The end may justify the means as long as there is something that justifies the end.

Leon Trotsky

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But love, like the sun that it is, sets afire and melts everything. what greed and privilege to build up over whole centuries the indignation of a pious spirit, with its natural following of oppressed souls, will cast down with a single shove.

José Martí

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A child who does not think about what happens around him and is content with living without wondering whether he lives honestly is like a man who lives from a scoundrel's work and is on the road to being a scoundrel.

José Martí

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I knew I was alone in a way that no earthling has ever been before.

Michael Collins

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Freedom in capitalist society always remains about the same as it was in ancient Greek republics: Freedom for slave owners.

Vladimir Lenin

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You show me a capitalist, and I'll show you a bloodsucker

Malcolm X

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Possibility, infinity, beauty -- none of those words were right. [...] What he really wanted to say was: have you felt this? this phantom life streaking like a phosphorescent hound at the edges of your ruin?

Haven Kimmel

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Teaism is a cult founded on the adoration of the beautiful among the sordid facts of everyday existence. It inculcates purity and harmony, the mystery of mutual charity, the romanticism of the social order. It is essentially a worship of the Imperfect, as it is a tender attempt to accomplish something possible in this impossible thing we know as life.

Kakuzō Okakura

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It's the truth, even if it didn't happen...

...if they don't exist, how can a man see them?

Ken Kesey

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The flame that burns Twice as bright burns half as long.

Lao Tzu

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