Anarchy's roots go deep: its spouts from the bosom of a rotten society that is falling apart; it is a violent backlash against the established order; it stands for the aspirations to equality and liberty which have entered the lists against the current authoritarianism. -- Emile Henryhttps://todon.eu/tags/anarchism
When we have undermined the patriotic lie, we shall have cleared the path for the great structure where all shall be united into a universal brotherhood -- a truly free society. -- Emma Goldmanhttps://todon.eu/tags/anarchism
The individual is quite a world of federations, a whole universe in himself. -- Peter Kropotkinhttps://todon.eu/tags/anarchism
The law will never make men free; it is men who have got to make the law free. -- Henry David Thoreauhttps://todon.eu/tags/anarchism
Those who produce everything have nothing, and those who produce nothing have everything. Such a state of affairs can only produce antagonism between the laboring class and the owning, i.e., do-nothing, class. The fight breaks out and hatred delivers its blows. -- Marius Jacobhttps://todon.eu/tags/anarchism
The most improper job of any man is bossing other men. Not one in a million is fit for it, and least of all those who seek the opportunity. -- J. R. R. Tolkienhttps://todon.eu/tags/anarchism
When "voluntary association" is spoken of, voluntary adhesion to a plan, a project, a given action, this implies the possibility of refusing the association, adhesion or action. -- Emile Armandhttps://todon.eu/tags/anarchism
Man thought that the important thing was to have, and did not know that the important thing is to be. The true perfection of man lies, not in what man has, but in what man is. -- Oscar Wildehttps://todon.eu/tags/anarchism
Ever since FDR and Truman crafted the postwar order at the end of WWII, the central goal of U.S. security policy has been to globalize the economy, expand the volume of international trade and maintain institutional arrangements for propping up global corporate rule. -- Kevin Carsonhttps://todon.eu/tags/anarchism
Every person who ever thought he had a right to assert, and went boldly and asserted it, himself, or jointly with others that shared his convictions, was a direct actionist. -- Voltairine de Cleyrehttps://todon.eu/tags/anarchism
Anarchism is the great liberator of man from the phantoms that have held him captive; it is the arbiter and pacifier of the two forces for individual and social harmony. -- Emma Goldmanhttps://todon.eu/tags/anarchism
There are differences in the parties -- I don't think they're great differences, but they're real, and small differences in a system of great power can have enormous consequences. -- Noam Chomskyhttps://todon.eu/tags/anarchism
We are not in the least afraid of ruins. We are going to inherit the earth; there is not the slightest doubt about that. The bourgeoisie might blast and ruin its own world before it leaves the stage of history. We carry a new world here, in our hearts. That world is growing this minute. -- Buenaventura Durrutihttps://todon.eu/tags/anarchism
We must make the world safe for poverty without dependence on government. -- John Cagehttps://todon.eu/tags/anarchism
The world does not belong to us. If it has a master who is stupid enough to want it the way it is, let him have it. -- Alfredo Bonannohttps://todon.eu/tags/anarchism
The law is an adroit mixture of customs that are beneficial to society, and could be followed even if no law existed, and others that are of advantage to a ruling minority, but harmful to the masses of men, and can be enforced on them only by terror. -- Peter Kropotkinhttps://todon.eu/tags/anarchism
Man as we know him, in the highest actual stage of development, loves learning, yearns alter truth, and identifies his personal happiness with the realization and maintenance of his ideals. -- Guy Aldredhttps://todon.eu/tags/anarchism
Lock up your libraries if you like; but there is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind. -- Virginia Woolfhttps://todon.eu/tags/anarchism
Order results spontaneously when things are let alone. -- Zhuangzihttps://todon.eu/tags/anarchism
Terrorism is tempting with its tremendous possibilities. It offers a mechanical solution, as it were, in hopeless situations. -- Alexander Berkmanhttps://todon.eu/tags/anarchism