Politics Quotes
Power, governance, and the messy business of organizing human societies.
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"Understand, I had no hatred for America, but America had temporarily lost her way."Eleanor Roosevelt
"The most important thing for us is the Ukrainian question. The fate of the revolution itself depends on it."Leon Trotsky
"The revolution betrayed is the revolution that lost its internationalist character."Leon Trotsky
"Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel."Leon Trotsky
"The permanent revolution theory teaches that the democratic tasks of the backward nations can be completed only under the direction of the proletariat."Leon Trotsky
"The national bourgeoisie betrays the colonial peoples to imperialism."Leon Trotsky
"Without international revolution, there is no future for any backward country."Leon Trotsky
"The revolution must be permanent or it will perish."Leon Trotsky
"The reformist denies the necessity of revolutionary transformation."Leon Trotsky
"The working class must not be fooled by nationalist rhetoric."Leon Trotsky
"The peasantry cannot lead its own revolution; it requires proletarian guidance."Leon Trotsky
"The working class is the only truly revolutionary force in society."Leon Trotsky
"The state is not neutral; it is an instrument of class domination."Leon Trotsky
"We should support whatever the enemy opposes and oppose whatever the enemy supports."Mao Zedong
"The struggle of the proletariat against the bourgeoisie must necessarily be a political struggle."Mao Zedong
"In the countryside, we must focus on the peasants and the land."Mao Zedong
"The people's communes represent the road to communism."Mao Zedong
"We must eliminate class struggle through socialist transformation."Mao Zedong
"We will eventually bury imperialism through historical development."Mao Zedong
"We cannot tolerate the spread of revisionist ideas in our party."Mao Zedong
"We cannot expect anything from the League of Nations"Joseph Stalin
"The Pope! How many divisions has he got?"Joseph Stalin
"We have room for persons in our country"Joseph Stalin
"Communism is socialism with a gun"Joseph Stalin
"Politics is war by other means"Joseph Stalin
"The keystone of the Fascist doctrine is its conception of the State."Benito Mussolini
"The crowd doesn't like to think for itself."Benito Mussolini
"Every drop of my blood is Fascist."Benito Mussolini
"The individual is helpless in the face of the State."Benito Mussolini
"Politics is action."Benito Mussolini