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Hunter S Thompson : I went to the Democratic Convention as a journalist, and returned a cold-blooded revolutionary.(referring to the 1968 convention in Chicago]]) # Journalism and Journalists # Revolutions and Revolutionaries # Arts and Artists

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Aleister Crowley : " The greatest horrors in the history of mankind are not due to the ambition of the Napoleons or the vengeance of the Agamemnons, but to the doctrinaire philosophers. The theories of the sentimentalist Rousseau inspired the integrity of the passionless Robespierre. The cold-blooded calculations of Karl Marx led to the judicial and business-like operations of the Cheka. " # Journalism and Journalists # Revolutions and Revolutionaries # Arts and Artists

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Clement Greenberg : " It belongs to journalism — and to the millennial complex from which so many journalists and journalist intellectuals suffer in our day — that each new phase of Modernist art should be hailed as the start of a whole new epoch in art, marking a decisive break with all the customs and conventions of the past. Each time, a kind of art is expected so unlike all previous kinds of art, and so free from norms of practice or taste, that everybody, regardless of how informed or uninformed he happens to be, can have his say about it. And each time, this expectation has been disappointed, as the phase of Modernist art in question finally takes its place in the intelligible continuity of taste and tradition. Nothing could be further from the authentic art of our time than the idea of a rupture of continuity. Art is — among other things — continuity, and unthinkable without it. Lacking the past of art, and the need and compulsion to maintain its standards of excellence, Modernist art would lack both substance and justification. " # Journalism and Journalists # Revolutions and Revolutionaries # Arts and Artists

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Alasdair Chalmers Macintyre : " A striking feature of moral and political argument in the modern world is the extent to which it is innovators, radicals, and revolutionaries who revive old doctrines, while their conservative and reactionary opponents are the inventors of new ones. " # Journalism and Journalists # Revolutions and Revolutionaries # Arts and Artists

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James F Cooper : " The American doctrinaire is the converse of the American demagogue, and, in this way, is scarcely less injurious to the public. The first deals in poetry, the last in cant. He is as much a visionary on one side, as the extreme theoretical democrat is a visionary on the other. " # Journalism and Journalists # Revolutions and Revolutionaries # Arts and Artists

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Sinclair Lewis : " Fortune has dealt with me rather too well. I have known little struggle, not much poverty, many generosities. Now and then I have, for my books or myself, been somewhat warmly denounced— there was one good pastor in California who upon reading my Elmer Gantry desired to lead a mob and lynch me, while another holy man in the state of Maine wondered if there was no respectable and righteous way of putting me in jail. And, much harder to endure than any raging condemnation, a certain number of old acquaintances among journalists, what in the galloping American slang we call the "I Knew Him When Club", have scribbled that since they know me personally, therefore I must be a rather low sort of fellow and certainly no writer. But if I have now and then received such cheering brickbats, still I, who have heaved a good many bricks myself, would be fatuous not to expect a fair number in return. " # Journalism and Journalists # Revolutions and Revolutionaries # Arts and Artists

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Abbie Hoffman : " I was probably the only revolutionary referred to as cute. " # Journalism and Journalists # Revolutions and Revolutionaries # Arts and Artists

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Walter Lippmann : " What we call a democratic society might be defined for certain purposes as one in which the majority is always prepared to put down a revolutionary minority. " # Journalism and Journalists # Revolutions and Revolutionaries # Arts and Artists

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Käthe Kollwitz : " I have been through a revolution, and I am convinced that I am no revolutionist. My childhood dreams of dying on the barricades will hardly be fulfilled, because I should hardly mount a barricade now that I know what they were like in reality. And so I know now what an illusion I lived in for so many years. I thought I was a revolutionary and was only an evolutionary. Yes, sometimes I do not know whether I am a socialist at all, whether I am not rather a democrat instead. How good it is when reality tests you to the guts and pins you relentlessly to the very position you always thought, so long as you clung to your illusion, was unspeakably wrong. " # Journalism and Journalists # Revolutions and Revolutionaries # Arts and Artists

