Super Event epigraphs
Therefore the red flood arose, and sprang down unto our door; therefore it will rise and spread further and further, drowning everything along the way.
— Ignas Šeinius (accompanies A Sea Of Blood)
Here lies half of Spain. It died of the other half.
— Mariano Jose de Larra (accompanies The Spanish Civil War)
Sit Romana potens Itala virtue propago. (May the Roman power be the progeny of Italian virtue)
— Virgil (accompanies Italy thrashing the League)
The Romans never allowed a trouble spot to remain simply to avoid going to war over it, because they knew wars don't just go away; they are only postponed to another's advantage.
— Niccolò Machiavelli (accompanies Balbo's Italy conquering Europe)
Liberty is a slow fruit. It is never cheap; it is made difficult because freedom is the accomplishment and perfectness of man.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson (accompanies Nitti's Italy succeeding in the Wars of Liberation)
The spirit of the Japanese nation is, by its nature, a thing that must be propagated over the seven seas an extended over the five continents. Anything that may hind its progress must be abolished, even by force.
— Sadao Araki (accompanies Japanese victory in the war against the Beiyang government)
The Spectacle of Brazil in arms enthuses even sceptics; there is strange beauty in this martial metamorphosis; A working people takes off the blouse and wears the uniform.
— Joao Neves da Fontoura (accompanies Brazilian Tragedy)
Nothing is more unpredictable than a mob, nothing more obscure than a public opinion, nothing more deceptive than the whole political system.
— Suetonius (accompanies American Collapse)
Russia is ruled directly by the Lord God. Otherwise, it is impossible to imagine how this state still exists.
— Johann Ernst Minich (accompanies Death of Russia)
If the sovereign is easily provoked and fond of resorting to arms, and neglects agricultral and miliraty training, but heedlessly ventures into warfare and invasion, then ruin is possible.
— Han Feizi (accompanies Japanese Civil War)
Russian/Ruthenian/Ukrainian Reunification epigraphs
Because we live in modern times, I want a liberty suited to modern times; and because we live under monarchies, I beg these monarchies not to borrow methods of oppression from the ancient republics.
— Benjamin Constant (accompanies Stolypinist Kolchak's reunification as the Russian Empire)
The Holy Russian cause is the extermination of the rebels. You know where they are and where to find them.
— Alexander Dubrovin (accompanies Black Hundredist Kolchak's reunification as Russian Empire)
I honour endurance, perseverance, industry, talent, because these are the means by which men achieve great ends and mount to lofty eminence.
— Charlotte Bronte (accompanies Drozdovsky's reunification as Russian Empire)
Keep silent, you illusionary constitutionalists and parliamentarians! Depart all who oppose God's will! It is not for you to rule the thrones of earthly kings.
— John of Kronstadt (accompanies Diterikhs' reunification as Russian Empire)
Neither a person nor a nation can exist without some higher idea. And there is only one idea on earth, and it is the idea of the immortality of the human soul, for all other 'higher' ideas of life by which humans might live derive from that idea alone.
— Fyodor Dostoevsky (accompanies Anastasia's reunification as Russian Empire)
I'll cheat them when I beat them.
— Jan Chodkiewizc (accompanies Uladzimir's reunification as Ruthenian Empire)
And I looked, and behold a pale horse: and his name that sat on him was Death, and Hell followed with him. And power was given unto them over the fourth part of the earth. And the power was given upon them over the fourth part of the earth, to kill with sword, and with hunger, and with death, and with the beasts of the earth.
— Revelation 6:8 (accompanies Savinkov's reunification as Union of Sovereign Republics)
When I die, then make my grave High on an ancient mound,
In my own beloved Ukraine,
In steppeland without bound.
In my own beloved Ukraine,
In steppeland without bound.
— Taras Shevchenko (accompanies Bandera's réunification as Great Ukrainian Revolutionary Commonwealth)
Russia is a Sphinx. Rejoicing, grieving,
and drenched in black blood,
It gazes, gazes, gazes at you,
with hatred and with love!
and drenched in black blood,
It gazes, gazes, gazes at you,
with hatred and with love!
