“Our first task therefore must be to persuade people.”

— Errico Malatesta

An Anarchist Programme (1920)

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Italian anarchist 1853–1932

Philip Wylie (1902–1971) American writer

Source: Generation of Vipers (1942), p. 20
Context: The blame for Armageddon lies on man. And the millennium will come only when the average man exhibits a scientific integrity about all he is and does — instead of half of it. Many a psychological Archimedes has put signposts on the hard road man must follow if he is to avoid self-destruction and come into his own. A few very great modern scientists have added to the lore. Indications of what man may expect of himself are everywhere at hand. But most men must first be persuaded that the task lies ahead and not behind — that we are infants still, with loaded guns for toys.

“Magic Psychic Training... Introspection or Self-Knowledge ~ In our own mansion, meaning our body and our soul, we must find our way about at every moment. Therefore our first task will be to know ourselves. Each initiation system, no matter which kind it may be, will put this condition in the first place. Without self-knowledge there will be no real development on a higher level.”

Franz Bardon book Initiation Into Hermetics

Source: Initiation Into Hermetics (1956), p. 35

“The first task of the Magician in every ceremony is therefore to render his Circle absolutely impregnable.”

Aleister Crowley (1875–1947) poet, mountaineer, occultist

Source: Magick Book IV : Liber ABA, Part III : Magick in Theory and Practice (1929), Ch. 13 : Of the Banishings and of the Purifications.

“God is the CEO of our lives. Therefore, Adam and Eve were the first people to be fired from heaven.”

Mwanandeke Kindembo (1996) Congolese author

“First, the party’s leadership over all tasks must be adhered to, and the party’s leadership must be incessantly strengthened and improved.”

Xi Jinping (1953) General Secretary of the Communist Party of China and paramount leader of China

As quoted in " 4 Takeaways from Xi Jinping’s Speech Defending Communist Party Control https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/18/world/asia/xi-china-speech-takeaways.html" The New York Times
2010s

“Our first and final task will be to meditate upon the truest name of God.”

Mwanandeke Kindembo (1996) Congolese author

“We, as a people, must surmount the sense of hopelessness and confront the challenge of the moment - namely, the tasks of extricating ourselves from economic disaster and reconstructing our state.”

Tadeusz Mazowiecki (1927–2013) Polish politician and prime minister

"Inaugural address of Premier Tadeusz Mazowiecki" https://polishfreedom.pl/en/document/statement-inaugural-address-of-the-prime-minister-tadeusz-mazowiecki-delivered-at-the-seym-session-on-12th-september-1989 (12 September 1989)

“The Führer has nominated me as his successor. In full consciousness of my responsibilities I therefore assume the leadership of the German people at this fateful hour. My first task is to save German men and women from destruction by the advancing Bolshevist enemy. It is to serve this purpose alone that the military struggle continues. For as long as the British and the Americans continue to impede the accomplishments of this task, we must also continue to fight and defend ourselves against them. The British and the Americans in that case will not be fighting in the interests of their own peoples, but solely for the expansion of Bolshevism in Europe.”

Karl Dönitz (1891–1980) President of Germany; admiral in command of German submarine forces during World War II

May 1, 1945, quoted in "Memoirs: Ten Years And Twenty Days" - Page 445 - by Grand Admiral Karl Doenitz - History - 1997.

“The Church works for the proclamation and the complaint, in order to live in peace. This task begins in the family, which is the first school, and where there should be no violence. We must be agents of life, respectful of people, diversity and the environment.”

Héctor Epalza Quintero (1940–2021) priest

The Bishop of Buenaventura: "Solving the problem of violence with social investment" http://www.fides.org/en/news/33074-AMERICA_COLOMBIA_The_Bishop_of_Buenaventura_Solving_the_problem_of_violence_with_social_investment (17 January 2013)

“The most important thing…is the liberation of German territory from foreign occupation. We must first get the strangler from our neck. Therefore German policy, as Metternich said of Austria—it must be after 1809—must in this respect consist first in showing finesse [finassieren] and avoiding fundamental decisions.”

Gustav Stresemann (1878–1929) German politician, statesman, and Nobel Peace Prize laureate

Letter to the Crown Prince (7 September 1925), quoted in Jonathan Wright, Gustav Stresemann: Weimar's Greatest Statesman (Oxford University Press, 2004), p. 327
1920s

“Our first task therefore must be to persuade people.”

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