The urge for destruction is also a creative urge!

Mikhail Bakunin

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Destructive impulses Creative impulse Creativity

Author

Mikhail Bakunin

Source

Die Reaktionin Deutschland

Language

German

Time

1842 1840s 19th century

Occupation

Anarchist Revolutionary Socialist

From

Russia Europe

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Citation

Bakunin, Michael (published as Jules Elysard). "Die Reaktion in Deutschland." Jahrbuch für Wissenschaft und Kunst. c. 1842.

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In proportion as the antagonism between classes within the nation vanishes, the hostility of one nation to another will come to an end.

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Time
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Marx, Karl and Friedrich Engels. Manifest der Kommunistischen Partei [Manifesto of the Communist Party]. London, 1848, pt. 2.

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You see things; and you say "Why?" But I dream things that never were; and I say "Why not?"

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Time
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Citation

Shaw, George Bernard. "In the Beginning: B.C. 4004." Back to Methuselah. Penguin, 1988, pt. 1, act 1. Originally published by Constable/Brentano's, 1921.

Another quote originally in German

To be happy is to be able to become aware of oneself without fright.

Walter Benjamin

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One Way Street
Language
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Time
1979 1970s 20th century
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Original Citation

Benjamin, Walter. Einbahnstraße [One Way Street]. Ernst Rowohlt Verlag, 1928.

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Benjamin, Walter. One-Way Street, translated by Edmund Jephcott, edited by Michael W. Jennings. Belknap Press, 2016.