Peter Kropotkin Quotes
The State is only one of the forms assumed by society in the course of history. Why then make no distinction between what is permanent and what is accidental?
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History does nothing; it does not possess immense riches, it does not fight battles. It is men, real, living, who do all this.
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The white man made the mistake of letting me read his history books. He made the mistake of teaching me that Patrick Henry was a patriot and George Washington – wasn't nothing non-violent about old Pat or George Washington.
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The modern tradition is the tradition of revolt. The French Revolution is still our model today: history is violent change, and this change goes by the name of progress. I do not know whether these notions really apply to art.
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The world can be very small. That's why you have to be very careful, whoever you meet.
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Contemporary art will help me to modernise our society.
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I think one's history and past is important at a certain time in your life, especially as an artist, just to try to hone in on that.
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I want to go down in history.
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The same way one tells a recipe, one tells a family history. Each one of us has our past locked inside.
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Society attacks early, when the individual is helpless.
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Islam's laws are fixed and that is why Islam is stable.
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I had a father and mother, who were devout and feared God. Our Lord also helped me with His grace. All this would have been enough to make me good, if I had not been so wicked.
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Speech is the twin of my vision, it is unequal to measure itself, it provokes me forever, it says sarcastically, Walt you contain enough, why don't you let it out then?
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In this decisive hour of our national history, union means life and division means death.
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I'm sure that was the right step, even though, formally speaking, it may seem disadvantageous for a president to resign. But, looking into what is happening today and what is going to happen in the future, I think history will show I made the right decision.
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I like to come into my workspace and feel it's a living environment and not frozen, which is why I often change or add to the pictures on the wall.
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History is full of people who went to prison or were burned at the stake for proclaiming their ideas. Society has always defended itself.
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It is not hard to see why the FBI wants wiretapping backdoors. It would certainly make its job easier. But rejiggering the Internet so government can conveniently monitor everything we say and do online is too high a price to pay for making law enforcement more efficient.
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If women can be railroad workers in Russia, why can't they fly in space?
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I'm interested in people who are not exactly the middle way, or who are trying something else because they cannot prevent themselves from being different, or they wish to be different, or they are different because society pushed them away.
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I actually didn't get to go to my prom. I left high school when I was 16 to join 'NSYNC. I felt that was something I always missed out on, and all my friends got to go and would tell me about it.
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I think I definitely got scared by the second or third time a doctor told me I was dying.
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Slow down and enjoy life. It's not only the scenery you miss by going to fast - you also miss the sense of where you are going and why.
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The State is only one of the forms assumed by society in the course of history. Why then make no distinction between what is permanent and what is accidental?
