
“We follow ideas and not men, and rebel against this habit of embodying a principle in a man.”
Speech to International Anarchist Congress (1907)
Source: God Emperor of Dune
“We follow ideas and not men, and rebel against this habit of embodying a principle in a man.”
Speech to International Anarchist Congress (1907)
“Kings will be tyrants from policy, when subjects are rebels from principle.”
Volume iii, p. 334
Source: Reflections on the Revolution in France (1790)
"The Beauty of a Broken Spirit—Atheism", The Way of the Master season 1 episode 7, 2003-05-12
Quoted allegedly "From da Vinci`s Notes" in Jon Wynne-Tyson: The Extended Circle. A Dictionary of Humane Thought. Centaur Press 1985, p. 65 books.google http://books.google.de/books?id=1mMbAQAAIAAJ&q=murder.
Actually the quote is not authentic but made up from a novel by Dmitri Merejkowski (w:Dmitry Merezhkovsky) entitled "The Romance of Leonardo da Vinci" (La Résurrecton de Dieux 1901), translated from Russian into English by Herbert Trench. G.P. Putnam's Sons New York and London, The Knickerbocker Press. There, in Book (i.e. chapter) VI, entitled The Diary of Giovanni Boltraffio, one finds the following:
The master [Leonardo da Vinci] permits harm to no living creatures, not even to plants. Zoroastro http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tommaso_Masini tells me that from an early age he has abjured meat, and says that the time shall come when all men such as he will be content with a vegetable diet, and will think on the murder of animals as now they think on the murder of men ( p. 226 books.google http://books.google.de/books?id=g_pa0OaYX64C&pg=PA226).
However, despite the quote's false attribution, da Vinci was in fact a vegetarian.
Misattributed
Rebel Rebel
Song lyrics, Diamond Dogs (1974)