Bordigaist texts - Links to "Party and Class," "Party and Class Action," and "Fundamental Theses of the Party," by Italian "ultra-left" communist Amadeo Bordiga.
Significant Writings - Site offers writings of A. Bordiga from 1912 to 1970, in several languages including French, English, German, Italian, and Spanish.
Amadeo Bordiga Today - An essay on Bordiga's thoughts and relevance by Loren Goldner.
Bordiga Archive - Texts by Amadeo Bordiga in English, and articles about the Italian communist left.
"If there is something to pardon in everything, there is also something to condemn." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, The Will to Power, 1888) There's nothing wrong with having nothing to say -- unless you insist on saying it.
-- Anonymous Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the
truth.
- Sherlock Holmes It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.
-- Harry Truman All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others.
-- Chad A. Gamble, Escape, short story Bordiga, Amadeo I regret that I have but one life to give for my country.
-- Nathan Hale Insurance is like marriage. You pay, pay, pay, and you never get anything back.
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show What I look forward to is continued immaturity followed by death.
-- Dave Barry Bordiga, Amadeo
"Employees make the best dates. You don't have to pick them up and they're always tax-deductible." (Andy Warhol, Andy Warhol's Exposures, 1980) "These are days you'll remember." If you recall nothing else from your graduation ceremony,
remember you heard the New Jersey Governor quote from 10,000 Maniacs.
-- Christine Todd, NJ Governor, Whea Why bother with marriage? Just find a woman you hate and buy her a house. Virtue is like health: the harmony of the whole man.
-- Thomas Carlyle You can't shake hands with a clenched fist.
-- Indira Gandhi Bordiga, Amadeo The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat.
-- Lily Tomlin "The reward of a thing well done is having done it." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) I guess the only way to stop divorce is to stop marriage.
-- Will Rogers Bordiga, Amadeo
"The key to wisdom is knowing all the right questions." (John A. Simone Jr.) In endowing us with memory, nature has revealed to us a truth utterly unimaginable to the
unreflective creation, the truth of immortality....The most ideal human passion is love, which is
also the m "This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) His ignorance is encyclopedic
- Abba Eban Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.
-- Erica Jong Bordiga, Amadeo You will marry into an Indian tribe and become one big Hopi family. Everyone believes very easily whatever they fear or desire.
-- Jean de La Fontaine Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up.
-- Robert Frost Bordiga, Amadeo
Genius is an African who dreams up snow.
-- Vladimir Nabokov Weaseling out of things is good. It's what separates us from the other animals....except weasels.
-- Homer Simpson, character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated television show Give the people not hell, but hope and courage.
-- John Murray Truth must necessarily be stranger than fiction, for fiction is the creation of the human mind and
therefore congenial to it.
-- G. K. Chesterton Fighting is essentially a masculine idea; a woman's weapon is her tongue.
-- Hermione Gingold Bordiga, Amadeo It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.
-- Harry Truman Why don't you write books people can read?
-- Nora Joyce, to her husband James "The first question I ask myself when something doesn't seem to be beautiful is why do I think it's not beautiful. And very shortly you discover that there is no reason." (John Cage) Bordiga, Amadeo
If you want a place in the sun, you've got to put up with a few blisters.
-- Abigail Van Buren "The things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisi We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.
-- Mme de Staël Idealism increases in direct proportion to one's distance from the problem.
-- John Galsworthy I don't feel good.
-- Luther Burbank, dying words Bordiga, Amadeo "What is the difference between exploring and being lost?" (Dan Eldon, photojournalist) Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.
-- John Lehman, Secretary of the Navy, 1981-1987 People say "I want peace." If you remove I {ego}, and your want {desire}, you are left with peace.
-- Satya Sai Baba Bordiga, Amadeo
I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known.
-- Walt Disney "Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution yet." (Mae West) Life is the flower for which love is the honey.
-- Victor Hugo "Our lives are repetitious shams--every single day a simulacrum of the previous day. So for Man, he is out to pepper his daily activities with different things--he's fighting against boredom." (Matth All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusion is called a philosopher.
- Ambrose Bierce Bordiga, Amadeo "Conform and be dull." (J. Frank Doble) They gave me a book of checks. They didn't ask for any deposits.
-- Joe Early, Congressman (D-Mass), at a press conference to answer questions about the
House Bank scandal The man with the best job in the country is the Vice President. All he has to do is get up every
morning and say, "How's the President?"
-- Will Rogers Bordiga, Amadeo
Silence is argument carried out by other means.
-- Ernesto "Che" Guevara I don't know which is more discouraging, literature or chickens.
-- E. B. White blah "It is a grand mistake to think of being great without goodness and I pronounce it as certain that there was never a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous." (Benjamin Fran Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.
-- Francis Bacon A straight line is the shortest in morals as in mathematics.
-- Maria Edgeworth Bordiga, Amadeo Insurance is like marriage. You pay, pay, pay, and you never get anything back.
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show We think caged birds sing, when indeed they cry.
-- John Webster Women see better than men. Men see lazily, if they do not expect to act. Women see quite
without any wish to act.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Bordiga, Amadeo
A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties; no
religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear
of Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than
yourself.
-- William Faulkner "In large states public education will always be mediocre, for the same reason that in large kitchens the cooking is usually bad." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The only reward of virtue is virtue.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson "The man who never made a mistake never made anything." (Derek Longdon, Tongariro Power Development, Turangi, New Zealand) Bordiga, Amadeo "This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a losttradition.
-- Jacques Barzun Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes
unpunished.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Bordiga, Amadeo
When people have no other tyrant, their own public opinion becomes one.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton We think caged birds sing, when indeed they cry.
-- John Webster When women go wrong, men go right after them.
-- Mae West "Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains." (Karl Marx) The Churches must learn humility as well as teach it.
-- George Bernard Shaw, St. Joan Bordiga, Amadeo "I want my food dead. Not sick, not dying, dead." (Oscar Wilde) I don't want everyone to like me; I should think less of myself if some people did.
-- Henry James No matter who you vote for, the Government always gets in.
-- Anon. Bordiga, Amadeo
Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance.
-- Oscar Wilde "REASONABLE, adj. Accessible to the infection of our own opinions. Hospitable to persuasion, dissuasion and evasion." (Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary) Argue for your limitations, and sure enough they're yours.
- Richard Bach When a friend is in trouble, don't annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up
something appropriate and do it.
-- E. W. Howe The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that, from age to age, nothing
changes and yet everything is completely different.
-- Aldous Huxley Bordiga, Amadeo There are times when parenthood seems nothing but feeding the mouth that bites you.
-- Peter De Vries A university professor set an examination question in which he asked what is the difference
between ignorance and apathy. The professor had to give an A+ to a student who answered: I
don't know and I still say a church steeple with a lightning rod on top shows a lack of confidence.
-- Doug MacLeod Bordiga, Amadeo
I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
- Mark Twain With this ring I thee wed, with my body I thee worship, and with all my worldly good I thee endow.
-- Wedding Vow, Book of Common Prayer Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them
good.
-- H.L. Mencken Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it
- Henry David Thoreau The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four Americans is suffering from some form of
mental illness. Think of your three best friends. If they're okay, then it's you.
-- Rita Mae Brown Bordiga, Amadeo Women are like tea bags; put them in hot water and they get stronger.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.
-- George Santayana "We have to be able to criticise what we love, to say what we have to say 'cause if your not trying to make something better, than as far as I can tell, you are just in the way." (Ani Difranco) Bordiga, Amadeo
