Peter, you're twelve years old. I'm ten. They have a word for people our age. They call us children and they treat us like mice.

The Bible illustrated by Dore occupied many of my hours - and I think probably gave me many nightmares.

The first act of honoring the self is the assertion of consciousness: the choice to think, to be aware, to send the searchlight of consciousness outward toward the world and inward toward our own being. To default on this effort is to default on the self at the most basic level.

To judge from all Communist papers, magazines and brochures, and from all public assemblies, one might even surmise that a revolt of the poor peasants in Western Europe might break out at any moment!

What does it mean with regard to tactics, this fact that the proletariat of Western Europe stands all alone: that it has no prospect of any help whatsoever from any other class?

Herman Gorter

Quotes by Herman Gorter

Written By Herman Gorter

Written By Herman Gorter

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