Louis Lecoin - Quotes

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  • Si un bon révolutionnaire doit demeurer insensible à la souffrance qu'il voit ou devine, je suis un mauvais révolutionnaire car ce n'est pas moi qui souhaiterai jamais que les régimes abhorrés accumulent plus d'horreurs pour pouvoir rassembler plus d'arguments contre eux.
(If a good revolutionary ought to remain insensitive to the suffering which he sees or guesses, I am a bad revolutionary, for I will never be the one who hopes that abhorrent regimes will add to their horrors so that more arguments may be ranged against them.)
  • Je pense fermement qu'un homme peut et doit se refuser à en assassiner d'autres ... Je suis logique avec mes idées et reste d'accord avec mon cœur qui souffre au spectacle de ces laideurs et avec ma conscience qui s'indigne que des individus accumulent tant de misères.
(I firmly believe that a man can and must refuse to assassinate other men. My ideas are logical and accord with my heart, which suffers at the sight of this ugliness, and with the indignation of my conscience that individuals should pile on so many miseries).
  • Alors que tenter pour que la vie devienne moins sale s’il nous faut désespérer d’améliorer les hommes ? Que tenter pour que la paix coule de source sur notre terre desséchée par les guerres et les innombrables conneries de ses habitants?
Tout!
Pour la paix, c’est très simple : rendre les hommes pacifistes même malgré eux. Les empêcher d’entrer en guerre en supprimant auparavant leurs armées et leurs armements.
(So what should we try in order to make life less filthy, if we are compelled to give up on improving men? What should we try, so that peace springs up to water our earth dried out by war and the countless stupidities of its inhabitants? Everything! As for peace, it's very simple.. make men pacifists in spite of themselves. Prevent them from going to war by suppressing arms and armaments from the beginning.) Liberté, 1 February 1970
  • Holà! Les Grandes Gueules! Faites vous entendre. Il faut sauver Lecoin. Il faut sauver l'homme!
(Hey, big-mouths, listen up. We have to save Lecoin. We have to save the man!) - Henri Jeanson, Le Canard enchaîné, 13 June 1962

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