— Pavel Gorgulov (accompanies Gorgulov's reunification as Great Scythia)
The revolutionary despises public opinion. He despises and hates the existing social morality in all its manifestations. For him, morality is everything which contributes to the triumph of the revolution. Immoral and criminal is everything that stands in its way.
— Sergey Nechayev (accompanies Mayakovsky's reunification as the Republic of Labour and Virtue)
The soul of Russia is not a bourgeois soul, — it does not kneel before the golden calf, and for this alone one can love it endlessly.
— Nikolai Berdyaev (accompanies Mirsky's reunification as Socialist Republic of Eurasia)
Heretics are the only bitter remedy against the entropy of human thought.
— Yevgeny Zamyatin (accompanies Khlebnikov's reunification as Island of the Asian Soviet Socialist Union)
All that is solid melts into air, all that is holy is profaned.
— Karl Marx (accompanies Severyanin's reunification as Sublime Kingdom of Russia)
I believe in one thing only, the power of human will.
— Iosif Stalin (accompanies Stalin's reunification as United Socialist States of Russia)
Place me like a seal over your heart, like a seal on your arm; for love is as strong as death, its jealousy unyielding as the grave. It burns like blazing fire, like a mighty flame.
— Song of Solomon 8:6 (accompanies Rasputin's reunification as the Tsardom of Holy Rus)
I do not rule Russia: ten thousand clerks do.
— Nicholas II (accompanies Trubetskoy's reunification as Eurasia)
I, General Kornilov, son of a Cossack peasant, declare to one and all that I desire nothing for myself other than the salvation of our Great Russia.
— Lavr Kornilov (accompanies Kornilov's reunification as Russian Republic)
Greater love has no-one than this: to lay down one's life for one's friends.
— John 15:13 (accompanies Solidarists(Vlasov, Baydalakov, Alexander IV) reunification as The Russian People's Labour Republic, Russian Union State, and the Tsardom of Russia respectively)
You can take a man's gods, but only to give him others in return.
— Carl Jung (accompanies Barchenko's reunification as the Peoples Republic of Hyperborea)
No longer shall I sweat to teach/ what always lay beyond my reach;/ I'll know what makes the world revolve,/ Its mysteries resolve,/No more in empty words I'll deal-/ Creation's wellsprings I'll reveal!
—Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (accompanies Bokii's reunification as the United Soviet Commonwealth)
Arise O Prophet! Work My will,
Thou that hast now perceived and heard.
On land and sea thy charge fulfill
And burn Man's heart with this My Word.
Thou that hast now perceived and heard.
On land and sea thy charge fulfill
And burn Man's heart with this My Word.
—Aleksandr Pushkin (accompanies Gajda's reunification as the Slavic Republic of Russia/United States of the Slavs)
And men saw that beauty and love in all their forms are of the gods, and they became free and brave, and they grew wings.
— Mikhail Kuzmin (accompanies Milyukov's reunification as Russian Republic)
Do not let the hero in your soul perish in lonely frustration for the life you deserved and have never been able to reach. The world you desire can be won, it exists... it is real... it is possible... it's yours.
— Alisa Rosenbaum (accompanies Rozenbaum's reunification as Free Republic of Russia)
To punish the oppressors of humanity is clemency; to forgive them is cruelty.
— Maximilien Robespierre (accompanies Kerensky's reunification as Russian Republic)
With great sagacity it doth ascend gently from earth to heaven.
Again it doth descend to earth, and uniteth in itself the force
from things superior to and things inferior.
Thus thou wilt possess the glory of the brightness of the whole
world, and all obscurity will fly far from thee.
Again it doth descend to earth, and uniteth in itself the force
from things superior to and things inferior.
Thus thou wilt possess the glory of the brightness of the whole
world, and all obscurity will fly far from thee.
— Hermes Trismegistos (accompanies Gastev's reunification as One State)
Hope is born in their hearts, and let us remember that if exasperation often drives men to revolt, it is always hope, the hope of victory, which makes revolutions.
