"By revolution we become more ourselves, not..." - Quote by George Orwell
By revolution we become more ourselves, not less.
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“Why should be fruit be held inferior to the flower?”
“The object of terrorism is terrorism. The object of oppression is oppression. The object of torture is torture. The object of murder is murder. The object of power is power. Now do you begin to understand me?”
“If you turn the other cheek, you will get a harder blow on it than you got on the first one. This does not always happen, but it is to be expected, and you ought not to complain if it does happen.”
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“Nothing else in the world... not all the armies... is so powerful as an idea whose time has come.”
“A government which uses force to maintain its rule teaches the oppressed to use force to oppose it.”
“In every revolution there intrude, at the side of its true agents, men of a different stamp; some of them survivors of and devotees to past revolutions, without insight into the present movement, but preserving popular influence by their known honesty and courage, or by the sheer force of tradition; others mere brawlers, who, by dint of repeating year after year the same set of stereotyped declamations against the government of the day, have sneaked into the reputation of revolutionists of the first water They are an unavoidable evil: with time they are shaken off.”