccination, medicine and medical care than do the workers upon whom the rich man's wealth is built.

Lenin: From what has been said it will be clear that the national struggle under the conditions of rising capitalism is a struggle of the bourgeois classes among themselves.

Gramsci: A government of the classes of workers and peasants, which will not preoccupy itself either with the constitution or the sacred principles of liberalism, but which is determined to definitively defeat fascism, to disarm it and to defend the interests of the workers of the cities and the fields against all exploiters, this alone is the so youthful force capable of liquidating a past of oppression, of exploitation and crime and of giving a future of true liberty to all who labor.

Kwame Nkrumah: The difference between myself and Castro is that I am not aligned and he is; I am a socialist and he is a communist.

Carl Sagan: Every Star that you see in the Sky might be a sun to someone.

Kim Il Sung: The claim that socialism is “totalitarian”, “barracks-like” and “administrative and commanding” is not in essence different from the pernicious anti-socialist propaganda which the imperialists have conducted since the first appearance of socialism in the world.

Kim Il Sung: The imperialists have always said that socialism is an inhuman society in which there is no freedom or democracy. The terms totalitarian, barracks-like and administrative and commanding are a repetition of the imperialists’ false propaganda against socialism that uses new words.

Hunter S. Thompson: Morality is temporary, wisdom is permanent.

Huey P. Newton: Israel was created by Western imperialism and maintained by Western firepower.

Moissaye J. Olgin: This is capitalism in its modern form. This is capitalist civilization. A palace built on crushed human bones. Glittering glory for a few at the price of oceans of blood and tears of the many. Progress running amuck at every step... Prosperity devouring itself and devouring untold human lives. Expansion made possible by killing and maiming huge masses of innocent people. Scientific advance made to serve the purpose of destruction. Security for the non-producers; starvation for the producers... The drones in great esteem; the workers downtrodden and despised.

George Habash: We cannot live with Zionism. Zionism is fascism, exactly.

Bhagat Singh: Revolution is an inalienable right of mankind. Freedom is an imperishable birth right of all.

William F. Dunne: As a worker, ordinary, daily events of development of the class struggle are familiar to them. They expect these things as the routine of working-class life and see no news value in them. It is this outlook of the worker that makes it hard for them to write or speak. They are not inarticulate because of lack of words, but because they have been taught by capitalism to look upon the thousand and one tyrannies, inconveniences, and hardships inflicted on the workers as of little importance — things to be endured without comment or complaint.

Thomas Sankara: Eternal glory to the peoples who are struggling for their freedom! Eternal glory to the peoples who stand shoulder to shoulder to defend their dignity! Eternal victory to the peoples of Africa, Latin America and Asia in their struggle!

Nikola Tesla: The scientific man doesn’t aim at an immediate result. He doesn’t expect that his advanced ideas will be readily taken up. His work is like that of the planter - for the future. His duty is to lay the foundation for those who are to come, and point the way.

Lord Ismay: The purpose of NATO was to keep the Soviet Union out, the Americans in, and the Germans down.

Stalin: Industrial crises, which sound the death knell of capitalist property and bluntly put the question: capitalism or socialism, make this conclusion absolutely obvious; they vividly reveal the parasitism of the capitalists and the inevitability of the victory of socialism.

Kim Jong-Il: 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.

Deng Xiaoping: If we had taken the capitalist road, we could not have put an end to the chaos in the country or done away with poverty or backwardness. That is why we have repeatedly declared that we shall adhere to Marxism and keep the socialist road.

Kim Jong-Il: 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: Those who only pursue their own pleasure cry and laugh because of money, but those who wage revolution seek their self-worth, pleasure, happiness and honour and feel dignity and pride in devoting themselves to the benefit of their community and posterity.

Kim Jong-Il: 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: As a house on a weak foundation cannot last long, a fantasy, however good it is, becomes an absurd daydream if it is supported by weak basic knowledge.

Kim Jong-Il: 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.

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

Lenin: The Poor Peasants' Committees are necessary to fight the kulaks, the rich, the exploiters, who shackle the working peasants.

