In "The History of the Russian Revolution," Bolshevik leader Leon Trotsky recounted, "The slogan 'Bread!' is crowded out or obscured by louder slogans: 'Down with autocracy!' 'Down with the war!'" Czar Nicholas, who had survived a revolution in 1905, did not have the widespread support of the Russian people.
"No matter how loud their slogans are.
I'd much rather invest in product samples that get product onto the customer's skin, as this speaks louder than slogans and airbrushed faces in campaigns.
Yet that party has learned nothing; it apparently believes that all will be well if it just keeps repeating the old slogans, but louder.
Lawyers, political activists and many ordinary Pakistanis thronged around the home, with drums being played, flags waved and loud chanting of slogans against Zardari and for the lawyers' cause.
"The people of this state are waiting for a loud, clear shrill slogan of 'no more,' to which I trust people in the millions will respond with a big 'yes,' " said Ijaz Khan, a professor of international relations at the University of Peshawar.
This problem has been cause by the approach of the government, which is called Cadre Deployment where people because they can speak louder, are deployed into leadership positions and those people with merit, but because they don't speak louder around political slogans, they are denied the opportunities to lead their communities.
"The slogans are loud and the plans are grand, but when it comes to implementation, the constraints are many," said Zhao Xijun, an economics professor at Renmin University in Beijing.
I recall hearing a couple of gunshots fired in the air, followed by a dead silence, and the loud racist and bloodthirsty slogans receding, as if a demonstration of the Doppler effect.
