Literature Quotes

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"Literature preserves the voice of the voiceless."
José de San Martín
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"Nothing is so irregular as taste in literature."
David Hume
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"The principles of true criticism are derived from our sentiments."
David Hume
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"Literature gives voice to those who have none."
Peter Kropotkin
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"Literature preserves the voices of generations."
Peter Kropotkin
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"The literature of freedom is written in the hearts of those who sacrifice for it."
José de San Martín
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"The literature of a people reflects the soul of that people."
Benito Juárez
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"The pen and the sword must work together: one to inspire, the other to protect."
Toussaint L'Ouverture
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"Literature captures the truths that politics tries to hide."
Emma Goldman
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"Literature preserves the truth power seeks to hide."
Michel Bakunin
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"Literature preserves the wisdom of generations and sparks new thought."
Peter Kropotkin
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"Literature speaks to the universal in every human heart."
Peter Kropotkin
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"The pen is mightier than the sword."
Simón Bolívar
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"The pen of the writer shapes the conscience of the nation."
Simón Bolívar
"Literature reflects the conditions of society."
Friedrich Engels
"Literature speaks to the human condition."
Friedrich Engels
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"Literature preserves the voices of those the powerful wish to silence."
Peter Kropotkin
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"Literature that fails to challenge injustice becomes an accomplice to it."
Peter Kropotkin
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"The writer must earn money in order to live and write, but he must not live and write in order to make money."
Karl Marx
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"The newspaper is the 'modern' book, the 'modern' poem; it is the expression of feelings and passions."
Antonio Gramsci
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"Language is the archive of the accumulated experience of humanity."
Antonio Gramsci
"Literature captures the consciousness of an age better than statistics can."
Friedrich Engels
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"Literature preserves the dreams of revolutionaries."
Michel Bakunin
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"Literature preserves dangerous thoughts."
Michel Bakunin
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"Literature is the voice of those who have no voice"
Emma Goldman
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"Language does not speak for us; we are responsible for what we say through it."
Michel Foucault
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"We are born into language; we do not create it, but we can transform it."
Michel Foucault
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"Words and things are not transparent; between them lies an abyss of interpretation."
Michel Foucault
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"Writing is an act of transformation; it changes both the writer and the reader."
Michel Foucault
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"Language is the condition of possibility for both thought and its concealment."
Michel Foucault