Hitler: In general the art of all truly great national leaders at all times consists among other things primarily in not dividing the attention of a people, but in concentrating it upon a single foe. The more unified the application of a people's will to fight, the greater will be the magnetic attraction of a movement and the mightier will be the impetus of the thrust. It belongs to the genius of a great leader to make even adversaries far removed from one another seem to belong to a single category, because in weak and uncertain characters the knowledge of having different enemies can only too readily lead to the beginning of doubt in their own right. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Nikola Tesla: Einstein's relativity work is a magnificent mathematical garb which fascinates, dazzles and makes people blind to the underlying errors. The theory is like a beggar clothed in purple whom ignorant people take for a king... its exponents are brilliant men but they are metaphysicists rather than scientists. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Che Guevara: The cadres of our Party must be first in study, first in work, first in revolutionary enthusiasm and first at the moment of sacrifice. The cadres of our Party must be, at all moments, better, purer, and more humane than the rest. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Che Guevara: As Marxists we have maintained that peaceful coexistence among nations does not include coexistence between exploiters and the exploited. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Lenin: Let the corrupt bourgeois press shout to the whole world about every mistake our revolution makes. We are not daunted by our mistakes. People have not become saints because the revolution has begun. The toiling classes who for centuries have been oppressed, downtrodden and forcibly held in the vice of poverty, brutality and ignorance cannot avoid mistakes when making a revolution. And, as I pointed out once before, the corpse of bourgeois society cannot be nailed in a coffin and buried. The corpse of capitalism is decaying and disintegrating in our midst, polluting the air and poisoning our lives, enmeshing that which is new, fresh, young and virile in thousands of threads and bonds of that which is old, moribund and decaying. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Georgi Dimitrov: American fascism tries to portray itself as the custodian of the Constitution and 'American democracy'. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Enver Hoxha: What is bourgeois democracy in reality? It is a form of the domination by the bourgeoisie, while the rights and freedoms, though proclaimed “for everybody”, have an utterly formal and deceptive character, because in the conditions of the existence of private property, the socio-economic means which would ensure the actual implementation of these rights and freedoms do not exist. This bourgeois democracy allows you to criticise this or that person in the papers, at meetings, or in parliament, you are allowed to criticise the party in office or the government in power, you can talk on and on, but you can change nothing, you must confine yourself to words only, because the capitalist economic and political power with its apparatus, is ready to hurl itself brutally upon anyone who opposes the ruling class, the financial oligarchy, in deeds. Recalling the severity of the French bourgeoisie in its onslaught against the workers, after the June 1848 uprising, F. Engels wrote: “It was the first time that the bourgeoisie showed to what insane cruelties of revenge it will be goaded the moment the proletariat dares to take its stand against the bourgeoisie as a separate class, with its own interests and demands”. Can we call the form of bourgeois power which relies on the principle that the majority must submit to the minority “democracy” ? Absolutely not. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Lenin: The liberal bourgeoisie grant reforms with one hand, and with the other always take them back, reduce them to nought, use them to enslave the workers, to divide them into separate groups and perpetuate wage-slavery. For that reason reformism, even when quite sincere, in practice becomes a weapon by means of which the bourgeoisie corrupt and weaken the workers. The experience of all countries shows that the workers who put their trust in the reformists are always fooled. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Che Guevara: The amount of poverty and suffering required for a Rockefeller to emerge, and the amount of depravity entailed in the accumulation of a fortune of such magnitude, are left out of the picture, and it is not always possible for the popular forces to expose this clearly. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
James Connolly: That labour movement of the future, as well as the socialist movement of today must, indeed, draw inspiration from the successes of our comrades abroad, but must also shape its course to suit the conditions within our own shores. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Cette citation apocryphe était en circulation en avril 1969. Elle a été associée à Jerome Halprin et Abba Eban, mais il est bien plus probable que le véritable auteur reste anonyme.
Nikita S. Khrushchev: Our Party will mercilessly crush the band of traitors and betrayers, and wipe out all the Trotskyist-Right dregs.... The guarantee of this is the unshakable leadership of our Central Committee, the unshakable leadership of our leader Comrade Stalin....We shall totally annihilate the enemies — to the last man — and scatter their ashes to the winds. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Malcolm X: The greatest weapon the colonial powers have used in the past against our people has always been divide-and-conquer. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
C'est un ami très, très intime - il ne faut pas s'aviser de dire du mal de moi devant lui. Il ne faut pas en dire trop de bien non plus - pitié pour lui! - c'est un ami très, très intime.
Citation mentionnée dans "Encyclopédie des citations" (1959) comme rattachée à l'ouvrage "Toutes Réflexions Faites" de Sacha Guitry, tome I (alors qu'il n'y a qu'un seul tome) alors qu'elle ne s'y trouve pas!
En fait, cette citation est extraite d'une interview de Sacha Guitry accordée à des journalistes à la fin d'une représentation de sa pièce de Théâtre "Une folie" au Théâtre Royal du Parc à Bruxelles en mars 1952:
|Si ceux qui disent du mal de moi savaient exactement ce que je pense d'eux, ils en diraient bien davantage.|
Lenin: Dictatorship is state power based directly on violence. And in the twentieth century—as in the age of civilisation generally—violence means neither a fist nor a club, but troops. To put “disarmament” in the programme is tantamount to making the general declaration: We are opposed to the use of arms. There is as little Marxism in this as there would be if we were to say: We are opposed to violence! wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Benjamin Disraeli: The world is governed by very different personages from what is imagined by those who are not behind the scenes. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Citation déformée extraite de "The Soul of Man under Socialism" (L'âme de l'homme sous le socialisme), essai d'Oscar Wilde publié en 1891 défendant une vision individualiste libertaire dans un monde socialiste.
Extrait de "L'âme de l'homme sous le socialisme", essai d'Oscar Wilde publié en 1891:
Avec l'abolition de la propriété privée, nous aurons donc un véritable, beau et sain individualisme. Personne ne perdra sa vie à accumuler des choses et des symboles pour des choses. On vivra. Vivre est la chose la plus rare au monde. La plupart des gens existent, c'est tout. La question est de savoir si nous avons jamais vu la pleine expression d'une personnalité, sauf sur le plan imaginatif de l'art. Dans l'action, nous ne l'avons jamais vu. César, dit Mommsen, était l'homme complet et parfait.
|Vivre est la chose la plus rare. La plupart des gens se contente d'exister.|
Franklin D. Roosevelt: The real truth of the matter is, as you and I know, that a financial element in the larger centers has owned the Government ever since the days of Andrew Jackson. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Friedrich Engels: The great basic thought that the world is not to be comprehended as a complex of readymade things, but as a complex of processes, in which the things apparently stable no less than their mind images in our heads, the concepts, go through an uninterrupted change of coming into being and passing away, in which, in spite of all seeming accidentally and of all temporary retrogression, a progressive development asserts itself in the end — this great fundamental thought has, especially since the time of Hegel, so thoroughly permeated ordinary consciousness that in this generality it is now scarcely ever contradicted. But to acknowledge this fundamental thought in words and to apply it in reality in detail to each domain of investigation are two different things. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
