Albert Meltzer famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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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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There is an optimism which nobly anticipates the eventual triumph of great moral laws, and there is an optimism which cheerfully tolerates unworthiness.
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I was born optimistic...I was laughing from the beginning of my life.
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Startups often win because it's easier to see what comes next when you don't have to worry about maintaining what came last.
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It is rather for us here dedicated to the great task remaining before us, that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion.
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But what you realise after you've been in the business for a while is that people develop opinions about you that don't have anything to do with your music, they like or dislike you for a million reasons, they like or dislike you for your last record.
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The Afghans did not have sophisticated weapons like the Soviets did, but with their faith they defeated a superpower.
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In love, fidelity signifies this extended victory: the randomness of an encounter defeated day after day through the invention of what will endure.
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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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Every lesbian spearchucker is hoping I get 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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