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Everything is relative in this world, where change alone endures.

The principles of liberalism can have a real existence only in conjunction with a police system. Ana...

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Leon TrotskyHistory of the Russian Revolution

For the information of these “friends” who consider themselves called to defend against us the role ...

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Leon TrotskyHistory of the Russian Revolution

We seek to uncoverbehind the events changes in the collective consciousness. We reject wholesale ref...

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Transcending class distinctions, the speaker [Stalin] portrays the relation between the bourgeoisie ...

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Leon TrotskyHistory of the Russian Revolution

Let us not forget that revolutions are accomplished through people, although they be nameless. Mater...

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The boycott of parliamentary institutions on the part of anarchists and semianarchists is dictated b...

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The end may justify the means as long as there is something that justifies the end.

Orwell clung with a kind of wry, grim pride to the old ways of the last class that had ruled the old...

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If we don't make earnest moves toward real solutions, then each day we move one day closer to revolu...

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Economically considered, war and revolution are always bad business.

The right of revolution, which tyrants, in mockery, accord to mankind, is no legal right under a gov...

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It is possible for a single individual to defy the whole might of an unjust empire to save his honou...

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The only way we'll get freedom for ourselves is to identify ourselves with every oppressed people in...

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You show me a capitalist, and I'll show you a bloodsucker

The Algerians were revolutionsists, they wanted land. France offered to let them be integrated into ...

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Many people in this country who want to see us the minority, and who don’t want to see us taking too...

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Sometimes you have to pick the gun up to put the Gun down.

Concerning non-violence: it is criminal to teach a man not to defend himself when he is the constant...

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Malcolm XMalcolm X Speaks: Selected Speeches and Statements

The greatest mistake of the movement has been trying to organize a sleeping people around specific g...

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Malcolm XMalcolm X Speaks: Selected Speeches and Statements

A revolution is not a dinner party, or writing an essay, or painting a picture, or doing embroidery;...

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An army of the people is invincible!

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Mao ZedongQuotations from Chairman Mao Tse-Tung

...this protracted war will pass through three stages. The first stage covers the period of the enem...

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Mao ZedongSelected Military Writings

In almost any society I think the quality of the non-conformists is like to be just as good as an...

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I want to be justice, love and the wrath of God all in one.

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Marjane SatrapiPersepolis: The Story of a Childhood

The greatest purveyor of violence in the world : My own Government, I can not be Silent.

A social movement that only moves people is merely a revolt. A movement that changes both people and...

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This Revolution is genuine because it was born from the same womb that always gives birth to massive...

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In my opinion, if 100% of the people were farming it would be ideal. If each person were given one q...

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I do not particularly like the word 'work.' Human beings are the only animals who have to work, and ...

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Before researchers become researchers they should become philosophers. They should consider what the...

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A revolutionary career does not lead to banquets and honorary titles, interesting research and profe...

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The development of the proletarian elite does not take place in an academic setting. Rather, it is b...

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This is the way it ought to be!" said the Little Russian, returning. "Because, mark you, mother dear...

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Those——"—here he flung out a terrible oath—"those people don't know what their blind hands are sowin...

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They destroy lives with work. What for? They rob men of their lives. What for, I ask? My master—I lo...

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She had shown him by her independence how it was only fear that held people together. The fear of be...

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It was not often that Flay approved of happiness in others. He saw in happiness the seeds of indepen...

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I knew I was alone in a way that no earthling has ever been before.

Revolution and youth are closely allied. What can a revolution promise to adults? To some it brings ...

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Those who had fought for what they called the revolution maintained a great pride: the pride of bein...

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My dad had been born in Mexico and his family had to leave during the Mexican revolution.

The new world is as yetbehind the veil of destinyIn my eyes, howeverits dawn has been unveiled

Each of us lives with a sword over his head.There are those who can ignore its shadow and those who ...

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Murray KemptonPart of Our Time: Some Ruins & Monuments of the Thirties

When they began, they could not have thought that it would end like this, because their time seemed ...

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Murray KemptonPart of Our Time: Some Ruins & Monuments of the Thirties

You can't change a regime on the basis of compassion. There's got to be something harder.

A blind pursuit of cheap popularity has nothing to do with revolu

A Nation should not be judged by how it treats its highest citizens, but it's lowest ones

If we should promise people nothing better than only revolution they would scratch their heads and ...

