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" England is nothing but the last ward of the European madhouse, and quite possibly it will prove to be the ward for particularly violent cases. "
England
Prove
Will
" Events can neither be regarded as a series of adventures nor strung on the thread of a preconceived moral. They must obey their own laws. "
Events
Laws
Moral
" Everyone has the right to be stupid on occasion, but Comrade Macdonald abuses the privilege. "
Right
Everyone
Privilege
" Fascism is nothing but capitalist reaction. "
Nothing
Reaction
Fascism
" From being a patriotic myth, the Russian people have become an awful reality. "
Myth
Become
Being
" Ideas that enter the mind under fire remain there securely and for ever. "
Ideas
Enter
Remain
" If we had more time for discussion we should probably have made a great many more mistakes. "
More
Mistakes
Great
" In a serious struggle there is no worse cruelty than to be magnanimous at an inopportune time. "
Worse
Struggle
Cruelty
" Insurrection is an art, and like all arts has its own laws. "
Insurrection
Own
Like
" Learning carries within itself certain dangers because out of necessity one has to learn from one's enemies. "
Within
Out
Learning
" Let a man find himself, in distinction from others, on top of two wheels with a chain - at least in a poor country like Russia - and his vanity begins to swell out like his tires. In America it takes an automobile to produce this effect. "
Find
Man
Top
" Life is not an easy matter... You cannot live through it without falling into frustration and cynicism unless you have before you a great idea which raises you above personal misery, above weakness, above all kinds of perfidy and baseness. "
Great
Frustration
Life
" Not believing in force is the same as not believing in gravity. "
Same
Gravity
Believing
" Old age is the most unexpected of all things that happen to a man. "
Old
Old Age
Unexpected
" Revolutions are always verbose. "
Revolutions
Always
" Technique is noticed most markedly in the case of those who have not mastered it. "
Those
Technique
Most
" The depth and strength of a human character are defined by its moral reserves. People reveal themselves completely only when they are thrown out of the customary conditions of their life, for only then do they have to fall back on their reserves. "
Strength
Character
People
" The dynamic of revolutionary events is directly determined by swift, intense, and passionate changes in the psychology of classes which have already formed themselves before the revolution. "
Passionate
Changes
Events
" The end may justify the means as long as there is something that justifies the end. "
End
Justify
Long
" The historic ascent of humanity, taken as a whole, may be summarized as a succession of victories of consciousness over blind forces - in nature, in society, in man himself. "
Society
Nature
Man
" The masses go into a revolution not with a prepared plan of social reconstruction, but with a sharp feeling that they cannot endure the old regime. Only the guiding layers of a class have a political program, and even this still requires the test of events and the approval of the masses. "
Political
Test
Revolution
" There are no absolute rules of conduct, either in peace or war. Everything depends on circumstances. "
Rules
Peace
Circumstances
" There is a limit to the application of democratic methods. You can inquire of all the passengers as to what type of car they like to ride in, but it is impossible to question them as to whether to apply the brakes when the train is at full speed and accident threatens. "
Train
Ride
You
" Where force is necessary, there it must be applied boldly, decisively and completely. But one must know the limitations of force; one must know when to blend force with a maneuver, a blow with an agreement. "
Limitations
Force
Agreement
" You may not be interested in strategy, but strategy is interested in you. "
You
Strategy
May
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