“I can imagine no man who will look with more horror on the End than a conscientious revolutionary who has, in a sense sincerely, been justifying cruelties and injustices inflicted on millions of his contemporaries by the benefits which he hopes to confer on future generations: generations who, as one terrible moment now reveals to him, were never going to exist. Then he will see the massacres, the faked trials, the deportations, to be all ineffaceably real, an essential part, his part, in the drama that has just ended: while the future Utopia had never been anything but a fantasy.” MenLooksI CanRealEndsMomentsMillionsFantasyImagineGenerationsTerribleDramaHorrorEssentialsBenefitsInjusticeTrialsCrueltyRevolutionarySincerelyFuture GenerationUtopiaMassacresDeportation Book:The World's Last Night: And Other Essays Source: The World's Last Night: And Other Essays
“Tout re volutionnaire finit en oppresseur ou en he re tique. Every revolutionary ends as an oppressor or a heretic.” EndsRevolutionaryOppressorsHeretic Author:Albert Camus
“The education we all receive from the State, at school and after, has so warped our minds that the very notion of freedom ends up by being lost, and disguised in servitude. It is a sad sight to see those who believe themselves to be revolutionaries unleashing their hatred on the anarchist just because his views on freedom go beyond their petty and narrow concepts of freedom learned in the State school.” MindBelieveEndsStatesSchoolLostViewsConceptsHatredSightNotionRevolutionaryPettyAnarchismAnarchistServitudeUnleashing Author:Peter Kropotkin
“In a free system any large, popular, revolutionary movement should be able to bring about its ends by such a voluntary process. As more and more people see how it works more and more will wish to participate in or support it. And so it will grow, without being necessary to force everyone or a majority or anyone into the pattern.” PeopleShouldEndsAbleForceWishGrowsProcessSupportMovementMajorityPatternsRevolutionary Book:Anarchy, state, and utopia Source: Anarchy, state, and utopia
“When we planned our country's economic development, we had the strategic objective of our Revolution in mind. It was not planned for economic development [to be] solely an end in itself. There are some who have forgotten that the sole basis of our revolutionary struggle was the ideology and politics which we follow.” MindEndsCountryStruggleEconomicRevolutionDevelopmentBasesForgottenObjectivesOur CountryIdeologyRevolutionarySoleStrategicEconomic Development Author:Mengistu Haile Mariam
“I advocate revolutionary changes...an end to capitalist exploitation, the abolition of racist policies, the eradication of sexism and the elimination of political repression. If that is a crime, then I am totally guilty” IfsEndsPoliticalCrimePolicyGuiltyRevolutionaryRacistSexismCapitalistExploitationRepressionAbolitionEliminationRevolutionary Change Author:Assata Shakur
“The ultimate end of all revolutionary social change is to establish the sanctity of human life, the dignity of man, the right of every human being to liberty and well-being.” MenHumansWellsEndsCultureSocialChangeHuman BeingsLibertyDiversityDignityUltimateSocial JusticeWell BeingHuman LifeRevolutionarySocial ChangeSanctityHuman DignitySanctity Of LifeSanctity Of Human Life Book:My Disillusionment in Russia Source: My Disillusionment in Russia