Lenin: Competition becomes transformed into monopoly. The result is immense progress in the socialisation of production. In particular, the process of technical invention and improvement becomes socialised. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Thomas Sankara: Courageous, determined, stoic and tireless, the Palestinians remind us all of the need and moral obligation to respect the rights of a people. Along with their Jewish brothers, they are anti-Zionists. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Stalin: I am ready to continue to devote all my strength, all my abilities and, if necessary, all my blood, drop by drop, to the cause of the working class. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Lenin: No revolution is worth anything unless it can defend itself; but a revolution does not learn to defend itself at once. The revolution has awakened millions to a new life. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Vyacheslav Mikhaylovich Molotov: Warsaw as the capital of the Polish state no longer exits. No one knows the whereabouts of the Polish Government. The population of Poland have been abandoned by their ill-starred leaders to their fate. The Polish state and its government have virtually ceased to exist. In view of this state of affairs, treaties concluded between the Soviet Union and Poland have ceased to operate. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Albert Einstein: It is the same with people as it is with riding a bike. Only when moving can one comfortably maintain one’s balance. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Charles Wright Mills: The world is hungry; the liberal cries: 'Let us make it free!' The world is tired of war; the liberal cries "Let us arm for peace!" The people of the world are without land; the liberal cries: 'Let us beg the landed oligarchs to parcel some of it out! wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Norma Marshall: History is not there for you to like or dislike. It is there for you to learn from it. And if it offends you, even better. Because then you are less likely to repeat it. It's not yours to erase or destroy. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Socrates: Each of these private teachers who work for pay ... inculcates nothing else than these opinions of the multitude which they opine when they are assembled and calls this knowledge wisdom. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
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/…
Citation extraite du traité "L'Art poétique" de Nicolas Boileau Despréaux (1674), Chant premier.
La première partie de la citation s'inspire de "L'Épître III aux Pisons - Sur l'art poétique" d'Horace (19 avant J.-C.).
Extrait du traité "L'Art poétique" de Nicolas Boileau Despréaux (1674), Chant premier:
Il est certains esprits dont les sombres pensées Sont d'un nuage épais toujours embarrassées: Le jour de la raison ne le saurait percer. Avant donc que d'écrire, apprenez à penser. Selon que notre idée est plus ou moins obscure, L'expression la suit, ou moins nette, ou plus pure: Ce que l'on conçoit bien s'énonce clairement, Et les mots pour le dire arrivent aisément.
Extrait de "L'Épître III (10) aux Pisons - Sur l'art poétique"d'Horace (19 avant J.-C.):
Je prétends qu'un auteur, De son œuvre toujours devant être vainqueur, Sache si le sujet choisi, dont il raffole, Lui convient ou n'est pas trop lourd pour son épaule. Celui qui s'est rendu maître de son sujet, Plein d'ordre et de clarté, l'écrira d'un seul jet. L'ordre, de qui provient la force et l'élégance, Nous fait dire à présent ce qu'il faut, je le pense, Et renvoyer ailleurs ce qu'on doit renvoyer : Auteur, choisis, élague et sache atermoyer.
Cette parole de Pierre Victurnien Vergniaud est rapportée par Saint-Just dans un discours rendu le 11 Germinal de l'an II (31 mars 1794) devant la Convention Nationale.
Extrait du discours de Saint-Just du 31 mars 1794:
Ceux qui depuis quatre ans ont conspiré sous le voile du patriotisme, aujourd'hui que la justice les menace, répètent ce mot de Vergniaud: «La révolution, est comme Saturne; elle dévorera tous ses enfants». Hébert répétait ce mot pendant son procès; il est répété par tous ceux qui tremblent et qui se voient démasqués. Non la révolution ne dévorera pas ses enfants, mais ses ennemis, de quelque masque impénétrable qu'ils se soient couverts.
Pierre Victurnien Vergniaud participa à l'organisation de la Commission des Douze chargée de faire la lumière sur les débordements de la Commune. On sait aujourd'hui que l'arrestation et la condamnation à mort des Girondins de cette Commission est le résultat d'un coup monté par Jean-Nicolas Pache alors maire de Paris. Pache était hébertiste et survécu à la Terreur.
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/…
