Paul Valery: War: a massacre of people who don't know each other for the profit of people who know each other but don't massacre each other. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Stalin: The production of souls is more important than the production of tanks.... And therefore I raise my glass to you, writers, the engineers of the human soul. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Otto Kuusinen: As long as the working class wages only an economic struggle, the bourgeoisie does not see in that any great danger for itself; but when the working class organises politically, i.e., creates a political party which expresses its will as a class, the bourgeoisie begins seriously to fear for its rule. That is why reaction deals its main blows against the political party of the working class. At the same time, trying to undermine the party from within, capitalist propaganda endeavours to persuade the workers that they can do without their own party. One of the manifestations of bourgeois influence on the working class is the anarchist and anarcho-syndicalist denial of the leading role of a political party. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Democritus: Many who have not learned wisdom live wisely, and many who do the basest deeds can make most learned speeches. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Muammar Gaddafi: We will not surrender. We will defeat them by any means. We are ready for the fight, whether it will be a short or a long one. We will be victorious in the end. This assault is by a bunch of fascists who will end up in the dustbin of history. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Democritus: By convention sweet is sweet, bitter is bitter, hot is hot, cold is cold, color is color; but in truth there are only atoms and the void. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Democritus: We know nothing accurately in reality, but (only) as it changes according to the bodily condition, and the constitution of those things that flow upon (the body) and impinge upon it. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
