When great changes occur in history, when great principles are involved, as a rule the majority are wrong. The minority are usually right.

—Eugene V. Debs

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About Eugene V. Debs

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Eugene Victor Debs (November 5, 1855 – October 20, 1926) was an American socialist, political activist, trade unionist, one of the founding members of the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW), and five times the candidate of the Socialist Party of America for President of the United States. Through his...

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Getting a living under capitalism . . . is so precarious, so uncertain, fraught with such pain and struggle that the wonder is not that so many people become vicious and criminal, but that so many remain in docile submission to such a tyrannous and debasing condition.

—Eugene V. Debs

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Years ago I recognized my kinship with all living things, and I made up my mind that I was not one bit better than the meanest on the earth. I said then, and I say now, that while there is a lower class, I am in it; while there is a criminal element, I am of it; while there is a soul in prison, I am not free.

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The principles of true art is not to portray, but to evoke.

—Jerzy Kosiński

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I like persons better than principles, and I like persons with no principles better than anything else in the world.

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Those are my principles, and if you don't like them... well, I have others.

—Groucho Marx

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In my experience, there is only one motivation, and that is desire. No reasons or principles contain it or stand against it.

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Nature has no principles. She makes no distinction between good and evil.

—Anatole France

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