291 quotes found
“Let us not seek to satisfy our thirst for freedom by drinking from the cup of bitterness and hatred.”
“Of course, peace treaties are very attractive to those who sign them. They strengthen one's prestige with the electorate. But the time will come when the names of these public figures will be erase...”
“How would I explain to him that I couldnt make peace with him? How would I explain that if I did I would immediately lose my inner balance? How would I explain that one of the arms of my internal s...”
“In a higher phase of communist society, after the enslaving subordination of the individual to the division of labor, and therewith also the antithesis between mental and physical labor, has vanish...”
“The point of Political Correctness is not and has never been merely about any of the items that it imposes, but about the imposition itself. (The Rise of Political Correctness)”
“The first duty of a man is to think for himself”
“You show me a capitalist, and I'll show you a bloodsucker”
“Freedom in capitalist society always remains about the same as it was in ancient Greek republics: Freedom for slave owners.”
“The Revolution introduced me to art, and in turn, art introduced me to the Revolution!”
“The end may justify the means as long as there is something that justifies the end.”
“My mother could see that as far as my father's relationship with the Party was concerned, she was an outsider. One day, when she ventured some critical comments about the situation and got no respo...”
“The only way we'll get freedom for ourselves is to identify ourselves with every oppressed people in the world. We are blood brothers to the people of Brazil, Venezuela, Haiti, Cuba -- yes Cuba too.”
“Civil government, so far as it is instituted for the security of property, is in reality instituted for the defense of the rich against the poor, or of those who have some property against those wh...”
“Everything is relative in this world, where change alone endures.”
“A child who does not think about what happens around him and is content with living without wondering whether he lives honestly is like a man who lives from a scoundrel's work and is on the road to...”
“Despair is typical of those who do not understand the causes of evil, see no way out, and are incapable of struggle.”
“I knew I was alone in a way that no earthling has ever been before.”
“But love, like the sun that it is, sets afire and melts everything. what greed and privilege to build up over whole centuries the indignation of a pious spirit, with its natural following of oppres...”
“Unity is a great thing and a great slogan. But what the workers cause needs is the unity of Marxists, not unity between Marxists, and opponents and distorters of Marxism.”
“In a way, the worldview of the Party imposed itself most successfully on people incapable of understanding it. They could be made to accept the most flagrant violations of reality, because they nev...”
