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