Protestation

Fulton J. Sheen: There is no word more "dangerous" than liberalism, because to oppose it is the new "unforgivable sin".

Enver Hoxha: The more the contradictions of capitalism and imperial- ism deepen, and the closer the wave of the revolution approaches, the more the other revisionist current — Euro- communism, reveals its anti-Marxist and counter-revolu- tionary features.

Enver Hoxha: There is nothing unknown about what socialism is, what it represents and what it brings about, how it is achieved and how socialist society is built. A theory and practice of scientific socialism exists. Marx, Engels, Lenin and Stalin teach us this theory. But the basic principles and the universal laws of socialism remain unshakeable and are essential for all countries.

Enver Hoxha: Any disguise, any falsification, any deviation from the scientific theory of Marxism-Leninism cannot be kept up for long. Sooner or later it is exposed, because it runs counter to the ideals of the working class and the peoples who fight for freedom, for genuine democracy, for socialism, for a society without exploiters and exploited.

Enver Hoxha: In genuine socialist society, in which the common property is managed by the state of the dictatorship of the proletariat, with the broad, organised and effective participation of the working class and the other working masses, according to the principle of democratic centralism, and in which great differences in the distribution of the social product, which lead to the creation of privileged strata, are not permitted, the worker is not a wage-slave and is not exploited.

Friedrich Engels: Fifthly, there is absolutely no mention of the organization of the working class as a class through the medium of trade unions. And that is a point of the utmost importance, this being the proletariat’s true class organization in which it fights its daily battles with capital, in which it trains itself and which nowadays can no longer simply be smashed, even with reaction at its worst (as presently in Paris).

Oliver Goldsmith: Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.

Kim Jong-Un: The masses are masters of their own destiny and they are responsible for implementing the cause of independence, but only under correct leadership of a revolutionary party can they become a genuine motive force of the revolution.

Lenin: Three keys to success: read, read, read.

Proudhon: 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.

Eugene V. Debs: We will wrest what we can, step by step, from the capitalists, but with our eye fixed upon the goal.

Issac Asimov: He [Orwell] wasn’t much affected, apparently, by the Nazi brand of totalitarianism, for there was no room within him except for his private war with Stalinist communism.

Lenin: The masses must not be lulled with hopes that peace may be attained without the overthrow of imperialism.

Karl Marx: In the meantime, may I wish you in advance every happiness for the New Year. If it’s anything like the old one, I, for my part, would sooner consign it to the devil.

John Pilger: Spartacus was the rebellious leader of Rome’s slaves in 71-73 BC. There is a thrilling moment in the Kirk Douglas movie Spartacus when the Romans call on Spartacus’s men to identify their leader and so be pardoned. Instead hundreds of his comrades stand and raise their fists in solidarity and shout, ‘I am Spartacus!’ The rebellion is under way. Julian and David are Spartacus. The Palestinians are Spartacus. People who fill the streets with flags and principle and solidarity are Spartacus. We are all Spartacus if we want to be.

John Pilger: I know when Bush is lying: his lips move.

Confucius: He who knows all the answers has not been asked all the questions.

John Pilger: Today, China has matched America at its own great game of capitalism – and that is unforgivable.

John Pilger: The United States dominates the Western world’s media. All but one of the top ten media companies are based in North America. The internet and social media - Google, Twitter, Facebook - are mostly American owned and controlled.

John Pilger: In my lifetime, the United States has overthrown or attempted to overthrow more than 50 governments, mostly democracies ... It has interfered in democratic elections in 30 countries. It has dropped bombs on the people of 30 countries, most of them poor and defenceless. It has attempted to murder the leaders of 50 countries. It has fought to suppress liberation movements in 20 countries.

Bruce Lee: Those who are unaware they are walking in darkness will never seek the light.

Albert Einstein: There will come a time when the rich own all the media and it will be impossible for the public to make an informed opinion.

Malcolm X: 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.

Eugene V. Debs: You must use your heads as well as your hands, and get yourself out of your present condition; as it is now the capitalists use your heads and your hands.

Malcolm X: Be peaceful, be courteous, obey the law, respect everyone; but if someone puts his hand on you, send him to the cemetery.

Dwight Eisenhower: A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both.

Stalin: Proletarian culture does not abolish national culture, it gives it content. On the other hand, national culture does not abolish proletarian culture, it gives it form. The slogan of national culture was a bourgeois slogan as long as the bourgeoisie was in power and the consolidation of nations proceeded under the aegis of the bourgeois order. The slogan of national culture became a proletarian slogan when the proletariat came to power, and when the consolidation of nations began to proceed under the aegis of Soviet power. Whoever fails to understand the fundamental difference between these two situations will never understand either Leninism or the essence of the national question.

Kwame Ture: Anytime you make an analysis of an oppressed people, in any aspect of their life, and you leave out the enemy, you will never come to a correct analysis. On the contrary, you will blame the oppressed for all of their problems.

