Ironically, the world idealized by primitivists would actually preclude the radical individualism celebrated by the individualist heirs of Max Stirner. -- Murray Bookchinhttps://todon.eu/tags/anarchism
So long as the people do not care to exercise their freedom, those who wish to tyrannize will do so; for tyrants are active and ardent, and will devote themselves in the name of any number of gods, religious and otherwise, to put shackles upon sleeping men. -- Voltairine de Cleyrehttps://todon.eu/tags/anarchism
If the state would only remove those laws that stand in the way of free land, free money, and transportation, its other statutes would, in course of time, become useless and "repeal" themselves. -- Joseph Labadiehttps://todon.eu/tags/anarchism
In Germany, Austria-Hungary, Serbia, Romania, Belgium, England, the trade union organizations were political; they tailored their policies to be in accord with the socialist parties; can you deny that they collaborated in the war? -- Angel Pestanahttps://todon.eu/tags/anarchism
I'm for truth, no matter who tells it. I'm for justice, no matter who it's for or against. I'm a human being first and foremost, and as such I am for whoever and whatever benefits humanity as a whole. -- Malcolm Xhttps://todon.eu/tags/anarchism
From the outset of the industrial revolution, what is nostalgically called "laissez-faire" was in fact a system of continuing state intervention to subsidize accumulation, guarantee privilege, and maintain work discipline. -- Kevin Carsonhttps://todon.eu/tags/anarchism
Communism is inequality, but not as property is. Property is the exploitation of the weak by the strong. Communism is the exploitation of the strong by the weak. -- Pierre-Joseph Proudhonhttps://todon.eu/tags/anarchism
They make revolutionary propaganda because they know the privileged class can never be overturned peacefully. -- Johann Mosthttps://todon.eu/tags/anarchism
I hate communism because it is the negation of liberty and because for me humanity is unthinkable without liberty. I am not a communist, because communism concentrates and swallows up in itself for the benefit of the state all the forces of society, because it inevitably leads to the concentration of property in the hands of the state. -- Mikhail Bakuninhttps://todon.eu/tags/anarchism
Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely. -- Lord Actonhttps://todon.eu/tags/anarchism
I am as desirous of being a good neighbor as I am of being a bad subject. -- Henry David Thoreauhttps://todon.eu/tags/anarchism
I wish to say that we anarchists have never changed our position. We are anarchists as of old and still pursue the same ideals. -- Frederica Montsenyhttps://todon.eu/tags/anarchism
I think my brief period in the Panthers was very important because it taught me about the limits of -- and even the bankruptcy of -- leadership in a revolutionary movement. -- Lorenzo Kom'boa Ervinhttps://todon.eu/tags/anarchism
What consoles me is that there are combatants that remain, because despite all the persecution, the anarchist idea has germinated and the theoretical revolution is ending, being quickly replaced by the practice of action. -- Clement Duvalhttps://todon.eu/tags/anarchism
Go ahead, vote! Have faith in your delegates, believe in those you have voted for. But if you voted, don't complain. -- Albert Libertadhttps://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
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
Idlers do not make history: they suffer it! -- Peter Kropotkinhttps://todon.eu/tags/anarchism
I attacked the king because in my opinion he is responsible for all the pale and bleeding victims of the system that he represents and has to defend. -- Gaetano Brescihttps://todon.eu/tags/anarchism
I think my basic viewpoint is that everything the left and right say about each other is true. And the reason it's true is because they have so much in common. -- Bob Blackhttps://todon.eu/tags/anarchism
I do not want to unite with the multitude of those who flatter the proletariat, excusing them, praising them, adorning them with wreathes. -- Bruno Filippihttps://todon.eu/tags/anarchism
The individual is quite a world of federations, a whole universe in himself. -- Peter Kropotkinhttps://todon.eu/tags/anarchism
There are some whose nature it is to think and plead, and yield and yet return to the address, and so make headway in the minds of their fellowmen; and there are others who are stern and still, resolute, implacable as Judah's dream of God; -- and those men strike -- strike once and have ended. But the blow resounds across the world. -- Voltairine de Cleyrehttps://todon.eu/tags/anarchism
Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live. -- Oscar Wildehttps://todon.eu/tags/anarchism
The divine is God's concern; the human, man's. My concern is neither the divine nor the human, not the true, good, just, free, etc., but solely what is mine. -- Max Stirnerhttps://todon.eu/tags/anarchism
Men are as we have always known them, neither better nor worse from the hearts of rogues there springs a latent honesty, from the depths of honest men there emerges a brutish appetite -- a thirst for extermination, a desire for blood. -- Frederica Montsenyhttps://todon.eu/tags/anarchism
The greatest danger of bombs is in the explosion of stupidity that they provoke. -- Octave Mirbeauhttps://todon.eu/tags/anarchism
Workers, the most absolutely necessary part of the whole social structure, without whose services none can either eat, or clothe, or shelter himself, are just the ones who get the least to eat, to wear, and to be housed withal. -- Voltairine de Cleyrehttps://todon.eu/tags/anarchism
Individualist anarchism and communist anarchism are the same, or nearly so, in terms of moral motivations and ultimate goals. -- Errico Malatestahttps://todon.eu/tags/anarchism
It is the fundamental duty of the citizen to resist and to restrain the violence of the state. -- Noam Chomskyhttps://todon.eu/tags/anarchism
Overcoming the problem of voluntary servitude, which has proved such a hindrance to radical political projects in the past, implies this sort of ethical questioning of the self, an interrogation of one's subjective involvement and complicity with power. -- Saul Newmanhttps://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
We are in a society where the power is in the hands of those who are the worst breed of humanity. -- Malcolm Xhttps://todon.eu/tags/anarchism
Anarchists no more want to be masters than they want to be servants -- they no more want to exercise violence than to submit to it. They expose, they propose, but they do not impose. -- Emile Armandhttps://todon.eu/tags/anarchism
It is obvious that in calling on anarchists to organise on the basis of a definite program, we are not taking away as such the right of anarchists of other tendencies to organise as they think fit. -- Peter Arshinovhttps://todon.eu/tags/anarchism
We cannot pretend that we do not see the policeman who walks in front of the windows with a loaded revolver, defending us, while we eat our savory dinner or view a new performance, or those soldiers who will immediately go with their guns and loaded cartridges to where our property will be violated. -- Leo Tolstoyhttps://todon.eu/tags/anarchism
Everyone complains about politicians. Everyone says they suck. But where do people think these politicians come from? They don't fall out of the sky; they don't pass through a membrane from a separate reality. They come from American homes, American families, American schools, American churches, and American businesses. And they're elected by American voters. This is what our system produces, folks. This is the best we can do. -- George Carlinhttps://todon.eu/tags/anarchism
He who desires to worship God must harbor no childish illusions about the matter, but bravely renounce his liberty and humanity. -- Mikhail Bakuninhttps://todon.eu/tags/anarchism
It is especially in the domain of ethics that the dominating importance of the mutual aid principle appears in full. -- Peter Kropotkinhttps://todon.eu/tags/anarchism