Ernest Mandel quote: "Furthermore, there is absolutely no contradiction between the separate organizations of revolutionary vanguard militants and their participation in the mass organizations of the working class."

Workers do not strike every day, they cannot do that the way they function in the capitalist economy...
ERNEST MANDEL

We do not believe that the Marxist program, which embodies the continuity of the experience of the a...
ERNEST MANDEL

The conclusion you can draw from these characteristics is that you have an uneven development of cla...
ERNEST MANDEL

You need a vanguard organization in order to overcome the dangerous potential brought about by the u...
ERNEST MANDEL

You can have relatively high levels of class consciousness with a lower level of class militancy tha...
ERNEST MANDEL

The only conclusion you can draw from the real historical movement is that by and large, in day-to-d...
ERNEST MANDEL

There are no conditions in which we subordinate the interests of the class as a whole to the interes...
ERNEST MANDEL

There is a process of social and of political differentiation going on in the real working class all...
ERNEST MANDEL

Factions are a sign of illness in a party.
ERNEST MANDEL

Otherwise we get off the track and we do not fulfil the historical role which we want to fulfil: to ...
ERNEST MANDEL

Marxism is always open, always critical, always self-critical.
ERNEST MANDEL

If the workers do not fight for higher wages, if they do not fight for a shorter workday, if they do...
ERNEST MANDEL

We do not believe that Marxism is a full, final doctrine, dogma, or Weltanschauung.
ERNEST MANDEL

Socialist democracy is not a luxury but an absolute, essential necessity for overthrowing capitalism...
ERNEST MANDEL

And you cannot have a socialist revolution commandeered from the top, ordered around by some omnisci...
ERNEST MANDEL

On the contrary, history generally confirms that the more conscious and the better you are organized...
ERNEST MANDEL

You cannot have a spontaneous socialist revolution.
ERNEST MANDEL

Revolution is not a goal in itself.
ERNEST MANDEL

worthy of their human nature.
ERNEST MANDEL

After all, the history of the 20th century is the history of social revolutions.
ERNEST MANDEL

I do not believe in self-proclaimed parties.
ERNEST MANDEL

Only under conditions of revolutionary crises do you have the highest level of self-organization; th...
ERNEST MANDEL

Mistakes in themselves are unavoidable.
ERNEST MANDEL

Socialist democracy is not, a luxury and its need is not limited to the most advanced industrial cou...
ERNEST MANDEL

Revolution is an instrument, like a party is an instrument.
ERNEST MANDEL

For us, Marxism is always open because there are always new xperiences, there are always new facts, ...
ERNEST MANDEL

There has been hardly a single year since 1917, and in a certain sense since 1905, without a revolut...
ERNEST MANDEL

Periodically, the workers do revolt against bourgeois society, not by a hundred, five hundred, or a ...
ERNEST MANDEL

Only under conditions of revolutionary crises do you have the highest level of self-organization; th...
ERNEST MANDEL

'Deal or No Deal' works nicely with my ADD/ADHD symptoms. I show up, meet the contestants, a...
HOWIE MANDEL

I was always incredibly obsessed with germs and cleaning and taking shower after shower after shower...
HOWIE MANDEL

There's no skill. You can be a rock and move into another cash bracket.
HOWIE MANDEL

Integrity: A name is the blueprint of the thing we call character. You ask, What's in a name? I answ...
MORRIS MANDEL

There isn't anybody out there who doesn't have a mental health issue, whether it's depre...
HOWIE MANDEL

I'm from Canada, so Thanksgiving to me is just Thursday with more food. And I'm thankful for...
HOWIE MANDEL

My childlike qualities sometimes lead me to jump into projects without thinking of the consequences.
HOWIE MANDEL

I once called construction companies to bid on an addition to the school library so that there would...
HOWIE MANDEL

I was diagnosed with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADD/ADHD) and obsessive-compulsive di...
HOWIE MANDEL

