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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.

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To revolt is a natural tendency of life. Even a worm turns against the foot that crushes it. In general, the vitality and relative dignity of an animal can be measured by the intensity of its instinct to revolt.

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Political Freedom without economic equality is a pretense, a fraud, a lie; and the workers want no lying.

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By striving to do the impossible, man has always achieved what is possible. Those who have cautiously done no more than they believed possible have never taken a single step forward.

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Powerful states can maintain themselves only by crime, little states are virtuous only by weakness.

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I am truly free only when all human beings, men and women, are equally free. The freedom of other men, far from negating or limiting my freedom, is, on the contrary, its necessary premise and confirmation.

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The privileged man, whether he be privileged politically or economically, is a man depraved in intellect and heart.

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The privilege of ruling would be in the hands of the skilled and the learned, with a wide scope left for profitable crooked deals carried on by the Jews, who would be attracted by the enormous extension of the international speculations of the national banks.

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From each according to his faculties; to each according to his needs.

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Idealism is the despot of thought, just as politics is the despot of will.

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Biography

Nationality: Russian

Type: Revolutionary

Born: May 30th, 1814

Died: June 13th, 1876

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