There are some potentates I would kill by any and all means at my disposal. They are ignorance, superstition, and bigotry -- the most sinister and tyrannical rulers on earth. -- Emma Goldmanhttps://todon.eu/tags/anarchism
A dictatorial committee composed of workers is certainly the thing one could find most inflated with self-importance and nullity and, consequently, the most anti-revolutionary. -- Joseph Dejacquehttps://todon.eu/tags/anarchism
Whoever will be free must make himself free. Freedom is no fairy gift to fall into a man's lap. -- Max Stirnerhttps://todon.eu/tags/anarchism
The wise man notes that reforms change the names of things and not the things themselves. The slave became a serf, and then a salaried worker: nothing has been reformed but language. The wise man remains indifferent to these questions of philology. -- Han Rynerhttps://todon.eu/tags/anarchism
What would have happened if one had really managed to enter the base and destroy it? I don't know. Probably nothing, possibly everything. -- Alfredo Bonannohttps://todon.eu/tags/anarchism
Power is cursed, that is why I am an anarchist. -- Louise Michelhttps://todon.eu/tags/anarchism
In certain intellectual circles in France, the very basis for discussion -- minimal respect for facts and logic -- has been virtually abandoned. -- Noam Chomskyhttps://todon.eu/tags/anarchism
But though egoism or altruism, separately, each pushed to its extreme, is pernicious to the individual and society, united they are resolved into a third term, which is the law of future societies. This law is solidarity. -- Jean Gravehttps://todon.eu/tags/anarchism
Humanity can not be made equal by declarations on paper. Unless the material conditions for equality exist, it is worse than mockery to pronounce men equal. -- Voltairine de Cleyrehttps://todon.eu/tags/anarchism
I am an individualist because I am an anarchist; and I am an anarchist because I am a nihilist. -- Renzo Novatorehttps://todon.eu/tags/anarchism
The future social revolution must take into account the circumstance that the industry and agriculture inherited by it from capitalism would not be uniform in the degrees of development of their various branches. -- Gregori Maximoffhttps://todon.eu/tags/anarchism
All laws are wicked, all judgments are unfair, all judges are wrong, all prisoners are innocent. -- Albert Libertadhttps://todon.eu/tags/anarchism
Every daring attempt to make a great change in existing conditions, every lofty vision of new possibilities for the human race, has been labelled utopian. -- Emma Goldmanhttps://todon.eu/tags/anarchism
In France, Portugal, the United States and the South American republics, the trade union organizations were apolitical; how many of them collaborated in the war? France is the only one where such a reproach is warranted. -- Angel Pestanahttps://todon.eu/tags/anarchism
As a credo, individualist anarchism remained largely a bohemian lifestyle, most conspicuous in its demands for sexual freedom ("free love") and enamored of innovations in art, behavior, and clothing. -- Murray Bookchinhttps://todon.eu/tags/anarchism
Monopoly and privilege must be destroyed, opportunity afforded, and competition encouraged. This is liberty's work, and "Down with Authority" her war-cry. -- Benjamin Tuckerhttps://todon.eu/tags/anarchism
Non-violent resistance activities cannot succeed against an enemy that is able freely to use violence. -- Noam Chomskyhttps://todon.eu/tags/anarchism
I would rather, much rather, be illegitimate according to the statutes of men, than illegitimate according to the unchanging law of nature. -- Voltairine de Cleyrehttps://todon.eu/tags/anarchism
Anarchism is based on an essentially optimistic conception of human nature: if individuals have a natural tendency to get on well together then there is no need for the existence of a state to arbitrate between them. -- Saul Newmanhttps://todon.eu/tags/anarchism
In America, the president reigns for four years, and journalism governs for ever and ever. -- Oscar Wildehttps://todon.eu/tags/anarchism
Never ever separate thought from action, the things we know, the things we understand, from the things we do, the things with which we carry out our actions. -- Alfredo Bonannohttps://todon.eu/tags/anarchism
I desire neither to rule nor to be ruled. -- Otaneshttps://todon.eu/tags/anarchism
In the name of Purity what lies are told! What queer morality it has engendered. For fear of it you dare not tell your own children the truth about their birth; the most sacred of all functions, the creation of a human being, is a subject for the most miserable falsehood. -- Voltairine de Cleyrehttps://todon.eu/tags/anarchism
Not all those who are considered anarchists are pure anarchists. Tolstoy and Kropotkin have to be thrown out, having very little anarchy in their systems. They are anarchists only in the political sphere, and in all other relations between people they remain ardent communists. -- Lev Chernyihttps://todon.eu/tags/anarchism
The love of liberty and the sense of human dignity are the basic elements of the anarchist creed. -- Frederica Montsenyhttps://todon.eu/tags/anarchism
The art we look at is made by only a select few. A small group create, promote, purchase, exhibit and decide the success of art. Only a few hundred people in the world have any real say. When you go to an art gallery you are simply a tourist looking at the trophy cabinet of a few millionaires. -- Banksyhttps://todon.eu/tags/anarchism
An anarchist society, far from being a remote ideal, has become a precondition for the practice of ecological principles. -- Murray Bookchinhttps://todon.eu/tags/anarchism
Power never takes a back step -- only in the face of more power. -- Malcolm Xhttps://todon.eu/tags/anarchism
Many people know that it is difficult to define socialism, due to the great heterogeneity of schools and systems. But common to all schools is the desire to improve the conditions of all men and to remove all obstacles that prevent this improvement and everything that facilitates the exploitation of man by man. -- Mario Ferreira dos Santoshttps://todon.eu/tags/anarchism