When I went through Marine boot camp in Paris Island, South Carolina, we actually did have bayonets ...
JOSH MANDEL

People who annoy people are the luckiest people in the world.
HOWIE MANDEL

I'm the treasurer of the state of Ohio, where, when the United States credit rating was downgrad...
JOSH MANDEL

They are absolutely hearing it. I'm confident they want to do something, the question is politically...
BRETT MANDEL

The people on Council are talking, and that's a good thing and there are people behind the scenes ta...
BRETT MANDEL

We have lots and lots of fun things in store. If we can eliminate the business privilege tax it will...
BRETT MANDEL

Unless you are a news business that is going to make money real soon, you're going to be in trouble.
BRETT MANDEL

After I impulsively revealed that I have OCD on a talk show, I was devastated. I often do things wit...
HOWIE MANDEL

Diana Ross saw me on Merv Griffin and hired me to be her opening act.
HOWIE MANDEL

It's not just about having a great idea. You have to be able to communicate that in a concise, effec...
STAN MANDEL

If I'm a game show host, will someone buy a ticket to see me do standup? To do a dramatic role i...
HOWIE MANDEL

I love voice-acting - I can go to work without wearing pants. Although I did wear pants during Greml...
HOWIE MANDEL

Always put off until tomorrow what you shouldn't do at all.
MORRIS MANDEL

I was kind of a misfit, actually. When you're young, you want to be like everybody else, and I w...
HOWIE MANDEL

The doctor heard my heartbeat and found out I had an irregular heartbeat. I was not symptomatic or a...
HOWIE MANDEL

I have to be the only person in America who had a doctor say to him, 'Please don't put any m...
HOWIE MANDEL

Part of my humor is the fact that I love coming out of left field. I don't want people to expect...
HOWIE MANDEL

One of the most lethal mistakes a public official can make is raising taxes and not paying your own.
JOSH MANDEL

If you come to any of my live shows, you'll see, it's very frenetic. I have the attention sp...
HOWIE MANDEL

The North End will be the largest private investment in the Park East corridor and will serve as a c...
BARRY MANDEL

You need to continue to show that downtown is the heart of the region.
BARRY MANDEL

We were a very small circle of writers. Everybody brought to the table their own life experience.
HOWIE MANDEL

The success of any stand-up act comes out of life experience.
HOWIE MANDEL

One of the great pleasures of having children is spending one-on-one time with them. Sadly, I could ...
HOWIE MANDEL

Stand-up comedy is a sickness. Who wouldn't want a room full of people laughing and screaming at...
HOWIE MANDEL

I am beloved by millions.
HOWIE MANDEL

The darkest hour has only 60 minutes.
MORRIS MANDEL

There were 84 original episodes. It was rated No. 1 and No. 2 on the Fox Children's Network. We ...
HOWIE MANDEL

I have thoughts - obtrusive thoughts and rituals that have to - it's like a broken re - a skippi...
HOWIE MANDEL

I've been chased. I've been pushed. I've been screamed at. I've been verbally abused...
HOWIE MANDEL

I'm always in a hotel room, and I spend a good portion of my day setting it up so it's comfo...
HOWIE MANDEL

It's really not that hard. If I do a Tonight Show, it's six or seven minutes. If I do a conc...
HOWIE MANDEL

Post-Enron, companies will not spend money in hopes they will recoup the money. They need to be cert...
JAY MANDEL

I've been chased, ... I've been pushed. I've been screamed at. I've been verbally abused. I've been ...
HOWIE MANDEL

We get up early Sunday morning, ... and we have cereal and orange juice and we make crank calls.
HOWIE MANDEL

If my mom came here today, she'd probably join this red-hat brigade, ... My mother got my sense of h...
HOWIE MANDEL

Terry was so angry; she kept saying we have to meet with these people at parent-teacher conferences,...
HOWIE MANDEL

I was never brave before. I always tried to make it work, ... Now I have nothing to lose except some...
HOWIE MANDEL

