"There has been hardly a single year since 1917, and in a certain sense since 1905, without a revolution somewhere in the world in which the workers participated in a rather important way."

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

Ernest Mandel

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“Like all great rationalists you believed in things that were twice as incredible as theology.”

Source : Halldór Laxness (2005). “Under the Glacier”, Vintage Books
“A doctor is a man who writes prescriptions, till the patient either dies or is cured by nature.”
“For the world to be interesting, you have to be manipulating it all the time.”
“You want a blood relative to lead your army? Get Marcie. She likes ordering people around. She'll be a natural.”
“We must become acquainted with our emotional household: we must see our feelings as they actually are, not as we assume they are. This breaks their hypnotic and damaging hold on us.”
“[T]he scripture worshippers put the writings ahead of God. Instead of interpreting God's actions in nature, for example, they interpret nature in the light of the Scripture. Nature says the rock is billions of years old, but the book says different, so even though men wrote the book, and God made the rock and God gave us minds that have found ways to tell how old it is, we still choose to believe the Scripture.”
“Grief is a circular staircase.”
“When I dance, it's incredible. I can't describe it, there's no words. You just tap into your mojo and you just go.”

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