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Quotes by Revolutionary
"Remember, the storm is a good opportunity for the pine and the cypress to show their strength and their stability."
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"The ones who were negotiating are now on the front line of this intifada, because they found that the negotiations didn't give them the minimum of their rights."
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"This is all the inheritance I give to my dear family. The religion of Christ will give them one which will make them rich indeed."
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"A jealous lover of human liberty, deeming it the absolute condition of all that we admire and respect in humanity, I reverse the phrase of Voltaire, and say that, if God really existed, it would be necessary to abolish him."
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"Where force is necessary, there it must be applied boldly, decisively and completely. But one must know the limitations of force; one must know when to blend force with a maneuver, a blow with an agreement."
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"From each according to his faculties; to each according to his needs."
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"Is anarchism possible? The failure of attempts to attain freedom does not mean the cause is lost."
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"Anyone who makes plans for after the revolution is a reactionary."
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"The privilege of ruling would be in the hands of the skilled and the learned, with a wide scope left for profitable crooked deals carried on by the Jews, who would be attracted by the enormous extension of the international speculations of the national banks."
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"Are we at last brought to such humiliating and debasing degradation, that we cannot be trusted with arms for our defense?"
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"I know not what others may choose but, as for me, give me liberty or give me death."
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"Such a faith would be fatal to my reason, to my liberty, and even to the success of my undertakings; it would immediately transform me into a stupid slave, an instrument of the will and interests of others."
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"Idealism is the despot of thought, just as politics is the despot of will."
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"Many will call me an adventurer - and that I am, only one of a different sort: one of those who risks his skin to prove his platitudes."
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"The liberty of man consists solely in this, that he obeys the laws of nature because he has himself recognized them as such, and not because they have been imposed upon him externally by any foreign will whatsoever, human or divine, collective or individual."
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"Silence is argument carried out by other means."
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"I am sure that, on the one hand, the Rothschilds appreciate the merits of Marx, and that on the other hand, Marx feels an instinctive inclination and a great respect for the Rothschilds."
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"The bourgeoisie might blast and ruin its own world before it leaves the stage of history."
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"I've never heard of any president being so close to his people."
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"Force is the duty of the state, not Hizbullah."
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"How strangely will the Tools of a Tyrant pervert the plain Meaning of Words!"
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"Not believing in force is the same as not believing in gravity."
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"I'm William Wallace, and the rest of you will be spared. Go back to England and tell them... Scotland is free!"
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"We are going to inherit the earth; there is not the slightest doubt about that."
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"'God' - as revealed in his book of edicts and narratives is practically an idiot. He has nothing to say that any sensible person should want to listen to."
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"People go to church for the same reasons they go to a tavern: to stupefy themselves, to forget their misery, to imagine themselves, for a few minutes anyway, free and happy."
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"They make revolutionary propaganda because they know the privileged class can never be overturned peacefully."
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"You may not be interested in strategy, but strategy is interested in you."
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"I am conscious of my inability to grasp, in all its details and positive developments, any very large portion of human knowledge."
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"Does it follow that I reject all authority? Perish the thought. In the matter of boots, I defer to the authority of the boot-maker."
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"If there is a State, then there is domination, and in turn, there is slavery."
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"If we had more time for discussion we should probably have made a great many more mistakes."
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"He who desires to worship God must harbor no childish illusions about the matter but bravely renounce his liberty and humanity."
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"We carry a new world here, in our hearts. That world is growing this minute."
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"I have now disposed of all my property to my family. There is one thing more I wish I could give them, and that is the Christian religion."
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"Political Freedom without economic equality is a pretense, a fraud, a lie; and the workers want no lying."
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"We are not weak if we make a proper use of those means which the God of Nature has placed in our power... the battle, sir, is not to the strong alone it is to the vigilant, the active, the brave."
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"Powerful states can maintain themselves only by crime, little states are virtuous only by weakness."
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"Freedom, morality, and the human dignity of the individual consists precisely in this; that he does good not because he is forced to do so, but because he freely conceives it, wants it, and loves it."
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"To revolt is a natural tendency of life. Even a worm turns against the foot that crushes it. In general, the vitality and relative dignity of an animal can be measured by the intensity of its instinct to revolt."
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"The passion for destruction is also a creative passion."
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"If the liberties of the American people are ever destroyed, they will fall by the hands of the clergy."
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"Insurrection is an art, and like all arts has its own laws."
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"He who negates present society, and seeks social conditions based on the sharing of property, is a revolutionary whether he calls himself an anarchist or a communist."
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"Look at Christ, my dear friend: His life was divine through and through, full of self-denial, and He did everything for mankind, finding His satisfaction and His delight in the dissolution of His material being."
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"Life is not an easy matter... You cannot live through it without falling into frustration and cynicism unless you have before you a great idea which raises you above personal misery, above weakness, above all kinds of perfidy and baseness."
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"In order to conquer, what we need is to dare, still to dare, and always to dare."
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"There are only two roads, victory for the working class, freedom, or victory for the fascists which means tyranny. Both combatants know what's in store for the loser."
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"The revolution is not an apple that falls when it is ripe. You have to make it fall."
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