Amadeo Bordiga Quotes

To exploit living labour, capital must destroy dead labour which is still useful. Loving to suck warm young blood, it kills corpses.

Amadeo Bordiga

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• I am thrilled to return as Honorary Captain of the GREEKs for HBCUs Team. I reflect fondly on my days at Florida A&M University, and how visible and active all of the sororities and fraternities were. Membership in Black Greek letter organizations on college campuses is preparation for a lifetime of service.

  

  T'Keyah Crystal Keymah
  • Black
  • Team
  • College

• Priests are not men of the world; it is not intended that they should be; and a University training is the one best adapted to prevent their becoming so.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • World
  • Men
  • Best

• As long as the appointment process is transparent and there is a broad mix of political views among the governors of the BBC, I think the public can feel confident that impartiality and independence are just as important to me as they have been to previous incumbents.

  

  Gavyn Davies
  • Important
  • Long
  • Political

• Yoga makes my day better as I am less likely to fall victim to my otherwise foolish & forgetful mind.

  

  Jason Mraz
  • Mind
  • Fall
  • Yoga

• Withholding things in a story is no good if you aren't building to something substantial. It becomes foreplay without the main event, and no one wants that.

  

  J. J. Abrams
  • Good

• I used to have to do readings in church, and it was terrifying. I would never have my glasses. The words are printed so small even Superman would be nervous. And you’re reading from the Bible. It’s not like you can just make something up and improvise. “A reading from the letter of Saint Paul to the Corinthians. Uhhh. Dear Corinthians, … How was your weekend? Sure is hot here. Uh, tell Jesus ‘Hey.’ This is the word of the Lord.

  

  Jim Gaffigan
  • Reading
  • Church
  • Jesus

• If a man meets with injustice, it is not required that he shall not be roused to meet it; but if he is angry after he has had time to think upon it, that is sinful. The flame is not wrong, but the coals are.

  

  Henry Ward Beecher
  • Man
  • Injustice
  • Roused

• I said a lot of things in the heat of the moment that I shouldn't have said. Called him names I shouldn't have called him. I apologise for that. I'm sorry. It was all meant to promote the fight.

  

  Muhammad Ali
  • Things
  • Names
  • Apologise

• In capitalist society we have a democracy that is curtailed, wretched, false, a democracy only for the rich, for the minority. The dictatorship of the proletariat, the period of transition to communism, will for the first time create democracy for the people, for the majority, along with the necessary suppression of the exploiters, of the minority.

  

  Vladimir Lenin
  • People
  • Democracy
  • Rich

• It's a very low-key approach for low-impact fishing.

  

  J. M. Roberts
  • Approach
  • Fishing
  • Low-impact

• I knew that I could never again raise my voice against the violence of the oppressed in the ghettos without having first spoken clearly to the greatest purveyor of violence in the world today - my own government.... There is something strangely inconsistent about a nation and a press that would praise you when you say, 'Be nonviolent toward Jim Clark,' but will curse and damn you when you say, 'Be nonviolent toward little brown Vietnamese children!' There is something wrong with that press.

  

  Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • Government
  • Violence
  • Voice

• Rhetoric is useful because the true and the just are naturally superior to their opposites, so that, if decisions are improperly made, they must owe their defeat to their own advocates; which is reprehensible. Further, in dealing with certain persons, even if we possessed the most accurate scientific knowledge, we should not find it easy to persuade them by the employment of such knowledge. For scientific discourse is concerned with instruction, but in the case of such persons instruction is impossible.

  

  Aristotle
  • True
  • Knowledge
  • Useful

• Oh! captive, bound, and double-ironed," cried the phantom, "not to know, that ages of incessant labour, by immortal creatures, for this earth must pass into eternity before the good of which it is susceptible is all developed. Not to know that any Christian spirit working kindly in its little sphere, whatever it may be, will find its mortal life too short for its vast means of usefulness. Not to know that no space of regret can make amends for one life's opportunity misused!

  

  Charles Dickens
  • Opportunity
  • Christian
  • Spirit

• As far as movies, I love 'The Notebook.' I always say that I wish I could play Rachel McAdams' character. She's amazing. That's the movie every girl wants to be in.

  

  Miranda Cosgrove
  • Character
  • Girl
  • Wish

• To exploit living labour, capital must destroy dead labour which is still useful. Loving to suck warm young blood, it kills corpses.

  

  Amadeo Bordiga
  • Labour
  • Useful
  • Exploit