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Quotes by Revolutionary
"We are going to inherit the earth; there is not the slightest doubt about that."
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"Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country."
34
"The god of the Christians, as we have seen, is the god who makes promises only to break them; who sends them pestilence and disease in order to heal them; a god who demoralizes mankind in order to improve it."
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"The revolution is not an apple that falls when it is ripe. You have to make it fall."
32
"The depth and strength of a human character are defined by its moral reserves. People reveal themselves completely only when they are thrown out of the customary conditions of their life, for only then do they have to fall back on their reserves."
31
"Whoever looks at America will see: the ship is powered by stupidity, corruption, or prejudice."
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"They make revolutionary propaganda because they know the privileged class can never be overturned peacefully."
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"We carry a new world here, in our hearts. That world is growing this minute."
29
"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."
29
"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."
28
"We are ready to end fascism once and for all, even in spite of the Republican government."
28
"In man - in the history of mankind, this has happened many times, and occupation leaders hang on to the land that they're occupying. People fight to liberate their land. But in the end, the people's will is what achieves victory."
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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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"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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"How strangely will the Tools of a Tyrant pervert the plain Meaning of Words!"
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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."
27
"Are we at last brought to such humiliating and debasing degradation, that we cannot be trusted with arms for our defense?"
27
"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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"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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"Old age is the most unexpected of all things that happen to a man."
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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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"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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"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."
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"From each according to his faculties; to each according to his needs."
26
"If the liberties of the American people are ever destroyed, they will fall by the hands of the clergy."
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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 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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"The passion for destruction is also a creative passion."
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"The privileged man, whether he be privileged politically or economically, is a man depraved in intellect and heart."
25
"In a serious struggle there is no worse cruelty than to be magnanimous at an inopportune time."
25
"Fortunately, no country was ever more suited for anarchist agitation than present-day America."
25
"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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"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."
24
"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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"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."
24
"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 cannot make events. Our business is wisely to improve them."
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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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"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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"Is life so dear or peace so sweet as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take, but as for me, give me liberty, or give me death!"
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"I have but one lamp by which my feet are guided, and that is the lamp of experience."
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"Silence is argument carried out by other means."
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"Therefore, if God existed, only in one way could he serve human liberty - by ceasing to exist."
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"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!"
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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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