“My whole life so far, my whole experience has been that our failure has been not to love enough. This conviction brought me to a rejection of the radical movement after my early membership in the Socialist Party, the Industrial Workers of the World, and the Communist affiliates I worked with.” WorldHas BeensEnoughWholePartyMovementWorkersConvictionWhole LifeRadicalRejectionCommunistSocialistMembershipSocialist Party Book:On Pilgrimage Source: On Pilgrimage
“All political movements are like this - we are in the right, everyone else is in the wrong. The people on our own side who disagree with us are heretics, and they start becoming enemies. With it comes an absolute conviction of your own moral superiority. There's oversimplification in everything, and a terror of flexibility.” PeopleRealityPoliticalPoliticsSidesCommunityPartyMoralEnemyGenerationsHuman NatureMovementBecomingEthicsAbsolutesStrategyUnityTerrorConvictionIdeologyTeaVotingDisagreeFree SpeechSuperiorityPolitical PartiesFlexibilityCivilityDisobedienceTea PartyCivil DisobedienceHereticPartisanshipThird PartiesPolitical MovementsOversimplificationMoral Superiority Author:Doris Lessing
“Cockburn's personal history links him to the politics of the Communist Party, and there are still moments in his writing - debating the number of people estimated to have perished in Stalin's gulags, claiming that 'the Brezhnev years were a Golden Age for the Soviet working class', when aspects of his father's convictions can be glimpsed.” PeopleWritingYearsStillsMomentsAgeFatherPartyNumbersClassAspectConvictionGoldenLinksCommunistSovietWorking ClassGolden AgeCommunist PartyPersonal HistoryGulagsBrezhnev Author:Alexander Cockburn
“We begin the path toward defeating Mexico's real adversary, who represents authoritarianism and the worst antidemocratic practice, who represents a return to corruption as a system and impunity as conviction. That adversary is Pena Nieto and his party.” RealPartyPracticePathWorstReturnConvictionCorruptionMexicoAdversariesAuthoritarianismImpunity Author:Josefina Vazquez Mota
“We should resist the temptation to identify our religious convictions with the platform of a party or the platitudes of favored politicians.” ShouldReligiousPartyPoliticianConvictionScaryTemptationPlatformsPlatitudes Author:Ralph E. Reed, Jr.
“The main fighter for the DSP [Deutsch-Sozialistische Partei or German Socialist Party], as I have said, was Julius Streicher, then a teacher in Nuremberg. At first he, too, had a holy conviction of the mission and the future of his movement.” FirstsSaidPartyTeacherMovementHolyConvictionMissionsFighterSocialistJuliusNurembergSocialist Party Book:Mein Kampf Source: Mein Kampf