“There are decades where nothing happens; and there are weeks where decades happen” – Lenin.
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[Zhukov] A modern soldier's greatest fear, it's not death, it's not starvation, it's chafing!
[Khrushchev, interjecting] ...And then he planted the flag in Hitler's bunker or he knocked the bear out with one punch.
[Zhukov] ...It was Goebbels's bunker, not Hitler's!
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we may have to start making excuses for the lack of terror
- @wombat
This one gets an audible laugh from me every time
“If you tremble with indignation at every injustice then you are a comrade of mine.” Che
No altar, no belief, no holy book, neither the Qur’an nor the Bible nor the others, have ever been able to reconcile the rich and the poor, the exploiter and the exploited. And if Jesus himself had to take the whip to chase them from his temple, it is indeed because that is the only language they hear.” Thomas Sankara
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If you don't steal from your boss, you're stealing from your family.
We're coming for that toothbrush.
“give me that fucking infant”
-me
"The so-called crisis of homelessness has not abated, and it can’t. So, therefore, has my sense of rage not abated, and it can’t." - Don Mitchell, Mean Streets: Homelessness, public space, and the limits of capital. Definitely one of my favorite books I've read in the last couple years.
"When I give food to the poor, they call me a saint. When I ask why the poor have no food, they call me a Communist." - Dom Helder Camara. Pretty sure he wasn't actually a lefty but this is still good.
Hunger is hunger; but the hunger that is satisfied by cooked meat eaten with a knife and fork differs from hunger that devours raw meat with the help of hands, nails and teeth. - Karl Marx.
all oppressed people have a right to violence - Lizzy Borden
The United States is also a one-party state but, with typical American extravagance, they have two of them.
-Julius Nyerere
It is more pleasant and useful to go through the "experience of revolution" than to write about it.
Always thought this line from the manifesto was banger
All that is solid melts into air, all that is holy is profaned, and man is at last compelled to face with sober senses his real conditions of life, and his relations with his kind.
This one in particular is good if the person you're speaking to is religious. I used a simplified version to explain my disgust for Saudi Arabia very quickly, and in particular what they have done in Mecca with all their grand luxury hotels around the Kabaah.
What was the :citations-needed: quote about the atomic unit of propaganda?
Something about how it is emphasis, not content, I believe.
“A man is not killed when his heart is struck by a bullet; he is killed when he is cancelled.” - Joseph Stalin
“A woke peasant can harvest plenty of soy.” - Ho Chi Minh
“Many men wish death upon me. Lord, I don't cry no more; I don't look to the sky no more. Have mercy on me.” - Fidel Castro
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