Everybody calls everybody a spy, secretly, in Russia, and everybody is under surveillance. You never feel safe.
AGNES SMEDLEYI have no objection to a man being a man, however masculine that may be.
More Agnes Smedley Quotes
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Professors could silence me then; they had figures, diagrams, maps, books.
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More and more do I see that only a successful revolution in India can break England’s back forever and free Europe itself.
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I believe only in money, not in love or tenderness. Love and tenderness meant only pain and suffering and defeat.
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There’s something dreadfully decisive about a beheading.
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It was a technical Marxist subject and I did not understand it nor did I know what questions to ask.
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To die would have been beautiful. But I belong to those who do not die for the sake of beauty.
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I joined another circle and the leader gave us a little leaflet in very small print, asking us to read it carefully and then come prepared to ask questions.
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There were fifty-four women and forty little boys with the Red Army prisoners, and I went daily to take care of them also.
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The highest joy is to fight by the side of those who for any reason of their own making or ours, are unable to develop to full human stature.
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I would not let it ruin me as it ruined others! I would speak only with money, hard money.
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I have no objection to a man being a man, however masculine that may be.
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The subjects treated were technical Marxist theories.
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It is not a national question concerning India any longer; it is purely international.
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In the little hall leading to it was a rack holding various Socialist or radical newspapers, tracts, and pamphlets in very small print and on very bad paper.
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Always before I had felt like a person, an individual, hopeful that I could mold my life according to some desire of my own.
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