Noam Chomsky: The goal is to keep the bewildered herd bewildered. It's unnecessary for them to trouble themselves with what's happening in the world. In fact, it's undesirable - if they see too much of reality they may set themselves to change it. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5679
Quotes
- Lenin: Miraculous prophecy is a fairy-tale. But scientific prophecy is a fact.
- Noam Chomsky: See, people with power understand exactly one thing: violence.
- George Bernard Shaw: Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance.
- Henry Kissinger: Control oil and you control nations; control food and you control the people.
- Fidel Castro: This position of the Trotskyists is the same which all newspapers and publicity agencies of Yankee imperialism adopted in relation to the cause of Comrade Ernesto Guevara. All the imperialist press of the United States, its news agencies, the Cuban counter-revolutionaries' press, the bourgeois press throughout the continent and the rest of the world - in other words, this campaign of slanders and intrigues against revolutionary Cuba in connection with the case of Comrade Guevara - coincided with precision with all imperialist bourgeois sectors, all the slanderers and all the conspirators against the Cuban revolution, for there is no doubt that only reaction and imperialism is interested in discrediting the Cuban revolution and in destroying the confidence of the revolutionary movements in the Cuban revolution, in destroying the confidence of the Latin American peoples in the Cuban revolution, in destroying their faith. Therefore, they have not hesitated to use the dirtiest and most indecent weapons.
- Fidel Castro: Even though at one time Trotskyism represented an erroneous position, but a position in the field of political ideas, Trotskyism became during the following years a vulgar instrument of imperialism and reaction.
- Fidel Castro: Yon Sosa led the movement of a group of armed officers in the crushing of whom the mercenaries who later invaded Playa Girón participated. Through a businessman who took charge of the movement's political aspects, the Fourth International fixed it up so that that leader, who was ignorant of the profound problems of politics and of the history of revolutionary thought, would permit that agents of Trotskyism, about whom we do not have the slightest doubt that he is an agent of imperialism, to publish a newspaper which copies outright the program of the Fourth International. By doing this, the Fourth International committed a real crime against the revolutionary movement to isolate it from the rest of the people, to isolate it from the masses, when it contaminated it with the stupidities, the discredit, and the repugnant thing which Trotskyism today is in the field of politics.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.: So today capitalism has out-lived its usefulness. It has brought about a system that takes necessities from the masses to give luxuries to the classes.
- Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord: It is the beginning of the end.
- Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord: Financiers flourish only when nations decline.
- George Friedman: The primordial interest of the United States, over which for centuries we have fought wars– the First, the Second and Cold Wars– has been the relationship between Germany and Russia, because united there, they’re the only force that could threaten us. And to make sure that that doesn’t happen.
- Lenin: Prompted by fear of revolution, the old state power, which is independent of the people and is a power over the people, promises the people that it will ensure their freedom. But its promises remain unfulfilled; they cannot be fulfilled.
- James Connolly: If you remove the English army tomorrow and hoist the green flag over Dublin Castle, unless you set about the organisation of the Socialist Republic, your efforts would be in vain.
- Lenin: There are moments in history when a desperate struggle of the masses, even for a hopeless cause, is essential for the further schooling of these masses and their training for the next struggle.
- Kim Il Sung: Our ideal is to build a society where everyone is well fed, well clothed, and lives a long life, a society where everybody is progressive and works devotedly, a society where all people live united in harmony as one big family.
- Michael Parenti: To make the world safe for those who own it, politically active elements of the owning class have created a national security state that expends billions of dollars and enlists the efforts of vast numbers of people.
- Edward Snowden: There is nothing more grotesque than a media pushing for war.
- Lenin: Practice is higher than (theoretical) knowledge, for it has not only the dignity of universality, but also of immediate actuality.
- Stalin: Only in the highest phase of communism will people, working in accordance with their capacity, receive recompense therefor in accordance with their needs: "From each according to his capacity, to each according to his needs."
- Stalin: All that Marxism declares is that until classes have been completely abolished, and until work has been transformed from being a means of maintaining existence, into a prime necessity of life, into voluntary labour performed for the benefit of society, people will continue to be paid for their labour in accordance with the amount of labour performed.
- Stalin: The October Revolution is neither the continuation nor the culmination of the Great French Revolution. The purpose of the French Revolution was to put an end to feudalism and establish capitalism. The aim of the October Revolution is to put an end to capitalism and to establish socialism.
