#able

Democracy is indispensable to socialism. ↗

— Vladimir Lenin

#indispensable #socialism

Despair is typical of those who do not understand the causes of evil, see no way out, and are incapable of struggle. The modern industrial proletariat does not belong to the category of such classes. ↗

— Vladimir Lenin

#category #causes #classes #despair #does

The history of all countries shows that the working class exclusively by its own effort is able to develop only trade-union consciousness. ↗

— Vladimir Lenin

#class #consciousness #countries #develop #effort

Our society is run by insane people for insane objectives. I think we're being run by maniacs for maniacal ends and I think I'm liable to be put away as insane for expressing that. That's what's insane about it. ↗

— John Lennon

#away #being #ends #expressing #i

Over the years, I was never really driven to become a solo artist, but I was curious to find out who I was as an individual creative person. It's taken some time, but now I feel I've truly paid my dues. I guess I'm at a point now where I'm more comfortable in my own skin. ↗

— Annie Lennox

#become #comfortable #creative #creative person #curious

Sentimentality is intolerable because it is false feeling. ↗

— Doris Lessing

#false #feeling #intolerable #sentimentality

Socialism is practical, in the best sense of the term; a living, vital force of inestimable value to society. ↗

— Daniel De Leon

#force #inestimable #living #practical #sense

I'm a writer, and what I do is write. I wasn't able to do anything else. ↗

— Hugh Leonard

#anything #else #i #i do #write

When evil acts in the world it always manages to find instruments who believe that what they do is not evil but honorable. ↗

— Max Lerner

#always #believe #evil #find #honorable

You know, when I was a girl, the idea that the British Empire could ever end was absolutely inconceivable. And it just disappeared, like all the other empires. ↗

— Doris Lessing

#british #british empire #could #disappeared #empire