— Pyotr Kropotkin (accompanies Spiridonova's reunification as Russian Republic of Labour)
There is no way back for our revolution.
— Lev Kamenev (accompanies Kamenev's reunification as the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic)
People look for a path in the heavens for the simple reason that they have lost their way on earth.
— Georgi Plekhanov (accompanies Dan/Avksentiev's reunification as Russian Republic)
Ideas result from deeds, and not the later from the former, and the people will not be free when they are educated, but educated when they are free.
— Carlo Pisacane (accompanies Chapayev's reunification as Free Sonarodstvo(Peoples Commonwealth) of Russia)
Have these gentlemen ever seen a revolution? A revolution is certainly the most authoritarian thing there is!
— Friedrich Engels (accompanies Trotsky's reunification as the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic)
Is not the greatdness of this deed too great for us? Must we ourselves not become gods simply simply to appear worthy of it?
— Friedrich Nietzsche (accompanies Bogdanov's reunification as the United Labour Collective)
The divine right of government is the keystone of human progress, and without it governments sink into police, and a nation is degraded into a mob.
— Benjamin Disraeli (accompanies the Merkulov brother's reunification as the Russian National Republic)
As long as there are no myths accepted by the masses, one may go on talking of revolts indefinitely, without ever provoking any revolutionary movement.
— Georges Sorel (accompanies Rand/Gastev's reunification as the Free Russian Syndicates)
I wanted to revolutionize habits and contemporary life, to liberate nature, to free it from the authority of old theories and classicism... I felt a tremendous urge to recreate a new world seen through my own eyes, a world which was entirely mine. I was a tender barbarian, filled with violence.
— Maurice de Vlaminck (accompanies Yaroslavsky's reunification as the Free Creative Union)
For beauty is nothing but the beginning of terror, which we still are just able to endure, and we are so awed because it serenely disdains to annihilate us. Every angel is terrifying.
— Rainer Maria Rilke (accompanies Muravyev' reunification as the Cosmic Commonwealth of Order)
The vengeance of the people, their blood and tears,
Without rest I have borne as on.
The serpent is smitten, thunder its' skin sheers-
In victory the battle is one.
Without rest I have borne as on.
The serpent is smitten, thunder its' skin sheers-
In victory the battle is one.
— Ivan Kalyayev (accompanies Boldyrev's reunification as the Russian Republic)
Pain upon pain, suffering upon suffering, agony upon agony, wound upon wound in our bodies and in our souls, fall upon fall:in this way shall we conquer.
— Corneliu Zelea Codreanu (accompanies Rodzaevsky's reunification as the Russian Empire)
Indian Unification epigraphs
The rescue of India from the ages of barbarianism, tyranny and internecine war and its slow but ceaseless forward march to civilization constitute upon the whole the finest achievement of our history.
— Winston Churchill (accompanies Churchill's reunification as the British Raj and Erskine's unification as the Madras Presidency)
Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds.
— Bhagavad Gita (accompanies Portas' reunification as the Realm of the Avatar)
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There is no instance of a nation benefitting from prolonged warfare.
— Sun Tzu
Enough of these gods! Give me a man!
— Witold Gombrowicz
In the construction of a country, it is not the practical workers but the idealists and planners that are difficult to find. To understand is difficult; to act is easy.
— Song Jiaoren
Marxism comprises many principles, but in the final analysis they can all be brought back to a single sentence - it is right to rebel.
The hour of departure has arrived, and we go our ways - I to die, and you to live. Which is better, god only knows.
— Socrates
The existence is everything, and everything is for existence. Existence is the only truth.
— Yan Xishan
A revolution is for the living of people, not for the death of them.
— Zhou Shuren
Release them, as I am the communist, the commissar, and the Korean. I am who you want.
— Kim Song-Ju, to Japanese Kempeitai
Truth and mercy are no longer admissible. Henceforth there can only be truth and merciless hardness
My first wish is to see this plague of mankind, war, banished from the earth.
