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"Their superstition exposes them to the rapacity and tyranny of a numerous priesthood ‘Mullahs,’ ‘Sahibzadas,’ ‘Akhundzadas,’ ‘Fakirs,’"

"This is certain, that a man that studieth revenge, keeps his own wounds green, which otherwise would heal, and do well."

"I have just noticed in the 2nd edition of The Times that the Prussian Second Chamber has finally done something worthwhile. We shall soon have revolution."

"The conclusion [of the essay 'Of the Protestant Succession'] shows me a Whig, but a very sceptical one."

"What one refuses in a minuteNo eternity will return."

"The king has sent me some of his dirty linen to wash; I will wash yours another time."

"The source of every Crime, is some defect of the Understanding; or some error in Reasoning; or some sudden force of the Passions."

"The Seven Books on the Art of War" at the Marxists Internet Archive"

"Don’t hold yourselves cheap, seeing that the creator of all things and of you estimates your value so high, so dear, that he pours out for you every day the most precious blood of his only-begotten Son."

"Roughly speaking, states are violent to the extent that they have the power to act in the interests of those with domestic power..."

"We propose to make the process of constitutional amendment far easier, speedier, and simpler than at present."

"Signs are not empirical objects. Empirical objects become signs only from the point of view of a philosophical decision."

"All men are intellectuals: but not all men have in society the function of intellectuals."

"Politics means a strong slow drilling of hard boards, with passion and judgment at the same time."

"Freedom granted only when it is known beforehand that its effects will be beneficial is not freedom."

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🇫🇷Alexis de Tocqueville

Politics

1805–1859

"The whole life of an American is passed like a game of chance, a revolutionary crisis, or a battle."

"The reason why Proshka wore such large boots can be explained at once: Plyushkin kept only one pair of boots for all of his servants, however numerous they were, and they always stood in the hall."

"The life of a revolutionary would be quite impossible without a certain amount of "fatalism."

"If a given science accidentally reached its goal, this would by no means stop the workers in the field, who would be driven past their goal by the sheer momentum of the illusion of unlimited progress."

"One of the principal motifs of Nietzsche’s work is that Kant had not carried out a true critique because he was not able to pose the problem of critique in terms of values."

"All office workers are afraid of being late for work."

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Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Literature

1918–2008

"Justice is conscience, not a personal conscience but the conscience of the whole of humanity. Those who clearly recognize the voice of their own conscience usually recognize also the voice of justice."

"I'm tired of fighting, Dash. I guess this thing is going to get me."

"...self-reliance is the best defence against the pressures of the moment."

"I had a quick grasp of the secret to sanity — it had become the ability to hold the maximum of impossible combinations in one's mind."

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🇨🇭Alfred-Maurice de Zayas

Law

b. 1947

"We don’t want a dystopian future in which corporations and not democratically elected governments call the shots. We don’t want an international order akin to post-democracy or post-law."

"For the present the Grammar may yet be of service. After an eight years' life and... 4000 copies, it reappears in a revised and enlarged form."

"'My country, right or wrong' is a thing that no patriot would think of saying, except in a desperate case. It is like saying, 'My mother, drunk or sober'."

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🇬🇧Thomas Fuller (writer)

Literature

1608–1661

"2216. He that lies down with the Dogs, must rise with the fleas."

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🇬🇷Plutarch

Philosophy

"The very spring and root of honesty and virtue lie in good education."

"...except for the NCERT experts who specialise in making molehills of mountains, and vice versa."

"The institutional scene in which American man has developed has lacked that accumulation from intervening stages which has been so dominant a feature of the European landscape."

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Tacitus

Politics

"Mercury is the deity whom they chiefly worship, and on certain days they deem it right to sacrifice to him even with human victims."

"Compassion is the desire that moves the individual self to widen the scope of its self-concern to embrace the whole of the universal self."

"In Western thought, the body holds the soul; in Indian thought, the soul holds the body."

"And where, for God’s sake, does that wretched, utterly dishonest phrase “coalition forces” come from? There is no “coalition” in this Iraq war. There are the Americans and the British and a few Australians. That’s it."

"Libcom.org/library Frederick Engels archive"

"In a democracy . . . someone who fails to get elected to office can always console himself with the thought that there was something not quite fair about it."

"Fragments of Annales in Latin and English"

"Both Hitler and Mussolini regarded themselves as revolutionaries, and rightly so. Rauschning claimed that National Socialism was actually more revolutionary in its goals than either Communism or anarchism."

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