“Revolutionary practice in any field of human existence develops by itself if one comprehends the contradictions in every new process; it consists in siding with those forces which act in the direction of progressive development.” IfsHumansForceProcessExistencePracticeFieldsDevelopmentRevolutionaryContradictionProgressiveHuman ExistenceSidingNew Processes Author:Wilhelm Reich
“A divine revelation must necessarily be intolerant of contradiction; it must repudiate all improvement in itself, and view with disdain that arising from the progressive intellectual development of man.” MenViewsAtheismDivineDevelopmentIntellectualPositive AtheismImprovementRevelationsContradictionProgressiveDisdainDivine RevelationIntellectual Development Book:History of the Conflict Between Religion and Science: By John William Draper ... Source: History of the Conflict Between Religion and Science: By John William Draper ...
“The invention of the concept of sustainable human development and that of so-called human security, as opposed to territorial security of nation- states, and its promotion by the UN is in clear contradiction to all that we, the Group of 77, and the UN Charter itself consider inalienable, namely national sovereignty and security.” HumansStatesNationsClearGroupsSecurityDevelopmentConceptsInventionContradictionSovereigntyPromotionHuman DevelopmentCharterTerritorialNational Sovereignty Author:Pranab Mukherjee
“It is a contradiction to support increased development assistance, yet turn a blind eye to actions by multinationals anothers that undermine the tax base of a developing country.” CountryEyeActionTurnsSupportDevelopmentTaxesBlindDevelopingContradictionAssistanceDeveloping CountriesMultinationalsBlind Eyes Author:Trevor Manuel
“The clearer and deeper the public opinion of the world, in the first instance the opinion of the working masses, will understand the contradictions and the difficulties of the socialist development of an isolated country, the higher will it appreciate the results achieved. The less it identifies the fundamental methods of Socialism with the zigzags and errors of the Soviet bureaucracy, the less will be the danger that, by the inevitable revelation of these errors and of their consequences, the authority, not only of the present ruling group, but of the workers' State itself, may decline.” WorldFirstsMayCountryStatesResultsOpinionGroupsDangerDevelopmentHigherAuthorityMassConsequenceAppreciateDifficultyMethodFundamentalsErrorsWorkersDeeperSocialismInstanceInevitableRevelationsContradictionSovietIsolatedDeclineSocialistBureaucracyRulingPublic Opinion Author:Leon Trotsky
“If it is true, as I have tried to show, that love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence, then any society which excludes, relatively, the development of love, must in the long run perish of its own contradiction with the basic necessities of human nature.” IfsLifeHumansLongShowsProblemRunningAnswersLove IsExistenceHuman NatureDevelopmentContradictionSaneLong RunsHuman Existence Author:Erich Fromm