- Lenin: We shall not achieve socialism without a struggle. But we are ready to fight, we have started it and we shall finish it with the aid of the apparatus called the Soviets.
- Gilbert Scott-Heron: The first revolution is when you change your mind.
- Nadezhda Konstantinovna Krupskaya: Solidarity among the male and female workers, a general cause, general goals, a general path to that goal - that is the solution to the "woman" question in the working-class environment.
- Lenin: No idea could be more erroneous or harmful than to separate foreign from home policy.
- Kim Jong-il: Introducing individualism into socialism, which is based entirely on collectivism, is tantamount to taking poison.
- Langston Hughes: Put one more S in the U.S.A. To make it Soviet.
- Lenin: There is a good Latin proverb which says: “It is natural for all men to err; but only a fool persists in his error.
- Lenin: A Marxist must take cognisance of real life, of the true facts of reality, and not cling to a theory of yesterday, which, like all theories, at best only outlines the main and the general, only comes near to embracing life in all its complexity.
- Kim Il Sung: It can be said that the life of a revolutionary begins by going among the masses and that it is over when he parts from them.
- Lenin: Deafened by liberal catch-phrases, people in our country are apt to overlook the actual class stand of the liberal party’s real bosses.
- Lenin: The proletariat’s struggle against the bourgeoisie, which finds expression in a variety of forms ever richer in content, inevitably becomes a political struggle directed towards the conquest of political power by the proletariat (“the dictatorship of the proletariat”).
Le devoir est la nécessité d'accomplir une action par respect pour la loi morale.
Citation légèrement déformée ("loi" au lieu de "loi morale") extraite de "Fondements de la Métaphysique des mœurs" d'Emmanuel Kant (1785).
Le portrait utilisé dans le tweet de Cohérence n'est toujours pas celui d'Emmanuel Kant, mais de Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi.
Une loi humaine n'a pas à être systématiquement un objet de respect. On retrouve dans ce texte toute la dureté et la froideur de la morale de Kant. Nous sommes dans le légalisme. L'amour altruiste, gratuit, sera toujours supérieur à une loi humaine, aussi juste soit elle.
Extrait de "Fondements de la Métaphysique des mœurs" d'Emmanuel Kant (1785):
Des deux propositions précédentes je déduis cette troisième comme conséquence: le devoir est la nécessité de faire une action par respect pour la loi. Je puis bien avoir de l'inclination, mais jamais du respect pour l'objet qui doit être l'effet de mon action, précisément parce que cet objet n'est qu'un effet et non l'activité d'une volonté. De même je ne puis avoir du respect pour une inclination, qu'elle soit la mienne ou celle d'un autre; je ne puis que l'agréer dans le premier cas et quelquefois l'aimer dans le second, c'est-à-dire la regarder comme favorable à mon propre intérêt. Il n'y a que ce qui est lié à ma volonté comme principe, et non comme effet, ce qui ne sert pas mon inclination mais en triomphe, ou du moins l'exclut entièrement de la délibération, et, par conséquent, la loi, considérée en elle-même, qui puisse être un objet de respect et en même temps un ordre. Or, si une action faite par devoir exclut nécessairement toute influence des penchants, et par là tout objet de la volonté, il ne reste plus rien pour déterminer la volonté, sinon , objectivement, la loi, et, subjectivement, le pur respect pour cette loi pratique, par conséquent cette maxime qu'il faut obéir à cette loi, même au préjudice de tous les penchants.
|Le devoir est la nécessité d'accomplir une action par respect pour la loi morale.|
La paix n'est pas l'absence de guerre, c'est une vertu, un état d'esprit, une volonté de bienveillance, de confiance, de justice.
Citation méchamment déformée extraite de l'ouvrage "Traité politique" de Baruch Spinoza (1677).
Ce texte est un monument d'hérésies!
La volonté générale n'a jamais été la Volonté de Dieu. Par conséquent, le péché est indépendant de la volonté générale.
