Quotes about Popular Movement

Ludwig von Mises

The truth is that most people lack the intellectual ability and courage to resist a popular movement, however pernicious and ill-considered.

Kim Il-sung

My God is none other than the people. Only the popular masses are omniscient and omnipotent and almighty on earth. Therefore my lifetime motto is: "The people are my God.

The irony of this quotation is that most North Koreans were conditioned to regard him as a God. There was no place in the world here people had more reverence for a leader—and in this case a brutal, dictatorial, leader.

Jay Roach

When Dalton Trumbo and his friends joined the Communist Party it was 1943, and Russia was our ally in World War II. This was connected to a very popular movement of artists and intellectuals at that time towards anti fascism, and an alliance with the union movement.

Ruhollah Khomeini

It is our duty now to implement and put into practice the plan of government established by Islam… We will create a strong new current of thought and a powerful popular movement that will result in the establishment of an Islamic government.

Bianca Jagger

I think the difference between El Salvador and Nicaragua is that in Nicaragua you had a popular insurrection, and in El Salvador you had a revolution.

Rosa Luxemburg

Socialism is the first popular movement in world history that has set itself the goal of bringing human consciousness, and thereby free will, into play in the social actions of mankind

This was written while she was in a U. S. prison. She wrote the manuscript and smuggled it out. It was published under the Pseudonym of “Junius.” As a result the prison authorities had no idea that she was running an anti-war and anti-government publishing operation from prison. What was she in prison for? Writing and speaking against the government and the war.

Zachary Karabell

GDP has effectively become a proxy for national success or failure. It has the power to decide elections, overthrow governments, and launch popular movements.

Donald Rumsfeld

You can have a broad popular democracy movement and have it end being taken over by the most vicious people and the result is you don't end up with free political systems or free economic systems, you end up with a handful of radicals controlling the country.

Popular Movement Quotes