"A dead martyr is just another corpse."

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Source : "Fictional character: Major Craig". "Tobruk", www.imdb.com. 1967.

Leo Gordon

#Hero Quotes #Idealism Quotes #Martyr Quotes

“Every provisional political set-up following a revolution requires a dictatorship, and an energetic dictatorship at that.”
“I truly respect the people who are working. If they want an autograph from Patti LaBelle, they are going to get it. I have never separated myself from them. I never think you are better than the next one.”
“It is a big embarrassment that a leader can say on the eve of an election that he cannot hand over power to an opponent, that he can only hand over power to a member of his political party.”
“Those revolutions are not strictly incessant; they occur in discrete rushes which are separated from each other by spans of comparative quiet. The process as a whole works incessantly however, in the sense that there always is either revolution or absorption of the results of revolution, both together forming what are known as business cycles.”
“Writers know that sometimes things are there in the drawer for decades before they finally come out and you are capable of writing about them.”
“The power of the resurrection means that nothing but the tomb is meant to be empty.”
“If you give up, then you can never win again. Giving up is not an option. You cannot give up on anything.”
“And in such a world of conflict, a world of victims and executioners, it is the job of thinking people, as Albert Camus suggested, not to be on the side of the executioners.”

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