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"Millions of human beings have labored to create this civilization on which we pride ourselves today. Other millions, scattered through the globe, labor to maintain it. Without them nothing would be left in fifty years but ruins."

Peter Kropotkin· b. 1842View quote →

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"You know how I always believe in the future … Without disorder, the revolution is impossible; knowing that, I did not lose hope, and I do not lose it now."

"I've actually had people come up to me and ask me to autograph their guns."

"That doesn't feel like politics to me. Stuff like equality feels much more fundamental. I feel like everyone is equal."

"Under the flag of 'superior Turkey identity' the entire society was sworn to an aggressive nationalism."

"Sam is the only person I've ever physically threatened on a set."

"No politician can sit on a hot issue if you make it hot enough."

"Full text of "War Is A Racket", Internet Archive"

"Sing the melody line you hear in your own head. Remember, you don't owe anybody any explanations, you don't owe your parents any explanations, you don't owe your professors any explanations."

"The most intimidating part for me has to do with the whole legacy, and knowing it is a legacy in line with the Christian tradition. I think about Abraham and his son Isaac, and it's kind of frightening."

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🇺🇸Richard Stallman

Technology

free software movement

b. 1953

"You can use any editor you want, but remember that vi vi vi is the text editor of the beast."

"I got to know Asia Argento ten months ago. Our commonality is the shared pain of being assaulted by Harvey Weinstein."

"I’m intensely private, and I’ve openly shown annoyance at the paparazzi. That’s served in the past to create an image of me where I’m always frowning or looking angry."

"As the late Howard Zinn once said, "There is not a flag large enough to cover the shame of killing innocent people."

"There is a huge difference between being tolerant and tolerating intolerance."

"We are ready for our heads to be cut off but we will not bow to them,"

"Meet The Fist-Shaking Socialist Behind America's Highest Minimum Wage. The Huffington Post. May 6, 2015."

"It was like the Beatles had arrived, you know. These four elderly ladies, and they were screaming for us-screaming for us. It was wonderful."

"I'm angry that I can't sleep that I hate myself"

"We shall do even greater things because the love that lived in the radical Christ now lives within millions of ordinary radicals all over the planet."

"I do not want to get liberated from them . I would consider liberation from them a grievous loss, irreparable."

"Conceptual art, for me, means work in which the idea is paramount and the material form is secondary, lightweight, ephemeral, cheap, unpretentious and/or "dematerialized."

"It made me feel like I was back in slavery days."

"I look at you and I see the final triumph of stupidity in the world!"

"What a waste my life would be without all the beautiful mistakes I've made."

Prince Azim of Brunei

Business

1982–2020

"Every person has the power to inspire. Though it may be difficult, sometimes we do have to be positive and see the rainbows rather than the rainstorms."

"The Western nations have four arms-defensive and offensive-the Army, the Navy, the Air Force and the Church."

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🇺🇸Rose McGowan

Entertainment

MeToo movement in India

"If you think research is expensive, try disease."

"If ignorance is bliss, then knock the smile off my face."

"Bobby Sands Trust, which holds the copyright on his writings."

"If you are anxious about death, then you don't have a sense of the oneness of things—you feel that after death, you will be no more."

"I asked Savitri ... how she would have received her mother. Without batting an eyelid, she said: 'I would have shot her.'"

"Modern racism although caused by specific social conditions, becomes, when it gains strength, a force that in my opinion can only be described as demonic."

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Adelaide Anne Procter

"And all I get is cheese, like I'm taking Pictures"

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"The State is only one of the forms assumed by society in the course of history. Why then make no distinction between what is permanent and what is accidental?"

— Peter Kropotkin, b. 1842View →

"When we have but the will to do it, that very moment will Justice be done: that very instant the tyrants of the Earth shall bite the dust."

— Peter Kropotkin, b. 1842View →

"Educated men — "civilized," as Fourier used to say with disdain — tremble at the idea that society might some day be without judges, police, or gaolers."

— Peter Kropotkin, b. 1842View →

"All this we see, and, therefore, instead of inanely repeating the old formula, "Respect the law," we say, "Despise law and all its Attributes!" In place of the cowardly phrase, "Obey the law," our cry, is "Revolt against all laws!"

— Peter Kropotkin, b. 1842View →

"Kropotkin's entry on "Anarchism" from the Encyclopædia Britannica"

— Peter Kropotkin, b. 1842View →

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