I’ve set up Linux on my computer, and want to add a fortune widget that displays Marxist quotes and bits of theory to help me keep up my revolutionary optimism and stave off doomerism. I’d like them to be short little tidbits, not long paragraphs ideally. Anyone know a good source?
“It doesn’t matter whether the cat is black or white, so long as it catches mice.” - Deng Xiaoping “There are decades where nothing happens; and there are weeks where decades happen.” - Vladimir Lenin “No investigation, no right to speak” - Mao Zedong “The value of a thing is just as much as it will bring” - Samuel Butler “As exchange-values, all commodities are merely definite quantities of congealed labour-time.” - Karl Marx. “With software there are only two possibilites: either the users control the programme or the programme controls the users. If the programme controls the users, and the developer controls the programme, then the programme is an instrument of unjust power.” - Richard Stallman “It is said that cameras don’t lie, but we must remember that liars use cameras.” - Michael Parenti “Before a revolution happens, it is perceived as impossible; after it happens, it is seen as having been inevitable.” - Rosa Luxemburg “If you tremble with indignation at every injustice, then you are a comrade of mine.” - Che Guevara “Women hold up half the sky.” - Mao Zedong “We have no compassion and we ask no compassion from you. When our turn comes, we shall not make excuses for the terror.” - Karl Marx “It is difficult for me to imagine what “personal liberty” is enjoyed by an unemployed person, who goes about hungry, and cannot find employment. Real liberty can exist only where exploitation has been abolished, where there is no oppression of some by others, where there is no unemployment and poverty, where a man is not haunted by the fear of being tomorrow deprived of work, of home and of bread. Only in such a society is real, and not paper, personal and every other liberty possible.” - Some Georgian “As a matter of principle, I refuse to own a tie […]” - Richard Stallman “The old world is dying, and the new world struggles to be born: now is the time of monsters.” - Antonio Gramsci “Common sense is a chaotic aggregate of disparate conceptions, and one can find there anything that one like.” - Antonio Gramsci “Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains.” - Karl Marx “Empty talk harms the country, while hard work makes it flourish.” - Chinese proverb “What is scientific socialism without the working-class movement? A compass which, if left unused, will only grow rusty and then will have to be thrown overboard. What is the working-class movement without socialism? A ship without a compass which will reach the other shore in any case, but would reach it much sooner and with less danger if it had a compass.” - Some Georgian
copy paste this into a file, also some georgian is stalin. feel free to share yours, i like building my quote database too lol tho sometimes i forget to keep updating it.
This is excellent, thank you!