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Ōsugi Sakae Quotes

1885–1923 Japan

Ōsugi Sakae (大杉栄, January 17, 1885 – September 16, 1923) was a radical Japanese anarchist. He published numerous anarchist periodicals, helped translate western anarchist essays into Japanese for the first time, and created Japan's first Esperanto school in 1906.

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With each loss, new buds of victory unfold in our hearts.

Let freedom be for an idea,
Let freedom be for an action,
Still, let freedom be for a motive!

The interaction of nothing with nothing—the relationship between nothing and nothing—will, ultimately, be nothing.

Sloth has no ambition. Sloth makes no history.

So struggle!
For struggle is life's flower;
The fertile flower of life.

I must cease the casting of my own chains. I must cease the binding of my body. I must break the chains that bind me. I must also create a new self, a new reality, a new sense of justice, a new fate.

Arguments don't break chains.

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Ōsugi Sakae (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.