Uplifting Socialist quotes

[Tarun616]

Comrades,
I'm in need of some quotes to just make me feel better. Can you therefore please send me a list of uplifting/ encouraging/ inspiring quotes?
Thanks

[boiler]

This is one of my favorite quotes :) :hammersickle:

“A true revolutionary is not that demonstrates value in the period of the victorious uprising, but who knows how to fight not only at the time of the victorious advance but also at the retreat of the revolution; that demonstrates value in the period of the defeat of the proletariat, which does not lose the head, which does not abandon the road when the revolution suffers a defeat and the enemy records successes; which is not dominated by panic, or falls into despair in the retreat of the revolution period.” J. V. STALIN

Other good one's

“The great appear great to us, only because we are on our knees:
LET US RISE.” - James Connolly

"I began revolution with 82 men. If I had to do it again, I do it with 10 or 15 and absolute faith. It does not matter how small you are if you have faith and plan of action." - Fidel Castro

[Slavoj Zizek's Balls]

“Quotations are useful in periods of ignorance or obscurantist beliefs.”

― Guy Debord, Panegyric (1989)

[Anti-Traditional]

And yet, whether the merchant who has paid £100 for his cotton sells it for £110, or lets it go for £100, or even £50, his money has, at all events, gone through a characteristic and original movement, quite different in kind from that which it goes through in the hands of the peasant who sells corn, and with the money thus set free buys clothes.

[Comrade Jacob]

"When I die the first thing that will happen is that a garbage-dump will be put on my grave, but it doesn't matter the winds of history will wipe it clean" - j.v Stalin.
That always cheers me up.

[boiler]

"When I die the first thing that will happen is that a garbage-dump will be put on my grave, but it doesn't matter the winds of history will wipe it clean" - j.v Stalin.
That always cheers me up.

I like that one, Iv never seen it or heard it before :)

[Comrade Jacob]

I like that one, Iv never seen it or heard it before :)
I'm not sure where it's from either but I heard it from somewhere and it stuck.

[G4b3n]

Stop depressing OP with all the Stalinist quotes.

"In a higher phase of communist society, after the enslaving subordination of the individual to the division of labor, and therewith also the antithesis between mental and physical labor, has vanished; after labor has become not only a means of life but life's prime want; after the productive forces have also increased with the all-around development of the individual, and all the springs of co-operative wealth flow more abundantly -- only then then can the narrow horizon of bourgeois right be crossed in its entirety and society inscribe on its banners: From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs!"

I have always found this well known Marx quote to be rather inspiring, at least compared to how grim and sobering leftism and history in general can be.

[Ceallach_the_Witch]

'The most heroic word in all languages is REVOLUTION' - Eugene V. Debs

'Bourgeois class domination is undoubtedly an historical necessity, but, so too, the rising of the working class against it. Capital is an historical necessity, but, so too, its grave digger, the socialist proletariat' - Rosa Luxembourg

'You know how I always believe in the future ... Without disorder, the revolution is impossible; knowing that, I did not lose hope, and I do not lose it now.' - Peter Kropotkin

'Yes, Marcos is gay. Marcos is gay in San Francisco, black in South Africa, an Asian in Europe, a Chicano in San Ysidro, an anarchist in Spain, a Palestinian in Israel, a Mayan Indian in the streets of San Cristobal, a Jew in Germany, a Gypsy in Poland, a Mohawk in Quebec, a pacifist in Bosnia, a single woman on the Metro at 10pm, a peasant without land, a gang member in the slums, an unemployed worker, an unhappy student and, of course, a Zapatista in the mountains.
Marcos is all the exploited, marginalised, oppressed minorities resisting and saying `Enough'. He is every minority who is now beginning to speak and every majority that must shut up and listen. He is every untolerated group searching for a way to speak. Everything that makes power and the good consciences of those in power uncomfortable -- this is Marcos.' - Subcommandante Marcos

[Captain Red]

"I am convinced there is only one way to eliminate the grave evils of capitalism, namely through the establishment of a socialist economy, accompanied by an educational system which would be oriented toward social goals. In such an economy, the means of production are owned by society itself and are utilized in a planned fashion. A planned economy, which adjusts production to the needs of the community, would distribute the work to be done among all those able to work and would guarantee a livelihood to every man, woman, and child. The education of the individual, in addition to promoting his own innate abilities, would attempt to develop in him a sense of responsibility for his fellow-men in place of the glorification of power and success in our present society."
-Albert Einstein

"If the workers took a notion they could stop all speeding trains; every ship upon the ocean they can tie with mighty chains. Every wheel in the creation every mine and every mill; fleets and armies of the nation, will at their command stand still."
-Joe Hill

[blake 3:17]

For many years I've appreciated the Chartist slogan, "Peacefully if we may, forcefully if we must".

My favourite is Bobby Sands' "Our revenge will be the laughter of our children."

[Queen Mab]

“Man's dearest possession is life. It is given to him but once, and he must live it so as to feel no torturing regrets for wasted years, never know the burning shame of a mean and petty past; so live that, dying, he might say: all my life, all my strength were given to the finest cause in all the world──the fight for the liberation of mankind”
― Nikolai Ostrovsky, How the Steel Was Tempered

[RedMaterialist]

"And when it has accomplished this second half of its preliminary work, Europe will leap from its seat and exult: Well burrowed, old mole!"