Quotes by Belgian authors

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"Is it absurd to imagine that our social behavior, from amoeba to man, is also planned and dictated, from stored information, by the cells? And that the time has come for men to be entrusted with the task, through heroic efforts, of bringing life to other worlds?"

Albert Claude, Scientist

"For the resolving powers of our scientific instruments decide, at a given moment, of the size and the vision of our Universe, and of the image we then make of ourselves"

Albert Claude, Scientist

"In an action film you act in the action. If it's a dramatic film you act in the drama"

Jean Claude Van Damme, Actor

"What really helps a guy to become an action hero today is the directing of the movie. All those fast cuts"

Jean Claude Van Damme, Actor

"I've become 40, my audience is partly the same age"

Jean Claude Van Damme, Actor

"What is a movie star? It is an illusion. It was everything I ever wanted to be, but it became a kind of shell, non? It was what made me famous and got me women. But it wasn't real"

Jean Claude Van Damme, Actor

"One of them, for example, which will probably haunt me more than any other is the problem of communication"

Georges Simenon, Writer

"I have always tried to write in a simple way, using down-to-earth and not abstract words"

Georges Simenon, Writer

"We do not believe that the Marxist program, which embodies the continuity of the experience of the actual class struggle and real revolutions of the last one hundred and fifty years, is a definitely closed book"

Ernest Mandel, Author

"Revolution is not a goal in itself"

Ernest Mandel, Author

"I do not believe in self-proclaimed parties"

Ernest Mandel, Author

"And you cannot have a socialist revolution commandeered from the top, ordered around by some omniscient leader or group of leaders"

Ernest Mandel, Author

"The lake and the mountains have become my landscape, my real world"

Georges Simenon, Writer

"I adore life but I don't fear death. I just prefer to die as late as possible"

Georges Simenon, Writer

"Trotsky rises to give me his hand, then sits at his desk, gently allowing his regard to light on my person"

Georges Simenon, Writer

"The conclusion you can draw from these characteristics is that you have an uneven development of class activity and an uneven development of class consciousness in the working class"

Ernest Mandel, Author

"Socialist democracy is not, a luxury and its need is not limited to the most advanced industrial countries"

Ernest Mandel, Author

"Mistakes in themselves are unavoidable"

Ernest Mandel, Author

"Marxism is always open, always critical, always self-critical"

Ernest Mandel, Author

"Factions are a sign of illness in a party"

Ernest Mandel, Author

"Workers do not strike every day, they cannot do that the way they function in the capitalist economy. The way they have to live by selling their labor power makes that impossible"

Ernest Mandel, Author

"Only under conditions of revolutionary crises do you have the highest level of self-organization; this is the Soviet type of organization, which is to say, workers' councils, people's councils, call them what you want, popular committees"

Ernest Mandel, Author

"There has been hardly a single year since 1917, and in a certain sense since 1905, without a revolution somewhere in the world in which the workers participated in a rather important way"

Ernest Mandel, Author

"Periodically, the workers do revolt against bourgeois society, not by a hundred, five hundred, or a thousand, but by the millions"

Ernest Mandel, Author

"Otherwise we get off the track and we do not fulfil the historical role which we want to fulfil: to help the masses, the exploited and the oppressed of the world, build a classless society, a world socialist federation"

Ernest Mandel, Author

"For us, Marxism is always open because there are always new xperiences, there are always new facts, including facts about the past, which have to be incorporated in the corpus of scientific socialism"

Ernest Mandel, Author

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