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“The ultra-centralism asked by Lenin is full of the sterile spirit of the overseer. It is not a positive and creative spirit. Lenin's concern is not so much to make the activity of the party more fruitful as to control the party--to narrow the movement rather than to develop it, to bind rather than to unify it. . . . What is today only a phantom haunting Lenin's imagination may become reality tomorrow.”
― Rosa Luxemburg, Leninism or Marxism? Organizational Questions of the Russian Social Democracy

“Why is it never said that the really crucial function, the really important role that women serve as housewives is to buy more things for the house.”
― Betty Friedan

“Patriotism, red hot, is compatible with the existence of a neglect of national interests, a dishonesty, a cold indifference to the suffering of millions. Patriotism is largely pride, and very largely combativeness. Patriotism generally has a chip on its shoulder.”
― Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Herland

“To swallow and follow, whether old doctrine or new propaganda, is a weakness still dominating the human mind.”
― Charlotte Perkins Gilman