Paul Comley French: (I saw) Gerald P. MacGuire in the offices of Grayson M.-P. Murphy & Co., the twelfth floor of 52 Broadway, shortly after 1 o'clock in the afternoon. He has a small private office there and I went into his office. I have here some direct quotes from him. As soon as I left his office I got to a typewriter and made a memorandum of everything that he told me. "We need a Fascist government in this country," he insisted, "to save the Nation from the communists who want to tear it down and wreck all that we have built in America. The only men who have the, patriotism to do it are the soldiers and Smedley Butler is the ideal leader. He could organize a million men over night." During the conversation he told me he had been in Italy and Germany during the summer of 1934 and the spring of 1934 and had made an intensive study of the background of the Nazi and Fascist movements and how the veterans had played a part in them. He said he had obtained enough information on the Fascist and Nazi movements and of the part played by the veterans, to properly set up one in this country. He emphasized throughout his conversation with me that the whole thing was tremendously patriotic, that it was saving the Nation from communists, and that the men they deal with have that crackbrained idea that the Communists are going to take it apart. He said the only safeguard would be the soldiers. At first he suggested that the General organize this outfit himself and ask a dollar a year dues from everybody. We discussed that, and then he came around to the point of getting outside financial funds, and he said that it would not be any trouble to raise a million dollars. During the course of the conversation he continually discussed the need of a man on a white horse, as he called it, a dictator who would come galloping in on his white horse. He said that was the only way; either through the threat of armed force or the delegation of power, and the use of a group of organized veterans, to save the capitalistic system.

Lenin: And so, in dealing from this angle with the tasks confronting the youth, I must say that the tasks of the youth in general, and of the Young Communist Leagues and all other organizations in particular, might be summed up in a single word: learn.

Huey P. Newton: Che Guevara said that to a revolutionary death is the reality and victory the dream.

Michael Parenti: 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.

Fidel Castro: Without the existence of the Soviet Union, Cuba’s socialist revolution would have been impossible.

Lenin: The rich, who consume the products of the labor of others, can only obtain them by making exchanges. They therefore seem to be exposed to an early exhaustion of their reserve funds. But…wealth has acquired the power of reproducing itself through the labor of others.

Mao Zedong: Communism is not love. Communism is a hammer which we use to crush the enemy.

Kim Il Sung: It’s true we’re still in need. But we’ll help you defend the Cuban revolution that emerged victorious for the first time in Latin America, even if that means we have to tighten our belt. That is a sacred duty of us communists working for proletarian internationalism. Genuine communists are just true proletarian internationalist.

Che Guevara: Genuine communists are just true proletarian internationalists. This is a revolutionary principle Kim Il Sung implanted in my mind. I’ve decided to dedicate myself to proletarian internationalism.

Kim Philby: To betray, you must first belong.

Kim Philby: 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.

Stalin: However great your consciousness may be, you cannot stand up against bullets with bare hands!

Fidel Castro: Why did they think that by killing him, he would cease to exist as a fighter? Today Che is in every place, wherever there is a just cause to defend.

Fidel Castro: There are people who carry inside them the dignity of the world, and one of those is Che.

Philip Agee: In the CIA we didn't give a hoot about democracy. It was fine if a government was elected and would cooperate with us, but if it didn't, then democracy didn't mean a thing to us. And I don't think it means a thing today.

Fyodor Dostoevsky: Above all, do not lie to yourself. A man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to a point where he does not discern any truth either in himself or anywhere around him, and thus falls into disrespect towards himself and others.

Pablo Neruda: Many of the creative spirits of our time do not realize that what seems to them to be the deepest expression of their being is often deadly poison injected into them by their most implacable enemies. Dying capitalism is filling the cup of human creation.

Kwame Nkrumah: Socialism is not spontaneous. It does not arise of itself. It has abiding principles according to which the major means of production and distribution ought to be socialized if exploitation of the many by the few is to be prevented if, that is to say, egalitarianism in the economy is to be protected.

Adam Smith: People of the same trade seldom meet together even for merriment and diversion, but the conversation ends in a conspiracy against the public, or on some contrivance to raise prices.

Palmiro Togliatti: When we speak of 'adversaries' we do not have in mind *the masses* enrolled in the fascist, social-democratic and Catholic organizations. Our adversaries are the fascist, social-democratic and Catholic "organizations".

Palmiro Togliatti: Watch out when you hear fascism spoken of as 'Bonapartism.' This proposition, which is Trotskyism's warhorse, is drawn from some statements by Marx (...) and Engels; but Marx and Engels' anlyses, ... become incorrect when mechanically applied today, in the age of imperialism.

Palmiro Togliatti: The most complete definition of fascism was given by the 13th meeting of the Englarged Exec. of the Communist International and is as follows: 'Fascism is the open terrorist dictatorship of the most reactionary, most chauvinistic, most imperialist elements of finance capital.'

Palmiro Togliatti: (referring to the Bonapartism thing) The Trotskyites have always had this conception of fascism. What is its root? Its root is the disavowal of the definition of fascism as the dictatorship of the bourgeoisie.

Palmiro Togliatti: The probabilities of establishing a fascist dictatorship depend on the degree of the fighting spirit of the working class and its ability to defend the democratic institutions... This struggle to defend the democratic institutions broadens and becomes the struggle for power.

