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Louise Michel
10 quotes
“how I loved her. How grateful I am to her for the freedom she allowed me to act as my conscience dictated, and how much I would have liked to spare her the bad days she so often had.”
Louise Michel (1830–1905) said by 1905 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“He had brought a volume of Baudelaire which we read a few pages of when we had the time.”
Louise Michel (1830–1905) said by 1905 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“One of the future revenges for the murder of Paris will be that of revealing the customary infamous betrayals of military reaction.”
Louise Michel (1830–1905) said by 1905 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“We are Anarchists because it is absolutely impossible to obtain justice for all in any other way than by destroying institutions founded on force and privilege. We cannot believe that improvement is possible, if we still keep up the same institutions, now more rotten than in the past, or if we merely replace those whose iniquities are known by new men.”
Louise Michel (1830–1905) said by 1905 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“In what would you that we should help those who govern—their work being only exploitation and wholesale murder—it has never been otherwise: the reason for the existence of a state is nothing but the accomplishment of some crime or other in order to assure the domination of a privileged class.”
Louise Michel (1830–1905) said by 1905 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The land which belongs to all can no more be divided than the light which also belongs to all.”
Louise Michel (1830–1905) said by 1905 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The ideal alone is the truth — it is the measure of our horizon. Time was when the ideal was to live without eating an other up. Is it not so still under another form which exists in the so-called civilized countries where the exploiter eats up the exploited? Do not the people in nocks fertilize the soil by their sweat and blood?”
Louise Michel (1830–1905) said by 1905 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“That is what we want to destroy — this annihilation — this eating of man by an other man.”
Louise Michel (1830–1905) said by 1905 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“is it not time that our limited tongues should fall into the ocean of speech and of human thought? What will be the language of mankind delivered to the new Aurora — Anarchy!”
Louise Michel (1830–1905) said by 1905 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I am told that I am an accomplice of the Commune. Certainly, yes, since the Commune wanted more than anything else the social revolution, and since the social revolution is the dearest of my desires. More than that, I have the honour of being one of the instigators of the Commune, which by the way had nothing–nothing, as is well known–to do with murders and arson. I who was present at all the sittings at the Town Hall, I declare that there was never any question of murder or arson...Do you want to know who are really guilty? It is the politicians. And perhaps later light will be brought on to all these events which today it is found quite natural to blame on all partisans of the social revolution…Since it seems that any heart which beats for freedom has the right only to a lump of lead, I too claim my share.”
Louise Michel (1830–1905) first seen 1871 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: In Defence of the Commune" (1871)