"You can have relatively high levels of class consciousness with a lower level of class militancy than one would have expected."

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Source : Ernest Mandel (1994). “Revolutionary Marxism and social reality in the 20th century: collected essays”, Humanities Press Intl

Ernest Mandel

#Class Quotes #Levels Quotes #Consciousness Quotes

“If you live in a democracy and don't have freedom of information, it's not a democracy. And people have to understand that if you don't have freedom of information online, it's not going to be offline, either.”
“When the female voice is repressed and stifled, the entire community can easily find themselves cut off from the sacred feminine, depriving themselves of the full image of god.”
“A great piece of music is beautiful regardless of how it is performed. Any prelude or fugue of Bach can be played at any tempo, with or without rhythmic nuances, and it will still be great music. That's how music should be written, so that no-one, no matter how philistine, can ruin it.”

Source : Letter to Isaac Glikman, (August 28, 1955) in "Composers on Music" edited by Josiah Fisk and Jeff Nichols, (p. 364), 1997.
“Country artists, I met a lot of them when I was five, six years old. I had an uncle who was a country and western singer and I met Lefty Frizzell when I was five or six years old in those shows that would come through Toronto from Nashville.”
“I am not overlooking any mail. I'm looking at all of it. I even wrote back to the Viagra people.”
“Leadership is a journey. Each one of us has to take our own path, and get there our own way.”
“Before I was famous, I already was the person that attracted and dealt with a lot of weirdos.”
“American influence is not what it used to be.”

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