Palmiro Togliatti: We must use (the term fascism) only when the fight against the working class develops on a new mass base with a petty-bourgeois character... Hence, the fascist dictatorship endeavors to posess a mass movement by organizing the bourgeoisie and petty bourgeoisie.

Palmiro Togliatti: This was one of our errors, an error that has been repeated elsewhere as well: to overlook the shift of the intermediate strata and the creation of trends in the petty bourgeoisie that the bourgeoisie can use against the working class.

Palmiro Togliatti: Fascist ideology contains a series of heterogeneous ingredients. We must bear this in mind because this trait enables us to understand the purpose this ideology serves. It serves to solder together various factions in the struggle for dictatorship over the working masses and to create a vast movement for this scope. Fascist ideology is an instrument created to bind these elements together.

Palmiro Togliatti: The fascist dictatorship has been driven to assume its current forms by objective factors, by real factors — by the economic situation and the mass movements this situation has brought into being... The bourgeoisie has always intervened as a factor of organization.

Palmiro Togliatti: It is the fascists, in fact, who try to show that everything they have done has been based on pre-established plans.

Lenin: An end to wars, peace among the nations, the cessation of pillaging and violence—such is our ideal, but only bourgeois sophists can seduce the masses with this ideal, if the latter is divorced from a direct and immediate call for revolutionary action.

Thomas Sankara: He who feeds you, controls you.

Lenin: Disarmament is the ideal of socialism. There will be no wars in socialist society; consequently, disarmament will be achieved. But whoever expects that socialism will be achieved without a social revolution and the dictatorship of the proletariat is not a socialist.

Karl Marx: 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.

Walter Benjamin: The masses have a right to change property relations; Fascism seeks to give them an expression while preserving property. The logical result of Fascism is the introduction of aesthetics into political life. (…) Communism responds by politicizing art.

Enver Hoxha: Stalin was no tyrant, no despot. He was a man of principle; he was just, modest and very kindly and considerate towards people, the cadres and his colleagues.

Issac Don Levine: Stalin does not seek honours. He loathes pomp. He is averse to public displays. He could have all the nominal regalia in the chest of a great state. But he prefers the background.

Georgy Zhukov: Free of affectation and mannerisms, he (Stalin -- Ed.) won the heart of everyone he talked with.

Nikola Tesla: Anti-social behavior is a trait of intelligence in a world full of conformists.

Lenin: Our ideological conceptions give rise to principles of organization. No special organizations for women. A woman Communist is a member of the Party just as a man Communist, with equal rights and duties. There can be no difference of opinion on that score.

Lenin: Trotsky unites all to whom ideological decay is dear, all who are not concerned with the defence of Marxism; all philistines who do not understand the reasons for the struggle and who do not wish to learn, think, and discover the ideological roots of the divergence of views. At this time of confusion, disintegration, and wavering it is easy for Trotsky to become the "hero of the hour" and gather all the shabby elements around himself, The more openly this attempt is made, the more spectacular will be the defeat.

Frédéric Bastiat: While society is struggling toward liberty, these famous men who put themselves at its head are filled with the spirit of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. They think only of subjecting mankind to the philanthropic tyranny of their own social inventions.

Frederick C. Howe: This is the story of something for nothing—of making the other fellow pay. This making the other fellow pay, of getting something for nothing, explains the lust for franchises, mining rights, tariff privileges, railway control, tax evasions. All these things mean monopoly, and all monopoly is bottomed on legislation. And monopoly laws are born in corruption. The commercialism of the press, or education, even of sweet charity, is part of the price we pay for the special privileges created by law. The desire of something for nothing, of making the other fellow pay, of monopoly in some form or other, is the cause of corruption. Monopoly and corruption are cause and effect. Together, they work in Congress, in our Commonwealths, in our municipalities. It is always so. It always has been so. Privilege gives birth to corruption, just as the poisonous sewer breeds disease. Equal chance, a fair field and no favors, the "square deal" are never corrupt. They do not appear in legislative halls nor in Council Chambers. For these things mean labor for labor, value for value, something for something. This is why the little business man, the retail and wholesale dealer, the jobber, and the manufacturer are not the business men whose business corrupts politics.

Paulo Freire: The generosity of the oppressors is nourished by an unjust order, which must be maintained in order to justify that generosity.

Paulo Freire: The oppressed, having internalized the image of the oppressor and adopted his guidelines, are fearful of freedom.

Santiago Ramón y Cajal: Instead of elaborating on accepted principles, let us simply point out that for the last hundred years the natural sciences have abandoned completely the Aristotelian principles of intuition, inspiration, and dogmatism.

Yuri Gagarin: I could have gone on flying through space forever.

Mao Zedong: The only way to know conditions is to make social investigations, to investigate the conditions of each social class in real life.