Laura Miller: Buying a book is not about obtaining a possession, but about securing a portal.

Thich Nhat Hanh: Freedom is not given to us by anyone; we have to cultivate it ourselves. It is a daily practice.

Plato: There is no one who ever acts honestly in the administration of states, nor any helper who will save any one who maintains the cause of the just.

Horatius Cocles: And how can man die better, than facing fearful odds, for the ashes of his fathers, and the temples of his gods?

Horace: In peace, as a wise man, he should make suitable preparation for war.

Horace: Carpe diem (Seize the day).

Horace: In adversity, remember to keep an even mind.

Horace: As money grows, care follows it and the hunger for more.

Horace: Force without wisdom falls of its own weight.

Horace: We are but dust and shadow.

Horace: We are but numbers, born to consume resources.

Horace: He who has begun has half done. Dare to be wise; begin!

Horace: The covetous man is ever in want.

Horace: Think to yourself that every day is your last.

Horace: He is not poor who has enough of things to use.

Horace: He who feared that he would not succeed sat still.

Horace: Do you count your birthdays with gratitude?

Horace: The covetous person is full of fear; and he or she who lives in fear will ever be a slave.

Horace: Whoever lives in fear will never be free.

Lenin: For socialism is merely the next step forward from state-capitalist monopoly. Or, in other words, socialism is merely state-capitalist monopoly which is made to serve the interests of the whole people and has to that extent ceased to be capitalist monopoly. There is no middle course here. The objective process of development is such that it is impossible to advance from monopolies (and the war has magnified their number, role and importance tenfold) without advancing towards socialism.

Lenin: Everybody talks about imperialism. But imperialism is merely monopoly capitalism.

Lenin: The dialectics of history is such that the war, by extraordinarily expediting the transformation of monopoly capitalism into state-monopoly capitalism, has thereby extraordinarily advanced mankind towards socialism. Imperialist war is the eve of socialist revolution. And this not only because the horrors of the war give rise to proletarian revolt—no revolt can bring about socialism unless the economic conditions for socialism are ripe—but because state-monopoly capitalism is a complete material preparation for socialism, the threshold of socialism, a rung on the ladder of history between which and the rung called socialism there are no intermediate rungs.

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

Lenin: The scientific term ‘dictatorship’ means nothing more nor less than authority untrammeled by any laws, absolutely unrestricted by any rules whatever, and based directly on force.

Lenin: Competition becomes transformed into monopoly. The result is immense progress in the socialisation of production. In particular, the process of technical invention and improvement becomes socialised.

Che Guevara: It’s a sad thing not to have friends, but it is even sadder not to have enemies.

Thomas Sankara: Courageous, determined, stoic and tireless, the Palestinians remind us all of the need and moral obligation to respect the rights of a people. Along with their Jewish brothers, they are anti-Zionists.

Lenin: They do not see the wood for the trees.

Stalin: I am ready to continue to devote all my strength, all my abilities and, if necessary, all my blood, drop by drop, to the cause of the working class.

Lenin: No revolution is worth anything unless it can defend itself; but a revolution does not learn to defend itself at once. The revolution has awakened millions to a new life.

Vyacheslav Mikhaylovich Molotov: Warsaw as the capital of the Polish state no longer exits. No one knows the whereabouts of the Polish Government. The population of Poland have been abandoned by their ill-starred leaders to their fate. The Polish state and its government have virtually ceased to exist. In view of this state of affairs, treaties concluded between the Soviet Union and Poland have ceased to operate.

Albert Einstein: It is the same with people as it is with riding a bike. Only when moving can one comfortably maintain one’s balance.

Mark Twain: History never repeats itself, but it does often rhyme.

Charles Wright Mills: The world is hungry; the liberal cries: 'Let us make it free!' The world is tired of war; the liberal cries "Let us arm for peace!" The people of the world are without land; the liberal cries: 'Let us beg the landed oligarchs to parcel some of it out!

Norma Marshall: History is not there for you to like or dislike. It is there for you to learn from it. And if it offends you, even better. Because then you are less likely to repeat it. It's not yours to erase or destroy.

Henning Wehn: We don't do charity in Germany. We pay taxes. Charity is a failure of governments' responsibilities.

Socrates: Anyone who holds a true opinion without understanding is like a blind man on the right road.

Socrates: Each of these private teachers who work for pay ... inculcates nothing else than these opinions of the multitude which they opine when they are assembled and calls this knowledge wisdom.

Socrates: False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil.

Socrates: Children are now tyrants, not the servants of their households. They no longer rise when elders enter the room. They contradict their parents, chatter before company, gobble up dainties at the table, cross their legs, and tyrannize their teachers.

Socrates: I am not an Athenian or a Greek, but a citizen of the world.

