„We practically wiped this nation clean of Marxists.“

„Absurdism, like methodical doubt, has wiped the slate clean.“

—  Albert Camus, book The Rebel

Source: The Rebel (1951), pp. 8 - 10 as quoted in Albert Camus and the Philosophy of the Absurd';(2002) by Avi Sagi, p. 44
Context: The absurd … is an experience to be lived through, a point of departure, the equivalent, in existence of Descartes' methodical doubt. Absurdism, like methodical doubt, has wiped the slate clean. It leaves us in a blind alley. But, like methodical doubt, it can, by returning upon itself, open up a new field of investigation, and in the process of reasoning then pursues the same course. I proclaim that I believe in nothing and that everything is absurd, but I cannot doubt the validity of my proclamation and I must at least believe in my protest. The first and only evidence that is supplied me, within the terms of the absurdist experience, is rebellion … Rebellion is born of the spectacle of irrationality, confronted with an unjust and incomprehensible condition.

„Life is grace. Sleep is forgiveness. The night absolves. Darkness wipes the slate clean, not spotless to be sure, but clean enough for another day's chalking.“

—  Frederick Buechner Poet, novelist, short story writer, theologian 1926

Source: The Alphabet of Grace (1970)

„Philosophy … finds itself to be no longer anything but the heir to a fabulous mystical theology, but missing a God and wiping the slate clean.“

—  Georges Bataille French intellectual and literary figure 1897 - 1962

Source: L’Expérience Intérieure (1943), p. 9

„We strive to form a single national front against the Judeo-Masonic lodges, against Moscow and the Marxist societies.“

—  Francisco Franco Spanish general and dictator 1892 - 1975

Statement in El defensor de Córdoba (24 July 1936), as cited by Javier Navarrete in Más Allá http://mcedhou1.housings.nexica.net/MAS_ALLA/html/version_texto.asp?IDArt=29

„We can see the Divine in each speck of dust, but that doesn't stop us from wiping it away with a wet sponge. The Divine doesn't disappear; it's transformed into the clean surface.“

—  Paulo Coelho Brazilian lyricist and novelist 1947

Source: The Witch Of Portobello

„Intellectuals … advertise their superiority to political practice but are absolutely in its thrall. … It is no accident that Marxist theory and practice use the intellectuals as tools and keep them in brutal subservience.“

—  Allan Bloom American philosopher, classicist, and academician 1930 - 1992

“Commerce and Culture,” p. 281.
Giants and Dwarfs (1990)

„This is a matter of national shame and pride. We must stand up and clean our backyard.“

—  Francis Escudero Filipino politician 1969

"Task force hit for allowing dumping of Canada wastes",The Philippine Star, 10 September 2015, p. 10.
2015

„We see then that National Socialism, like the Marxist Socialist parties, has a sort of religious element that demands the sacrifice of the intellect and of individual opinions.“

—  Hermann Rauschning German politician 1887 - 1982

Source: Men in Chaos (1942), p. 56

„As Marxists we have maintained that peaceful coexistence among nations does not encompass coexistence between the exploiters and the exploited, between the oppressors and the oppressed.“

—  Ernesto Che Guevara Argentine Marxist revolutionary 1928 - 1967

Address to the United Nations (1964)

„To study Marxism-Leninism is to learn the spirit in which one should deal with things, with other people and with oneself. It means to study the universal Marxist-Leninist truths in order to apply them creatively to the practical conditions of our country. We must study with a view to action . Theory must go hand in hand with practice.“

—  Ho Chi Minh Vietnamese communist leader and first president of Vietnam 1890 - 1969

"On Revolutionary Morality" (1958)
1950's, On Revolutionary Morality (1958)

„What was holiest and mightiest of all that the world has yet owned has bled to death under our knives: who will wipe this blood off us? What water is there for us to clean ourselves?“

—  Friedrich Nietzsche German philosopher, poet, composer, cultural critic, and classical philologist 1844 - 1900

Sec. 125
The Gay Science (1882)
Context: God is dead! God remains dead! And we have killed him. How shall we comfort ourselves, the murderers of all murderers? What was holiest and mightiest of all that the world has yet owned has bled to death under our knives: who will wipe this blood off us? What water is there for us to clean ourselves? What festivals of atonement, what sacred games shall we have to invent? Is not the greatness of this deed too great for us? Must we ourselves not become gods simply to appear worthy of it?

„The Marxist philosophy of dialectical materialism has two outstanding characteristics. One is its class nature: it openly avows that dialectical materialism is in the service of the proletariat. The other is its practicality: it emphasizes the dependence of theory on practice, emphasizes that theory is based on practice and in turn serves practice.“

—  Mao Zedong Chairman of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China 1893 - 1976

On Practice (1937)

„He is gone now. His shop is gone. Weld Square is gone.
His life has been wiped clean off the board.
But I wake in the night and I see his face and I hear his voice.“

—  Charles Reis Felix American writer 1923 - 2017

Prologue
Through a Portagee Gate (2004)

„EMS was uniquely positioned to analyze the various phases of the national movement and the role of Gandhi. He began his political life as an ardent Gandhian. Through out his life, while d adhering to the Marxist world outlook, he practiced many of the Gandhian principles of simplicity and personal austerity that are cherished by Indians.“

—  E. M. S. Namboodiripad Indian politician 1909 - 1998

Praksah Karat in “EMS on Gandhi” quoted in "The Mahatma and the Ism" in page=8.
About E.M.S.

„I wonder how the foreign policies of the United States would look if we wiped out the national boundaries of the world, at least in our minds, and thought of all children everywhere as our own.“

—  Howard Zinn author and historian 1922 - 2010

„I believe it is a mistake for Marxists to lose sight of the value of the Black feminist tradition--including the concept of intersectionality, both in its contribution to combatting the oppression of women of color, working-class women and the ways in which it can help to advance Marxist theory and practice.“

—  Sharon Smith (writer) American historian 1956

A Marxist Case For Intersectionality (2017)

„Clean, quick, and easy as lying. We know how it ends practically before it starts. That’s why stories appeal to us. They give us the clarity and simplicity our real lives lack.“

—  Patrick Rothfuss, book The Name of the Wind

Source: The Name of the Wind (2007), Chapter 45, “Interlude—Some Tavern Tale” (p. 333)

„We Marxist communists are profoundly opposed to the anarchist doctrine. This doctrine is erroneous“

—  Leon Trotsky Marxist revolutionary from Russia 1879 - 1940

Order by the commissar for military affairs - on the murder of count Mirbach
How the Revolution Armed (1923)

„What some of the revolutionary syndicalists proceed to do was to identify the ‘communality’ of man not will class, but with the nation. The first intimations of a ‘revolutionary nationalism’ made their appearance among the most radical Marxists.“

—  A. James Gregor American political scientist 1929 - 2019

Source: Giovanni Gentile: Philosopher of Fascism, (2001), p. 55