[Then amid the crowd's boos they want Howie, not the] Oh Happy Day ... I think my epitaph is goin...
HOWIE MANDEL

She was so helpful and so sweet and so giving, ... I call it the food-poisoning effect. Everybody kn...
HOWIE MANDEL

I'm fascinated by mankind, ... I grew up watching 'Candid Camera' and thought it was funnier than an...
HOWIE MANDEL

My whole life is a practical joke, ... Every evening and every show has really become about entertai...
HOWIE MANDEL

You can't be the dad who takes your kid out after your wife has said, 'No ice cream,' bu...
HOWIE MANDEL

It's almost impossible for someone doing another job to keep on top of [new technology channels].
MARIA MANDEL

ABC News has the authority to go to news when it's something this important, ... We're very pleased ...
MARK MANDEL

Contractually, the halftime is under the domain of the Orange Bowl.
MARK MANDEL

It was obvious there was a great deal of interest in this year's race due to the realistic expectati...
MARK MANDEL

Wal-Mart has reached an inflection point. With a company of this size, it's tough to calculate where...
MARK MANDEL

They are both expensive right now,
MARK MANDEL

The thing to watch is if momentum starts to build, this could feed on itself, ... They may get a new...
MARK MANDEL

The challenge they face is that they may get larger and larger and stay at a certain rate of growth,
MARK MANDEL

Lights shine more brightly at Ford, but they go out overnight.
LEON MANDEL

If you are the light, if your enemies are darkness, then there’s nothing that you cannot justify. ...
EMILY ST. JOHN MANDEL

The more we know about the former world, the better we’ll understand what happened when it fell.
EMILY ST. JOHN MANDEL

Hell is the absence of the people you long for.
EMILY ST. JOHN MANDEL

You told me you’re trying to shed your possessions or something, right?” “Exactly. They’re l...
EMILY ST. JOHN MANDEL

It was gorgeous and claustrophobic. I loved it and I always wanted to escape.
EMILY ST. JOHN MANDEL

I'm just curious, how'd you get into this line of work?"

"Gradually, and then suddenly
EMILY ST. JOHN MANDEL

Jeevan’s understanding of disaster preparedness was based entirely on action movies, but on the ot...
EMILY ST. JOHN MANDEL

The king stood in a pool of blue light, unmoored.
EMILY ST. JOHN MANDEL

Clark observa a actividade nocturna na pista, os aviões que estão parados à vinte anos, o reflexo...
EMILY ST. JOHN MANDEL

Há dinheiro, pedaços de papel que podem ser trocados por qualquer coisa: casas, barcos, dentes per...
EMILY ST. JOHN MANDEL

- OK, suponhamos que vai à copa - disse ela -, e duas pessoas que quem gosta estão lá, suponhamos...
EMILY ST. JOHN MANDEL

He has no interest in comics. He doesn’t understand the difference between serious graphic novels ...
EMILY ST. JOHN MANDEL

If nothing else, it's pleasant to consider the possibility. He likes the thought of ships moving ove...
EMILY ST. JOHN MANDEL

He wished he could somehow go back and find the iPhone people whom he'd jostled on the sidewalk earl...
EMILY ST. JOHN MANDEL

The beauty of this world where almost everyone was gone. If hell is other people, what is a world wi...
EMILY ST. JOHN MANDEL

Difficulties are just things to overcome, after all.
ERNEST SHACKLETON

About morals, I know only that what is moral is what you feel good after and what is immoral is what...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY

If your experiment needs statistics, you ought to have done a better experiment.
ERNEST RUTHERFORD

I don't like to write like God. It is only because you never do it, though, that the critics thi...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY

Personal columnists are jackals and no jackal has been known to live on grass once he had learned ab...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY

I've tried to reduce profanity but I reduced so much profanity when writing the book that I'...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY

A man's got to take a lot of punishment to write a really funny book.
ERNEST HEMINGWAY

