„Before Alamein we never had a victory. After Alamein, we never had a defeat.“

— Winston S. Churchill

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„In all the countries where fascism became victorious, we had, before the growth of fascism and its victory, a wave of radicalism of the masses -- of the workers and the poorer peasants and farmers, and of the petty bourgeois class. In Italy, after the war and before 1922, we had a revolutionary wave of tremendous dimensions; the state was paralyzed, the police did not exist, the trade unions could do anything they wanted -- but there was not party capable of taking the power. As a reaction came fascism.“
— Leon Trotsky
„Victories and defeats form part of everyone's life - everyone, that is, except cowards, as you call them, because they never lose or win.“
— Paulo Coelho
„There are no borders in this struggle to the death. We cannot be indifferent to what happens anywhere in the world, because a victory by any country over imperialism is our victory, just as any country's defeat is a defeat for all of us.“
— Ernesto Che Guevara