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“Collective property and individual property, these two banners will be the standards under which, from now on, the great battles of the future will be fought.”

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Author:Mikhail Bakunin

“What have the masses been clamoring for? Jobs and welfare, and they got 'em. They've also got unions and managements like two armies converting the whole economy into a battleground with the customers as victims, except that the victims are also in the army. They think in battle terms by day and like customers at night.”

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Author:Louis O. Kelso

“A politician weakly and amiably in the right is no match for a politician tenaciously and pugnaciously in the wrong. You cannot, by tying an opinion, to a man's tongue, make him the representative of that opinion; and at the close of any battle for principles, his name will be found neither among the dead nor among the wounded, but among the missing.”

Men Found Politics Names Opinion Principles Missing Politician Battle Tongue Representatives Wounded

Author:Edwin Percy Whipple

“Whenever death may surprise us, let it be welcome if our battle cry has reached even one receptive ear and another hand reaches out to take up our arms.”

Ifs May Hands Political Politics Cry Arms Battle Ears Surprise Welcome Reach Out Umpires Receptive Battle Cry

Author:Che Guevara

“[Fighting Climate Change] is important for every single person on the planet, which is why it has to be the greatest grassroots movement of all time. This is the battle of our lives. We're fighting for our children.”

“In battle, combatants engaged in war against America get no due process and may lawfully be killed. But citizens not in a battlefield - however despicable - are guaranteed a trial by our Constitution. No one argues that Americans who commit treason shouldn't be punished. The maximum penalty for treason is death. But the Constitution specifies the process necessary to convict.”

“Older men declare war. But it is the youth that must fight and die.”

“I pondered all these things, and how men fight and lose the battle, and the thing that they fought for comes about in spite of their defeat, and when it comes turns out not to be what they meant, and other men have to fight for what they meant under another name.”

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Author:William Morris

“The battle for the individual rights of women is one of long standing and none of us should countenance anything which undermines it.”

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Author:Eleanor Roosevelt

“Battle, n., A method of untying with the teeth a political knot that would not yield to the tongue.”

Political Politics Battle Method Tongue Teeth Yield Knots

Author:Ambrose Bierce

“Nine requisites for contented living: Health enough to make work a pleasure. Wealth enough to support your needs. Strength to battle with difficulties and overcome them. Grace enough to confess your sins and forsake them. Patience enough to toil until some good is accomplished. Charity enough to see some good in your neighbor. Love enough to move you to be useful and helpful to others. Faith enough to make real the things of God. Hope enough to remove all anxious fears concerning the future.”

“To fight and conquer in all our battles is not supreme excellence; supreme excellence consists in breaking the enemy's resistance without fighting.”

Source: Strategy Six Pack

“Distorted history boasts of bellicose glory... and seduces the souls of boys to seek mystical bliss in bloodshed and in battles.”

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Book:The Collected Clinical Works of Alfred Adler: Journal articles : 1914-1920

Source: The Collected Clinical Works of Alfred Adler: Journal articles : 1914-1920