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What matters most is that people, all men, lose their sheepish instincts and habits that the millennial slavery inspired them, and they learn to think and act freely. -- Errico Malatesta
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The task of the conscious minority is to profit from every situation to change the environment in a way that will make possible the education of the whole people. -- Errico Malatesta
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Laws: We know what they are, and what they are worth! -- Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
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The greatest crimes in the world are not committed by people breaking the rules. It's people who follow orders that drop bombs and massacre villages. As a precaution to ever committing major acts of evil it is our solemn duty never to do what we're told, this is the only way we can be sure. -- Banksy
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Monopoly and privilege must be destroyed, opportunity afforded, and competition encouraged. This is liberty's work, and "Down with Authority" her war-cry. -- Benjamin Tucker
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I despise humanity because it is not my humanity. I hate tyrants and I detest slaves. -- Renzo Novatore
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I repeat that I am a political prisoner. The prosecution, whatever the attorney general may say, is political and nothing else. -- Louise Michel
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To be good and lead a good life means to give to others more than one takes from them. -- Leo Tolstoy
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I believe in individual freedom; that's my primary and complete commitment -- individual liberty. That's what it's all about. And that's what socialism was supposed to be about, or anarchism was supposed to be about, and tragically has been betrayed. -- Murray Bookchin
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I am but too conscious of the fact that we are born in an age when only the dull are treated seriously, and I live in terror of not being misunderstood. -- Oscar Wilde
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Spirit, like flame, like freedom, like creativeness, is opposed to any social stagnation or any lifeless tradition. -- Nikolai Berdyaev
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True, we have no conscription; that is, men are not usually forced to enlist in the army, but we have developed a far more exacting and rigid force -- necessity. -- Emma Goldman
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The more corrupt the state, the more numerous the laws. -- Tacitus
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Is a democracy, such as we know it, the last improvement possible in government? Is it not possible to take a step further towards recognizing and organizing the rights of man? -- Henry David Thoreau
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I do not want to unite with the multitude of those who flatter the proletariat, excusing them, praising them, adorning them with wreathes. -- Bruno Filippi
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I would have been a coward if I hadn't had the courage to express, in my own way, my rancour and my disgust. -- Germaine Berton
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We used to pay too little attention to utopias, or even disregard them altogether, saying with regret they were impossible of realization. Now indeed they seem to be able to be brought about far more easily than we supposed, and we are actually faced by an agonising problem of quite another kind: how can we prevent their final realization? -- Nikolai Berdyaev
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10/19/2026, 1 engagement
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 Malatesta
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Do something right for once: throw off the straitjacket of legislation; wash yourself off, and clean your body, the social body, of all the parasites and vermin that are devouring you. And then -- only then -- will you be able to fully come to life. -- Albert Libertad
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Disobedience, in the eyes of any one who has read history, is man's original virtue. It is through disobedience that progress has been made, through disobedience and through rebellion. -- Oscar Wilde
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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 Bakunin
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I hate governments and rules and fetters. Can't stand caged animals. People must be free. -- Charlie Chaplin
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10/18/2026, 1 engagement
The history of anarchism is a history of unparalleled defeat and martyrdom, yet anarchists venerate their victimized forebears with a morbid devotion which occasions suspicion that the anarchists, like everybody else, think that the only good anarchist is a dead one. -- Bob Black
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No future and no humanity, no communism and no anarchy is worthy of the sacrifice of my life. -- Renzo Novatore
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True, we have no conscription; that is, men are not usually forced to enlist in the army, but we have developed a far more exacting and rigid force -- necessity. -- Emma Goldman
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The freedom of everyone, and thereby the freedom of each individual, requires community in socialism. -- Erich Muhsam
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Far from checking the spread of immorality, repression has always extended and deepended it. Thus it is futile to oppose it by rigorous legislation which trespasses on individual liberty. -- Daniel Guerin
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In vices, the very essence of crime -- that is, the design to injure the person or property of another -- is wanting. -- Lysander Spooner
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What constitutes equity is the greatest question of all. It is the "unknown quantity" that even algebra has failed to furnish! -- Josiah Warren
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To truly know freedom, one must develop the human being until one makes sure that no authority has the possibility of existing. -- Albert Libertad
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Any pretense of reducing the role of state in capitalism is a lie. It is impossible to smash the state without, as an immediate consequence, smashing capitalism along with it. -- Kevin Carson
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They make revolutionary propaganda because they know the privileged class can never be overturned peacefully. -- Johann Most
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Liberty enters the field of journalism to speak for herself because she finds no one willing to speak for her. -- Benjamin Tucker
