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institution
universal sanction of the society.
right of the possessing classes to exploit and rule the non-possessing classes.
Good government can never be a substitute for self-government.
disease born of fear and as a source of untold misery to the human race.
in early days to fix the calendar
chronicle e...
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Montague-Chelmsford called the British government a ‘benevolent despotism
governed are crushed
subjects who obey;
Government of India is too wooden, too iron, too inelastic, too antidiluvian, to be of any use for modern purposes. The Indian Government is indefensible.’
lowest and most immoral system
exploitation of one nation by another.
English people love liberty for themselves.
forget their heels are on the neck of India.
it signifies much to the living—it either tortures their feelings or hardens their hearts, and in either case, it instructs them how to punish when power falls into their hands.
destroy tenderness or excite revenge,
false idea
governing men by terror instea...
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despotic principles of government
natural rights are the foundation of all his civil rights.
Government does not consist in a contract between prisons and palaces,
give me liberty or death.
Whoever produces anything
right to the thing produced.
lifelong death which is inflicted upon a whole population by poverty and tyranny.
POOR LABOURERS
despised
most useful,
rejected when we were n...
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man with no fixed address
Patrick Macgill
Morality and religion are but words
for a ruler that no man should suffer from cold and hunger
maintain his standard of morals
ordinary means of...
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Konko Hoshi, Buddhist monk of Japan,...
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disgusting and repulsive
he who gives alms.
oppression maketh a wise man mad.
man who flings his whole life into an attempt,
saint compared to the active and passive upholders of cruelty and injustice,
Charles Fourier: 1772–1837)
present social order is a ridiculous mechanism, in which portions of the whole are in conflict and acting against the whole.
tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
men do not bend themselves together to make a protest without the belief that they have something to protest about, and that, in any organised state of society, a widespread protest is something for grave inquiry.
Charles Edward Russell
