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<blockquote data-quote="Lord Rasputin" data-source="post: 844651" data-attributes="member: 8410">&quot;All for ourselves and nothing for other people seems, in every age of the world, to have been the vile maxim of the masters of mankind.&quot; -- Adam Smith&quot;It is only in folk tales, children's stories, and the journals of intellectual opinion that power is used wisely and well to destroy evil. The real world teaches very different lessons, and it takes willful and dedicated ignorance to fail to perceive them.&quot; -- Noam Chomsky&quot;Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Great men are almost always bad men.&quot; -- Lord John Acton&quot;The history of progress is written in the blood of men and women who have dared to espouse an unpopular cause, as, for instance, the black man’s right to his body, or woman’s right to her soul.&quot; -- Emma Goldman&quot;In communist society, where nobody has one exclusive sphere of activity but each can become accomplished in any branch he wishes, society regulates the general production and thus makes it possible for me to do one thing today and another tomorrow, to hunt in the morning, fish in the afternoon, rear cattle in the evening, criticize after dinner, just as I have a mind, without ever becoming hunter, fisherman, shepherd or critic.&quot; -- Karl Marx and Friedrich Engles&quot;Idealism is the despot of thought, just as politics is the despot of will.&quot; -- Mikhail Bakunin&quot;Saints should always be judged guilty until they are proved innocent.&quot; -- George Orwell, on Gandhi&quot;I cannot imagine a God who rewards and punishes the objects of his creation [and] is but a reflection of human frailty.&quot; -- Albert Einstein&quot;There is no king who has not had a slave among his ancestors, and no slave who has not had a king among his.&quot; -- Helen KellerOf course, there are plenty of quotes in Marx that support totalitarianism (&quot;vanguard party&quot;) and those that make absolutely no sense without some serious further digging (&quot;dialectics&quot;). The list above has anarchists (Chomsky, Bakunin, Goldman, arguably Orwell), socialists (Einstein) and liberals (Acton, Smith) as well as more orthodox Marxists (Marx, Engels, Keller), likely showing my own biases.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Lord Rasputin, post: 844651, member: 8410"] "All for ourselves and nothing for other people seems, in every age of the world, to have been the vile maxim of the masters of mankind." -- Adam Smith "It is only in folk tales, children's stories, and the journals of intellectual opinion that power is used wisely and well to destroy evil. The real world teaches very different lessons, and it takes willful and dedicated ignorance to fail to perceive them." -- Noam Chomsky "Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Great men are almost always bad men." -- Lord John Acton "The history of progress is written in the blood of men and women who have dared to espouse an unpopular cause, as, for instance, the black man’s right to his body, or woman’s right to her soul." -- Emma Goldman "In communist society, where nobody has one exclusive sphere of activity but each can become accomplished in any branch he wishes, society regulates the general production and thus makes it possible for me to do one thing today and another tomorrow, to hunt in the morning, fish in the afternoon, rear cattle in the evening, criticize after dinner, just as I have a mind, without ever becoming hunter, fisherman, shepherd or critic." -- Karl Marx and Friedrich Engles "Idealism is the despot of thought, just as politics is the despot of will." -- Mikhail Bakunin "Saints should always be judged guilty until they are proved innocent." -- George Orwell, on Gandhi "I cannot imagine a God who rewards and punishes the objects of his creation [and] is but a reflection of human frailty." -- Albert Einstein "There is no king who has not had a slave among his ancestors, and no slave who has not had a king among his." -- Helen Keller Of course, there are plenty of quotes in Marx that support totalitarianism ("vanguard party") and those that make absolutely no sense without some serious further digging ("dialectics"). The list above has anarchists (Chomsky, Bakunin, Goldman, arguably Orwell), socialists (Einstein) and liberals (Acton, Smith) as well as more orthodox Marxists (Marx, Engels, Keller), likely showing my own biases. [/QUOTE]

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