It Is Only Those Who Do Nothing

I Understand Regicide As A Means Of Obtaining Vengeance For The Ruin Of Our Lives, But Regicide As A Means Of Obtaining Political Freedom I Could Never Understand.

No Evolution Is Accomplished In Nature Without Revolution. Periods Of Very Slow Changes Are Succeeded By Periods Of Violent Changes. Revolutions Are As Necessary For Evolution As The Slow Changes Which Prepare Them And Succeed Them.

The Immense And Ever Increasing Sums Which The State Wrings From The People Are Never Enough For It; It Mortgages The Income Of Future Generations, And Steers Resolutely Toward Bankruptcy.

Any Revolutionary Agitation Exacts Enormous Sacrifices, Not So Much In Terms Of Prison Sentences And Years Of Incarceration - Which Have Been Raining Down By The Hundreds Of Years Annually - As In Terms Of The Manifold Personal Sacrifices Sustained By Those Who Commit Themselves To Revolutionary Agitation.

Sometimes He Would Advise Me To Read Poetry, And Would Send Me In His Letters Quantities Of Verses And Whole Poems, Which He Wrote From Memory. 'read Poetry,' He Wrote: 'poetry Makes Men Better.' How Often, In My Later Life, I Realized The Truth Of This Remark Of His! Read Poetry: It Makes Men Better.