Democracy chronically does not tolerate superiority. Its ideal is the equality of a stupid idiot with an educated developed person.
— Alexander Kolchak
In peace, sons bury their father. In war, fathers bury their sons.
Fortifications, artillery, foreign aid - will be of no value, unless the ordinary soldier knows that it is HE guarding his country.
— Carl Gustav Emil Mannerheim
No rising star ever shone more bright than Oswald Mosley, none promised more surely to soar to the heavens - and none fell to earth with so deadening a thud.
— Henry Wickham Steed
An aristocracy in a republic is like a chicken whose head has been cut off; it may run around in a lively way, but in fact it is dead.
The old world is dying, and the new world struggles to be born; now is the time of monsters.
— Antonio Gramsci
Everything under heaven is in utter chaos. The situation is excellent.
You 'Order' is built upon sand. Tomorrow already the revolution will arise and declare: 'I was, I am and I will be.'
— Rosa Luxembourg
Bismarck once said that we germans only fear god. Today we have proven that we, in fact, fear nothing.
— Karl Liebknecht
If fighting for your own rights means, that you are a communist, then we are communists!
— Cyril Briggs
The war against Germany will be such that it cannot be conducted in a knightly fashion. This struggle is one of ideologies and will have to be conducted with unprecedented, unmerciful, and unrelenting harshness.
People have only as much liberty as they have the courage to want and the courage to take.
—Emma Goldman
Where they burn books, they will ultimately burn people.
— Heinrich Heine
The place of the intelligence to want worst barbarism is that modern forest that makes use of us, this forest of chimneys and the courage to take.bayonets, machines and weapons, of strange inanimate beasts that feed on human flesh.
— Emma Goldman
''It Amadeo Bordiga
From time immemorial the earth has orbited the sun, like a goat tethered to its' shepherd. It's time for us to instruct the earth to take another course!
— Alexander Svyatogor
They plunder, they slaughter, and they steal: this they call Empire. And where they make a wasteland, they call it peace.
— Calgacus
Since I am an immature and wicked man, war and unrest appeal to me more than good bourgeois order.
— Ernst Rohm
History has a long-range perspective. It ultimately passes stern judgement goes on tyrants and vindicates those who fought, suffered, were imprisoned, and died for human freedom, against political oppression and economic slavery.
— Elizabeth Gurley Flynn
When you're young and healthy you can recover quickly from a defeat. But betrayal is different - it paralyzes you.
— Anna Seghers
Today the people in their heads, are with the government; tomorrow the people shall be the government.
The case against the realistic attitude demands to be examined.
— Andre Breton
Russia can be neither proletarian, nor peasant, nor worker, nor boyar. Russia can only be the Russia of Christ, the Russia of all lands.
— Mikhail Diterikhs
Who wasn't a socialist in his youth, will be a bastard when he's old.
— Jozef Piłsudski
Art is not a mirror to hold up to society, but a hammer with which to shape it.
— Vladimir Mayakovsky
Art must not be concentrated in dead shrines called museums. It must be spread everywhere - on the streets, in the trams, factories, workshops, and in the workers' homes.
— Vladimir Mayakovsky
Nothing is more necessary or stronger in us than rebellion.
— Georges Bataille
Written poetry is worth reading once, and then should be destroyed. Let the dead poets make way for others.
— Antonin Artaud
I, myself, am an absolute abyss.
— Antonin Artaud
When you will have made him a body without organs, then you will have delivered him from Allis automatic reactions and restored him to his true freedom.
— Antonin Artaud
Keep you balance for as long as it's possible, and once you can't any longer, set the world on fire.
— Józef Piłsudski
A republic is a government of honest people, and proof of this has been seen throughout the ages. They last while virtuous, and fall when corrupt and full of vices.
— Giuseppe Garibaldi
The bravest act of all is to be responsible!
— Gustavo Barroso
The French Revolution is nothing but a precursor of another revolution, one that will be greater, more solemn, and which will be the last.
