Protestation

Felix Dzerzhinsky: One must not fear criticism, or gloss over shortcomings; on the contrary, it is necessary to help to make them known and to see nothing discreditable in doing so. Only he can be discredited who conceals his shortcomings [..], that is, precisely the man who ought to be discredited. It is necessary to be able to see the truth and to imbibe it from the masses and from all who are taking part in production.

Victor Hugo: Between the government which does evil and the people who accept it - there is a certain shameful solidarity.

Yemelyan Yaroslavsky: Religion acts as a bandage over the eyes of man, preventing him from seeing the world as it is. It is our task to tear off this bandage and to teach the masses of workers and peasants to see things correctly, to understand what does exist and what does not, so as to be able to rebuild this world to fit the needs of the workers and peas- ants. We must, therefore, convince the masses that communism and religion cannot go together, that it is not possible to be a communist and at the same time believe in devils or gods, in heavenly creatures, in the Virgin Mary, in the saints, in pious princes and princesses, bishops and landowners, who have been canonized by the priests.

Langston Hughes: The daily papers picture the Bolsheviks as the greatest devils on earth, but I couldn’t see how they could be so bad if they had done away with race hatred and landlords – two evils that I knew first hand.

Louis T. McFadden: The Federal Reserve banks are one of the most corrupt institutions the world has ever seen. There is not a man within the sound of my voice who does not know that this nation is run by the International bankers.

Thomas Jefferson: 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.

Fidel Castro: Why do some people have to go barefoot so that others can drive luxury cars? Why do some people have to be miserably poor in order that others can be extravagantly rich? I speak for all the children in the world who don't even have a piece of bread!

John F. Kennedy: No nation in the history of battle ever suffered more than the Soviet Union in the Second World War.

Che Guevara: Do not be afraid to lose; to gain something you have to lose something. And remember; you are defeated not when you lose, but when you quit.

Bible: Your Majesty looked, and there before you stood a large statue—an enormous, dazzling statue, awesome in appearance. The head of the statue was made of pure gold, its chest and arms of silver, its belly and thighs of bronze, its legs of iron, its feet partly of iron and partly of baked clay. While you were watching, a rock was cut out, but not by human hands. It struck the statue on its feet of iron and clay and smashed them. Then the iron, the clay, the bronze, the silver and the gold were all broken to pieces and became like chaff on a threshing floor in the summer. The wind swept them away without leaving a trace. But the rock that struck the statue became a huge mountain and filled the whole earth.

Ray Bradbury: So! A book is a loaded gun in the house next door. Burn it. Take the shot from the weapon. Breach man's mind. Who knows who might be the target of a well-read man?

Karl Marx: Labour is not the only source of material wealth, ie of the use-values it produces. As William Petty says, labour is the father of material wealth, the earth is its mother.

Mao Zedong: Far from being a minor issue, the struggle against this revisionist line is an issue of prime importance having a vital bearing on the destiny and future of our party and date, on the future complexion of our party and date, and on the world revolution.

Xi Jinping: According to Karl Marx and Frederick Engels, communism will eradicate the opposition and differentiation between classes, between urban and rural areas, between mental labor and physical labor; it will adopt the principle of distribution from each according to his ability and to each according to his needs, so as to achieve shared development of society and the free and well-rounded development of individuals in the real sense. Of course, there will be a long trek through history to reach this goal. China is still in the primary stage of socialism and will long remain so. Therefore, we cannot do what is premature, but this does not mean we should do nothing in realizing shared prosperity step by step. Instead, we should start to do what is appropriate to the current conditions, accumulating small successes and moving towards prosperity for all.

Andrei Zhdanov: A riot of mysticism, religious mania and pornography is characteristic of the decline and decay of bourgeois culture. The 'celebrities' of that bourgeois literature which has sold its pen to capital are today thieves, detectives, prostitutes, pimps and gangsters.

