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Quotes by Revolutionary
"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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"In those parts of the world where learning and science has prevailed, miracles have ceased; but in those parts of it as are barbarous and ignorant, miracles are still in vogue."
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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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"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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"If we hope and even assume that the social question will be answered through communism, and not in this or that country but in the world, any thought of centralization must be a monstrosity."
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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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"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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"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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"I know of no way of judging the future but by the past."
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"But it so happens, and it will ever happen so, that they who have lived to serve their country - no matter how weak their efforts may have been - are sure to receive the thanks and blessings of its people."
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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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"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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"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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"As set forth by theologians, the idea of 'God' is an argument that assumes its own conclusions, and proves nothing."
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"If there is a State, then there is domination, and in turn, there is slavery."
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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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"It is not only our duty to America, but also to Ireland. We could not hope to succeed in our effort to make Ireland a Republic without the moral and material support of the liberty-loving citizens of these United States."
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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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"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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"Therefore, if God existed, only in one way could he serve human liberty - by ceasing to exist."
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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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"Where the state begins, individual liberty ceases, and vice versa."
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"Whoever looks at America will see: the ship is powered by stupidity, corruption, or prejudice."
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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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"America is just the country that how all the written guarantees in the world for freedom are no protection against tyranny and oppression of the worst kind. There the politician has come to be looked upon as the very scum of society."
"Have not prisons - which kill all will and force of character in man, which enclose within their walls more vices than are met with on any other spot of the globe - always been universities of crime?"
"I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country."
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