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"The more dubious and uncertain an instrument violence has become in international relations, the more it has gained in reputation and appeal in domestic affairs, specifically in the matter of revolution."
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"Quite like religious fundamentalism, educational fundamentalism is based upon bookish creeds created by the self-proclaimed authority figures of the system. And this very fundamentalism is the cause of all the growing conflicts between the student-body of the education society and the teachers running that society. These conflicts further become tools of exploitation in the hands of a handful of war-mongering, authoritarian, blood-sucking politicians."
"It is the end. But of what? The end of France? No. The end of kings? Yes."
"Disobedience to rigid laws is a revolutionary act."
"Sometimes all a country needs is an entire collapse for a new beginning!"
"You can carry out a spiritual revolution by making God's truth the head of everything."
"If this generation doesn't end...then change towards a better one will be delayed."
"Real education is about revolution."
"The revolution of today is the oppression of tomorrow."
"It doesn't matter if most people refuse to understand nor support my efforts, not at all, it doesn't at all matter. What matters is, I am pioneering a revolution."
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"The new always happens against the overwhelming odds of statistical laws and their probability, which for all practical, everyday purposes amounts to certainty; the new therefore always appears in the guise of a miracle."
"It is my contention that civil disobediences are nothing but the latest form of voluntary association, and that they are thus quite in tune with the oldest traditions of the country."
"Wherever the relevance of speech is at stake, matters become political by definition, for speech is what makes man a political being."
"No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has determined the very existence of politics, the cause of freedom versus tyranny."
"Poets are the only people to whom love is not only a crucial, but an indispensable experience, which entitles them to mistake it for a universal one."
"Nothing we use or hear or touch can be expressed in words that equal what is given by the senses."
"By its very nature the beautiful is isolated from everything else. From beauty no road leads to reality."
"To be free in an age like ours, one must be in a position of authority. That in itself would be enough to make me ambitious."
"Only crime and the criminal, it is true, confront us with the perplexity of radical evil; but only the hypocrite is really rotten to the core."
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