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“You can't take back an act you were able to think.”
“Without tolerance, our world turns into hell.”
“We are the world.”
“Truth is always a delusion.”
“Man is imperfect. The reality he creates is always endangered by man.”
“When death has you by the throat, you don't mince words.”
“There is a moment when nothing can be wiped out and left behind any more, when there is only reality and reality is horrifying.”
“Resistance at all cost is the most senseless act there is.”
“This inhuman world has to become more humane. But how?”
“The only remedy against hunger is reasonable birth control.”
“So then learn to conquer your fear. This is the only art we have to master nowadays: to look at things without fear, and to fearlessly do right.”
“Human life is beyond comprehension.”
“In a society which is structured the wrong way, piety has no effect.”
“Pretend to be dumb, that's the only way to reach old age.”
“A major power can afford a military debacle only when it looks like a political victory.”
“Communism is a proposition to structure the world more reasonably, a proposition for changing the world. As such, we have to analyze it and, if we deem it reasonable, act upon it.”
“It is surely easier to confess a murder over a cup of coffee than in front of a jury.”
“A state always calls itself fatherland when it is ready for murder.”
“Whoever is content with the world, and who profits from its lack of justice, does not want to change it.”
“Everything in the world can be changed, my dear Florestan, but the human being.”