“The people asks only for what is necessary, it only wants justice and tranquility, the rich aspire to everything, they want to invade and dominate everything. Abuses are the work and the domain of the rich, they are the scourges of the people: the interest of the people is the general interest, that of the rich is a particular interest.”
― Virtue and Terror
― Virtue and Terror
“Z pozornie nowych pomysłów wyłaniała się stara, gorzka prawda: szczęście ludzkości znajduje się na końcu ponurej, pełnej krzywd drogi. Kto wie, czy to nie ta świadomość wyzwoliła w Robespierze silne emocje religijne? Kto wie czy to nie ta myśl sprawiła, że w późniejszych dziesięcioleciach pewien nastrój religijny bywał mimo wszystko, choć dziwacznie, mocno zakorzeniony w ideologiach lewicowych?”
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“Marxism consists of thousands of truths, but they all boil down to one sentence: It is right to rebel.”
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“The difference between a communist party and a bourgeois party in State leadership is not a 'minor' one, but a very great, profound, class difference of principle, which cannot be reduced to the 'rotation' of party leaders in political power”
― Yugoslav "Self-Administration" - Capitalist Theory and Practice
― Yugoslav "Self-Administration" - Capitalist Theory and Practice
“The real purpose of studying heredity is to determine the relation of an organism of a given nature to its environmental conditions.”
― Heredity and Its Variability
― Heredity and Its Variability
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