Hitler: All propaganda must be so popular and on such an intellectual level, that even the most stupid of those toward whom it is directed will understand it... Through clever and constant application of propaganda, people can be made to see paradise as hell, and also the other way around, to consider the most wretched sort of life as paradise. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Hitler: The great masses of the people at the very bottom of their hearts tend to be corrupted rather than consciously evil ... they more easily fall a victim to a big lie than to a little one, since they themselves lie in little things, but would be ashamed of lies that were too big. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Che Guevara: These propositions contradict the defeatist attitude of inactive pseudo-revolutionaries who take refuge in the pretext that against a professional army nothing can be done until all necessary conditions exist, but do not work to create them. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Che Guevara: People must see clearly the futility of maintaining the fight for social goals within the framework of civil debate. When forces of oppression come to maintain themselves in power against established law, peace is considered already broken. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Che Guevara: Who are the combatants in guerrilla warfare? On one side is a group composed of the oppressor and the army, well armed and disciplined, often receiving foreign help as well as help from the bureaucracy employed by the oppressor. On the other side are the people. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Che Guevara: The guerrilla band is the fighting vanguard of the people. It draws its great force from the mass of the people themselves. The guerrilla band is not inferior to the army against which it fights simply because it is inferior in firepower. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Che Guevara: The guerrilla fighter is a social reformer, he takes up arms responding to the angry protest of the people against their oppressors, and he fights in order to change the social system that keeps all his unarmed brothers in ignominy and misery. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Che Guevara: The guerrilla fighter will carry out his action in wild places of small population. Since in these places the struggle of the people for reforms is aimed primarily at changing the social form of land ownership, the guerrilla fighter is an agrarian revolutionary. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Che Guevara: In guerrilla terminology, strategy is understood as the analysis of the objectives to be achieved in the light of the total military situation and the overall ways of reaching these objectives. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Che Guevara: The blows should be continuous. The enemy soldier in a zone of operations ought not to be allowed to sleep; his outposts ought to be attacked and liquidated systematically. At every moment the impression ought to be created that he is completely surrounded. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Che Guevara: American capitalism replaced the old colonial capitalisms. But it knows that this is transitory and that there is no real security for its financial speculations in these new territories. The octopus cannot there apply its suckers firmly. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Karl Marx: The revolution must be carried out with solidarity; this is the great lesson of the French Commune, which fell becaue none of the other centres -- Berlin, Madrid, etc. -- developed great revolutionary movements comparable to the mighty uprising of the Paris proletariat. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Stephen Hawking: We are just an advanced breed of monkeys on a minor planet of a very average star. But we can understand the Universe. That makes us something very special. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Paulo Freire: True generosity consists precisely in fighting to destroy the causes which nourish false charity. False charity constrains the fearful and subdued, the “rejects of life,” to extend their trembling hands. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Paulo Freire: True generosity lies in striving so that these hands—whether of individuals or entire peoples—need be extended less and less in supplication, so that more and more they become human hands which work and, working, transform the world. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Friedrich Engels: The state, therefore, has not existed from all eternity. There have been societies which have managed without it, which had no notion of the state or state power. At a definite stage of economic development, which necessarily involved the cleavage of society into classes, the state became a necessity because of this cleavage. We are now rapidly approaching a stage in the development of production at which the existence of these classes has not only ceased to be a necessity, but becomes a positive hindrance to production. They will fall as inevitably as they once arose. The state inevitably falls with them. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Chinua Achebe: The white man is very clever. He came quietly and peaceably with his religion. We were amused at his foolishness and allowed him to stay. Now he has won our brothers, and our clan can no longer act like one. He has put a knife on the things that held us together and we have fallen apart. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Gore Vidal: Now we have a totalitarian government. And the totalitarian government wants to watch everybody, total surveillance of everyone. They listen to the telephone conversations, they look at your credit cards, they look where you travel. We are totally policed. This is contrary to everything in our Constitution. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Gore Vidal: The founding fathers were not interested in democracy, in fact, in a country with 3 1/4 million people, which is about what we were at the time of the separation from England, only 700, 000 people could vote-white males of property. So it's never been terribly democratic. ...and they put together a constitution which would protect property for all time. No nonsense about democracy! wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Gore Vidal: I've been around the ruling class all my life, and I've been quite aware of their total contempt for the people of the country. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Gore Vidal: The genius of our ruling class is that it has kept a majority of the people from ever questioning the inequity of a system where most people drudge along, paying heavy taxes for which they get nothing in return. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Frank Snepp: I am, as an ex-CIA agent, opposed to the disinformation activities in which I was involved. I admit that I was involved, and I think it served no useful purpose. Propagandizing the American public or Congress is not the CIA's job. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Stalin: Proletarian parties develop and become strong by purging themselves of opportunists and reformists, social-imperialists and social-chauvinists, social-patriots and social-pacifists. The Party becomes strong by purging itself of opportunist elements. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
