“The glory of saving a country doesn't mean having to use the measures that contributed to its ruin!”
― El Filibusterismo
― El Filibusterismo
“Yes, nitroglycerin,” Simoun repeated slowly, with a frigid smile, staring at the glass flask with delight. “It’s more than nitroglycerin, however. It’s a concentration of tears, compressed, hatred, injustices, offenses. This is the supreme arbiter of weakness, force against force, violence against violence . . . a moment ago I was hesitating, but then you arrived and convinced me. Tonight those most dangerous of tyrants who have hidden behind God and the state, whose abuses remain unpunished because no one can take them to task. Tonight, the Philippines will hear an explosion that will convert into rubble the infamous monument whose rottenness I helped bring about.”
― El Filibusterismo
― El Filibusterismo
“On this battlefield man has no better weapon than his intelligence, no other force but his heart.”
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