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All interpretations of history are propaganda for one idea or another.


Selma Dabbagh


#politics #propaganda

Vladimir Ilyich (Lenin), your concrete actions are completely unworthy of the ideas you pretend to hold. Is it possible that you do not know what a hostage really is — a man imprisoned not because of a crime he has committed, but only because it suits his enemies to exert blackmail on his companions? ... If you admit such methods, one can foresee that one day you will use torture, as was done in the Middle Ages. I hope you will not answer me that Power is for political men a professional duty, and that any attack against that power must be considered as a threat against which one must guard oneself at any price. This opinion is no longer held even by kings... Are you so blinded, so much a prisoner of your own authoritarian ideas, that you do not realise that being at the head of European Communism, you have no right to soil the ideas which you defend by shameful methods ... What future lies in store for Communism when one of its most important defenders tramples in this way every honest feeling?


Pyotr Kropotkin


#anarcho-communism #communism #dictatorship #freedom #lenin

... [In 'Pride and Prejudice'] Mr Collins's repulsiveness in his letter [about Lydia's elopement] does not exist only at the level of the sentence: it permeates all aspects of his rhetoric. Austen's point is that the well-formed sentence belongs to a self-enclosed mind, incapable of sympathetic connections with others and eager to inflict as much pain as is compatible with a thin veneer of politeness. Whereas Blair judged the Addisonian sentence as a completely autonomous unit, Austen judges the sentence as the product of a pre-existing moral agent. What counts is the sentence's ability to reveal that agent, not to enshrine a free-standing morsel of truth. Mr Darcy's letter to Elizabeth, in contrast, features a quite different practice of the sentence, including an odd form of punctation ... The dashes in Mr Darcy's letter transform the typographical sentence by physically making each sentence continuous with the next one. ... The dashes insist that each sentence is not self-sufficient but belongs to a larger macrostructure. Most of Mr Darcy's justification consists not of organised arguments like those of Mr Collins but of narrative. ... The letter's totality exists not in the typographical sentence but in the described event.


Andrew Elfenbein


#jane-austen #linguistics #style #grammar

And when there are enough outsiders together in one place, a mystic osmosis takes place and you're inside.


Stephen King


#sociology #sociology

Politics isn't about big money or power games, it's about the improvement of people's lives. Paul Wellstone


Dr. Amy E. Black


#politics #money

Don't get politics mixed up in this. It's all about money and it makes no difference if the Social Democrats or the moderates appoint the ministers


Stieg Larsson


#stieg-larsson #the-girl-with-the-dragon-tattoo #money

I'm not doing it for media attention, not doing it for sponsors, not for money.


Nastia Liukin


#gymnastics #sports #money

We are the United States of Amnesia, we learn nothing because we remember nothing.


Gore Vidal


#politics #united-states #united-states

We are what we are. Nothing more, nothing less. There is good and evil among every kind of people. It's the evil among us who rule now.


Anne Bishop


#good #politics #good-and-evil

Someone who doesn't make the (Olympic) team might weep and collapse. In my day no one fell on the track and cried like a baby. We lost gracefully. And when someone won, he didn't act like he'd just become king of the world, either. Athletes in my day were simply humble in our victory. I believe we were more mature then...Maybe it's because the media puts so much pressure on athletes; maybe it's also the money. In my day we competed for the love of the sport...In my day we patted the guy who beat us on the back, wished him well, and that was it.


Louis Zamperini


#sports #sportsmanship #track #love