Archimedes: Do not disturb my circles!

Archimedes: Give me the place to stand, and I shall move the earth.

Archimedes: Eureka!

Eric Temple Bell: Modern mathematics was born with Archimedes and died with him for all of two thousand years. It came to life again with Descartes and Newton.

Alex Bellos: Archimedes was the earliest thinker to develop the apparatus of an infinite series with a finite limit ...starting on the conceptual path toward calculus. Of the giants on whose shoulders Isaac Newton would eventually perch, Archimedes was the first.

Plato: Democracy does not contain any force which will check the constant tendency to put more and more on the public payroll. The state is like a hive of bees in which the drones display, multiply and starve the workers so the idlers will consume the food and the workers will perish.

Mao Zedong: To judge whether or not it is a mistake, you have only to see how joyful the lawless landlords become and how reactionary sentiments grow.

Clara Zetkin: For reforms ameliorate the situation of the working class, they lighten the weight of the chains labour is burdened with by capitalism, but they are not sufficient to crush capitalism and to emancipate the workers from their tyranny.

Frantz Fanon: Every spectator is either a coward or a traitor.

A. Badayev: The Bolsheviks regarded the election campaign to the State Duma as an opportunity for far-reaching agitation and propaganda and as one of the means of organizing the masses. By attempting to secure the election of their own candidates, the Bolsheviks did not transform the campaign into a mere struggle for a few seats in the Duma. The activity of the Duma fraction both within and outside the Duma had great revolutionary importance. But the election campaign itself was of no less importance and throughout its course the revolutionary position of Social-Democracy had to be preserved in all its purity, without being toned down or retouched for any secondary considerations.

Karl Marx: The simple circulation of commodities - selling in order to buy - is a means of carrying out a purpose unconnected with circulation, namely, the appropriation of use-values, the satisfaction of wants. The circulation of money as capital is, on the contrary, an end in itself, for the expansion of value takes place only within this constantly renewed movement. The circulation of capital has therefore no limits. As the conscious representative of this movement, the possessor of money becomes a capitalist. His person, or rather his pocket, is the point from which the money starts and to which it returns.

Napoleon Bonaparte: If you build an army of 100 lions and their leader is a dog, in any fight, the lions will die like a dog. But if you build an army of 100 dogs and their leader is a lion, all dogs will fight like a lion.

Isaac Newton: I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.

Harry Bridges: The most important word in the language of the working class is "solidarity".

Daniel De Leon: Make no mistake: The organization of the working class must be both economic and political. The capitalist is organized upon both lines. You must attack him on both.

Mao Zedong: Our dictatorship is the people's democratic dictatorship led by the working class and based on the worker-peasant alliance.

Rosa Luxemburg: Bourgeois class domination is undoubtedly an historical necessity, but, so too, the rising of the working class against it. Capital is an historical necessity, but, so too, its grave digger, the socialist proletariat.

Phillip Blond: The welfare state disempowered working class people people by taking away their ability to self-organise, by taking away their ability to work with each other. It atomised working class communities and also prevented innovation and aspiration for those at the bottom.

Attacking the rich is not envy. It is self defense. The hoarding of wealth is the cause of poverty. The rich aren’t just indifferent to poverty; they create it and maintain it. - unknown

Stalin: [I]t is obligatory for us, Leninists, to wage a fight on two fronts—both against the Right deviation and against the "Left" deviation.

Enver Hoxha: The Palestinian people, our brothers, are a brave, revolutionary people, with a glorious past, ancient culture and bright future. They are strong; all the peoples who love them are strong, and together we will win -- we will crush our common enemies to their death.

Richard Feynman: Knowledge isn't free. You have to pay attention.

Richard Feynman: Keep an open mind – but not so open that your brain falls out.

Ernest Hemingway: There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self.

Unitika Schlawenger: I've heard that revealing the truth is like lighting a match-stick. They say it can either bring light, or actually set your world on fire. I lit my own match-stick. I had enough light to see my reflection in the mirror and finally get to know who I am and what I am capable of, but soon, I was also the one who set my world on fire. Within the fire, I did not burn, but I danced inside the heat, just like a flame. I was soon the Girl on Fire, someone, who was just ready to do anything to help the world.

George Orwell: War against a foreign country only happens when the moneyed classes think they are going to profit from it.

Richard Feynman: To every man is given the key to the gates of heaven. The same key opens the gates of hell. And so it is with science.

Richard Feynman: I... a universe of atoms, an atom in the universe.

Richard Feynman: Religion is a culture of faith; science is a culture of doubt.

Richard Feynman: The highest forms of understanding we can achieve are laughter and human compassion.

Richard Feynman: There are 10^11 stars in the galaxy. That used to be a huge number. But it's only a hundred billion. It's less than the national deficit! We used to call them astronomical numbers. Now we should call them economical numbers.