"The future belongs to socialism"

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Source : Erich Honecker (1976). “Report of the Central Committee to the 9th Congress of the Socialist Union Party of Germany, [Berlin, May 1976]”

Erich Honecker

#Socialism Quotes

“Women must write through their bodies, they must invent the impregnable language that will wreck partitions, classes, and rhetorics, regulations and codes, they must submerge, cut through, get beyond the ultimate reverse-discourse, including the one that laughs at the very idea of pronouncing the word "silence"...In one another we will never be lacking.”
“The Mobius strip is only an analog for the reality of what it is.”
“So much in a revolution is nothing but waiting.”
“I want to go out like a Champion, I want to be carried out”
“Men must always have distinguished (e.g. in judicial matters) between hearsay and seeing with one's own eyes and have preferred what one has seen to what he has merely heard from others. But the use of this distinction was originally limited to particular or subordinate matters. As regards the most weighty matters the first things and the right way the only source of knowledge was hearsay.”
“Too much of Indian writing in English, it seemed to me, consisted of middle-class people writing about other middle-class people - and a small slice of life being passed off as an authentic portrait of the country.”
“You should make an effort on stage because it's a performance. The stage should be glittery and camp, but I don't go down the shops in full stage gear.”
“Music has always had the ability to comfort and inspire.”

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