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For, just as it has been said that there is no half-way house between Rome and Reason, so it may be said that there is no half-way house between state socialism and anarchism. -- Benjamin Tucker
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I do not expect any help for a libertarian revolution from any government in the world... we expect no help, not even from our own government, in the last analysis. -- Buenaventura Durruti
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All the results of the mistakes of governments are quite admirable. -- Oscar Wilde
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Then hang us! Here we will tread upon a spark, but there, and there, and behind you and in front of you, and everywhere, flames will blaze up. -- August Spies
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The state, the society, the institutions, the body politic, the nation, the system, or customs we live in, must not be permitted to become primary, but must be secondary! -- Josiah Warren
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In its mad passion for power, the communist state even sought to strengthen and deepen the very ideas and conceptions which the Revolution had come to destroy. -- Emma Goldman
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We tried many times before to speed on the social revolution in Spain; attempted to stir up the feelings of the people and to raise the banner of libertarian communism. -- Frederica Montseny
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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 Cleyre
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The anarchist individualists do not present themselves as proletarians, absorbed only in the search for material amelioration, tied to a class determined to transform the world and to substitute a new society for the actual one. -- Emile Armand
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The state is the most gigantic criminal extant. It manufactures criminals much faster than it punishes them. -- Benjamin Tucker
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While judging me judge all the unfortunate who poverty, combined with natural pride, made criminals, and who wealth or ease would have made honest men. An intelligent society would have made of them men like any other! -- Ravachol
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Must the citizen ever for a moment, or in the least degree, resign his conscience to the legislator? Why has every man a conscience, then? -- Henry David Thoreau
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Fascism becomes less and less possible. We have to accept that we are moving towards some sort of anarchy. -- Alan Moore
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10/13/2026, 1 engagement
Are there any altruists who would go to hell in order that their neighbors should go to heaven? There is no hope of reward in hell, and a true altruist must expect no reward for his acts. -- Joseph Labadie
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The whole economic system of capitalism is an offshoot of a devouring and overwhelming lust, of a kind that can hold sway only in a society that has deliberately renounced the Christian asceticism and turned away from heaven to give itself over exclusively to earthly gratifications. -- Nikolai Berdyaev
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After all, it means thirteen dollars per month, three meals a day, and a place to sleep. Yet even necessity is not sufficiently strong a factor to bring into the army an element of character and manhood. -- Emma Goldman
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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 Bresci
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The fact is that the government, like a highwayman, says to a man: Your money, or your life. And many, if not most, taxes are paid under the compulsion of that threat. -- Lysander Spooner
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I offered to stay awake to let the others go to sleep, and everyone laughed, saying that I would not even hear the cannon! But afterwards, one by one, they fell asleep, and I am watchful over all of them, while working for those who are to come. -- Camillo Berneri
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Hate does not produce love; we will not renew the world by hate. -- Errico Malatesta
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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 Armand
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Even if a single United Nations World State would come into existence, it would solve nothing. It would still be composed of the reduced number of state organisms crystallizing around the remaining great powers. -- Leopold Kohr
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In our so very civilized society it is necessary for me to live the life of a savage. I must be free, even of governments. -- Gustave Courbet
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Writers: express your rage against all iniquities during all your waking hours. -- Fernand Pelloutier
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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 Rocker
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We must fight authority and privilege, while taking advantage from the benefits that civilization has conferred. We must not destroy anything that satisfies human need however badly -- until we have something better to put in its place. -- Errico Malatesta
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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 Spooner
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While we do preach perfect communism, it is not in the certainty or expectation of communism's being the social form of the future: it is in order to further men's education, and round it off as completely as possible, so that, by the time that the day of conflagration comes, they will have attained maximum emancipation. -- Fernand Pelloutier
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No one should ever work. Workers of the world... relax! -- Bob Black
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Laws: We know what they are, and what they are worth! -- Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
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The social order of Spain ought to be overthrown; must be overthrown, will be overthrown; and Ferrer was doing a mighty work in that direction. The men who killed him knew and understood it well. -- Voltairine de Cleyre
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The natural effect of unfettered market competition is socialism. -- Kevin Carson
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Aggression is simply another name for government. -- Benjamin Tucker
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If there is a state, there must be domination of one class by another and, as a result, slavery. -- Mikhail Bakunin
