Quotes from Roger Garaudy

The future is not a scenario written, which we only have to act out; it is a work which we have to create.

I do not know much about this man [Jesus], but I do know that his whole life conveys one message: 'anyone at any moment can start a new future.

Marx's dialectical materialism does not permit any evasions: it is a question of settling a historic conflict. Man wrests his freedom from the chaos of capitalism; in this jungle of appetites and dog-eat-dog competition in which freedom is but a dream and a juggling of phrases, he can only win his freedom through class struggle.

The world of the bored and especially the world of the frightened—the world of decadence—needs an ersatz type of spiritual adventure for the titillation of its inner life; and even more than that, it needs 'spiritual revolutions' in order to avoid real ones and to sidetrack demands for social change.

Thought, when it is cut off from action, is sick. This sickness is sometimes called mythology, mysticism, idealism. Today it is called existentialism.

Il y a un véritable dialogue lorsque chaque interlocuteur, dès le départ, est convaincu qu'il a quelque chose à apprendre de l'autre.

The unfortunate thing about our age of transition is that the present system of education, which is a class system, has made culture a class privilege. The workers, who are in the vanguard of our country's rebirth, are not the ones who possess the literary means of expressing the heroic experiences they are living. And conversely the writer, usually molded by the bourgeoisie, has been cut off from practical social activity, from the world of labor.

Ce genre de communication (mass-médias) ne sert pas à faire "communiquer" les hommes et les peuples, à enrichir leur expérience de la vie par l'expérience des autres, mais au contraire, à abêtir, à manipuler, à conditionner (pour faire acheter un produit, faire voter pour un parti, ou faire accepter une guerre).

nous risquons maintenant de mourir par excès de moyen et par absence de fins.

It is not enough to choose a revolutionary theme to create a revolutionary work of art.

815 y?l?nda, yani Avrupa'n?n daha okuma yazma nadir bilmediÄŸi bir devirde, Halife Memun'un BaÄŸdat'ta içinde bir milyon kitap bulunan Beytü'l-Hikme/Bilgelik Evi'ni kurar.

Experience has taught us that it is not enough to call oneself anti-capitalist if one really means to work to get rid of capitalism. Anyone may term himself anti-capitalist, but this "refusal" does not commit him to anything.

The future is not a scenario written, which we only have to act out; it is a work which we have to create.