Politics Quotes
Power, governance, and the messy business of organizing human societies.
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"Imperialism is dying, but its death throes will be violent."Kwame Nkrumah
"Autocracy perpetuates the very diseases it claims to cure."Kwame Nkrumah
"The revolution betrayed is not yet the revolution lost"Leon Trotsky
"Isolation is the oxygen of bureaucracy"Leon Trotsky
"Politics is not the art of compromise but the science of change"Leon Trotsky
"Without a revolutionary theory, there can be no revolutionary movement."Fidel Castro
"Political power comes from the will of the people."Fidel Castro
"Silence is argument carried out by other means."Che Guevara
"Economic independence is the basis of political independence."Che Guevara
"The guerrilla fighter is a social reformer."Che Guevara
"Our epoch is characterized by the struggle against imperialism."Che Guevara
"One cannot be both impartial and revolutionary."Che Guevara
"The peasant is the backbone of the revolution."Che Guevara
"Money is the root cause of exploitation and injustice."Che Guevara
"The struggle is not against individuals, but against systems of oppression."Che Guevara
"The masses are the reserve force of the revolution."Che Guevara
"The struggle between revolution and counter-revolution will determine the fate of our people."Ho Chi Minh
"The people, and the people alone, are the motive force in the making of world history."Mao Zedong
"The correctness or incorrectness of the ideological and political line decides everything."Mao Zedong
"The purpose of propaganda is not to provide interesting information but to serve as a programmatic expression of the interests of the ruling class."Vladimir Lenin
"The state is a machine in the hands of the ruling class for suppressing the resistance of its class enemies."Vladimir Lenin
"Fascism is capitalism in decay."Vladimir Lenin
"Imperialism is the highest stage of capitalism."Vladimir Lenin
"Politics begins where the masses are; not where there are thousands, but where there are millions."Vladimir Lenin
"The goal of socialism is communism."Vladimir Lenin
"Capitalists will sell us the rope with which we will hang them."Vladimir Lenin
"The Soviet system is the dictatorship of the proletariat."Vladimir Lenin
"The worker has no country. We cannot take from him what he has not got."Vladimir Lenin
"The Soviet Union is a workers' state."Vladimir Lenin
"The Pope! How many divisions has he got?"Joseph Stalin