Tecumseh

“Where today are the Pequot? Where are the Narragansett, the Mohican, the Pocanet, and other powerful tribes of our people? They have vanished before the avarice and oppression of the white man… Will not the bones of our dead be plowed up, and their graves turned into plowed fields?” –Tecumseh

Léon Blum

“The free man is he who does not fear to go to the end of his thought”. –Léon Blum

Ferdinand Marcos

“Those whom you fight passionately often turn out to be your best friends”. –Ferdinand Marcos

Kim Il-sung

“The oppressed peoples can liberate themselves only through struggle. This is a simple and clear truth confirmed by history”. –Kim Il-sung

Mahatma Gandhi

“Palestine belongs to the Arabs in the same sense that England belongs to the English or France to the French. It is wrong and inhuman to impose the Jews on the Arabs”. –Mahatma Gandhi

Klim Voroshilov

“Whoever can lift a rifle should have one”. –Klim Voroshilov

Hugh Kingsmill

“Writers are idolized not because they love their fellow men, which is never a recommendation and in extreme instances leads to crucifixion, but because their self-love is in tune with current fears and desires, and in giving it expression they are speaking for an inarticulate multitude”. –Hugh Kingsmill

Nero

“Hidden talent counts for nothing”. –Nero

Zachary Taylor

“For more than half a century, during which kingdoms and empires have fallen, this Union has stood unshaken. The patriots who formed it have long since descended to the grave; yet still it remains, the proudest monument to their memory”. –Zachary Taylor

Abu Bakr

“Cursed is the man who dies, but the evil done by him survives”. –Abu Bakr

Virginia Woolf

“Once you begin to take yourself seriously as a leader or as a follower, as a modern or as a conservative, then you become a self-conscious, biting, and scratching little animal whose work is not of the slightest value or importance to anybody”. –Virginia Woolf

Edward Thorndike

“Amongst the minds of animals that of man leads; not as a demigod from another planet, but as a king from the same race”. –Edward Thorndike

George Orwell

“Between them, these two books sum up our present predicament. Capitalism leads to dole queues, the scramble for markets, and war. Collectivism leads to concentration camps, leader worship, and war”. –George Orwell

Niccolo Machiavelli

“It ought be remembered that there is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct, or more uncertain in its success, than to take the lead in the introduction of a new order of things”. –Niccolo Machiavelli

Richard Wagner

“I hate this fast-growing tendency to chain men to machines in big factories, and deprive them of all joy in their efforts. The plan will lead to cheap men, and cheap products”. –Richard Wagner