Extrait de l'ouvrage "Traité politique" de Baruch Spinoza (1677):
Un État où les sujets ne prennent pas les armes par ce seul motif que la crainte les paralyse, tout ce qu'on en peut dire, c'est qu'il n'a pas la guerre, mais non pas qu'il ait la paix. Car la paix, ce n'est pas l'absence de guerre; c'est la vertu qui naît de la vigueur de l'âme, et la véritable obéissance (par l'article 19 du chapitre II) est une volonté constante d'exécuter tout ce qui doit être fait d'après la loi commune de l'État. Aussi bien une société où la paix n'a d'autre base que l'inertie des sujets, lesquels se laissent conduire comme un troupeau et ne sont exercés qu'à l'esclavage, ce n'est plus une société, c'est une solitude.
Article 19 du chapitre II:
Ainsi donc le péché ne se peut concevoir que dans un ordre social où le bien et le mal sont déterminés par le droit commun, et où nul ne fait à bon droit (par l'article 16 du présent chapitre) que ce qu'il fait conformément à la volonté générale. Le péché, en effet, c'est (comme nous l'avons dit à l'article précédent) ce qui ne peut être fait à bon droit, ou ce qui est défendu par la loi; l'obéissance, au contraire, c'est la volonté constante d'exécuter ce que la loi déclare bon, ou ce qui est conforme à la volonté générale.Article 16 du chapitre II:
Partout où les hommes ont des droits communs et sont pour ainsi dire conduits par une seule âme, il est certain (par l'article 13 du présent chapitre) que chacun d'eux a d'autant moins de droits que les autres ensemble sont plus puissants que lui, en d'autres termes, il n'a d'autre droit que celui qui lui est accordé par le droit commun. Du reste, tout ce qui lui est commandé par la volonté générale, il est tenu d'y obéir, et (par l'article 4 du présent chapitre) on a le droit de l'y forcer.Article 13 du chapitre II:
Si deux individus s'unissent ensemble et associent leurs forces, ils augmentent ainsi leur puissance et par conséquent leur droit; et plus il y aura d'individus ayant aussi formé alliance, plus tous ensemble auront de droit.Article 4 du chapitre II:
Par droit naturel j'entends donc les lois mêmes de la nature ou les règles selon lesquelles se font toutes choses, en d'autres termes, la puissance de la nature elle-même; d'où il résulte que le droit de toute la nature et partant le droit de chaque individu s'étend jusqu'où s'étend sa puissance; et par conséquent tout ce que chaque homme fait d'après les lois de la nature, il le fait du droit suprême de la nature, et autant il a de puissance, autant il a de droit.
http://www.spinozaetnous.org/telechargement/TP.pdf
|La paix n'est pas l'absence de guerre, c'est une vertu, un état d'esprit, une volonté de bienveillance, de confiance, de justice.|
Ne coupe pas l'arbre qui te donne de l'ombre.
J'ai trouvé la plus ancienne trace de cet adage dans le roman western "Vulture Valley" de Tom West (1951). Il est vrai que le personnage qui l'a cité a dit qu'il était d'un ami arabe. 🤭
|Ne coupe pas l'arbre qui te donne de l'ombre.|
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Noam Chomsky: It takes one minute to tell a lie, and an hour to refute it. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5680
Quotes
- Lenin: Miraculous prophecy is a fairy-tale. But scientific prophecy is a fact.
- Noam Chomsky: See, people with power understand exactly one thing: violence.
- George Bernard Shaw: Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance.
- Henry Kissinger: Control oil and you control nations; control food and you control the people.
- Fidel Castro: This position of the Trotskyists is the same which all newspapers and publicity agencies of Yankee imperialism adopted in relation to the cause of Comrade Ernesto Guevara. All the imperialist press of the United States, its news agencies, the Cuban counter-revolutionaries' press, the bourgeois press throughout the continent and the rest of the world - in other words, this campaign of slanders and intrigues against revolutionary Cuba in connection with the case of Comrade Guevara - coincided with precision with all imperialist bourgeois sectors, all the slanderers and all the conspirators against the Cuban revolution, for there is no doubt that only reaction and imperialism is interested in discrediting the Cuban revolution and in destroying the confidence of the revolutionary movements in the Cuban revolution, in destroying the confidence of the Latin American peoples in the Cuban revolution, in destroying their faith. Therefore, they have not hesitated to use the dirtiest and most indecent weapons.
- Fidel Castro: Even though at one time Trotskyism represented an erroneous position, but a position in the field of political ideas, Trotskyism became during the following years a vulgar instrument of imperialism and reaction.
