"The poor peasant here hives under conditions quite……" — Herman Gorter
"The poor peasant here hives under conditions quite different from those of Russia. Though often terrible, they are not as appalling as they were there."
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Herman Gorter
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17 Quotes by Herman Gorter
Herman Gorter has 17 quotes on this site.
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You should not do this, Comrade. We are only in the introductory stage yet, here in Western Europe. And in…
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What does it mean with regard to tactics, this fact that the proletariat of Western Europe stands all alone: that…
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But the question is to find and rear leaders that are really one with the masses. This can only be…
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There is an enormous difference between Russia and Western Europe.
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And it is practically the same in the case of the four or five million poor peasants in France, and…
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As farmers or owners, the poor peasants possess a piece of land. The excellent means of transport enables them often…
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Moreover, in Russia there was an enormous amount of landed property to be divided, large estates, crown lands, government land,…
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To judge from all Communist papers, magazines and brochures, and from all public assemblies, one might even surmise that a…
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The revolution came so suddenly, and in a way so utterly different from what we expected.
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For the Russian masses, the proletarians, knew for certain, and already saw during the war, and in part before their…
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Many a trace, and many a germ of this infantile disease, to which without a doubt, I also am a…
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This is the absolute truth: and on this truth our tactics must be based. All tactics that are not based…
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More Appalling Quotes
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You have to steer a course between not appalling people, but at the same time not misleading them.
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The writer's greed is appalling. He wants, or seems to want, everything and practically everybody, in another sense, and at…
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My school reports always used to point out that my concentration levels were appalling. I never listened in class because…
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The appalling thing about war is that it kills all love of truth.
— Georg Brandes
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Someone must show that the Afro-American race is more sinned against than sinning, and it seems to have fallen to…
— William Wells Brown
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Anti-Semitism hits me on the head: I am enraged, I am bled white by an appalling battle, I am deprived…
— Frantz Fanon
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On the golf course, a man may be the dogged victim of inexorable fate, be struck down by an appalling…
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In no other profession are the penalties for employing untrained personnel so appalling or so irrevocable as in the military.
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Cheats, liars and criminals may resist every blandishment while respectable gentlemen have been moved to appalling treasons by watery cabbage…
— John le Carre
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One might be led to question whether the scientists acted wisely in presenting the statesmen of the world with this…
— Enrico Fermi
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The mindless rejoicing at home is really appalling; it makes me fear that the first blow against Tokyo will make…
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