— Gracchus Babeuf
It seemed to me that the last human beings were dying in prisons and camps and would leave no heirs, while a horrible mutation of the species is taking place outside.
— Yarostan Vochek
Anarchism should remain a terrifying thing.
— Harry Jarv
There are still not enough psychotics.
— Antonin Artaud
The only possible solution which will preserve Germany's honor and Germany's interest is, we repeat, a war with Russia.
Man needs to detach himself from the earth, needs to dream, to desire eternal happiness, to continually forget everyday reality.
— Filia
The need to go astray, to be destroyed, is an extremely private, distant, passionate, turbulent truth.
— Georges Bataille
A kiss is the beginning of cannibalism.
— Georges Bataille
Simplest possible: beat thieves and whores!
— Józef Pilsudski, when asked about his political program.
If your civilization wants us to cringe, I'll show you the pride of savages!
— Mona Rudao
I want to have my throat slashed while violating the girl to whom I will have been able to say: you are the night!
— Georges Bataille
Blessed is the match consumed in kindling flame. Blessed is the flame that burns in the secret fastness of the heart. blessed is the heart with strength to stop its' beating for honour's sake.
— Hannah Szenes
We should at last be justified in not admitting the poet into a city that is going to be under good laws, because he awakens this part of the soul and nourishes it, and, by making it strong, destroys the calculating part.
— Plato
The place of the worst barbarism is that modern forest that makes use of us, this forest of chimneys and bayonets, machines and weapons, of strange inanimate beasts that feed on human flesh.
— Amadeo Bordiga
All writing is pig shit. People who leave the obscure and try to define whatever it is that goes on in their heads, are pigs.
— Antonin Artaud
Workers have no fatherland.
— Friedrich Engels
Barbarism is the natural state of mankind. Civilization is unnatural. It is the whim of circumstance. And barbarism must ultimately triumph.
— Robert E. Howard
I reject Christianity because it is Jewish, because it is international, and because, in cowardly fashion, it preaches peace on Earth.
— Erich Ludendorff
If man, as we know him, is incapable of the philosophy of progress, Mr Shaw asks, not for a new kind of philosophy but for a new kind of man.
We need a new morality, biologically founded. Nature can no longer tolerate what we have received from religious thinkers or delirious philosophers.
— Marc Augier
I am here a poet, that drinks of life as lesser men drink wine.
Man is the unnatural animal, the rebel child of nature, and more and more does he turn himself against the harsh and fitful hand that reared him.
The philosophers have one interpreted the world, in various ways. The point, however, is to change it.
Power is a companion it is not easy to part with, when it goes, the zest of life goes with it. With dry eyes and clenched fist, one stares after it, jealous of the next one it will single out.
— Marie of Romania
My principles are only those that, before the French Revolution, every well-born person considered sane and normal.
— Julius Evola
I don't want to be mediocre, this is the fear of the soul and the body.
— Mircea Eliade
Liquidate labor, liquidate stocks, liquidate the farmers, liquidate real estate. Purge the rottenness out of the system.
— Andrew Melon
When battle approaches, when war arises, the plans of the gods, beloved by the gods, are destroyed. You cause fire to devour the land.
— Sumerian Proverb
The natural world is a world of war; the natural man is a warrior; the natural law is tooth and claw. All else is error
— Arthur Desmond
I see anarchism in the new age...Humanity will finally achieve anarchism and there find the complete freedom and magnificence of the individual.
— Baha Tevfik
But sabotage is not revolution. If it were, then the AFL, the IWW, the Chicago Packers, and the US Senate would be counted among the revolutionists.
— Thorstein Veblen
This is the end and the beginning of an age. This is something far greater than The French Revolution and the Reformation and we live in it.
The axis of the history of mankind on the earth is not the struggle of spirit against matter, egoism against altruism, God against Satan, neither is the struggle of races or classes, but the struggle for dominion over man.
— Jan Stachniuk
Behind and above ourselves humanity is surrounded by darkness and a void. But this is not a cause for despair, but a call to creative bravery.
