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“Liberty isn't a thing you are given as a present. You can be a free man under a dictatorship. It is sufficient if you struggle against it.”

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Ignazio Silone

Italian author born on May 1, 1900, and died on August 22, 1978. Ignazio Silone is renowned for his profound political and social commentary, a significant figure in 20th-century Italian literature. more

“War is an evil thing; but to submit to the dictation of other states is worse.... Freedom, if we hold fast to it, will ultimately restore our losses, but submission will mean permanent loss of all that we value.... To you who call yourselves men of peace, I say: You are not safe unless you have men of action on your side.”

Ifs Men Mean War States Action Values Evil Sides Loss Safe Permanent Submit Submission Your Side Hold Fast Evil Things Dictation

Author:Thucydides

“All men's instincts, all their impulses in life, are efforts to increase their freedom. Wealth and poverty, health and disease, culture and ignorance, labor and leisure, repletion and hunger, virtue and vice, are all terms for greater or less degree of freedom.”

Men Culture Term Wealth Effort Poverty Virtue Greater Ignorance Disease Degrees Labor Increase Instinct Hunger Vices Impulse Leisure Wealth And Poverty

Book:War and Peace

Source: War and Peace

“Physical violence is the basis of authority.”

Violence Authority Bases Physical Violence

Book:What is Art?:

Source: What is Art?:

“If we could have just screwed another head on his shoulders, he would have been the greatest golfer who ever lived.”

Ifs Has Beens Sports Athlete Shoulders Golfers

Author:Ben Hogan

“Slavery results from laws, laws are made by governments, and, therefore people can only be freed from slavery by the abolition of governments.... And it is time for people to understand that governments not only are not necessary, but are harmful and most highly immoral institutions, in which a self-respecting, honest man cannot and must not take part.”

People Men Made Self Government Law Results Honest Institutions Slavery Immoral Honest Man Abolition

Author:Leo Tolstoy

“Terror, as the demonstration of the will and strength of the working class, is historically justified, precisely because the proletariat was able thereby to break the political will of the intelligentsia, pacify the professional man of various categories and work, and gradually subordinate them to its own aims within the field of their specialties.”

Men Able Political Class Break Fields Aim Terror Various Categories Working Class Justified Demonstration Subordinates Proletariat Specialty Political Will

Author:Leon Trotsky

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