Barack Obama: I believe in American exceptionalism with every fiber of my being.

Malcolm X: They attack the victim, and then the criminal who attacked the victim accuses the victim of attacking him. This is American justice. This is American democracy and those of you who are familiar with it know that in America democracy is hypocrisy.

Ho Chi Minh: Only in a socialist system are the interests of the individual, the state and the collective at one. That is why only a socialist constitution can encourage the citizens to fulfill enthusiastically their duties to the society and the fatherland.

Charu Majumdar: The slogan—"Kashmir is an inalienable part of India"—is given by the ruling class in the interest of plundering. No Marxist can support this slogan. It is an essential duty of the Marxists to accept the right of self-determination by every nationality.

Harry Braverman: A class cannot exist in society without in some degree manifesting a consciousness of itself as a group with common problems, interests and prospects.

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

Ho Chi Minh: The American government and its allies are the real terrorists in the world today. They use their military power to invade, occupy, and destroy other countries, and to impose their will on the people. We will not bow down to their tyranny, we will stand up and fight for our rights and our dignity as a people.

Muammar Gaddafi: They will create the viruses themselves and sell you the antidotes. Thereafter, they will pretend to take time to find the solution when they already have it.

Friedrich Engels: [T]he abolition of private property is the shortest and most significant way to characterize the revolution in the whole social order which has been made necessary by the development of industry; it is rightly advanced by communists as their main demand.

Carl Sagan: Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.

Erich Honecker: Study Marxism-Leninism, learn from history, take the revolutionary experiences of the generations before you, and follow their path with your own steps.

Stalin: Officers and men of the Red Army! We are entering the country of the enemy. The remaining population in the liberated areas, regardless of whether they’re German, Czech, or Polish, shouldn’t be subjected to violence!

Lenin: The obliging Trotsky is more dangerous than an enemy!

Stalin: The right of self-determination means that a nation may arrange its life in the way it wishes...It has the right to enter into federal relations with other nations. It has the right to complete secession. Nations are sovereign, and all nations have equal rights.

Lenin: All that glitters is not gold. There is much glitter and sound in Trotsky's phrases, but they are meaningless.

Kim Il Sung: To become a communist mother and to become a socialist builder are inseparable. Idlers cannot become communist mothers. To become a communist mother, a woman should, first of all, participate with enthusiasm in socialist construction. Only by taking an active part in socialist construction can she keep abreast of ever-developing realities and quickly acquire communist ideology. In our country today there are more than a thousand women university graduates who do not work but just idle away their time at home. University graduates are virtually under a legal obligation to work for more than five years. The state did not give them a university education for the purpose of having them look after children and cook meals at home. Since women university graduates do not take jobs, cadre-training institutions have even hesitated to admit women students. It goes without saying that women should be given an education. Among women there should be many with master of science degrees and with doctorates. But no woman has yet received a doctorate. This is a matter of regret. Greater numbers of fine women cadres should be trained in all the political, economic and cultural fields. Many of our women think that giving birth to children and keeping house is more useful than going out into the world and doing important jobs. They always tease those who get married late and gossip about those whose marriage is delayed because of studies. The Women’s Union should carry out a powerful ideological struggle against these negative attitudes. We do not mean that we are opposed to women getting married and having children. This is a natural and good thing. What is bad is the false notion women have that learning and everything else they do are for the purpose of getting married and giving birth to children. Women can and should become masters of science or receive doctorates by continuing their studies, even after they are married and have children.

Konstantin Rokossovsky: The German army is a machine, and machines can be broken!

Che Guevara: We, practical revolutionaries, initiating our own struggle, simply fulfill laws foreseen by Marx, the scientist. We are simply adjusting ourselves to the predictions of the scientific Marx as we travel this road of rebellion struggling against the old structure of power, supporting ourselves in the people for the destruction of this structure, and having the happiness of this people as the basis of our struggle.