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His headstone saidFREE AT LAST, FREE AT LASTBut death is a slave's freedomWe seek the freedom of fre...

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Both political parties have moved to the right during the neoliberal period. Today’s New Democrats a...

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Any war that requires the suspension of reason as a necessity for support is a bad war.

Whoever has the sword will have the earth.

This I want to believe implicitly: Man was born for love and revolution.

It is not the prisoners who need reformation it is the prisons.

It is a dangerous thing to reform anyone.

Adam Smith's huge failure was the fact that he did not foresee the industrial revolution.

Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it...

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For my part, whatever anguish of spirit it may cost, I am willing to know the whole truth; to know t...

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I'm not really a musician. I'm a performer, and I love rock n' roll. I've embraced rock n' roll beca...

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Not all the ravages caused by our merciless age are tangible ones. The subtler forms of destruction,...

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Paul BowlesThe Spider's House

There's a little war in progress here. There won't be anything left of the place if it goes on at th...

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P26 - Only power that springs from the weakness of the oppressed will be sufficiently strong to free...

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True generosity consists precisely in fighting to destroy the causes which nourish false charity. Fa...

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Every death even the cruelest deathdrowns in the total indifference of NatureNature herself would wa...

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Peter WeissThe Persecution and Assassination of Jean-Paul Marat as Performed by the Inmates of the Asylum of Charenton Under the Direction of the Marquis de Sade

Just because something bears the aspect of the inevitable one should not, therefore, go along willin...

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Philip K. DickThe Transmigration of Timothy Archer

Every advance in human life, every scrap of knowledge and wisdom and decency we have has been torn b...

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In reality, though, the first thing to ask of history is that it should pointout to us the paths of ...

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If one girl with courage is a revolution, imagine what feats we can achieve together.

When at last we have to die it will be time enough to get cold.While we are on fire let us seethe an...

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Rabindranath TagoreThe Home and the World

My husband was very eager to take me out of purdah. One day I said to him, "What do I want with the ...

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And all Negroes at some period of their lives there is that yearning for a sense of group unity that...

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...she was something more- a force, a stable, familiar force like something out of my past which kep...

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By the rude bridge that arched the flood,Their flag to April's breeze unfurled,Here once the embattl...

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Every reform was once a private opinion and when it shall be a private opinion again it will solve...

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...the real danger does not stem from those who seek to grab their share of wealth through force, or...

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It seems obvious, looking back, that the artists of Weimar Germany and Leninist Russia lived in a mu...

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What does one prefer? An art that struggles to change the social contract, but fails? Or one that se...

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Nevertheless, what was made in the hope of transforming the world need not be rejected because it fa...

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It is hard to think of any work of art of which one can say 'this saved the life of one Jew, one Vie...

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Collins and Morales represent a segment of society which, if attacked with the weapons society sanct...

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An idea whose time has come cannot be stopped by any army or any government

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Ron PaulThe Revolution: A Manifesto

What presents itself to us as bourgeois legality is nothing but the violence of the ruling class, a ...

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Work for legal reform takes place only within the framework of the social form created by the last r...

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Every moment is a fresh new beginning, a wonderful inauguration of the great cosmic journey through ...

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In the end the British will walk out because 100,000 British cannot control 350 million Indians if t...

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Rituals are missing nowadays

The natural law is an instrument for progress, not a weapon of revolution.

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Russell KirkThe Roots of American Order

His August Majesty chided the bureaucrats for failing to understand a simple principle: the principl...

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So-called Islamic 'fundamentalism' does not spring, in Pakistan, from the people. It is imposed on t...

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Even in my own time and in my own life, I have witnessed a revolution.

And this is the unwritten history of man, his unseen, negative accomplishment, his power to do witho...

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When leaders betray their people and the people don't overthrow them, it's not just the leaders who ...

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They use the pretext of avoiding war, to make you swallow any kind of peace, said Paul. They use the...

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But an action which wants to serve man ought to be careful not to forget him on the way, if it choos...

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[O]ne cannot separate violence from the very exist­ ence of the state (as the apparatus of class dom...

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Slavoj ŽižekIn Defence of the Terror: Liberty or Death in the French Revolution

He suddenly understood the message of so many spiritual teachers that the only revolution that can w...

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Stanislav GrofThe Holotropic Mind: The Three Levels of Human Consciousness and How They Shape Our Lives

In fact they were looking for weapons eager to find something they could justify the millions of dol...

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