I was learning that books and diagrams can be evil things if they deaden the mind of man and make him blind or cynical before subjection of any kind.
AGNES SMEDLEYMuch that we read of Russia is imagination and desire only.
More Agnes Smedley Quotes
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No one yet knows what a man’s province is, and how far that province, as conceived of today, is artificial.
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Now, being a girl, I was ashamed of my body and my lack of strength. So I tried to be a man.
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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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Much that we read of Russia is imagination and desire only.
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I was ashamed of them and their ways of life. But now – yes, I love them; they are a part of my blood; they, with all their virtues and their faults, played a great part in forming my way of looking at life.
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Yet it is awful to love a person who is a torture to you. And a fascinating person who loves you and won’t hear of anything but your loving him and living right by his side through all eternity!
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There’s something dreadfully decisive about a beheading.
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I shot, rode, jumped, and took part in all the fights of the boys.
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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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It was a technical Marxist subject and I did not understand it nor did I know what questions to ask.
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But I see no reason why a woman should not grow and develop in all those outlets which are suited to her nature, it matters not at all what they may be.
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There are many men – such as those often to be found among the Indians – who are refined until they have qualities often attributed to the female sex. Yet they are men, and strong ones.
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She said little, especially when my father or the men who worked for him were about I remember her instinctive and unhesitating sympathy for the miners.
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The subjects treated were technical Marxist theories.
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Friendship is far more human.
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