Vyacheslav Mikhaylovich Molotov: The October Revolution marked the beginning of the collapse of the capitalist system but for nearly three decades the Soviet Union was the sole Socialist country. After the Second world war there fell away from capitalism such European countries as Poland, Rumania, Czechoslovakia, Bulgaria, Hungary, Albania, Yugoslavia. In the dependent and colonial countries the movement for national liberation is making giant strides. In spite of all obstacles, the democratic forces are growing and becoming tempered in the struggle against the forces of reaction in the capitalist countries. The international prestige of the USSR is continuously growing as the main bulwark of the democratic and anti-imperialist camp opposed to the camp of imperialism and aggression. Under the great banner of Lenin and Stalin our people are marching forward, looking back with satisfaction on the past years of heroic struggle and glorious victories and full of confidence in their future.

Ernst Thälmann: Social fascism [that is, Social Democracy]... is the weapon-bearer of the fascist dictatorship. It is very difficult to maintain the line of separation between the development of a social fascist dictatorship when it has reached the stage, as in Germany, of a Social Democratic government using the most reactionary weapons of violence, and the methods of fascist dictatorship.

Mumia Abu-Jamal: Conventional wisdom would have one believe that it is insane to resist this, the mightiest of empires, but what history really shows is that today’s empire is tomorrow’s ashes; nothing lasts forever, and that to not resist is to acquiesce in your own oppression.

Enver Hoxha: No force, no torture, no intrigue, no deception can eradicate Marxism-Leninism from the minds and hearts of men.

Arnaud Amalric: Caedite eos. Novit enim Dominus qui sunt eius. (Direct translation: Kill them. The Lord knows those that are his own. Variant: Kill them all; let God sort them out).

Harry Truman: If you can't convince them, confuse them.

Ho Chi Minh: The American government talks about democracy, freedom, and human rights, but in reality, they are only interested in advancing their own interests and expanding their empire. They support dictatorships and corrupt regimes around the world, as long as they serve their purposes. They are not interested in the well-being of the people, only in their own profits and power. A superpower cannot, by definition, be more concerned with human rights around the world than with maintaining its power. It all comes down to how much restraint that superpower is willing to exercise. Imagine China in a similar position. The impact of European and Anglo-American imperialism is undeniable. Their legacy is one of destruction, exploitation, and violence. But instead of owning up to their crimes, they use projection to shift the blame onto others. Their obsession with the criminality of others is a dangerous game fueled by stereotypes and labels that give them permission to act accordingly. It's a twisted logic that allows them to justify their atrocities and treat others inhumanely. But let's not forget the lessons of history. A comparison between the White colonizer and Chinese or Asian counterparts reveals stark differences in their approach to colonialism. The White colonizer left a trail of destruction and exploitation, while Chinese or Asian counterparts pursued more equitable partnerships with the communities they encountered. We cannot undo the past, but we can learn from it. We can recognize the harm caused by imperialism and work towards a more just and equitable future. It's time to hold those responsible for their actions and ensure that justice is served for all who have suffered.

Che Guevara: When asked whether or not we are Marxists, our position is the same as that of a physicist, when asked if he is a Newtonian.

Salvador Allende: As for the bourgeois state, at the present moment, we are seeking to overcome it, to overthrow it.… Our objective is total, scientific, Marxist socialism.

Erich Fromm: Most people are not even aware of their need to conform. They live under the illusion that they follow their own ideas and inclinations, that they are individualists, that they have arrived at their opinions as the result of their own thinking—and that it just happens that their ideas are the same as those of the majority.

Mother Jones: Pray for the dead and fight like hell for the living.

