Albert Meltzer quotes
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“Optimism is inevitably the last hope of the defeated”
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“In the opinion of the anarchist, the sum total of human ills is expressed in one word-authority.”
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“If I can't have a revolution, what is there to dance about.”
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“Though I knew so far as Anarchism was concerned I was backing a lost cause, it didn't seem to matter as every other cause had won at some time but that of the people themselves. At least it threw so a light on any other political persuasion.”
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“Nobody is fit to rule anybody else. It is not alleged that Mankind is perfect, or that merely through his/her natural goodness (or lack of same) he/she should (or should not) be permitted to rule. Rule as such causes abuse. There are no superpeople nor privileged classes who are above 'imperfect Mankind' and are capable or entitled to rule the rest of us. Submission to slavery means surrender of life.”
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“There are sermons in stones, but it depends on how good your aim is.”
-- Albert Meltzer
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“I was born optimistic...I was laughing from the beginning of my life.”
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Source : Interview with Michael Jarrett, www2.york.psu.edu. November 8, 1987.
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Source : "'We Should Not Fear Being Called Radical'". Interview with Farish A. Noor, theseoultimes.com.
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Source : Alain Badiou, Nicolas Truong (2012). “In Praise Of Love”, p.45, Profile Books
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“Again and again I will suffer; again and again I will get back on my feet. I will not be defeated.”
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“It is not only that Germany has been defeated in the war, Kaiser Wilhelm's Germany was defeated.”
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