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So long as the system of competition in the production and exchange of the means of life goes on, the degradation of the arts will go on.
William Morris1834–1896“Art Under Plutocracy” (1883)
- Art
- Economics
The first duty of the revolutionaries is to tell the truth. Fooling the people, promoting illusions, always brings the worst consequences.
Fidel Castro1926–2016Camp Columbia, Havana (Jan. 8th, 1959), Fidel Castro Reader, pp. 133
- Truth & Lies
To make the individual sacred we must destroy the social order which crucifies him. And this problem can only be solved by blood and iron.
Leon Trotsky1879–1940Terrorism and Communism (1920), Ch. 4: Terrorism
A society will be judged on the basis of how it treats its weakest members; and among the most vulnerable are surely the unborn and the dying.
Pope John Paul II1920–2005Address to a new ambassador of New Zealand to the Holy See, 25 May 2000
- Abortion
- Morality
Men of all countries are brothers, and the different peoples should help one another according to their ability like citizens of the same state.
Maximilien Robespierre1758–1794Proposed Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen, speech to the National Convention (24 April 1793)
- Charity
Your representative owes you, not his industry only, but his judgment; and he betrays instead of serving you if he sacrifices it to your opinion.
Edmund Burke1729–1797Speech to the Electors of Bristol (3 November 1774); reported in The Works of the Right Honorable Edmund Burke (1899), vol. 2, p. 95
- Democracy
Many people consider the things government does for them to be social progress but they regard the things government does for others as socialism.
Earl Warren1891–1974Address to National Press Club in Washington DC, as quoted in Freedom and Union (April 1952)
- Government
For the first time in history, the human species as a whole has gone into politics. Everyone is in the act, and there is no telling what may come of it.
Saul Bellow1915–2005To Jerusalem and Back: A Personal Account (1976), p. 38
Historically, the errors committed by a truly revolutionary movement are infinitely more fruitful than the infallibility of the cleverest Central Committee.
Rosa Luxemburg1871–1919Leninism or Marxism? (1904)
- Failure
The American people are sick and tired of being afraid to speak their minds lest they be politically smeared as “Communists” or “Fascists” by their opponents.
Margaret Chase Smith1897–1995Declaration of Conscience (1950)
- Freedom
I would like to say to you, to the leaders of the left, and the leaders of the right, I sing… I sing for everyone. My song has no flag, my song has no party.
Leonard Cohen1934–2016Warsaw concert (1985)
- Music
In the name of Communism we abandoned basic human values. So when I came to power in Russia I started to restore those values; values of “openness” and freedom.
Mikhail Gorbachev1931–2022“Nature Is My God”—interview with Fred Matser in Resurgence No. 184 (September-October 1997)
- Freedom
I should say this — that Pat doesn’t have a mink coat. But she does have a respectable Republican cloth coat. And I always tell her that she’d look good in anything.
Richard Nixon1913–1994Checkers speech (1952)
A lot of political people, especially people on the left, have forgotten the importance of humor as an incredible weapon, and a vehicle through which to affect change.
Michael Mooreborn 1954The Corporation (2004)
- Humor
Who ordained that a few should have the land of Britain as a perquisite, who made 10,000 people owners of the soil and the rest of us trespassers in the land of our birth?
David Lloyd George1863–1945Speech in Newcastle (9 October 1909), quoted in The Times (11 October 1909), p. 6
- Justice