"All government in essence," says Emerson, "is tyranny. " It matters not whether it is government by divine … - Emma Goldman

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I prefer my history dead. Dead history is writ in ink, the living sort in blood.

Emma Goldman

"All government in essence," says Emerson, "is tyranny. " It matters not whether it is government by divine right or majority rule. In every instance its aim is the absolute subordination of the individual.

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Art is a part of the rebellion against the realities of its unfulfilled desire.

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I do not believe in God, because I believe in man. Whatever his mistakes, man has for thousands of years been working to undo the botched job your god has made.

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The most vital right is the right to love and be loved.

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Give us what belongs to us in peace, and if you don't give it to us in peace, we will take it by force.

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What a strange development of patriotism that turns a thinking being into a loyal machine!

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Whatever the country, capitalist or socialist, man was everywhere crushed by technology, made a stranger to his own work, imprisoned, forced into stupidity. The evil all arose from the fact that he had increased his needs rather than limited them;. . . As long as fresh needs continued to be created, so new frustrations would come into being. When had the decline begun? The day knowledge was preferred to wisdom and mere usefulness to beauty. . . . Only a moral revolution - not a social or political revolution - only a moral revolution would lead man back to his lost truth.

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Start with scout locations first.

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The Navajo Generating Station in Page, for example, employs hundreds of people, mostly Native Americans, and provides nearly all of the power for the Central Arizona Project. That means our entire state has a big stake in the energy production and economic stability of these plants.

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I prefer my history dead. Dead history is writ in ink, the living sort in blood.

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It's not that I don't love the song. My songs are like my children: some you want around and some you want to send off to college as soon as possible.

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