Top 7 Sakae Ōsugi Quotes

Japanese anarchist (1885–1923)

(大杉栄, January 17, 1885 – September 16, 1923) was a radical Japanese anarchist. He published numerous anarchist periodicals, helped translate western anarchist essays into Japanese for the first time, and created Japan's first Esperanto school in 1906. He, his lover, anarcha-feminist Itō Noe, and his nephew were murdered in what became known as the .

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Let freedom be for an idea,
Let freedom be for an action,
Still, let freedom be for a motive!

Arguments don't break chains.

Sloth has no ambition. Sloth makes no history.

The interaction of nothing with nothing—the relationship between nothing and nothing—will, ultimately, be nothing.

I must cease the casting of my own chains. I must cease the binding of my body. I must break the chains that bind me. I must also create a new self, a new reality, a new sense of justice, a new fate.

So struggle!
For struggle is life's flower;
The fertile flower of life.

With each loss, new buds of victory unfold in our hearts.

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