Lenin: The bourgeois gentlemen and their hangers-on, including the Mensheviks and Socialist-Revolutionaries, who are wont to regard themselves as the representatives of "public opinion", naturally jeer at the hopes of the Communists, call those hopes "a baobab tree in a mignonette pot", sneer at the insignificance of the number of suhbotniks compared with the vast number of cases of thieving, idleness, lower productivity, spoilage of raw materials and finished goods, etc. Our reply to these gentlemen is that if the bourgeois intellectuals had dedicated their knowledge to assisting the working people instead of giving it to the Russian and foreign capitalists in order to restore their power, the revolution would have proceeded more rapidly and more peacefully. But this is utopian, for the issue is decided by the class struggle, and the majority of the intellectuals gravitate towards the bourgeoisie. Not with the assistance of the intellectuals will the proletariat achieve victory, but in spite of their opposition (at least in the majority of cases), removing those of them who are incorrigibly bourgeois, reforming, re-educating and subordinating the waverers, and gradually winning ever larger sections of them to its side. Gloating over the difficulties and setbacks of the revolution, sowing panic, preaching a return to the past-these are all weapons and methods of class struggle of the bourgeois intellectuals. The proletariat will not allow itself to be deceived by them.

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

Karl Marx: Even an entire society, a nation, or all simultaneously existing societies taken together, are not the owners of the earth. They are simply its possessors, its beneficiaries, and have to bequeath it in an improved state to succeeding generations.

Enver Hoxha: In 1968 the students in Paris clashed with ‘the forces of law and order.’ […] The French Communist Party did not participate. Why did it not participate? Was it that in principle it was opposed to anarchism? I think this is not the reason.

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: “I promise you anything you wish,” says the tsar, “only let me retain power, let me fulfil my own promises.” That is the gist of the tsar’s Manifesto, and it obviously had to spark off a determined struggle. “I grant you everything except power,” tsarism declares. “Everything is illusory except power,” the revolutionary people reply.

Lenin: We surely know from experience that the expropriation of the bourgeoisie entails a drastic struggle — a dictatorship. Marx said that the revolutionary dictatorship of the proletariat lies between capitalism and communism. The more the proletariat presses the bourgeoisie, the more thing for us is that! Cheka is directly exercising the dictatorship of the proletariat, and in that respect its services are invaluable. There is no way of emancipating the people except by forcibly suppressing the exploiters. That is what Cheka is doing, and therein lies its service to the proletariat.

Lenin: 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.

Fidel Castro: The right of rebellion against tyranny, Honorable Judges, has been recognized from the most ancient times to the present day by men of all creeds, ideas, and doctrines.

Karl Marx: Cannibalism of the counterrevolution will convince the nations that there is only one way in which the murderous death agonies of the old society and the bloody birth throes of the new society can be shortened, simplified and concentrated, and that way is revolutionary terror.

Pearl S. Buck: If you want to understand today you have to search yesterday.

Mao Zedong: The Communist Party does not fear criticism because we are Marxists, the truth is on our side, and the basic masses, the workers and peasants, are on our side.

Georgi Dimitrov: Whoever does not fight the reactionary measures of the bourgeoisie and the growth of fascism at these preparatory stages is not in a position to prevent the victory of fascism, but, on the contrary, facilitates that victory.

Stalin: 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.

W. E. B. Du Bois: 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.

William Z. Foster: 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.

Bertolt Brecht: What is the robbing of a bank compared to the founding of a bank?

Bertolt Brecht: 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.

Cornelius Tacitus: The more numerous the laws, the more corrupt the government.

Gramsci: The fundamental innovation introduced by Marxism into the science of politics and history is the proof that there does not exist an abstract, fixed and immutable “human nature” (a concept which certainly derives from religious thought and transcendentalism); but that human nature is the totality of historically determined social relations, that is, an historical fact, ascertainable, within certain limits, by the methods of philology and criticism.

Xi Jinping: It is Marxism-Leninism and Mao Zedong Thought that guided the Chinese people out of the darkness of that long night and established a New China; it is through socialism with Chinese characteristics that China has developed so quickly.

Rosa Luxemburg: 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.