I passionately love humanity, and have dedicated my best efforts to the fight for the oppressed. All tyrants disgust me -- and all those who put up with them, adulate them, support them. After having brought them down will I make myself a tyrant in their place? I would be disgusted with myself. -- Andre Lorulothttps://todon.eu/tags/anarchism
The politicians are put there to give you the idea that you have freedom of choice. You don't. You have no choice. You have owners. They own you. -- George Carlinhttps://todon.eu/tags/anarchism
If there be in nature such a principle as justice, it is necessarily the only political principle there ever was, or ever will be. -- Lysander Spoonerhttps://todon.eu/tags/anarchism
An anarchist society, far from being a remote ideal, has become a precondition for the practice of ecological principles. -- Murray Bookchinhttps://todon.eu/tags/anarchism
The fact that modern wars are fewer in number can hardly be considered a praiseworthy contribution to peace if we take into account the misery they spread from one end of the world to the other. -- Leopold Kohrhttps://todon.eu/tags/anarchism
I am a fanatic lover of liberty, considering it as the unique condition under which intelligence, dignity and human happiness can develop and grow. -- Mikhail Bakuninhttps://todon.eu/tags/anarchism
As early as World War I, American historians offered themselves to President Woodrow Wilson to carry out a task they called "historical engineering," by which they meant designing the facts of history so that they would serve state police. -- Noam Chomskyhttps://todon.eu/tags/anarchism
Above all, what socialist, without flushing with shame, maintains he is not a revolutionary? We say: none! -- Johann Mosthttps://todon.eu/tags/anarchism
The reaction always begins where one tries to bring life to a certain norm. That is why yesterday's revolutionaries so often become today's reactionaries. -- Rudolf Rockerhttps://todon.eu/tags/anarchism
I have as much authority as the Pope, I just don't have as many people who believe it. -- George Carlinhttps://todon.eu/tags/anarchism
An armed citizenry is the first defense, the best defense, and the final defense against tyranny. -- Edward Abbeyhttps://todon.eu/tags/anarchism
This brings us to anarchism, which may be described as the doctrine that all the affairs of men should be managed by individuals or voluntary associations, and that the state should be abolished. -- Benjamin Tuckerhttps://todon.eu/tags/anarchism
I have not shot Umberto. I have killed a king, I have killed a principle. -- Gaetano Brescihttps://todon.eu/tags/anarchism
Anarchism is not mysticism; it is not a discourse on beauty; it is not a cry of despair. -- Peter Arshinovhttps://todon.eu/tags/anarchism
The wise man knows that the words "The happiness of the people," have no meaning. Happiness is internal and individual. It can only be produced within oneself. -- Han Rynerhttps://todon.eu/tags/anarchism
A philosopher is dead when he is no longer read. Some, then, know the strange fortune of death while still alive. -- Michel Onfrayhttps://todon.eu/tags/anarchism
Advocates of capitalism are very apt to appeal to the sacred principles of liberty, which are embodied in one maxim: The fortunate must not be restrained in the exercise of tyranny over the unfortunate. -- Bertrand Russellhttps://todon.eu/tags/anarchism
Nothing wrong with communist anarchism as long as it remains voluntary. Any one that wants to go make a commune, go ahead, do it. I got nothing against it. As long as there's room to the individualist to do his or her own thing. -- Robert Anton Wilsonhttps://todon.eu/tags/anarchism
For us, everything that seeks to destroy economic and political oppression, all that which serves to raise the moral and intellectual level of human beings, to give them the consciousness of their rights and of their forces and to persuade them to do their business by themselves, all that provokes hatred against oppression and love between people, brings us closer to our aim. -- Errico Malatestahttps://todon.eu/tags/anarchism
There is only one class in the community that thinks more about money than the rich, and that is the poor. -- Oscar Wildehttps://todon.eu/tags/anarchism
Time is on the side of the oppressed today, it's against the oppressor. Truth is on the side of the oppressed today, it's against the oppressor. You don't need anything else. -- Malcolm Xhttps://todon.eu/tags/anarchism
Proletarians of the world, look into the depths of your own beings, seek out the truth and realise it yourselves: you will find it nowhere else. -- Peter Arshinovhttps://todon.eu/tags/anarchism
The most that a working-class party could do, even if its politicians remained honest, would be to form a strong faction in the legislatures which might, by combining its vote with one side or another, win certain political or economic palliatives. -- Voltairine de Cleyrehttps://todon.eu/tags/anarchism
Maybe I am crazy. But my madness is the most terrible rationality. I see further, I feel life more vividly. -- Bruno Filippihttps://todon.eu/tags/anarchism
But though egoism or altruism, separately, each pushed to its extreme, is pernicious to the individual and society, united they are resolved into a third term, which is the law of future societies. This law is solidarity. -- Jean Gravehttps://todon.eu/tags/anarchism
Liberate yourself as far as you can, and you have done your part; for it is not given to every one to break through all limits, or, more expressively: not to every one is that a limit which is a limit for the rest... he who overturns one of his limits may have shown others the way and the means. -- Max Stirnerhttps://todon.eu/tags/anarchism
If there is no struggle, there is no progress. Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground. -- Frederick Douglasshttps://todon.eu/tags/anarchism
There is, therefore, no solution possible other than an economy directed by the workers through their organizations of control -- through the workers' syndicates. -- Frederica Montsenyhttps://todon.eu/tags/anarchism