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"Above all, what socialist, without flushing with shame, maintains he is not a revolutionary? We say: none!."
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"We are not subjects of a State founded upon law, but members of a society founded upon revolution. Revolution is our obligation: our hope of evolution. The Revolution is in the individual spirit, or it is nowhere. It is for all, or it is nothing. If it is seen as having any end, it will never truly begin."
"One can take the path of revolution but the revolution should not give a shock to the society. There is no place for violence in revolution."
"Every revolution starts with the aim to help the poor, but when the poor get it they forget who they were and become the new oppressors. The cycle goes on forever."
"I have always thought that in revolutions, especially democratic revolutions, madmen, not those so called by courtesy, but genuine madmen, have played a very considerable political part. One thing is certain, and that is that a condition of semi-madness is not unbecoming at such times, and often even leads to success."
"It is amazing how desperately the self-proclaimed revolutionaries grope for their own orthodoxy."
"Dead anarchists make martyrs, you know, and keep living for centuries. But absent ones can be forgotten."
"In Burgundy and in the cities of the South the tree of Liberty was planted. That is to say, a pole topped by the revolutionary red bonnet."
"The Revolution will be complete when the language is perfect."
"Enjolras caught glimpses of a luminous uprising under the dark skirts of the future."
"Every revolution was first a thought in one man's mind, and when the same thought occurs to another man, it is the key to that era."
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"If on the one side we do not harbor the illusion that the entire proletariat must be enlightened before it can be called into battle, so on the other we do not doubt that as much enlightenment as possible must be produced with oral and printed agitation."
"If we hope and even assume that the social question will be answered through communism, and not in this or that country but in the world, any thought of centralization must be a monstrosity."
"We need do no more than repeat: only under communism does the individual become himself and lead his own life."
"Is anarchism desirable? Well, who does not seek freedom? What man, unless willing to declare himself in bondage, would care to call any control agreeable? Think about it!"
"As set forth by theologians, the idea of 'God' is an argument that assumes its own conclusions, and proves nothing."
"The existing system will be quickest and most radically overthrown by the annihilation of its exponents. Therefore, massacres of the enemies of the people must be set in motion."
"Anarchists are socialists because they want the improvement of society, and they are communists because they are convinced that such a transformation of society can only result from the establishment of a commonwealth of property."
"Is anarchism possible? The failure of attempts to attain freedom does not mean the cause is lost."
"They make revolutionary propaganda because they know the privileged class can never be overturned peacefully."
"It is the lash of hunger which compels the poor man to submit. In order to live he must sell - 'voluntarily' sell - himself every day and hour to the 'beast of property.'"
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