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 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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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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Conservatives sometimes forget that limiting government is not an end in itself but a means to a better society.
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History has demonstrated that the most notable winners usually encountered heartbreaking obstacles before they triumphed. They won because they refused to become discouraged by their defeats.
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When I was a graduate student, the leading spirits at Harvard were interested in the history of ideas.
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There are so many times and places in history in our world that I just don't know anything about, and when I learn about them they're always fascinating.
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Broadway was very vital back in the '20s. There were probably close to hundreds of productions that opened up through the course of the year and through the course of a Broadway season.
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Despite the deep reforms we are making, traders and speculators have forced interest rates on Greek bonds to record highs.
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I don't need to write comics for a living. I have movies and TV for that. I write comics for one reason and one reason only: I love comics. I love the form, the structure, the storytelling process, I love everything about it.
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Studio films are really fun. You have months and months to shoot. With the smaller films you get to be on a much more intimate set and have to get things done quickly.
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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?
