Book: Rebellious people

Lived hitherto daily compromises, the slave in a moment ("Because how else...") falls into intransigence - "All or nothing". Consciousness is born from him along with a bunt.

Since the oppressed are silent, people assume that he does not think and did not want.

A person cannot be considered completely guilty - in fact he began the story.

Shakespeare, denying shoemaker is the justification of tyranny. A shoemaker who deny Shakespeare, falls under the power of tyranny, if not contribute to its spread. All creativity is by its very existence, denies the world of master and slave.

The entire history of Russian terrorism can be reduced to the struggle of a handful of intellectuals against autocracy in the eyes of the silent people.

Mind, shackled as it loses in clarity, so wins in passion.

Absolute freedom becomes a prison of absolute duties.

Apparently, there are rebels willing to die, and there are others willing to kill.

The initial mental anguish risk, so be comfortable. Wound, irritate with such zeal, in the end can become a source of pleasure.

The suicide thinks he destroys everything and takes it away with him into oblivion, but his death affirms some value which may be worth it lived.

If we aspire to stand among the point of absurdity, without suspecting, however, that the absurd is a life transition, is the starting point, the existential equivalent of the methodical doubt of Descartes is Absurd in itself is a contradiction. It is contradictory in its content because, in an effort to sustain life, refusing from value judgments, but life as such is already a value judgment. To breathe means to judge.

Life for him was a "farce, which is played without exception". But that's what he shouts to his sister in the hour of death: "I'll rot in the ground, and you, you will live and enjoy the sun!"

Accepting or rejecting one inevitably accept or reject the other.

If you don't believe in anything, if anything do not see the point and can not say no value, everything is permitted and nothing matters. No pros, no cons, the murderer is neither to condemn nor to justify. What to burn people in gas ovens, what to devote his life to caring for lepers - no difference. Virtue and malice become a matter of chance or Caprice. And here we come to the decision not to act, and this means that you, at least, condone murder, which was committed by another. You can perhaps complain about the imperfection of human nature. And why not replace the action of tragic dilettantism? In this case, a human life is at stake. You can finally conceive the action not quite purposeless. And then, in the absence of Supreme values guiding action, it will be focused on the immediate outcome. If neither true nor false, neither good nor bad, the rule becomes the maximum efficiency of the operation, that is the power. And then we have to divide people not on the righteous and the wicked, but into masters and slaves. So, any way to watch the spirit of negation and nihilism, murder has given a place of honor.