Enver Hoxha: It is not consciousness that determines being but it is being that determines consciousness. Looking at the question from this Marxist-Leninist angle we can understand the magnitude, variety, as well as the difficulties of the leading role of the Party in the tempering of consciousness, of consciousness as a direct derivative of the struggle and the efforts of our people. From this stems the great role which literature and the arts should play in the inculcation and development of this consciousness, closely linked with the period we are going through, with the efforts, the struggles for the construction of socialism, with the struggle on a world scale against imperialism, the bourgeois ideology and its variant, modern revisionism, etc. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Charles de Gaulle: Patriotism is when love of your own people comes first; nationalism, when hate for people other than your own comes first. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Joseph Goebbels: We can do without butter, but, despite all our love of peace, not without arms. One cannot shoot with butter, but with guns. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Joseph Goebbels: I am only the instrument that God uses to sing his song. I am only the vessel that nature smilingly fills with new wine. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Joseph Goebbels: While National Socialism brought about a new version and formulation of European culture, Bolshevism is the declaration of war by Jewish-led international subhumans against culture itself. It is not only anti-bourgeois, it is anti-cultural. It means, in the final consequence, the absolute destruction of all economic, social, state, cultural, and civilizing advances made by western civilization for the benefit of a rootless and nomadic international clique of conspirators, who have found their representation in Jewry. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
L.R. Knost: It's not our job to toughen our children up to face a cruel and heartless world. It's our job to raise children who will make the world a little less cruel and heartless. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Fernando Pessoa: We never love anyone. What we love is the idea we have of someone. It's our own concept – our own selves – that we love. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Tariq Ali: The function of a bourgeois democracy is to secure the consent of the masses to their own exploitation and oppression. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Tariq Ali: This is the permanent tension that lies at the heart of a capitalist democracy and is exacerbated in times of crisis. In order to ensure the survival of the richest, it is democracy that has to be heavily regulated rather than capitalism. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Tariq Ali: I think another crisis, which is being predicted now and which will be worse than what we saw in 2008, could bring the European Union down unless there are huge reforms from within to democratize, to give more power to the regions, etc. If this doesn't happen, the European Union will fall. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Tariq Ali: One cannot discuss Europe without understanding US imperial hegemony, both globally and certainly in Europe as it stands. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Tariq Ali: In the West, since the collapse of communism and the fall of the Soviet Union, the one discipline both the official and unofficial cultures have united in casting aside has been history. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
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Tariq Ali: During the Gulf War, journalists used to challenge government news managers and insisted they wouldn't just accept the official version of events. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
