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“For twenty years I strove to free myself from what I retained of my education; I indulged my curiosity by reading books less to learn than to efface from my memory the ideas that had been thrust upon it.”
Georges Sorel, Reflections on Violence
“Verbal communication is much easier than written communication, because words act on the feelings in a mysterious way and easily establish a current of sympathy between people; it is for this reason that an orator is able to produce conviction by arguments which do not seem very comprehensible to any one reading the speech later.”
Georges Sorel
“The myths are not descriptions of things but expressions of a determination to act”
Georges Sorel
“All the future of socialism resides in the autonomous development of workers’ syndicates”
Georges Sorel
“Dans la bouche de ces prétendus représentants du prolétariat, toutes les formules socialistes perdent leur sens réel. La lutte de classe reste toujours le grand principe ; mais elle doit être subordonnée à la solidarité nationale1. L’internationalisme est un article de foi en l’honneur duquel les plus modérés se déclarent prêts à prononcer les serments les plus solennels; mais le patriotisme impose aussi des devoirs sacrés2. L’émancipation des travailleurs doit être l’œuvre des travailleurs eux-mêmes, comme on l’imprime encore tous les jours, mais la véritable émancipation consiste à voter pour un professionnel de la politique, à lui assurer les moyens de se faire une bonne situation, à se donner un maître. Enfin l’État doit disparaître et on se garderait de contester ce qu’Engels a écrit là-dessus; mais cette disparition aura lieu seulement dans un avenir si lointain que l’on doit s’y préparer en utilisant provisoirement l’État pour gaver les politiciens de bons morceaux ; et la meilleure politique pour faire disparaître l’État consiste provisoirement à renforcer la machine gouvernementale ; Gribouille, qui se jette à l’eau pour ne pas être mouillé par la pluie, n’aurait pas raisonné autrement. Etc, etc.”
Georges Sorel, Reflections on Violence
“The sublime is dead in the bourgeoisie and it is doomed to possess no ethic in the future.”
Georges Sorel
“Revolutions closely resemble romantic dramas: the ridiculous and the sublime are mixed so inextricably together that we are often unsure how to judge men who seem to be at one and the same time buffoons and heroes.”
Georges Sorel
“We are all so extremely concerned in knowing what the world thinks of us that, sooner or later, considerations analogous to those the moralists speak of do pass through our mind; as a result of this the moralists have been able to imagine that they have really made an appeal to experience for the purpose of finding out what exists at the bottom of creative conscience, when, as a matter of fact, all they have done is to consider already accomplished acts from the point of view of its social effects.”
Georges Sorel, Reflections on Violence
“On doit procéder par tâtonnements, essayer des hypothèses vraisemblables et partielles se contenter
d'approximations provisoires, de manière à laisser toujours la porte ouverte à des corrections progressives.”
Georges Sorel, Matériaux d’une théorie du prolétariat

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