marx
Marx Communist Manifesto
The proletarians have nothing to lose but their chains. They have a world to win. Working men of all countries, Unite!
Immanuel Kant for Pianko 5 15
Kant What Is Enlightenment?
1. Enlightenment is man's emergence from his self-imposed immaturity. Immaturity is the inability to use one's understanding without guidance from another. This immaturity is self-imposed when its cause lies not in lack of understanding, but in lack of resolve and course to use it without buidance from another. Sapere Aude! Have courage to use your own understanding!" -- that is the motto of enlightenment.
Foucault
Foucault, What is Enlightenment?
I shall thus characterize the philosophical ethos appropriate to the critical ontology of ourselves as a historico-practical test of the limits that we may go beyond, and thus as work carried out by ourselves upon ourselves as free beings. p.47
Dostojewski
Dostoevsky, The Grand Inquisitor
Besides, Thou hast no right to add one syllable to that which was already uttered by Thee before.... Why shouldst Thou now return, to impede us in our work?
Frederick Douglass (circa 1879) (cropped)
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
But just as he was leaning over to get the stick, I seized him with both hands by the collar, and brought him by a sudden snatch to the ground.
trojanhorse
Homer the Illiad
"Let me not then die ingloriously and without a struggle, but let me first do some great thing that shall be told among men hereafter."
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Sophocles Oedipus Rex
"O god—it has all come true. Light, let me look on you for the last time!"
Antigone
Sophocles Antigone
"What law of the mighty gods have I transgressed? Why look to the heavens any more, tormented as I am? Whom to call, what allies? Devout as I am, they call me impious—and so for my piety, I am destroyed." — Translated by Robert Fagles
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Plato, Crito
Socrates: And that the good life, the beautiful life, and the just life are the same; does that still hold, or not? p.129