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"'What right have we to take a man's life?' asks Uspen-sky, one of Nechaiev's comrades.—'It is not a question of right, but of our duty to eliminate everything that may harm our cause.' When revolution is the sole value, there are, in fact, no more rights, there are only duties. But by an immediate inversion, every right is assumed in the name of duty."