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Quotes by Revolutionary
"I know not what others may choose but, as for me, give me liberty or give me death."
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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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"As set forth by theologians, the idea of 'God' is an argument that assumes its own conclusions, and proves nothing."
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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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"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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"The bourgeoisie might blast and ruin its own world before it leaves the stage of history."
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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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"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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"Powerful states can maintain themselves only by crime, little states are virtuous only by weakness."
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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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"Insurrection is an art, and like all arts has its own laws."
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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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"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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"Fascism is nothing but capitalist reaction."
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"The Bible is worth all the other books which have ever been printed."
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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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"Above all, what socialist, without flushing with shame, maintains he is not a revolutionary? We say: none!."
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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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"If on the one side we do not harbor the illusion that the entire proletariat must be enlightened before it can be called into battle, so on the other we do not doubt that as much enlightenment as possible must be produced with oral and printed agitation."
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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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"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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"England is nothing but the last ward of the European madhouse, and quite possibly it will prove to be the ward for particularly violent cases."
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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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"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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"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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"'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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"The anarchists, on behalf of the proletariat, therefore consider it necessary to show the proletariat that it will have to win a gigantic battle before it realizes its goals."
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"You may not be interested in strategy, but strategy is interested in you."
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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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"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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"I know of no way of judging the future but by the past."
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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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"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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"It's not the first time that I speak with American journalists. I've had meetings with many different newspapers and stations, and I've ha - never had a problem with meeting with American journalists."
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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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"I know no way of judging the future but by the past."
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"There are no absolute rules of conduct, either in peace or war. Everything depends on circumstances."
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"At last I perceive that in revolutions the supreme power rests with the most abandoned."
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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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"When the government violates the people's rights, insurrection is, for the people and for each portion of the people, the most sacred of the rights and the most indispensible of duties."
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"Blood is a cleansing and sanctifying thing, and the nation that regards it as the final horror has lost its manhood... there are many things more horrible than bloodshed, and slavery is one of them!"
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"If there is a State, then there is domination, and in turn, there is slavery."
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"Idealism is the despot of thought, just as politics is the despot of will."
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"I like dreams of the future better than the history of the past."
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"Where the state begins, individual liberty ceases, and vice versa."
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