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Is a democracy, such as we know it, the last improvement possible in government? Is it not possible to take a step further towards recognizing and organizing the rights of man? -- Henry David Thoreau
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We need anarchists unencumbered by anarchism. Then, and only then, we can begin to get serious about fomenting anarchy. -- Bob Black
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When we have but the will to do it, that very moment will Justice be done: that very instant the tyrants of the Earth shall bite the dust. -- Peter Kropotkin
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Laws: We know what they are, and what they are worth! -- Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
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All laws are wicked, all judgments are unfair, all judges are wrong, all prisoners are innocent. -- Albert Libertad
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To weaken authority and criticize its acts is not enough. A negation, in order to be absolute, needs to complete itself with an affirmation. That is why I affirm liberty, why I deduce its consequences. -- Joseph Dejacque
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What a strange development of patriotism that turns a thinking being into a loyal machine! -- Emma Goldman
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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 Chernyi
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It is often said that anarchists live in a world of dreams to come, and do not see the things which happen today. We do see them only too well, and in their true colors, and that is what makes us carry the hatchet into the forest of prejudice that besets us. -- Peter Kropotkin
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Anarchism, to me, means not only the denial of authority, not only a new economy, but a revision of the principles of morality. It means the development of the individual as well as the assertion of the individual. It means self-responsibility, and not leader worship. -- Voltairine de Cleyre
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All the results of the mistakes of governments are quite admirable. -- Oscar Wilde
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Free love? As if love is anything but free! Yes, love is free; it can dwell in no other atmosphere. -- Emma Goldman
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Theft is the restitution, the regaining of possession. Instead of being cloistered in a factory, like in a penal colony; instead of begging for what I had a right to, I preferred to rebel and fight my enemy face to face by making war on the rich, by attacking their goods. -- Marius Jacob
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People who should be shot: Fascist thugs, religious fundamentalists, people who write lists telling you who should be shot. -- Banksy
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All social arrangements should admit of this freedom of choice of every individual and all subordination should be voluntary. -- Josiah Warren
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Patriotism is the vice of nations. -- Oscar Wilde
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The human animal is an animated alimentary canal. He has evolved from and differs from the worm only by the appendages which have developed on him. -- Laurance Labadie
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I am truly free only when all human beings, men and women, are equally free. -- Mikhail Bakunin
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Governmental communism, like theocratic communism, is repugnant to the worker. -- Peter Kropotkin
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A commercial company enslaved a nation comprising two hundred millions. Tell this to a man free from superstition and he will fail to grasp what these words mean. -- Leo Tolstoy
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What I want is the revolution, which will cause poverty to disappear. I hail the revolution, which is inevitable, and I hope that it will come soon to bring liberty and equality to the suffering. -- Louise Michel
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We want freedom by any means necessary. We want justice by any means necessary. We want equality by any means necessary. -- Malcolm X
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The morality which is born out of the present conception of the state and social hierarchy is necessarily corrupt. -- Elisee Reclus
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Ironically, the world idealized by primitivists would actually preclude the radical individualism celebrated by the individualist heirs of Max Stirner. -- Murray Bookchin
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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 Montseny
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Who knows if it will be possible for the U.S. anarchist scene to coexist with, let alone work with a newly emerging Black anti-authoritarian movement? One thing that white anarchists must understand it that is not merely a question of getting Blacks and other non-whites to join Anarchist associations, just to say they have a Black face. We must work to build a non-racist society and we must have principled unity. -- Lorenzo Kom'boa Ervin
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Governmental communism, like theocratic communism, is repugnant to the worker. -- Peter Kropotkin
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Anarchism is the usher of science -- the master of ceremonies to all forms of truth. It would remove all barriers between the human being and natural development. -- Lucy Parsons
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Our standard account of monetary history is precisely backwards. We did not begin with barter, discover money, and then eventually develop credit systems. It happened precisely the other way around. -- David Graeber
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The main difference between the anarchists and the socialists, including the Marxists, lies in the fact that while the socialists maintain that the state must be taken over as the first step toward its dissolution, the anarchists argue that, since power corrupts, any seizure of the existing structure of authority can only lead to its perpetuation. -- George Woodcock
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Today, go blossom in the shadow of the dark and sad prisons. Go, bloom near the somber captive, and tell them truly that we love them. Tell them that through fleeting time, everything belongs to the future, that the livid conqueror can die more surely than the conquered. -- Louise Michel
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All that which is not liberty is against liberty. Liberty is not a thing that can be allocated. -- Joseph Dejacque
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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 Lorulot
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