Matthias

“Freedom of speech to say publicly whatever one wants; freedom of assembly to gather where and around whatever issues one wants; freedom of movement to travel wherever one wants, etc. If society succeeds in convincing us that we want only what it wants in all these cases, are we then truly more free than an individual who refuses to comply with social mores [...]”
― Albert Szymanski, Human Rights in the Soviet Union: Including Comparisons with the U.S.A.

“If you are to punish a man retributively, you must injure him. If you are to reform him, you must improve him. And men are not improved by injuries.”
― George Bernard Shaw

“If you remove the English Army tomorrow and hoist the green flag over Dublin Castle., unless you set about the organization of the Socialist Republic your efforts will be in vain. England will still rule you. She would rule you through her capitalists, through her landlords, through her financiers, through the whole array of commercial and individualist institutions she has planted in this country and watered with the tears of our mothers and the blood of our martyrs.”
― James Connolly

“Oft begehen Menschen Fehler, tun Dinge, die sie bereuen, oder schlechte Dinge, weil sie etwas Gutes damit bezwecken möchten. Das Leben ist komplizierter als Gut und Böse.”
― Ava Reed