Democritus: If your desires are not great, a little will seem much to you; for small appetite makes poverty equivalent to wealth. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Democritus: In fact we do not know anything infallibly, but only that which changes according to the condition of our body and of the (influences) that reach and impinge upon it. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Democritus: Of practical wisdom these are the three fruits: to deliberate well, to speak to the point, to do what is right. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Democritus: 'Tis not in strength of body nor in gold that men find happiness, but in uprightness and in fulness of understanding. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Samuel P. Huntington: The West won the world not by the superiority of its ideas or values or religion (to which few members of other civilizations were converted) but rather by its superiority in applying organized violence. Westerners often forget this fact; non-Westerners never do. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Marjori Palmer: One of the most morale-damaging aspects of the inflation was the "sack of Germany" that occurred at the height of the (1923) inflation. Anyone who possessed dollars or sterling was king in Germany. A few American dollars would allow a man to live like a millionaire. Foreigners swarmed into the country, buying up family treasures, estates, jewelry and art works at unbelievable low prices. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Lionel Robbins: It was the most colossal thing of its kind in history: and next probably to the Great War itself, it must bear responsibility for many of the political and economic difficulties of our generation. It destroyed the wealth of the more solid elements of German society: and left behind a moral and economic disequilibrium, a breeding ground for the disasters which have followed. Hitler is the foster child of the inflation. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Lenin: There is no trace of utopianism in Marx, in the sense that he made up or invented a 'new' society. No, he studied the birth of the new society out of the old, and the forms of transition from the latter to the former, as a natural-historical process. He examined the actual experience of a proletarian mass movement and tried to draw practical lessons from it. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Che Guevara: Many will call me an adventurer - and that I am, only one of a different sort: one of those who risks his skin to prove his platitudes. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Democritus: The first principles of the universe are atoms and empty space; everything else is merely thought to exist. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Wim Wenders: Every film is political. Most political of all are those that pretend not to be: “entertainment” movies. They are the most political films there are because they dismiss the possibility of change. In every frame they tell you everything’s fine the way it is. They are a continual advertisement for things as they are. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Phoumi Vongvichit: This glorious victory of the Lao people, like that of the Vietnamese people in the resistance against the French colonialists and American interventionists, have proved that even a small nation can get the better of any imperialists aggressor. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
William Z. Foster: Lenin, in fighting for a correct political line, fought on two fronts. That is, he combated both the right danger and all forms of pseudo-leftism. This two-front fight was particularly necessary in the United States with its ingrained historical right weakness of American exceptionalism and its long affliction of 'left' sectarianism. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Fidel Castro: Son of a bitch! (This was Fidel Castro’s reaction in the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis to the decision by Nikita Khrushchev, general secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU), to remove medium-range ballistic missiles from Cuba in exchange for a U.S. pledge not to invade the Isle of Freedom). wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Arthur Schopenhauer: Religions are like glow-worms: they need darkness in order to shine. A certain degree of general ignorance is the condition for the existence of any religion. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Gerry Spence: The people of a nation are enslaved when, together, they are helpless to institute effective change, when the people serve the government more than the government serves them. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Salvador Allende: The cycle of intervention, brutality and murder, often masked under the rhetoric of humanitarianism, is how American imperialism has worked since that country's inception. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Amilcar Cabral: Always bear in mind that the people are not fighting for ideas, for the things in anyone’s head. They are fighting to win material benefits, to live better and in peace, to see their lives go forward, to guarantee the future of their children. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Jean-Luc Godard: Fifty years after the October Revolution, the American industry rules cinema the world over. There is nothing much to add to this statement of fact. Except that on our own modest level we too should provoke two or three Vietnams in the bosom of the vast Hollywood-Cinecittá-Mosfilm-Pinewood-etc. empire, and, both economically and aesthetically, struggling on two fronts as it were, create cinemas which are national, free, brotherly, comradely and bonded in friendship. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Cecil Rhodes: I was in the East End of London (a working-class quarter) yesterday and attended a meeting of the unemployed. I listened to the wild speeches, which were just a cry for 'bread! bread!' and on my way home I pondered over the scene and I became more than ever convinced of the importance of imperialism.... My cherished idea is a solution for the social problem, i.e., in order to save the 40,000,000 inhabitants of the United Kingdom from a bloody civil war, we colonial statesmen must acquire new lands to settle the surplus population, to provide new markets for the goods produced in the factories and mines. The Empire, as I have always said, is a bread and butter question. If you want to avoid civil war, you must become imperialists. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Nelson Mandela: Overcoming poverty is not a task of charity, it is an act of justice. Like Slavery and Apartheid, poverty is not natural. It is man-made and it can be overcome and eradicated by the actions of human beings. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Louis XVI: You want to erase over a millennium of our history, destroying our constitutional politics and rebuilding a new one from the ashes. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Karl Marx: Capitalist production, therefore, only develops the techniques and the degree of combination of the social process of production by simultaneously undermining the original sources of all wealth—the soil and the worker. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
