Max Hammerl (1856-1886) était un peintre allemand qui a fréquenté l'école des arts et métiers de Munich où il a perfectionné ses talents. Après cette formation, il réalise des peintures de genre, des portraits ainsi que des travaux décoratifs, notamment une fresque dans l'église paroissiale de Kelheim, au nord de Munich, et le plafond du théâtre municipal de Mayence.
Son approche douce de la peinture d'enfants le rapproche des académiciens de l'école de Munich comme Gustav Igler.
George Gurdjieff: Those who do not understand that they are asleep and those who can have no wish to awake, cannot have understanding of good and evil. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
James Baldwin: White people were, and are, astounded by the holocaust in Germany. They did not know that they could act that way. But I very much doubt whether black people were astounded – at least, in the same way. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Andrei Zhdanov: Thus, in Italy, as in France, the communists overestimated the strength of reaction, became victims of imperialist intimidation and blackmail, underestimated their own strength, the strength of democracy, the will of the people to protect their fundamental national rights and interests of their country. This is all the more regrettable because both the French and Italian communist parties have shown their ability to rally broad masses of the working class, labouring peasantry and intelligentsia around the communist banner in difficult conditions of work. In view of the fact that the majority of the leaders of the socialist parties (especially the British labourites and the French socialists) are acting as agents of United States imperialist circles, upon the communists devolves the special historical task of leading the resistance to the American plan for the enthralment of Europe, and of boldly denouncing all coadjutors of American imperialism in their own countries. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Ludwig von Mises: It is labor alone that is productive: it creates wealth and therewith lays the outward foundations for the inward flowering of man. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Ludwig von Mises: Society has arisen out of the works of peace; the essence of society is peacemaking. Peace and not war is the father of all things. Only economic action has created the wealth around us; labor, not the profession of arms, brings happiness. Peace builds, war destroys. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Maxim Gorky: If the clouds of hatred for (Lenin), the clouds of lies and slander woven round him were even denser it would not matter, for there is no such force as could dim the torch he has raised in the stifling darkness of the world gone mad. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
We, the unwilling, led by the unknowing, are doing the impossible for the ungrateful. We have done so much, for so long, with so little, we are now qualified to do anything with nothing. - anonymous wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Friedrich Engels: It is, therefore, the law of division of labour that lies at the basis of the division into classes. But this does not prevent this division into classes from being carried out by means of violence and robbery, trickery and fraud. It does not prevent the ruling class, once having the upper hand, from consolidating its power at the expense of the working class, from turning its social leadership into an exploitation of the masses. But if, upon this showing, division into classes has a certain historical justification, it has this only for a given period, only under given social conditions. It was based upon the insufficiency of production. It will be swept away by the complete development of modern productive forces. And, in fact, the abolition of classes in society presupposes a degree of historical evolution at which the existence, not simply of this or that particular ruling class, but of any ruling class at all, and, therefore, the existence of class distinction itself has become an obsolete anachronism. It presupposes, therefore, the development of production carried out to a degree at which appropriation of the means of production and of the products, and, with this, of political domination, of the monopoly of culture, and of intellectual leadership by a particular class of society, has become not only superfluous but economically, politically, intellectually a hindrance to development. This point is now reached. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Enver Hoxha: The world is at a stage when the cause of the revolution and national liberation of the peoples is not just an aspiration and a future prospect, but a problem taken up for solution. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
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John Ehrlichman: You want to know what this was really all about. The Nixon campaign in 1968, and the Nixon White House after that, had two enemies: the antiwar left and black people. You understand what I’m saying. We knew we couldn’t make it illegal to be either against the war or black, but by getting the public to associate the hippies with marijuana and blacks with heroin, and then criminalizing both heavily, we could disrupt those communities. We could arrest their leaders, raid their homes, break up their meetings, and vilify them night after night on the evening news. Did we know we were lying about the drugs? Of course we did. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Robespierre: Man is born to be happy and free, and everywhere he is enslaved and unhappy! Society exists for the purpose of conserving his rights and perfecting his being, and everywhere society degrades and oppresses him! The time has come to remind him of his true destiny. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Victor Ravet était un peintre belge né en 1840 à Bruxelles et décédé en 1895.
Il a peint la vie de la petite bourgeoisie dans des tableaux de genre narratifs et finement élaborés. Il connaissait la vie de cette classe sociale, car il en était lui-même issu. Les simples ouvriers et les lavandières étaient également un sujet populaire. Ravet a reçu des leçons de peinture de Jean-François Portaels, qui s'était fait connaître par des peintures d'histoire romancées, des scènes religieuses, des portraits et des scènes de genre. À partir de 1845, Ravet expose régulièrement ses œuvres lors d'expositions, notamment aux Salons de Bruxelles et de Gand.
