Powerful states can maintain themselves only by crime, little states are virtuous only by weakness. - Mikhail Bakunin

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We must remember that intelligence is not enough. Intelligence plus character-that is the goal of true education. The complete education gives one not only power of concentration, but worthy objectives upon which to concentrate.

Mikhail Bakunin

Powerful states can maintain themselves only by crime, little states are virtuous only by weakness.

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In antiquity slaves were, in all honesty called slaves. In the middle ages, they took the name of serfs. Nowadays they are called wage earners.

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Political Freedom without economic equality is a pretense, a fraud, a lie; and the workers want no lying.

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People go to church for the same reasons they go to a tavern: to stupefy themselves, to forget their misery, to imagine themselves, for a few minutes anyway, free and happy.

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Revolution requires extensive and widespread destruction, a fecund and renovating destruction, since in this way and only this way are new worlds born

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The truth is that the whole life of the worker is simply a continuous and dismaying succession of terms of serfdom - voluntary from the juridical point of view but compulsory in the economic sense - broken up by momentarily brief interludes of freedom accompanied by starvation; in other words, it is real slavery.

Brief, Broken, Real, Slavery, Terms, Views

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