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Political Freedom without economic equality is a pretense, a fraud, a lie; and the workers want no lying. Mikhail Bakunin
Freedom Lie Equality Political Lying Fraud Pretense Economic Without Political Freedom Want Workers
Violence can only be concealed by a lie, and the lie can only be maintained by violence. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Lie Only Concealed Maintained Violence
From the smallest necessity to the highest religious abstraction, from the wheel to the skyscraper, everything we are and everything we have comes from one attribute of man - the function of his reasoning mind. Ayn Rand
Man Mind Everything Religious Highest Smallest Abstraction Attribute His Wheel Reasoning Skyscraper Function Necessity
Power is given only to those who dare to lower themselves and pick it up. Only one thing matters, one thing; to be able to dare! Fyodor Dostoevsky
Power Matters Those Dare One Thing Able Given Only Only One Thing Pick Up Themselves Lower Who Thing
Man is fond of counting his troubles, but he does not count his joys. If he counted them up as he ought to, he would see that every lot has enough happiness provided for it. Fyodor Dostoevsky
Happiness Man Every Enough Ought Would See Fond Troubles Count Counted He Counting Joys Does His Provided Lot Up Them
Freedom, morality, and the human dignity of the individual consists precisely in this; that he does good not because he is forced to do so, but because he freely conceives it, wants it, and loves it. Mikhail Bakunin
Good Freedom Dignity Consists Morality Individual He Freely Forced Because Does Precisely Human Wants Human Dignity Loves
From the naturalistic point of view, all men are equal. There are only two exceptions to this rule of naturalistic equality: geniuses and idiots. Mikhail Bakunin
Equality Men Rule Only Point Point Of View Exceptions Equal Geniuses Idiots View Naturalistic Two
Under socialism all will govern in turn and will soon become accustomed to no one governing. Vladimir Lenin
Socialism Will Become No-One Soon Govern Governing Accustomed Turn
If Socialism can only be realized when the intellectual development of all the people permits it, then we shall not see Socialism for at least five hundred years. Vladimir Lenin
Socialism People Hundred Hundred Years See Only Shall Development Least Permits Years Intellectual Intellectual Development Five Realized Then
It is the artist who realizes that there is a supreme force above him and works gladly away as a small apprentice under God's heaven. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
God Apprentice Above Small Gladly Supreme Force Him Artist Heaven Who Works Away
Do not ever say that the desire to 'do good' by force is a good motive. Neither power-lust nor stupidity are good motives. Ayn Rand
Good Stupidity Say Neither Force Nor Motive Motives Ever Desire
Man only likes to count his troubles, but he does not count his joys. Fyodor Dostoevsky
Man Only Troubles Count He Joys Likes Does His
The Universe is worked and guided from within outwards. Helena Blavatsky
Universe Guided Within Worked
True life is lived when tiny changes occur. Leo Tolstoy
Life Changes True True Life Occur Tiny Lived
The end may justify the means as long as there is something that justifies the end. Leon Trotsky
Long Something End May Justifies Justify Means
The government is tottering. We must deal it the death blow an any cost. To delay action is the same as death. Vladimir Lenin
Death Government Delay Action Must Cost Deal Blow Same Any
It's a historical phenomenon that in 250 years, a nation could move from a colony into the most prosperous nation of the world and the leader of the world. It is indeed an achievement, a tribute to the talent of the American nation, the American people and an optimal political and economic system. Vladimir Putin
Achievement People World Political Leader Nation Indeed System Tribute Economic Colony Could Economic System Talent Prosperous Most Years Historical Optimal American Move American People Phenomenon
The world perishes not from bandits and fires, but from hatred, hostility, and all these petty squabbles. Anton Chekhov
World Hatred Petty Fires Hostility
Love is the expression of one's values, the greatest reward you can earn for the moral qualities you have achieved in your character and person, the emotional price paid by one man for the joy he receives from the virtues of another. Ayn Rand
Love Character You Man Love Is Joy Reward Values Earn Virtues Moral One-Man Price Emotional He Qualities Another Greatest Greatest Reward Person Achieved Paid Your Expression Receives
Rights are not a matter of numbers - and there can be no such thing, in law or in morality, as actions forbidden to an individual, but permitted to a mob. Ayn Rand
Rights Law Matter Morality Individual Forbidden Permitted Mob Actions Thing Numbers
Upper classes are a nation's past; the middle class is its future. Ayn Rand
Future Class Nation Past Classes Upper Middle Middle Class
We don't appreciate what we have until it's gone. Freedom is like that. It's like air. When you have it, you don't notice it. Boris Yeltsin
Freedom You Gone Air Like Until Notice Appreciate
Someone has said that it requires less mental effort to condemn than to think. Emma Goldman
Think Someone Mental Said Condemn Than Effort Requires Less
One can know a man from his laugh, and if you like a man's laugh before you know anything of him, you may confidently say that he is a good man. Fyodor Dostoevsky
Good You Man Good Man Before Say Laugh He Like Know Him His May Confidently Anything
The changes in our life must come from the impossibility to live otherwise than according to the demands of our conscience not from our mental resolution to try a new form of life. Leo Tolstoy
Life Change Try Live Changes Otherwise Our Must Mental Demands New Come Impossibility According Than Form Conscience Resolution
Fascism is nothing but capitalist reaction. Leon Trotsky
Nothing Reaction Capitalist Fascism
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