My brain is too broke to consume theory very easily. Gimme your favorite quotes so I can acquire theory slightly more efficiently than via meme osmosis
Who controls the food supply controls the people; who controls the energy can control whole continents; who controls money can control the world
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-Henry Kissinger
Whoever controls Arrakis controls the spice. And whoever controls the spice controls the universe.
The Russians are bent on world dominance, and they are rapidly acquiring the means to become the most powerful imperial nation the world has seen. They do not have to worry about the ebb and flow of public opinion. They put guns before butter, while we put just about everything before guns.
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-Margaret Thatcher
In order to bring a nation to support the burdens of maintaining great military establishments, it is necessary to create an emotional state akin to war psychology. There must be the portrayal of an external menace. This involves the development to a high degree of the nation-hero, nation-villain ideology and the arousing of the population to a sense of sacrifice. Once these exist, we have gone a long way on the path to war
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John foster Dulles
Politics without the masses are adventurist politics.
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The exploitation of one social class by another is the product of the historical evolution of society, and not of human nature. It has not always existed. It will not always survive. There have not always been rich and poor. There will not always be.
But we did not build this society in order to restrict personal liberty but in order that the human individual may feel really free. We built it for the sake of real personal liberty, liberty without quotation marks. It is difficult for me to imagine what "personal liberty" is enjoyed by an unemployed person, who goes about hungry, and cannot find employment.
Real liberty can exist only where exploitation has been abolished, where there is no oppression of some by others, where there is no unemployment and poverty, where a man is not haunted by the fear of being tomorrow deprived of work, of home and of bread. Only in such a society is real, and not paper, personal and every other liberty possible.
Stalin quote (Interview Between J. Stalin and Roy Howard, 1936) He also talks about the democratic system in their next constitution.
You’re really going to attack the senate parliamentarian like this? Do you hate democracy? She has a family!
"Yes, you are right when you say that the old social system is breaking down; but it is not breaking down of its own accord. Take Fascism for example.
Fascism is a reactionary force which is trying to preserve the old system by means of violence. What will you do with the fascists? Argue with them? Try to convince them? But this will have no effect upon them at all. Communists do not in the least idealise the methods of violence. But they, the Communists, do not want to be taken by surprise, they cannot count on the old world voluntarily departing from the stage, they see that the old system is violently defending itself, and that is why the Communists say to the working class : Answer violence with violence; do all you can to prevent the old dying order from crushing you, do not permit it to put manacles on your hands, on the hands with which you will overthrow the old system. As you see, the Communists regard the substitution of one social system for another, not simply as a spontaneous and peaceful process, but as a complicated, long and violent process. Communists cannot ignore facts."
Is this long of a quote a leftist cliche?