Quotes

The actors for freedom are oppressed by the talkers and the verbal professors of freedom
— Wistanley
A little rebellion now and then is a good thing
— Thomas Jefferson
...if civilisation is to advance at all in the future, it must be through the help of women, women freed of their political shackles, women with full power to work their will in society. It was rapidly becoming clear to my mind that men regarded women as a servant class in the community, and that women were going to remain in the servant class until they lifted themselves out of it
— Emmeline Pankhurst
Progress is impossible without change and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything
— George Bernard Shaw
From each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs
— Karl Marx
Many people would sooner die than think. In fact they do
— Bertrand Russell
The Marxist analysis has got nothing to do with what happened in Stalin's Russia; it's like blaming Jesus Christ for the Inquisition in Spain
— Tony Benn
The workers have nothing to lose but their chains. They have a world to gain. Workers of the world, unite
— Karl Marx
All I know is that I am not a Marxist
— Karl Marx
In a state worthy of the name there is no liberty. The people want to exercise power but what on earth would they do with it if it were given to them?
— Lenin
I know not what course others may take; but as for me, give me liberty or give me death
— Patrick Henry
When the People contend for their Liberty, they seldom get anything by their Victory but new masters
— Lord Halifax
In our country the lie has become not just a moral category but a pillar of the State
— Alexander Solzhenitsyn
Communism continued to haunt Europe as a spectre - a name men gave to their own fears and blunders. But the crusade against Communism was even more imaginary than the spectre of Communism
— A. J. P. Taylor
Whoso would be a man must be a nonconformist
— Ralph Waldo Emerson