Let us not seek to satisfy our thirst for freedom by drinking from the cup of bitterness and hatred.
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In a higher phase of communist society, after the enslaving subordination of the individual to the division of labor, and therewith also the antithesis between mental and physical labor, has vanished; after labor has become not only a means of life but life's prime want;...
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Karl Marx
The first duty of a man is to think for himself
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You show me a capitalist, and I'll show you a bloodsucker
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Malcolm X
Freedom in capitalist society always remains about the same as it was in ancient Greek republics: Freedom for slave owners.
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Vladimir Lenin
More Quotes By Arthur Koestler
The old disease, thought Rubashov. Revolutionaries should not think through other people's minds. Or, perhaps they should? Or even ought to? How can one change the world if one identifies oneself with everybody? How else can one change it? He who understands and forgives --...
Solitary confinement is rock bottom, it’s absolute unfreedom.
It was quiet in the cell. Rubashov heard only the creaking of his steps on the tiles. Six and a half steps to the door, whence they must come to fetch him, six and a half steps to the window, behind which night was falling....
Ivanov- "Up to now , all revolutions have been made by moralizing diletantes. They were always in good faith and perished because of their dilettantism. We for the first time are consequent.."" Yes, " said Rubashov. "So consequent, that in the interests of a just...
Each wrong idea we follow is a crime committed against future generations.
