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"The last resort of kings, the cannonball. The last resort of the people, the paving stone."
"It is not true that people are naturally equal for no two people can be together for even a half an hour without one acquiring an evident superiority over the other."
"There are bad people who would be less dangerous if they were quite devoid of goodness."
"Whatever good things people say of us, they tell us nothing new."
"There are only two kinds of people who are really fascinating - people who know absolutely everything, and people who know absolutely nothing."
"We confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no large ones."
"Historians are like deaf people who go on answering questions that no one has asked them."
Explore more quotes by Holly Near
"When an audience comes to one of my concerts, I hope they'll see themselves, somewhere, in one of the songs."
"Leaping away from my mistakes has propelled me forward. It has great force behind it. It makes for great storytelling."
"We who are interested in relative truth have to keep digging for it and not let ourselves be sucked under."
"My parents had been involved in the labor movement; if we'd grown up in the city, we would have been red-diaper babies."
"When the students were killed at Kent State, the cast voted to do a demonstration from the stage, and I abstained."
"My creativity and my political work are linked. I don't do this work out of guilt or out of responsibility."
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