"Intolerance of oppression, the desire to be free and develop one personality to its full limits, is not enough to make one an anarchist. That aspiration towards unlimited freedom, if not tempered by a love for mankind and by the desire that all should enjoy equal freedom, may well create rebels who soon become exploiters and tyrants."

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Source : Errico Malatesta (2015). “Life and Ideas: The Anarchist Writings of Errico Malatesta”, p.17, PM Press

Errico Malatesta

#Tyrants Quotes #Personality Quotes #Desire Quotes

“The story is a piece of work. The novel is a way of life.”
“I'm very, very concerned about the Bush presidency. I'm worried about the kinds of cuts in domestic programs that mean something to a lot of people, including members of my family, who depend on certain things from the government.”
“I know how to smile, I know how to laugh, I know how to play. But I know how to do these things only after I have fulfilled my mission.”
“I'm not a serious photographer like many of my contemporaries. That is to say, I am serious about not being serious.”

Source : "Snaps by Elliott Erwitt - review" by Sean O'Hagan, www.theguardian.com. April 1, 2013.
“The unsung heroes of the civil rights movement were always the wives and the mothers.”
“only a thin partition separates the psychically normal from the diseased.”

Source : Helene Deutsch (1973). “Confrontations with Myself: An Epilogue”, W. W. Norton
“My priorities now a a musician are so different now than they were as a kid. Everyone wants to be a rock star, and I wanted that too; I wanted to be on magazines and be running around the world and having all the fun.”
“There are no truths outside the Gates of Eden.”

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