Quote #50

To revolt is a natural tendency of life. Even a worm turns against the foot that crushes it. In general, the vitality and relative dignity of an animal can be measured by the intensity of its instinct to revolt.

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  1. The right to unite freely and to separate freely is the first and most important of all political rights.
  2. Where the state begins, individual liberty ceases, and vice versa.
  3. The passion for destruction is also a creative passion.
  4. Women, different from man but not inferior to him, intelligent, hardworking and free as he is, should be declared his equal in all politica…
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  7. The advent of liberty is incompatible with the existence of States.
  8. On the first day of a revolution, he is a perfect treasure; on the second, he ought to be shot.

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