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Kenneth Rexroth : " People who believe in libertarian communism can be grouped roughly under three general theories, each with its old masters, theoreticians, leaders, organizations, and literature. First there are the anarchists in a rather limited variety: communist-anarchists, mutualists, anarcho-syndicalists, individual anarchists, and a few minor groups and combinations. Second, the members of intentional communities, usually but by no means always religious in inspiration. The words “communalism” and “communalist” seem to have died out and it would be good to appropriate them to this group, although the by now too confusing word “communist” actually fits them best of all. Third, there are the Left Marxists, who prior to 1918 had become a widespread movement challenging the Social Democratic Second International. It was to them the Bolsheviks appealed for support in the early days of their revolution. Lenin’s The State and Revolution is an authoritarian parody of their ideas. They in turn have called it “the greatest pre-election pamphlet ever written: ‘Elect us and we will wither away’.” Against them Lenin wrote Leftism: An Infantile Disorder. There is a story that, when the Communist International was formed, a delegate objected to the name. Referring to all these groups he said: “But there are already communists.” Lenin answered: “Nobody ever heard of them, and when we get through with them nobody ever will.” Today these ideas are more influential than they ever have been. " # Journalism and Journalists # Revolutions and Revolutionaries # Arts and Artists

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İsmail Enver : " The Armenians had a fair warning of what would happen to them in case they joined our enemies. Three months ago I sent for the Armenian Patriarch and I told him that if the Armenians attempted to start a revolution or to assist the Russians, I would be unable to prevent mischief from happening to them. My warning produced no effect and the Armenians started a revolution and helped the Russians. You know what happened at Van. They obtained control of the city, used bombs against government buildings, and killed a large number of Moslems. We knew that they were planning uprisings in other places. You must understand that we are now fighting for our lives at the Dardanelles and that we are sacrificing thousands of men. While we are engaged in such a struggle as this, we cannot permit people in our own country to attack us in the back. We have got to prevent this no matter what means we have to resort to. It is absolutely true that I am not opposed to the Armenians as a people. I have the greatest admiration for their intelligence and industry, and I should like nothing better than to see them become a real part of our nation. But if they ally themselves with our enemies, as they did in the Van district, they will have to be destroyed. I have taken pains to see that no injustice is done; only recently I gave orders to have three Armenians who had been deported returned to their homes, when I found that they were innocent. Russia, France, Great Britain, and America are doing the Armenians no kindness by sympathizing with and encouraging them. I know what such encouragement means to a people who are inclined to revolution. When our Union and Progress Party attacked Abdul Hamid, we received all our moral encouragement from the outside world. This encouragement was of great help to us and had much to do with our success. It might similarly now help the Armenians and their revolutionary programme. I am sure that if these outside countries did not encourage them, they would give up all their efforts to oppose the present government and become law-abiding citizens. We now have this country in our absolute control and we can easily revenge ourselves on any revolutionists. " # Journalism and Journalists # Revolutions and Revolutionaries # Arts and Artists

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Hunter S Thompson: " When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro." # Football

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Hunter S Thompson: " I wouldn't recommend sex, drugs or insanity for everyone, but they've always worked for me." # Advice # Drugs # Sex

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Hunter S Thompson: " I have a theory that the truth is never told during the nine-to-five hours." # Truth # Theory # Time and Time Management

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Hunter S Thompson: " Gonzo journalism is a style of reporting based on William Faulkner's idea that the best fiction is far more true than any kind of journalism -- and the best journalists have always known this. True gonzo reporting needs the talents of a master journalist, the eye of an artist/photographer and the heavy balls of an actor. Because the writer must be a participant in the scene, while he's writing it -- or at least taping it, or even sketching it. Or all three. Probably the closest analogy to the ideal would be a film director/producer who writes his own scripts, does his own camera work and somehow manages to film himself in action, as the protagonist or at least a main character." # Journalism and Journalists # Cinema # Writers and Writing

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Hunter S Thompson: " I was also drunk, crazy and heavily armed at all times. People trembled and cursed when I came into a public room and started screaming in German." # Alcohol and Alcoholism # Love # Language

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Hunter S Thompson: " In a nation ruled by swine, all pigs are upward mobile." # Animals # Politicians and Politics # America

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Hunter S Thompson: " Paranoia is just another word for ignorance." # Twentieth Century # Words # Ignorance

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Hunter S Thompson: " Some may never live, but the crazy never die." # Death and Dying # Life and Living # Love

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Hunter S Thompson: " He who is always his own counselor will often have a fool for his client." # Fools and Foolishness

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Hunter S Thompson: " I feel the same way about disco as I do about herpes." # Love

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