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“To swallow and follow, whether old doctrine or new propaganda, is a weakness still dominating the human mind.”
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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.”
― Leninism or Marxism? Organizational Questions of the Russian Social Democracy
― Leninism or Marxism? Organizational Questions of the Russian Social Democracy
“As for mother Eve - I wasn't there and can't deny the story, but I will say this. If she brought evil into the world, we men have had the lion's share of keeping it going ever since.”
― The Yellow Wallpaper and Other Writings
― The Yellow Wallpaper and Other Writings
“It is the same woman, I know, for she is always creeping, and most women do not creep by daylight.”
― The Yellow Wallpaper and Other Stories
― The Yellow Wallpaper and Other Stories
“The innermost essence, the core, the whole meaning and content of the policies of the imperialist capitalist countries is the continuous and incessant tearing apart of all countries and peoples so that they can be gradually devoured and digested by capitalism. [...] And, consequently, the working class must draw the conclusion that imperialism, war, plundering countries, haggling over peoples, breaking the law, and the policy of violence can only be fought against by fighting capitalism, by setting social revolution against global genocide.”
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