politics

"We who seek justice will have to do justice to others."

"Is not this insanity plea becoming rather common? Is it not so common that the reader confidently expects to see it offered in every criminal case that comes before the courts? [...] Really, what we w…"

"Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety."

"I know monks masturbate at night That pet cats screw That some girls bite And yet What can I do To set things right?"

"Concentrate every minute like a Roman—like a man—on doing what's in front of you with precise and genuine seriousness, tenderly, willingly, with justice. And on freeing yourself from all other distrac…"

"That deep torture may be called a hell,When more is felt than one hath power to tell."

"In the year 1837, a short paper was read by me before the Geological Society of London, "On the Formation of Mould," in which it was shown that small fragments of burnt marl, cinders, &c., which had b…"

"Every perfect traveller always creates the country where he travels."

"Whatever you've been until today is already over, and while you can almost always learn from it, and sometimes change effects that are continuing into the present, you cannot undo what you have done."

"Votes should be weighed, not counted.Sooner or later, the state will be wreckedIn which majority rules, and ignorance decides."

"C'est ici le combat du jour et de la nuit... Je vois de la lumière noire."

"Later, as power slipped from the hands of the Anarchists into the hands of the Communists and right-wing Socialists, the Government was able to reassert itself, the bourgeoisie came out of hiding and …"

"When I left Barcelona in late June the jails were bulging; indeed, the regular jails had long since overflowed and the prisoners were being huddled into empty shops and any other temporary dump that c…"

"Understand that all the evils from which you suffer, you yourselves cause by yielding to the suggestions by which emperors, kings, members of parliament, governors, officers, capitalists, priests, aut…"

"In peace, prepare for war. In war, prepare for peace."

"The true objective of war is peace."

"Chère amie, ne savez-vous pas que la vertu est un état de guerre, et que, pour y vivre, on a toujours quelque combat à rendre contre soi?"

""For he that hath strength enough to protect all, wants not sufficiency to oppresse all.""

"Bullialdus wrote that all force respecting the Sun as its center & depending on matter must be reciprocally in a duplicate ratio of the distance from the center."

"The growing power of finance capital was not only important in all the ways economic historians have discussed — but as the basis of an entire liberal politics, a literal worldview."