William Z. Foster: No one who knows the American capitalist class, with its long record of war aggression, brutality in strikes, slaughter of workers in industry, persecution against the Negro people, etc., can doubt but that the reactionaries would use every available means of Social-Democratic treachery and of outright violence to prevent or destroy any government that cut into their rule and into their robbery of the people. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Santiago Ramón y Cajal: There is no doubt that the human mind is fundamentally incapable of solving these formidable problems (the origin of life, nature of matter, origin of movement, and appearance of consciousness). Our brain is an organ of action that is directed toward practical tasks; it does not appear to have been built for discovering the ultimate causes of things, but rather for determining their immediate causes and invariant relationships. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Santiago Ramón y Cajal: In summary, there are no small problems. Problems that appear small are large problems that are not understood. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
George L. Jackson: This is a huge nation (America) dominated by the most reactionary and violent ruling class in the history of the world, where the majority of the people just simply cannot understand that they are existing on the misery and discomfort of the world. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Mao Zedong: We are opposed to die-hards in the revolutionary ranks whose thinking fails to advance with changing objective circumstances and has manifested itself historically as right opportunism. These people fail to see that the struggle of opposites has already pushed the objective opposed to "left" phrase-mongering. The thinking of "leftists" outstrips a given stage of development of the objective process; some regard their fantasies as truth, while others strain to realize in the present an ideal which can only be realized in the future. They alienate themselves from the current practice of the majority of the people and from the realities of the day, and show themselves adventurist in their actions. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Miguel Díaz-Canel: Pessimism is not the nature of revolutionaries. That is not an option for those of us who believe a better world is possible. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Fidel Castro: My idea, as the whole world knows, is that the capitalist system now doesn't work either for the United States or the world, driving it from crisis to crisis, which are each time more serious. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Lenin: Victory will go to the exploited, for with them is life, the strength of numbers, the strength of the masses, the strength of inexhaustible sources of all that is unselfish, high-principled, honest, forward-straining, and awakening. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Friedrich Engels: With the seizing of the means of production by society, production of commodities is done away with, and, simultaneously, the mastery of the product over the producer. Anarchy in social production is replaced by systematic, definite organization. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Howard Zinn: If you don’t know history, it’s as if you were born yesterday. If you were born yesterday then any leader can tell you anything. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Albert Einstein: By the way, there are increasing signs that the Russian trials are not faked, but that there is a plot among those who look upon Stalin as a stupid reactionary who has betrayed the ideas of the revolution. Though we find it difficult to imagine this kind of internal thing, those who know Russia best are all more or less of the same opinion. I was firmly convinced to begin with that it was a case of a dictator's despotic acts, based on lies and deception, but this was a delusion. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Lenin: The state, dear people, is a class concept. The state is an organ or instrument of violence exercised by one class over another. So long as it is an instrument of violence by the bourgeoisie against the proletariat, the proletrait can have only one slogan: destruction of the state. But when the state will be a proletarian state, when it will be an instrument of violence exercised by the proletariat against the bourgeoisie, we shall be fully and unreservedly in favour of a strong state power and of centralism. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Benjamin Franklin: There are two ways to increase your wealth. Increase your means or decrease your wants. The best is to do both at the same time. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Citation extraite de l'ouvrage "La vérité guidait leurs pas" de Pierre Mendès France (1976).
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Extrait de l'ouvrage "La vérité guidait leurs pas" de Pierre Mendès France (1976):
La démocratie, c'est beaucoup plus que la pratique des élections et le gouvernement de la majorité: c'est un type de mœurs, de vertu, de scrupule, de sens civique, de respect de l'adversaire; c'est un code moral. Elle reconnaît à l'opposition comme aux minorités le droit de remettre les options passées en question, pour qu'à tout moment le pays puisse juger, jusqu'à se déjuger. Les partis et les équipes au pouvoir acceptent ainsi d'être désavoués un jour. Appelés au gouvernement, certains peuvent être tentés de transformer une mission conditionnelle et révocable en une sorte de délégation permanente; se croyant ou se disant investis d'une grande mission, persuadés qu'ils font mieux que l'adversaire, ils peuvent chercher à conserver le pouvoir en abusant d'une propagande unilatérale, en exploitant le charisme d'un chef, les mythes, les peurs et les craintes, le chauvinisme et le racisme, l'égoïsme de classe, les promesses de la démagogie. Une situation de despotisme de fait peut alors se créer, même si elle n'a pas le caractère sanglant de précédents odieux encore présents à nos mémoires (et qui revivent dans de trop nombreux pays aujourd'hui). Une information biaisée, une répression d'abord modérée, des tribunaux d'exception ou, en tout cas, rendus dociles, une législation ambiguë qui sera progressivement interprétée et déviée, des machinations et des provocations policières, des atteintes insidieuses aux libertés conduisent insensiblement a cette «tyrannie douce» dont parlait Tocqueville. On voit souvent des démocraties formelles qui ne refusent pas les consultations électorales, qui même y recourent largement (mais chaque fois dans un contexte captieux pour, en définitive, les falsifier), coexister avec un libéralisme relatif qui serre adroitement les contours du droit constitutionnel.
|La démocratie, c'est beaucoup plus que la pratique des élections et le gouvernement de la majorité : c'est un type de mœurs, de vertu, de scrupule, de sens civique, de respect de l'adversaire, c'est un code moral.|
Lev Sotskov: Had the British, French and their European ally Poland, taken this offer seriously then together we could have put some 300 or more divisions into the field on two fronts against Germany - double the number Hitler had at the time. (...) It was clear that the Soviet Union stood alone and had to turn to Germany and sign a non-aggression pact to gain some time to prepare ourselves for the conflict that was clearly coming. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Oscar Wilde: Sometimes the poor are praised for being thrifty. But to recommend thrift to the poor is both grotesque and insulting. It is like advising a man who is starving to eat less. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Vladimir Putin: There was a moment when your humble servant simply suggested that maybe we should join NATO? But no, NATO does not need such a country. No. The question is, what else? We thought that we were already our own, excuse me, as our people say, bourgeois. What else? There is no more ideological confrontation, what is the problem? Apparently, the problem is geopolitical interests and an arrogant attitude towards others. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Gamal Abdel Nasser: We shall not enter Palestine with its soil covered in sand. We shall enter it with its soil saturated in blood. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Lenin: Against the workers the capitalists of all nations and religions are united, but they strive to divide and weaken the workers by national strife! wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Lenin: Only scoundrels or simpletons can think that the proletariat must first win a majority in elections carried out under the yoke of the bourgeoisie, under the yoke of wage-slavery, and must then win power. This is the height of stupidity or hypocrisy; it is substituting elections, under the old system and with the old power, for class struggle and revolution. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
