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“The notion that a radical is one who hates his country is naïve and usually idiotic. He is, more likely, one who likes his country more than the rest of us, and is thus more disturbed than the rest of us when he sees it debauched. He is not a bad citizen turning to crime; he is a good citizen driven to despair.”
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From Extracts: On Revolutions by Grace Andreasen (Lapham's Quarterly),
Henry Clay“An oppressed people are authorized, whenever they can, to rise and break their fetters.”
Mikhail Bakunin“To escape its wretched lot, the populace has three ways, two imaginary and one real. The first two are the rum shop and the church; the third is the social revolution.”
Leo Tolstoy“Every revolution by force only puts more violent means of enslavement into the hands of the persons in power.”
George Bernard Shaw“Revolutions have never lightened the burden of tyranny, they have only shifted it to another shoulder.”
Dolores Ibárruri“It... [More]”
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“Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words.”
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“Nicolas de Largillière (Voltaire)It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets.”
I’d always remembered Eddie Izzard’s version,
“Someone’s killed 100,000 people. We’re almost going, “Well done! You killed 100,000 people? You must get up very early in the morning! I can’t even get down the gym. Your diary must look odd: ‘Get up in the morning, death, death, death, death, death, death, death – lunch – death, death, death – afternoon tea –... [More]”
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