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""The only real, dignified, human doctrine is the greatest good of all, and this can only be achieved by uttermost self-sacrifice.""

"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."

"It is not our immediate task to “introduce” socialism, but only to bring social production and the distribution of products at once under the control of the Soviets of Workers’ Deputies."

"Every revolutionary party finds its chief support in the younger generation of the rising class. Political decay expresses itself in a loss of ability to attract youth."

"Nothing, in fact, is as universal or as ancient as the iniquitous and absurd; truth and justice, on the contrary, are the least universal, the youngest features in the development of human society."

"Historically, the errors committed by a truly revolutionary movement are infinitely more fruitful than the infallibility of the cleverest Central Committee."

"Anarchism — a life of freedom and creative independence for humanity."

"The walls of the educational system must come down. Education should not be a privilege, so the children of those who have money can study. Education should be the daily bread of the people of Cuba."

"Strategically we should despise all our enemies, while tactically we should take them all seriously."

"There have always been poor and working classes; and the working class have mostly been poor. But there have not always been workers and poor people living under conditions as they are today."

"The revolution cannot seek to stifle art or culture since one of the goals and fundamental aims of the revolution is to develop art and culture, precisely so that art and culture truly become the patrimony of the people."

"Country is not a mere zone of territory. The true country is the Idea to which it gives birth; it is the Thought of love, the sense of communion which unites in one all the sons of that territory."

"I do not mean that bombs and pistols are useless, rather the contrary. But I mean to say that mere bomb-throwing is not only useless but sometimes harmful."

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🇫🇷Maximilien Robespierre

Politics

1758–1794

"Democracy is a state in which the sovereign people, guided by laws which are its own work, does for itself all that it can do properly, and through delegates all that it cannot do for itself."

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🇮🇷Babak Khorramdin

Politics

"Perhaps I shall survive, perhaps not. I have been known as the commander. Wherever I am present or am mentioned, I am the king."

"I will make a prophecy that may now sound peculiar. In fifty years Lincoln's name will be inscribed close to Washington's on this Republic's roll of honor."

"An empire that cannot distance itself from such a gruesome sin that so deeply affects its internal structure does not have the right to education, to future development and participation in history."

"Bourgeois scientists make sure that their theories are not dangerous to God or Capital."

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Gopal Krishna Gokhale

Literature

Indian independence movement

1866–1915

"This diamond of India, this jewel of Maharashtra, this prince of workers is taking eternal rest on funeral ground. Look at him and try to emulate him."

"Its twenty-six articles , setting out the principles of the professional revolutionary, might have served as the Bolshevik oath. The morals of that party owed much to Nechaev as they did to Marx."

"All peoples enjoy freedom, and freedom for the development of their culture... There is no Jewish problem in the Soviet Union at all... I have many friends who are Jews."

"Those Chetniks up there who are now firing on us will have joined us within a year."

"So the bastard's dead? Too bad we didn't capture him alive!"

"After all, we are always on time, behind time, in time, but never out of time, no matter how often we are told that we are."

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🇲🇽Subcomandante Marcos

Military

b. 1957

"The world we want to transform has already been worked on by history and is largely hollow. We must nevertheless be inventive enough to change it and build a new world. Take care and do not forget ideas are also weapons."

"If I win - I win for all our people, if I lose - I lose only myself."

"It seemed to me that in your arms I felt your entire youthful world. Its despotism, its egoism, its desperate thirst for happiness—all of this was in your caresses. Your love is like murder. But – I love you, Lenni."

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🇮🇳Bal Gangadhar Tilak

Social Activism

1856–1920

"...its ultimate origin is still lost in geological antiquity."

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🇫🇷Louis_Antoine_de_Saint-Just

Politics

1767–1794

"I am not of any faction, I will fight them all."

"First, Stalin is disowned, now, little by little, it gets to prosecute socialism, the October Revolution, and in no time they will also want to prosecute Lenin and Marx."

"Stokely Carmichael - Life, Politics and Rhetoric"

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Lala Lajpat Rai

Politics

Indian independence movement

1865–1928

"‘Every blow that they hurled at us drove one more nail into the coffin of the Empire.’"

"The right of disposal depends on being mature and being able to fulfill one's duties; when the possessor does not meet these requirements, then the natural fruits of ownership come to an end."

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