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Quotes by Revolutionary
"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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"Old age is the most unexpected of all things that happen to a man."
57
"How strangely will the Tools of a Tyrant pervert the plain Meaning of Words!"
57
"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."
57
"The revolution is not an apple that falls when it is ripe. You have to make it fall."
56
"Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country."
55
"The passion for destruction is also a creative passion."
55
"From the naturalistic point of view, all men are equal. There are only two exceptions to this rule of naturalistic equality: geniuses and idiots."
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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 going to inherit the earth; there is not the slightest doubt about that."
54
"From each according to his faculties; to each according to his needs."
54
"If we had more time for discussion we should probably have made a great many more mistakes."
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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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"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."
51
"This contradiction lies here: they wish God, and they wish humanity. They persist in connecting two terms which, once separated, can come together again only to destroy each other."
51
"If this be treason, make the most of it!"
50
"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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"Therefore, if God existed, only in one way could he serve human liberty - by ceasing to exist."
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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 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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"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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"A Boss in Heaven is the best excuse for a boss on earth, therefore If God did exist, he would have to be abolished."
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"Everything will pass, and the world will perish but the Ninth Symphony will remain."
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"The bourgeoisie might blast and ruin its own world before it leaves the stage of history."
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"Whoever looks at America will see: the ship is powered by stupidity, corruption, or prejudice."
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"If we had had more time for discussion we should probably have made a great many more mistakes."
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"Powerful states can maintain themselves only by crime, little states are virtuous only by weakness."
48
"If the liberties of the American people are ever destroyed, they will fall by the hands of the clergy."
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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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"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."
48
"Silence is argument carried out by other means."
48
"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."
48
"I listen to them freely and with all the respect merited by their intelligence, their character, their knowledge, reserving always my incontestable right of criticism and censure."
48
"Let a man find himself, in distinction from others, on top of two wheels with a chain - at least in a poor country like Russia - and his vanity begins to swell out like his tires. In America it takes an automobile to produce this effect."
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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."
47
"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."
46
"Thence results, for science as well as for industry, the necessity of the division and association of labor. I receive and I give - such is human life. Each directs and is directed in his turn."
46
"If there is a State, then there is domination, and in turn, there is slavery."
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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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"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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"Are we at last brought to such humiliating and debasing degradation, that we cannot be trusted with arms for our defense?"
44
"We are ready to end fascism once and for all, even in spite of the Republican government."
44
"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."
44
"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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"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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