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Quotes by Revolutionary
"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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"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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"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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"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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"The glory of the old Irish nation, which in our hour will grow young and strong again. Should we fail, the country will not be worth more than it is now. The sword of famine is less sparing than the bayonet of the soldier."
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"I am truly free only when all human beings, men and women, are equally free. The freedom of other men, far from negating or limiting my freedom, is, on the contrary, its necessary premise and confirmation."
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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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"My country right or wrong; when right, to keep her right; when wrong, to put her right."
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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 first revolt is against the supreme tyranny of theology, of the phantom of God. As long as we have a master in heaven, we will be slaves on earth."
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"I like dreams of the future better than the history of the past."
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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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"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."
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"The tocsin you hear today is not an alarm but an alert: it sounds the charge against our enemies."
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"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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"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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"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."
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"We cannot make events. Our business is wisely to improve them."
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"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."
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"For my part, whatever anguish of spirit it may cost, I am willing to know the whole truth; to know the worst and provide for it."
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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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"We are ready to end fascism once and for all, even in spite of the Republican government."
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"Perfect freedom is as necessary to the health and vigor of commerce as it is to the health and vigor of citizenship."
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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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"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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"The liberties of a people never were, nor ever will be, secure, when the transactions of their rulers may be concealed from them."
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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 know no way of judging the future but by the past."
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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 communism of Marx seeks a strong state centralization, and where this exists, there the parasitic Jewish nation - which speculates upon the labor of people - will always find the means for its existence."
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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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"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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"The Bible is worth all the other books which have ever been printed."
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"There are no absolute rules of conduct, either in peace or war. Everything depends on circumstances."
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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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"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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"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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"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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"Our country, right or wrong. When right, to be kept right; when wrong, to be put right."
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"From the equality of rights springs identity of our highest interests; you cannot subvert your neighbor's rights without striking a dangerous blow at your own."
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"You can look at the West Bank. Cities are like prisons. They can be closed quickly by the Israeli forces, and everything stops in these cities. This is the result of Oslo."
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"However, there is no legal and legitimate state called Israel."
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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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"Everything will pass, and the world will perish but the Ninth Symphony will remain."
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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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"Where the state begins, individual liberty ceases, and vice versa."
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"Old age is the most unexpected of all things that happen to a man."
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