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Political literature3 quotes
The age of chivalry is gone. That of sophisters, economists, and calculators, has succeeded; and the glory of Europe is extinguished for ever. — Edmund Burke · 1790Leave this Europe where they are never done talking of Man, yet murder men everywhere they find them. — Frantz Fanon · 1961When I search for man in the technique and the style of Europe, I see only a succession of negations of man, and an avalanche of murders. — Frantz Fanon · 1961Anti-colonial literature2 quotes
Leave this Europe where they are never done talking of Man, yet murder men everywhere they find them. — Frantz Fanon · 1961When I search for man in the technique and the style of Europe, I see only a succession of negations of man, and an avalanche of murders. — Frantz Fanon · 1961Political speech1 quote
The Continent will not suffer England to be the workshop of the world. — Benjamin Disraeli · 1838