Governments involve the citizen in national and state responsibilities from which he would choose to be exempt; under these circumstances he can feel no security for person or property. -- Josiah Warrenhttps://todon.eu/tags/anarchism
The establishment of a citizens' assembly is not in itself a fulfillment; until its participating citizens develop radical content, it will be only an institutional structure. -- Janet Biehlhttps://todon.eu/tags/anarchism
The Roman Empire was a state in the real sense of the word. To this day it remains the legist's ideal. -- Peter Kropotkinhttps://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
To consider mankind otherwise than brethren, to think favors are peculiar to one nation and exclude others, plainly supposes a darkness in the understanding. -- John Woolmanhttps://todon.eu/tags/anarchism
Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities. -- Voltairehttps://todon.eu/tags/anarchism
He who has might has right... is this wisdom so hard to attain? -- Max Stirnerhttps://todon.eu/tags/anarchism
You anarchist ministers, you make eloquent speeches and you write brilliant articles, but it is not with speeches and articles that one wins the war and defends the revolution. -- Camillo Bernerihttps://todon.eu/tags/anarchism
Yes: all men believe and repeat that equality of conditions is identical with equality of rights; that property and robbery are synonymous terms; that every social advantage accorded, or rather usurped, in the name of superior talent or service, is iniquity and extortion. All men in their hearts, I say, bear witness to these truths; they need only to be made to understand it. -- Pierre-Joseph Proudhonhttps://todon.eu/tags/anarchism
Just as the worst slave-owners were those who were kind to their slaves, and so prevented the horror of the system being realized by those who suffered from it, and understood by those who contemplated it, so, in the present state of things in England, the people who do most harm are the people who try to do most good. -- Oscar Wildehttps://todon.eu/tags/anarchism
There are socialists all over the world, by the millions; but where is socialism... political socialism is politics without socialism, and nothing else. -- Mario Ferreira dos Santoshttps://todon.eu/tags/anarchism
What is a utopia? A dream unrealized, but not unrealizable. -- Joseph Dejacquehttps://todon.eu/tags/anarchism
All that which is not liberty is against liberty. Liberty is not a thing that can be allocated. -- Joseph Dejacquehttps://todon.eu/tags/anarchism
What is freedom? To have the will to be responsible for one's self. -- Max Stirnerhttps://todon.eu/tags/anarchism
There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root. -- Henry David Thoreauhttps://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
In our world everybody thinks of changing humanity, and nobody thinks of changing himself. -- Leo Tolstoyhttps://todon.eu/tags/anarchism
The legitimate, the equitable compensation for the loan of money, is the cost of labor in lending it and receiving it back again. -- Josiah Warrenhttps://todon.eu/tags/anarchism
I have a good idea that will exempt you from relying on others while still finding food naturally. How? By practicing communism. -- He Zhenhttps://todon.eu/tags/anarchism
Indeed, in many cases, maliciousness and stupidity will put many obstacles in the road of the new idea. That is the reason why hard struggles must be fought for unconditional mutual tolerance, until it is finally achieved. Only from then on will everything proceed automatically, science will bloom and advance, because the necessary foundation for every progress, namely experimental freedom and free research have been achieved. -- Max Nettlauhttps://todon.eu/tags/anarchism