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Quotes by Revolutionary
"Is anarchism possible? The failure of attempts to attain freedom does not mean the cause is lost."
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"The privileged man, whether he be privileged politically or economically, is a man depraved in intellect and heart."
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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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"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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"Not believing in force is the same as not believing in gravity."
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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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"But I recognize no infallible authority, even in special questions; consequently, whatever respect I may have for the honesty and the sincerity of such or such an individual, I have no absolute faith in any person."
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"How strangely will the Tools of a Tyrant pervert the plain Meaning of Words!"
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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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"From each according to his faculties; to each according to his needs."
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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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"Old age is the most unexpected of all things that happen to a man."
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"Our contest is not only whether we ourselves shall be free, but whether there shall be left to mankind an asylum on earth for civil and religious liberty."
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"Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect everyone who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are inevitably ruined."
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"Ideals are like the stars: we never reach them, but like the mariners of the sea, we chart our course by them."
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"We are going to inherit the earth; there is not the slightest doubt about that."
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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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"Anarchists prepare for social revolution and use every means- speech, writing, or deed, whichever is more to the point - to accelerate revolutionary development."
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"We cannot make events. Our business is wisely to improve them."
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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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"In a serious struggle there is no worse cruelty than to be magnanimous at an inopportune time."
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"Whoever looks at America will see: the ship is powered by stupidity, corruption, or prejudice."
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"Force is the duty of the state, not Hizbullah."
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"The Bible is worth all the other books which have ever been printed."
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"Among the natural rights of the colonists are these: First a right to life, secondly to liberty, and thirdly to property; together with the right to defend them in the best manner they can."
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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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"They make revolutionary propaganda because they know the privileged class can never be overturned peacefully."
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"We did not start a fight with America, and we don't want a war with America. If someone launches an attack, though, we will respond. We will not take rejection or humiliation. We do not want to fight."
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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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"The Constitution shall never be construed... to prevent the people of the United States who are peaceable citizens from keeping their own arms."
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"What is being talked about now is the probability of the Sharon government launching an attack against Lebanon to eliminate the resistance of Hezbollah by using the American war against Iraq. But, of course, in this case, we will certainly fight with all our strength."
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"Remember, the storm is a good opportunity for the pine and the cypress to show their strength and their stability."
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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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"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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"Above all, what socialist, without flushing with shame, maintains he is not a revolutionary? We say: none!."
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"Powerful states can maintain themselves only by crime, little states are virtuous only by weakness."
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"While we have entertained the contention that a deed may make more propaganda than hundreds of speeches, thousands of articles, and tens of thousands of pamphlets, we have held that an arbitrary act of violence will not necessarily have such an effect."
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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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"The historic ascent of humanity, taken as a whole, may be summarized as a succession of victories of consciousness over blind forces - in nature, in society, in man himself."
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"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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"The natural liberty of man is to be free from any superior power on Earth, and not to be under the will or legislative authority of man, but only to have the law of nature for his rule."
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"Silence is argument carried out by other means."
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"We carry a new world here, in our hearts. That world is growing this minute."
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"Fortunately, no country was ever more suited for anarchist agitation than present-day America."
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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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"Insurrection is an art, and like all arts has its own laws."
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