At the same time, of course, Marxism arose -- Rosa Luxembourg, Leninism, anarchism -- and art became political.
		-- Douglas Sirk
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The great appear great because we are on our knees: Let us rise.
		-- James Larkin
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Victory is for them, not for us. We have not made profit out of our country's misfortune. Victory does not bring us luck.
		-- Ba Jin
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Lock up your libraries if you like; but there is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind.
		-- Virginia Woolf
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The more corrupt the state, the more numerous the laws.
		-- Tacitus
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In our so very civilized society it is necessary for me to live the life of a savage. I must be free, even of governments.
		-- Gustave Courbet
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Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.
		-- Voltaire
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It is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong.
		-- Voltaire
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I desire neither to rule nor to be ruled.
		-- Otanes
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Whoever denies authority and fights against it is an anarchist.
		-- Sebastien Faure
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Anarchy is order; government is civil war.
		-- Anselme Bellagarrigue
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Up to now you have believed in the existence of tyrants. Well, you were mistaken. There are only slaves. Where none obeys, none commands.
		-- Anselme Bellagarrigue
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Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely.
		-- Lord Acton
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No nation keeps its word. A nation is a big, blind worm, following what? Fate perhaps. A nation has no honor, it has no word to keep.
		-- Carl Jung
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Women have no government. Men have organized a government, and they maintain it to the utter exclusion of women.
		-- Victoria Woodhull
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Never do anything against conscience even if the state demands it.
		-- Albert Einstein
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An unjust law is no law at all.
		-- Augustine of Hippo
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From each according to his ability, to each according to his need.
		-- Louis Blanc
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The world does not need governing; in fact it should not be governed.
		-- Zhuangzi
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Order results spontaneously when things are let alone.
		-- Zhuangzi
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Write on my gravestone: "Infidel, Traitor" -- infidel to every church that compromises with wrong; traitor to every government that oppresses the people.
		-- Wendell Phillips
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I am not a political man and I have no political convictions. I am an individual and a believer in liberty. That is all the politics I have.
		-- Charlie Chaplin
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I hate governments and rules and fetters. Can't stand caged animals. People must be free.
		-- Charlie Chaplin
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Anarchism is an ethic, it's a way of behaving.
		-- Henri Cartier-Bresson
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In a world that is buckling under the weight of profit making, that is overrun by the destructive sirens of Techno-science and the power hunger of globalization -- that new brand of slavery -- beyond all that, friendship exists, love exists.
		-- Henri Cartier-Bresson
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Free election of masters does not abolish the masters or the slaves.
		-- Herbert Marcuse
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Contemporary industrial society is now characterised more than ever by the need for stupefying work where it is no longer a real necessity.
		-- Herbert Marcuse
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A philosopher is dead when he is no longer read. Some, then, know the strange fortune of death while still alive.
		-- Michel Onfray
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Who cares about the victim if the gesture is beautiful?
		-- Laurent Tailhade
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Can one live without working? We can only live without working.
		-- Raoul Vaneigem
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Who wants a world in which the guarantee that we shall not die of starvation entails the risk of dying of boredom?
		-- Raoul Vaneigem
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There is no such thing as a good usage or a bad usage of the freedom of speech, only an insufficient usage.
		-- Raoul Vaneigem
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Faith can move mountains but let them happily fall down on the heads of other people.
		-- Boris Vian
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Remove the conditional and you destroy God.
		-- Boris Vian
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Our comrades had not read Marx and were scarcely familiar with all of Proudhon's theories, but common sense was their guide.
		-- Gaston Leval
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If crimes are committed they must be seen as a disease, and punishment as treatment rather than as social vengeance.
		-- Daniel Guerin
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Far from checking the spread of immorality, repression has always extended and deepended it. Thus it is futile to oppose it by rigorous legislation which trespasses on individual liberty.
		-- Daniel Guerin
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Would I support one candidate against another? Yes, for two minutes -- the amount of time it takes to pull the lever down in the voting booth.
		-- Howard Zinn
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Those who suppress freedom always do so in the name of law and order.
		-- John Lindsay
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If there is no struggle, there is no progress. Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground.
		-- Frederick Douglass
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The common land is my own land equal with my fellow commoners, and our true propriety by the Law of Creation: it is every one's, but not one single one's.
		-- Gerrard Winstanley
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The clergy will serve on any side, like our ancient laws that will serve any master.
		-- Gerrard Winstanley
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England is a prison. The variety of subtleties in the laws preserved by the sword are bolts, bars, and doors of the prison; the lawyers are the jailors; and poor men are the prisoners.
		-- Gerrard Winstanley
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Resistance to tyranny is obedience to God.
		-- Susan B. Anthony
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Woman must not depend upon the protection of man, but must be taught to protect herself.
		-- Susan B. Anthony
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To consider mankind otherwise than brethren, to think favors are peculiar to one nation and exclude others, plainly supposes a darkness in the understanding.
		-- John Woolman
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The most improper job of any man is bossing other men. Not one in a million is fit for it, and least of all those who seek the opportunity.
		-- J. R. R. Tolkien
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I attacked the king because in my opinion he is responsible for all the pale and bleeding victims of the system that he represents and has to defend.
		-- Gaetano Bresci
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I'm sure I was not wrong to do what I did. I do not even intend to appeal. I appeal only to the next proletarian revolution.
		-- Gaetano Bresci
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I have not shot Umberto. I have killed a king, I have killed a principle.
		-- Gaetano Bresci
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I would have been a coward if I hadn't had the courage to express, in my own way, my rancour and my disgust.
		-- Germaine Berton
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I am not insensitive, and I had to overcome great reluctance before killing a human being, even my enemy.
		-- Germaine Berton
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However, in no way do I regret the act I committed and my conscience feels no remorse. Because, in killing the leader of the King's Camelots, I only obeyed my heart, torn by the suffering of all unfortunate proletarians, hounded and enslaved pariahs.
		-- Germaine Berton
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