Ezra was right half the time, and when he was wrong, he was so wrong you were never in any doubt abo...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY

After you finish a book, you know, you're dead. But no one knows you're dead. All they see i...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY

For a war to be just three conditions are necessary - public authority, just cause, right motive.
ERNEST HEMINGWAY

'For Whom the Bell Tolls' was a problem which I carried on each day. I knew what was going t...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY

When I am working on a book or a story, I write every morning as soon after first light as possible....
ERNEST HEMINGWAY

Bullfighting is the only art in which the artist is in danger of death and in which the degree of br...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY

You can write any time people will leave you alone and not interrupt you. Or, rather, you can if you...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY

Wars are caused by undefended wealth.
ERNEST HEMINGWAY

A writer of fiction is really... a congenital liar who invents from his own knowledge or that of oth...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY

The good parts of a book may be only something a writer is lucky enough to overhear or it may be the...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY

It's none of their business that you have to learn how to write. Let them think you were born th...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY

Once we have a war there is only one thing to do. It must be won. For defeat brings worse things tha...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY

The game of golf would lose a great deal if croquet mallets and billiard cues were allowed on the pu...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY

For a long time now I have tried simply to write the best I can. Sometimes I have good luck and writ...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY

On the 'Star,' you were forced to learn to write a simple declarative sentence. This is usef...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY

To be a successful father... there's one absolute rule: when you have a kid, don't look at i...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY

Once writing has become your major vice and greatest pleasure, only death can stop it.
ERNEST HEMINGWAY

No weapon has ever settled a moral problem. It can impose a solution but it cannot guarantee it to b...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY

I learned never to empty the well of my writing, but always to stop when there was still something t...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY

When you go to war as a boy, you have a great illusion of immortality. Other people get killed, not ...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY

I wake up in the morning and my mind starts making sentences, and I have to get rid of them fast - t...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY

They wrote in the old days that it is sweet and fitting to die for one's country. But in modern ...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY

You're beautiful, like a May fly.
ERNEST HEMINGWAY

What is moral is what you feel good after, and what is immoral is what you feel bad after.
ERNEST HEMINGWAY

That terrible mood of depression of whether it's any good or not is what is known as The Artist&...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY

There's no one thing that is true. They're all true.
ERNEST HEMINGWAY

You can wipe out your opponents. But if you do it unjustly you become eligible for being wiped out y...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY

Fear of death increases in exact proportion to increase in wealth.
ERNEST HEMINGWAY

When writing a novel a writer should create living people; people not characters. A character is a c...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY

If you have a success you have it for the wrong reasons. If you become popular it is always because ...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY

That is what we are supposed to do when we are at our best - make it all up - but make it up so trul...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY

I know now that there is no one thing that is true - it is all true.
ERNEST HEMINGWAY

All good books have one thing in common - they are truer than if they had really happened.
ERNEST HEMINGWAY

As you get older it is harder to have heroes, but it is sort of necessary.
ERNEST HEMINGWAY

We are all apprentices in a craft where no one ever becomes a master.
ERNEST HEMINGWAY

There is no friend as loyal as a book.
ERNEST HEMINGWAY

Every man's life ends the same way. It is only the details of how he lived and how he died that ...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY

I rewrote the ending to 'Farewell to Arms,' the last page of it, thirty-nine times before I ...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY

His talent was as natural as the pattern that was made by the dust on a butterfly's wings. At on...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY

All my life I've looked at words as though I were seeing them for the first time.
ERNEST HEMINGWAY

Why should anybody be interested in some old man who was a failure?
ERNEST HEMINGWAY

I'm not going to get into the ring with Tolstoy.
ERNEST HEMINGWAY

You see, I am trying in all my stories to get the feeling of the actual life across - not to just de...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY

I never had to choose a subject - my subject rather chose me.
ERNEST HEMINGWAY

The world is a fine place and worth the fighting for and I hate very much to leave it.
ERNEST HEMINGWAY

