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Tyrannies, when they are strong, and democracies, when they are weak, can not tolerate criticism.

— Joxe Azurmendi

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The price of freedom is to decide moral and political issues.

The philosopher is not someone who has thought instead of us but rather someone who makes us think.

Oraingo gazte eroak (1998)

The Basques are Argonauts with very fragile ships.

Interview in Hegats 45 (2010)

Is not true that, in this world, before being paper citizens we are our mother's sons in the flesh. What is a human being in reality? To start from the beginning: What are peoples, cultures and what are then custom-houses, parliaments and states? Everybody carries a nursery rhyme in the soul, but nobody carries a passport or a custom-house in the soul.

Demokratak eta biolentoak (1997)

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The oppressed are allowed once every few years to decide which particular representatives of the oppressing class shall represent and repress them in parliament!

Vladimir Lenin The State and Revolution (1917)

The law itself is the instrument of the ruling class; hence it is a logical impossibility for another class to assume power legally.

Oliver Cox Caste, Class, and Race: A Study in Social Dynamics (1948)

The whole dream of democracy is to raise the proletarian to the level of bourgeois stupidity.

Gustave Flaubert

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