- Fidel Castro: Yon Sosa led the movement of a group of armed officers in the crushing of whom the mercenaries who later invaded Playa Girón participated. Through a businessman who took charge of the movement's political aspects, the Fourth International fixed it up so that that leader, who was ignorant of the profound problems of politics and of the history of revolutionary thought, would permit that agents of Trotskyism, about whom we do not have the slightest doubt that he is an agent of imperialism, to publish a newspaper which copies outright the program of the Fourth International. By doing this, the Fourth International committed a real crime against the revolutionary movement to isolate it from the rest of the people, to isolate it from the masses, when it contaminated it with the stupidities, the discredit, and the repugnant thing which Trotskyism today is in the field of politics.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.: So today capitalism has out-lived its usefulness. It has brought about a system that takes necessities from the masses to give luxuries to the classes.
- Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord: It is the beginning of the end.
- Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord: Financiers flourish only when nations decline.
- George Friedman: The primordial interest of the United States, over which for centuries we have fought wars– the First, the Second and Cold Wars– has been the relationship between Germany and Russia, because united there, they’re the only force that could threaten us. And to make sure that that doesn’t happen.
- Lenin: Prompted by fear of revolution, the old state power, which is independent of the people and is a power over the people, promises the people that it will ensure their freedom. But its promises remain unfulfilled; they cannot be fulfilled.
- James Connolly: If you remove the English army tomorrow and hoist the green flag over Dublin Castle, unless you set about the organisation of the Socialist Republic, your efforts would be in vain.
- Lenin: There are moments in history when a desperate struggle of the masses, even for a hopeless cause, is essential for the further schooling of these masses and their training for the next struggle.
- Kim Il Sung: Our ideal is to build a society where everyone is well fed, well clothed, and lives a long life, a society where everybody is progressive and works devotedly, a society where all people live united in harmony as one big family.
- Michael Parenti: To make the world safe for those who own it, politically active elements of the owning class have created a national security state that expends billions of dollars and enlists the efforts of vast numbers of people.
- Edward Snowden: There is nothing more grotesque than a media pushing for war.
- Lenin: Practice is higher than (theoretical) knowledge, for it has not only the dignity of universality, but also of immediate actuality.
- Stalin: Only in the highest phase of communism will people, working in accordance with their capacity, receive recompense therefor in accordance with their needs: "From each according to his capacity, to each according to his needs."
- Stalin: All that Marxism declares is that until classes have been completely abolished, and until work has been transformed from being a means of maintaining existence, into a prime necessity of life, into voluntary labour performed for the benefit of society, people will continue to be paid for their labour in accordance with the amount of labour performed.
- Stalin: The October Revolution is neither the continuation nor the culmination of the Great French Revolution. The purpose of the French Revolution was to put an end to feudalism and establish capitalism. The aim of the October Revolution is to put an end to capitalism and to establish socialism.
- Lenin: We shall not achieve socialism without a struggle. But we are ready to fight, we have started it and we shall finish it with the aid of the apparatus called the Soviets.
- Gilbert Scott-Heron: The first revolution is when you change your mind.
- Nadezhda Konstantinovna Krupskaya: Solidarity among the male and female workers, a general cause, general goals, a general path to that goal - that is the solution to the "woman" question in the working-class environment.
- Lenin: No idea could be more erroneous or harmful than to separate foreign from home policy.
- Kim Jong-il: Introducing individualism into socialism, which is based entirely on collectivism, is tantamount to taking poison.
- Langston Hughes: Put one more S in the U.S.A. To make it Soviet.
- Lenin: There is a good Latin proverb which says: “It is natural for all men to err; but only a fool persists in his error.
- Lenin: A Marxist must take cognisance of real life, of the true facts of reality, and not cling to a theory of yesterday, which, like all theories, at best only outlines the main and the general, only comes near to embracing life in all its complexity.
- Kim Il Sung: It can be said that the life of a revolutionary begins by going among the masses and that it is over when he parts from them.
- Lenin: Deafened by liberal catch-phrases, people in our country are apt to overlook the actual class stand of the liberal party’s real bosses.
- Lenin: The proletariat’s struggle against the bourgeoisie, which finds expression in a variety of forms ever richer in content, inevitably becomes a political struggle directed towards the conquest of political power by the proletariat (“the dictatorship of the proletariat”).
