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. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
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. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
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. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
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. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
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. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
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. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
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. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
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. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
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. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Issac 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. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
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. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Mao Zedong: Our dictatorship is the people's democratic dictatorship led by the working class and based on the worker-peasant alliance. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
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. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
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. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
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. - anonymous wordsmith.social/protestation/…
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. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
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. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Ernest Hemingway: There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
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. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
George Orwell: War against a foreign country only happens when the moneyed classes think they are going to profit from it. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
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. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
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. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