There is no rule on how to write. Sometimes it comes easily and perfectly; sometimes it's like d...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY

When I have an idea, I turn down the flame, as if it were a little alcohol stove, as low as it will ...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY

Switzerland is a small, steep country, much more up and down than sideways, and is all stuck over wi...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY

If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man, then wherever you go for the rest of ...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY

I know war as few other men now living know it, and nothing to me is more revolting. I have long adv...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY

Time is the least thing we have of.
ERNEST HEMINGWAY

Man is not made for defeat.
ERNEST HEMINGWAY

I love to go to the zoo. But not on Sunday. I don't like to see the people making fun of the ani...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY

The shortest answer is doing the thing.
ERNEST HEMINGWAY

There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.
ERNEST HEMINGWAY

The only thing that could spoil a day was people. People were always the limiters of happiness excep...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY

Somebody just back of you while you are fishing is as bad as someone looking over your shoulder whil...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY

Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.
ERNEST HEMINGWAY

We are gods with anuses.
ERNEST BECKER

By then I knew that everything good and bad left an emptiness when it stopped. But if it was bad, th...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY

I can die when I wish to: that is my elixir of life.
ERNEST RENAN

You make your own luck, Gig. You know what makes a good loser? Practice.
ERNEST HEMINGWAY

There never has been a war yet which, if the facts had been put calmly before the ordinary folk, cou...
ERNEST BEVIN

I've been to a number of places and seen for myself the caliber of people who are in the Navy to...
ERNEST BORGNINE

Question everything. Every stripe, every star, every word spoken. Everything.
ERNEST GAINES

Man makes holy what he beleives, as he makes beautiful what he loves.
ERNEST RENAN

When you give power to an executive you do not know who will be filling that position when the time ...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY

Only one marriage I regret. I remember after I got that marriage license I went across from the lice...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY

The good parts of a book may be only something a writer is lucky enough to overhear or it may be the...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY

All good books are alike in that they are truer than if they had really happened and after you are f...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY

Of all created comforts, God is the lender; you are the borrower, not the owner.
ERNEST RUTHERFORD

There's no one thing that is true. They're all true.
ERNEST HEMINGWAY

Madame, it is an old word and each one takes it new and wears it out himself. It is a word that fill...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY

Don't just count your years, make your years count.
ERNEST MEYERS

All serious conversations gravitate towards philosophy. - What We Live By.
ERNEST DIMNET

What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the winter...
ERNEST DIMNET

The happiness of most people we know is not ruined by great catastrophes or fatal errors, but by th...
ERNEST DIMNET

Man makes holy what he believes.
ERNEST RENAN

You know that fiction, prose rather, is possibly the roughest trade of all in writing. You do not ha...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY

Writing, at its best, is a lonely life. Organizations for writers palliate the writer's loneliness, ...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY

I have tried simply to write the best I can. Sometimes I have good luck and write better than I can.
ERNEST HEMINGWAY

They can't yank a novelist like they can a pitcher. A novelist has to go the full nine, even if it k...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY

The most essential gift for a good writer is a built-in, shock-proof, shit detector. This is the wri...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY

The writer must write what he has to say, not speak it.
ERNEST HEMINGWAY

The parody is the last refuge of the frustrated writer. Parodies are what you write when you are ass...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY

A cat has absolute emotional honesty: human beings, for one reason or another, may hide their feelin...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY

Never confuse movement with action.
ERNEST HEMINGWAY

I love sleep. My life has the tendency to fall apart when I'm awake, you know?
ERNEST HEMINGWAY

Furthermore, there is absolutely no contradiction between the separate organizations of revolutionary vanguard militants and their participation in the mass organizations of the working class.

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Furthermore, there is absolutely no contradiction between the separate organizations of revolutionary vanguard militants and their participation in the mass organizations of the working class.

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