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People have only as much liberty as they have the intelligence to want and the courage to take.
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Puritanism has made life itself impossible. More than art, more than estheticism, life represents beauty in a thousand variations; it is indeed, a gigantic panorama of eternal change. Puritanism, on the other hand, rests on a fixed and immovable conception of life; it is based on the Calvinistic idea that life is a curse, imposed upon man by the wrath of God. In order to redeem himself man must do constant penance, must repudiate every natu..
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What, then, is patriotism? "Patriotism, sir, is the last resort of scoundrels," said Dr. Johnson. Leo Tolstoy, the greatest anti-patriot of our times, defines patriotism as the principle that will justify the training of wholesale murderers; a trade that requires better equipment for the exercise of man-killing than the making of such necessities of life as shoes, clothing, and houses; a trade that guarantees better returns and greater glor..
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When we can't dream any longer we die.
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Anarchism, more than any other social theory, values human life above things.
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Has not authority from time immemorial stamped every step of progress as treasonable?
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Society creates the victims that it afterwards vainly attempts to get rid of.
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The motto should not be: Forgive one another; rather, Understand one another.
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Free love? As if love is anything but free!
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No sacrifice is lost for a great ideal! (p. 135)
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