Ernest Mandel Quotes

And you cannot have a socialist revolution commandeered from the top, ordered around by some omniscient leader or group of leaders

Ernest Mandel

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• General Giap was one of the most brilliant military strategists of our era, who in Dien Bien Phu was able to place missile launchers in remote, mountainous jungles, something the yankee and European military officers considered impossible.

  

  Fidel Castro
  • Military
  • Place
  • Impossible

• Fiction is optimistic or unrealistic enough to demand that there should be a meaningful narrative.

  

  Paolo Bacigalupi
  • Meaningful
  • Optimistic
  • Narrative

• I am hunting for people who would be a good colleague or a teammate, not someone who works for me.

  

  Jack Dangermond
  • People
  • Work
  • Hunting

• People love a good story, even if it's a story that has very little truth to it.

  

  Katee Sackhoff
  • People
  • Love
  • Truth

• I used to run away from school to my village. But later, I went to the U.S. for studies and lost touch.

  

  Randeep Hooda
  • School
  • Lost
  • Village

• When I was auditioning for 'True Grit,' I was on the Paramount lot. I was wearing clothes from the 1800s that were big and uncomfortable.

  

  Hailee Steinfeld
  • True
  • Clothes
  • Uncomfortable

• I kinda went through a semi-depression. Honestly. Like, I lost myself.

  

  Laura Bell Bundy
  • Lost
  • Myself
  • Like

• Do I think Vince McMahon was looking at my matches in Japan going, 'We need him?' No. He wasn't. He's too busy. There's no way. But somebody may have been looking and going, 'All right, I like this guy. Let's give him a shot.'

  

  A.J. Styles
  • May
  • Think
  • Guy

• I'm not one for Sudoku or crosswords - the thing that fires my little brain is doing tour budgets.

  

  Ian Anderson
  • Brain
  • Doing
  • Little

• One thing I'm not going to do is chase staying alive. You spend so much time chasing staying alive, you won't live.

  

  Patrick Swayze
  • Time
  • Live
  • You

• I have never been a believer that nice clothes should only be for people with money.

  

  Jaclyn Smith
  • People
  • Money
  • Nice

• Having children is what a woman is born for, really.

  Nastassja Kinski
  • Children
  • Woman
  • Born

• Obviously, I don't live and die by it, everything my horoscope says. But I feel like there's definitely something to it.

  

  Kacey Musgraves
  • Live
  • Die
  • Everything

• Shopping for hijabs has always been fun for me. I was so excited to begin wearing a headscarf. I had always looked up to my mother as she wore hers, and I was eager to emulate her beauty and the wonderful things she represented.

  

  Halima Aden
  • Up
  • She
  • Fun

• I never earned a dollar that was not somehow through writing.

  

  Walter Lord
  • Writing
  • Never
  • Dollar

• Michael Jordan was that guy - he was Michael Jordan. So whatever he did, we followed.

  

  Zach LaVine
  • Guy
  • Whatever
  • Jordan

• When we patch things up,They say a job well done.But when we ask the question whyWhere did the rips come from?,They say we are subversive,And extreme, of course.We are just trying to track a problem to its source.

  

  Ani DiFranco
  • Up
  • Trying
  • Done

• Put up at the moment of greatest suffering a prayer, not for thy own escape, but for the enfranchisement of some being dear to thee, and the sovereign spirit will accept thy ransom.

  

  Margaret Fuller
  • Up
  • Suffering
  • Prayer

• The judge should not be young, he should have learned to know evil, not from his own soul, but from late and long observation of the nature of evil in others.

  

  Plato
  • Evil
  • Judge
  • Observation

• Michael Bates was a very funny actor; he'd served in India, could speak Urdu, and had great comic timing.

  

  Sanjeev Bhaskar
  • Speak
  • Actors
  • Comic

• Whoever finishes a revolution only halfway, digs his own grave.

  

  Georg Buchner
  • Revolution

• From what cause the rite of baptism first proceeded is not expressed formally in the scripture, but it may be probably thought to be an imitation of the law of Moses concerning leprosy, wherein the leprous man was commanded to be kept out of the camp of Israel for a certain time, after which time being judged by the priest to be clean, he was admitted into the camp after a solemn washing. And this may therefore be a type of the washing in baptism, wherein such men as are cleansed of the leprosy of Sin by Faith, are received into the church with the solemnity of baptism.

  

  Thomas Hobbes
  • Baptism
  • Priest
  • Sin By Faith

• Successful people maintain a positive focus in life no matter what is going on around them. They stay focused on their past successes rather than their past failures, and on the next action steps they need to take to get them closer to the fulfillment of their goals rather than all the other distractions that life presents to them.

  

  Jack Canfield
  • People
  • Life
  • Past

• And you cannot have a socialist revolution commandeered from the top, ordered around by some omniscient leader or group of leaders

  

  Ernest Mandel
  • Revolution
  • Leader
  • Groups