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“A este propósito, pergunta-se muitas vezes: “Como pode afirmar-se que a matéria existiu sempre? Quando nasceu? Não é de admirar que se pergunte. Durante toda a sua vida, o homem constata que todas as coisas têm um começo e um fim, e pergunta a si próprio: quem criou a matéria? A ciência responde-lhe: A matéria existiu sempre em toda a eternidade. Como provar esta importante dedução? Muitos factos o confirmam. Por exemplo a lei da conservação da massa, enunciada por Lomonossov e Lavoiser: na natureza, nenhum corpo, nenhum elemento não poderia nem desaparecer sem deixar vestígios, nem aparecer do nada.
E se admitir que houve um tempo em que não havia matéria, ela não poderia ter aparecido de parte nenhuma, nem do nada. Mas como a matéria existe, isto significa que ela nunca nasceu, que sempre existiu e que existirá sempre. É eterna e imortal. Também nunca pôde ser criada: não se saberia criar o que não se saberia aniquilar.”
― Alexander Spirkin, Dialectical Materialism

“Por isso dizemos que para nós não há uma moral situada fora da sociedade humana; isso é um engano. Para nós, a moral está subordinada aos interesses da luta de classes do proletariado.”
― Vladimir Lenin, A Cultura e a Revolução Cultural

“In Spain an exceptionally favourable situation, more favourable than in Russia before the October 1917 revolution, there was no party or leadership capable of making a correct estimate of the situation, drawing the necessary conclusions, and the workers firmly to take power. All that was necessary in the situation was to explain to the workers the real relationship of forces, the necessary and vital steps and to show them how their leaders and organisations stood in the way.

Power was in the hands of the workers, but it was not centralised or organised. Committees, Juntas or Soviets, the name does not matter, should have been organised in every factory and district, elected by the workers, housewives and all sections of the working population, including the peasants and of course the workers’ militias. These in turn should have been linked by delegates to form area, regional and an all national committee. This could have formed the framework of a new regime pushing aside the contemptible and powerless government and establishing the dictatorship of the proletariat.”
― Ted Grant & Peter Taaffe

“He understood that these feelings really were her secret treasure, which she had kept perhaps for years, perhaps from childhood, while she lived with an unhappy father and a distracted stepmother crazed by grief, in the midst of starving children and unseemly abuse and reproaches. But at the same time he knew now and knew for certain that, although it filled her with dread and suffering, yet she had a tormenting desire to read and to read to him that he might hear it, and to read now whatever might come of it!...”
― Dostoevskiy F., Crime and Punishment