— Stanisław Brzozowski
God is not willing to do everything, and thus take away our free will and that share of glory that belongs to us.
When the doors of legality close, the doors of violence open.
— Nicolas De Pierola
National revolutions are not acts of violence, riots, but marching ideas. All true national revolutions were founded on buildings and not on collapses.
— Ion Antonescu
Everything was desired and everything was attempted. What was not done I dreamt, and such was the ardor that the dream equalled the deed.
— Gabrielle d'Annunzio
The moral man is necessarily narrow in that he knows no other enemy than the immoral man.
— Max Stirner
Even when nationalism speaks of "tradition" it has nothing to do with what used to go by that name in ancient civilizations; it is rather a myth or a fictions continuity based on a minimum common denominator in the mere belonging to a given group.
— Julius Evola
Tell me who we have not argued it, tell me who we have not made war with so we can amend that posthaste!
— Aleksandr Stambolyiski
Everyone is good at playing the hero in other people's skins.
— Curzio Malaparte
The practical man, the most practical man of all, is the poet; for it is he who asks the most from life, who expresses it in it's totality; it is he who gets things done.
— Ernest Psichari
Will you not give up, reading laws to us men girt with swords?
Writers are the engineers of human souls.
My motto is: walk expropriating and igniting, always leaving behind me howls of moral offenses and smoking trunks of old things.
— Renzo Novatore
There may be more beautiful times, but this one is ours.
Making itself intelligible is suicide for philosophy.
— Martin Heidegger
The old world, like a mangy dog no longer capable of any action whatever, lies basking in the sun and endlessly licks its' sores.
— Karl Radek
Make no sound, do not speak: eyes, heart, mind dreams are about to explore a forest... A secret but tangible forest.
— Jean-Joseph Rabearivelo
History shows that there are no invincible armies and that there never have been.
Brutality is respected, the people need wholesome fear. They want to fear someone. They want someone to frighten them and make them shudderingly submissive.
— Ernst Rohm
The fault lies not with the mob, who demand nonsense, but with those who do not know how to produce anything else.
The young are disappointed by the old; the old by the young. They all look at each other through the prism of deluded illusions.
— 'Constantin Rădulescu-Motru
The Lord hath cast off his altar, he hath cursed his sanctuary: he hath delivered the walls of the towers thereof into the hand of the enemy: they hath made a noise in the house of the Lord, as in the day of a solemn feast.
But here steps in Satan, the eternal rebel, the first freethinker and the emancipator of worlds. He makes man ashamed of his bestial ignorance and obedience; he emancipates him, stamps upon his brow the seal of liberty and humanity, in urging him to disobey and eat of the fruit of knowledge.
Alongside first nature, which was bestowed upon us, the outcome of blind, senseless spontaneity, we must labor to create a second nature, built in keeping with the projects of our intelligence.
— Valerian Murvayev
Philosophy is transcendental homelessness: it is the urge to be at home everywhere.
— Gyorgy Lukacs
Every normal man must be tempted, at times, to spit on his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin slitting throats.
But there are people who, between thinking and doing, grow grey hair.
— Romulo Gallegos
Thus, we say that art, properly understood, is a form of superhuman love that solves through harmony all conflicts, in a way that economic and sociological analyses cannot.
— Jose Vasconcelos
Neutrality is not politics.
— Eleftherios Venizelos
We need fighters, not voters. Only fighters ramen faithful to the end.
— Dimitrije Ljotic
There's no power over that head which is willing to be separated from its' shoulders in the name of freedom and the wells being of humanity.
— Hristo Botev
The Slavs need a new religion. They are given Marxism, but there is too much modernism and civilization in this theology.
— Mikhail Tukhachevsky
History is a debatable land governed by two hostile powers, Reason and Imagination.
— Thomas Babington Macauley
If today our 'fate' damns us to live against the world, why couldn't our 'fate' tomorrow choose us to dance freely over the earth?
— Renzo Novatore
The souls of emperors and cobblers are cast in the same mold... The same reason that makes us wrangle with a neighbor causes a war betwixt princes.
— Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
