The slanders poured down like Niagara. If you take into consideration the setting--the war and the revolution--and the character o...f the accused--revolutionary leaders of millions who were conducting their party to the sovereign power--you can say without exaggeration that July 1917 was the month of the most gigantic slander in world history.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The Red Cross in its nature, it aims and purposes, and consequently, its methods, is unlike any other organization in the country.... It is an organization of physical action, of instantaneous action, at the spur of the moment; it cannot await the ordinary deliberation of organized bodies if it would be of use to suffering humanity, ... [ellipsis in original] it has by its nature a field of its own.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Science, unguided by a higher abstract principle, freely hands over its secrets to a vastly developed and commercially inspired te...chnology, and the latter, even less restrained by a supreme culture saving principle, with the means of science creates all the instruments of power demanded from it by the organization of Might.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
With all their faults, trade-unions have done more for humanity than any other organization of men that ever existed. They have do...ne more for decency, for honesty, for education, for the betterment of the race, for the developing of character in man, than any other association of men.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Art need no longer be an account of past sensations. It can become the direct organization of more highly evolved sensations. It i...s a question of producing ourselves, not things that enslave us.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
To fight oppression, and to work as best we can for a sane organization of society, we do not have to abandon the state of mind of... freedom. If we do that we are letting the same thuggery in by the back door that we are fighting off in front of the house.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Language makes it possible for a child to incorporate his parents' verbal prohibitions, to make them part of himself....We don't s...peak of a conscience yet in the child who is just acquiring language, but we can see very clearly how language plays an indispensable role in the formation of conscience. In fact, the moral achievement of man, the whole complex of factors that go into the organization of conscience is very largely based upon language.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Lenin was not merely a party man. He raised the party to the level of a political principle. This is the source of all his deviati...ons from the essentially democratic views of Marx. For Marx, a political party was conceived as a kind of cross between an international educational institution for the working class and a pressure group, as something that would come and go and be reconstituted in the forge of historical events. But for Lenin the political party was an army of professional revolutionists. The organization of professional revolutionists was of supreme importance in capturing state power. Iron-clad control of the organization was essential to victory.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »