« Car j’ai de chaque chose extrait la
quintessence, tu m’as donné ta boue, et
j’en ai fait de l’or. »
Baudelaire, Les Fleurs du
Mal
« Each man must for himself alone decide what is right and
what is wrong,
which course is patriotic and which isn't.
You cannot shirk this and be a man. »
Mark Twain
« If I had to choose between betraying my country and
betraying my friend, I hope I should have the guts to betray my
country.»
E.M. Forster
« The true focus of revolutionary change is never merely
the oppressive situations which we seek to escape,
but that piece of the oppressor which is
planted deep within each of us.
»