"Lenin is not comparable to any revolutionary figure in history. Revolutionaries have had ideals. Lenin has none."

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Source : "Peter Kropotkin : From Prince to Rebel". Book by George Woodcock and Ivan Avakumovic, p. 407, 1990.

Peter Kropotkin

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“If Helen of Troy could have been seen eating peppermints out of a paper bag, it is highly probable that her admirers would have been an entirely different class.It is the thing you are found doing while the horde looks on that you shall be loved for - or ignored.”
“I am convinced we do not only love ourselves in others but hate ourselves in others too.”
“Some newspapers have a hands-off policy on favored politicians. But it's generally very small newspapers or local TV stations.”
“I have just made stories to please myself, because I never grew up.”

Source : Joseph Robinette, Beatrix Potter (1994). “The Adventures of Peter Rabbit and His Friends: A Full-length Play Based on the Life and Stories of Beatrix Potter”, p.71, Dramatic Publishing
“Absolute freedom of the press to discuss public questions is a foundation stone of American liberty.”
“Why, when you have a mental disease, is it always considered an act of imagination? Why is it that every organ in your body can get sick and you get sympathy except the brain?”
“Come to earth to taste our sadness, He whose glories knew no end. By His life He brings us gladness, our Redeemer, Shepherd, Friend. Leaving riches without number, born within a cattle stall. This, the everlasting wonder, Christ was born the Lord of all.”
“The highest wisdom adopts the humblest of bodies.”

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