Huey P. Newton: We must never take a stand just because it is popular. We must analyse the situation objectively and take the logically correct position, even though it may be unpopular. If we are right in the dialectics of the situation, our position will prevail.

George Gilder: Capitalism is a system that begins not with taking but with giving to others.

Georgi Dimitrov: Now history poses a dilemma for working humanity: either move on to new forms of production and social organization, or perish under the rule of imperialist barbarism.

Michael Parenti: The peoples of Eastern Europe believed they were going to keep all the social gains they had enjoyed under communism while adding on all the consumerism of the West. Many of their grievances about existing socialism were justified but their romanticized image of the capitalist West was not. They had to learn the hard way. Expecting to advance from Second World to First World status, they have been rammed down into the Third World, ending up like capitalist Indonesia, Mexico, Zaire, and Turkey. They wanted it all and have been left with almost nothing.

Bhagat Singh: People get accustomed to the established order of things and tremble at the idea of change. It is this lethargic spirit that needs be replaced by the revolutionary spirit.

Che Guevara: The example of a revolution and the lessons it applies for Latin America have destroyed all coffee house theories; we have demonstrated that a small group of men supported by the people without fear of dying can overcome a disciplined regular army and defeat it.

Andrei Zhdanov: The dictatorship of the working class must continue mercilessly to crush the resistance of the remnants of the hostile capitalist classes and the agents of the fascist bourgeoisie — the Trotskyites, Zinovievites, the Right and other enemies of the people.

Miguel Enríquez Espinosa: In Chile the left has not failed, socialism has not failed, nor has the revolution failed, nor have workers failed. What came to a tragic end in Chile was the reformist illusion of modifying socio-economic structures.

Lenin: The key question of every revolution is undoubtedly the question of state power. Which class holds power decides everything.

Maxim Gorky: And they felt that this word (Comrade) had come to unite the whole world, to lift all men up to the summits of liberty and bind with new ties, the strong ties of mutual respect, respect for the liberties of others in the name of one’s own liberty.

W. E. B. Du Bois: Western Europe did not and does not want democracy, never believed in it, never practiced it and never without funda­mental and basic revolution will accept it.

Michael Parenti: Capital requires protection, as do the institutions through which it operates. As capital expands its operations, the state that is associated with its protection must develop its capacity for autocratic control. Thus, the "Free World" increasingly resembles a dreary string of heartless police states.

Nadezhda Konstantinovna Krupskaya: No, workers cannot expect anything from god or the tsar. It is also a waste of time to expect the capitalists to change their minds and stop exploiting them, just as it would be to wait for wolves to stop eating sheep or for birds to give up catching insects.

Claudia Jones: We must spare no pains to see that the women workers and toilers fight shoulder to shoulder with their working class brothers in the ranks of the united working class front and the anti-fascist people's front.

Stalin: Trotskyism possesses three specific features which bring it into irreconcilable contradiction with Leninism. What are these features? Firstly. Trotskyism is the theory of "permanent" (uninterrupted) revolution. But what is permanent revolution in its interpretation? It is revolution that fails to take the poor peasantry into account as a revolutionary force. Trotsky's "permanent" revolution is, as Lenin said, "skipping" the peasant movement, "playing at the seizure of power." Why is it dangerous? Because such a revolution, if an attempt had been made to bring it about, would inevitably have ended in failure, for it would have divorced from the Russian proletariat its ally, the poor peasantry. This explains the struggle that Leninism has been waging against Trotskyism ever since 1905. How does Trotsky appraise Leninism from the standpoint of this struggle? He regards it as a theory that possesses "anti-revolutionary features." What is this indignant opinion about Leninism based on? On the fact that, at the proper time, Leninism advocated and upheld the idea of the dictatorship of the proletariat and peasantry. But Trotsky does not confine himself to this indignant opinion. He goes further and asserts: "The entire edifice of Leninism at the present time is built on lies and falsification and bears within itself the poisonous elements of its own decay" (see Trotsky's letter to Chkheidze, 1913). As you see, we have before us two opposite lines.

Friedrich Engels: These gentlemen think that when they have changed the names of things they have changed the things themselves. This is how these profound thinkers mock at the whole world.

Xi Jinping: Why did the Soviet Union disintegrate? Why did the Communist Party of the Soviet Union fall from power? An important reason was that the struggle in the field of ideology was extremely intense, completely negating the history of the Soviet Union, negating the history of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, negating Lenin, negating Stalin, creating historical nihilism and confused thinking. Party organs at all levels had lost their functions, the military was no longer under Party leadership. In the end, the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, a great party, was scattered, the Soviet Union, a great socialist country, disintegrated. This is a cautionary tale!

Che Guevara: Revolution, in history, is like the doctor assisting at the birth of a new life, who will not use forceps unless necessary, but who will use them unhesitatingly every time labor requires them. It’s a labor bringing the hope of a better life to the enslaved and exploited masses.

Martin Luther King, Jr.: Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.

Felix Dzerzhinsky: To live – does it not mean to have indomitable faith in victory?

Margaret Thatcher: I'm also very much aware that it is you (Pinochet) who brought democracy to Chile, you set up a constitution suitable for democracy, you put it into effect.

Charles de Gaulle: NATO is an organization that weakens our defense capabilities, instills the idea that defense is inconceivable without it, thus numbing our sense of national independence. NATO is in fact a deception, a camouflage for the US takeover Europe.

Lazar Kaganovich: Without Stalin's politics, we would never have achieved anything, we would all have died.

Homer: Hateful [ekhthros] to me like the gates of Hades is the man who says one thing while he hides another thing in his mind [phrenes].

Homer: There can be no covenants between men and lions, wolves and lambs can never be of one mind.

Mussolini: It's based tho, the interests of capital and labour balancing each other out.

Stalin: Nowhere in the world are there fortresses which cannot be taken by the working people, by the Bolsheviks.

Fidel Castro: The Dalai Lama, bestowed with the US Congress’ Gold Medal, praised George W. Bush for his efforts in defense of freedom, democracy and human rights. The Dalai Lama called the war in Afghanistan a war of 'liberation', the Korean War a war of 'semi-liberation' and the Vietnam War a 'failure'... I respect the Dalai Lama’s right to believe, but I am not obliged to believe in the Dalai Lama. I do have many reasons to believe in China’s victory.

Leopold II of Belgium: I do not want to miss a good chance of getting us a slice of this magnificent African cake.

Lieutenant Elsa Oliva: I remember being called a Rebel for the first time by the Nazis during questioning. So I thought, That's a word a like, that's what I will always be — a rebel.

Kim Il Sung: Modern revisionism revises Marxism-Leninism and emasculates its revolutionary quintessence under the pretext of a 'changed situation' and 'creative development'. It rejects class struggle and the dictatorship of the proletariat. It preaches class collaboration and gives up fighting imperialism. Moreover, modern revisionism spread illusions about imperialism and in every way obstructed the revolutionary struggle of the peoples for social and national liberation.

Yuri Gagarin: I am very happy and immensely thankful to our party and our government for entrusting me with this flight. I have completed this flight in the name of our Fatherland, in the name of the great Soviet people, and the communist party of the Soviet Union.

Karl Marx: Where the working class is not yet far enough advanced in its organisation to undertake a decisive campaign against the collective power, i.e., the political power of the ruling classes, it must at any rate be trained for this by continual agitation against and a hostile attitude towards the policy of the ruling classes. Otherwise it will remain a plaything in their hands, as the September revolution in France showed, and as is also proved up to a certain point by the game Messrs. Gladstone & Co. are bringing off in England even up to the present time.

Julius Nyerere: Capitalism means that the masses will work, and a few people — who may not labor at all — will benefit from that work. The few will sit down to a banquet, and the masses will eat whatever is left over.