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The Bolshevik government revealed itself to be powerless in the face of a bureaucracy which is super-abundant, parasitic, despotic and dishonest. -- Camillo Berneri
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Freedom can only be the whole of freedom; a piece of freedom is not freedom. -- Max Stirner
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Society, from which we have everything, is a new master, a new spook, a new "supreme being," which "takes us into its service and allegiance!" -- Max Stirner
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Government means the right to make the law and to impose it on everyone by force: without a police force there is no government. -- Errico Malatesta
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He who attempts to control another is a governor, an aggressor, an invader; and the nature of such invasion is not changed, whether it is made by one man upon another man, after the manner of the ordinary criminal, or by one man upon all other men, after the manner of an absolute monarch, or by all other men upon one man, after the manner of a modern democracy. -- Benjamin Tucker
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The peoples of the world are becoming profoundly dissatisfied and are not appeased by the promise of the social democrats to patch up the state into a new engine of oppression. -- Peter Kropotkin
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Governmental communism, like theocratic communism, is repugnant to the worker. -- Peter Kropotkin
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The police are making more anarchists than I could do in ten years. -- Emma Goldmanhttps://todon.eu/tags/anarchism
Capitalism and communism felt like they were always going to be around, but it turns out they were just two ways of ordering an industrial society. If you were looking for more fundamental human political poles, you'd take anarchy and fascism, for my money. -- Alan Moorehttps://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
Just as I'm opposed to political fascism, I'm opposed to economic fascism. I think that until major institutions of society are under the popular control of participants and communities, it's pointless to talk about democracy. -- Noam Chomskyhttps://todon.eu/tags/anarchism
Never do anything against conscience even if the state demands it. -- Albert Einsteinhttps://todon.eu/tags/anarchism
When private property is abolished there will be no necessity for crime, no demand for it; it will cease to exist. -- Oscar Wildehttps://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
The oppression of one is the oppression of all, and we cannot violate the liberty of one being without violating the freedom of all of us. -- Mikhail Bakuninhttps://todon.eu/tags/anarchism
In the face of dogmas, of despots, of the sentimental, of charlatans and regimenters, humanity's future belongs to reason. -- Andre Lorulothttps://todon.eu/tags/anarchism
Education is an important element in the struggle for human rights. It is the means to help our children and our people rediscover their identity and thereby increase their self respect. Education is our passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs only to the people who prepare for it today. -- Malcolm Xhttps://todon.eu/tags/anarchism
Instead of taking aim at some vague enemy, it's better wait a moment for him to turn into a friend. -- Georges Brassenshttps://todon.eu/tags/anarchism
Instead of inanely repeating the old formula, "Respect the law," we say, "Despise law and all its attributes!" -- Peter Kropotkinhttps://todon.eu/tags/anarchism
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
Oppressed brother, banish all power from within you and do not allow any to be established either over you or over your brother, be he near or far! -- Nestor Makhnohttps://todon.eu/tags/anarchism
Society, from which we have everything, is a new master, a new spook, a new "supreme being," which "takes us into its service and allegiance!" -- Max Stirnerhttps://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
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
The proper method for hastening the decay of error is not by brute force, or by regulation which is one of the classes of force, to endeavour to reduce men to intellectual uniformity; but on the contrary by teaching every man to think for himself. -- William Godwinhttps://todon.eu/tags/anarchism
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 Labadiehttps://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
Write on my gravestone: "Infidel, Traitor" -- infidel to every church that compromises with wrong; traitor to every government that oppresses the people. -- Wendell Phillipshttps://todon.eu/tags/anarchism
When society refuses you the right to exist, you have to take it and not help it along, which is cowardice. -- Clement Duvalhttps://todon.eu/tags/anarchism
People who should be shot: Fascist thugs, religious fundamentalists, people who write lists telling you who should be shot. -- Banksyhttps://todon.eu/tags/anarchism
In an informal organization there is no question of synthesis. -- Alfredo Bonannohttps://todon.eu/tags/anarchism
What is freedom? To have the will to be responsible for one's self. -- Max Stirnerhttps://todon.eu/tags/anarchism
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 Jacobhttps://todon.eu/tags/anarchism
The revolution is the outcome of many causes whose origin we situate in a higher level of culture of the people, in the discrepancy between their aspirations and the organization that rules and governs the people. -- Angel Pestanahttps://todon.eu/tags/anarchism
We do not doubt that, if the revolution broke out in several European countries, anarchists would suffer the same defeat because they are no less -- if not even more so -- divided on the plan of ideas and organization. -- Peter Arshinovhttps://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
The great appear great because we are on our knees: Let us rise. -- James Larkinhttps://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 have as much authority as the Pope, I just don't have as many people who believe it. -- George Carlinhttps://todon.eu/tags/anarchism
Those animals which acquire habits of mutual aid are undoubtedly the fittest. -- Peter Kropotkinhttps://todon.eu/tags/anarchism
The things people say of a man do not alter a man. He is what he is. Public opinion is of no value whatsoever. -- Oscar Wildehttps://todon.eu/tags/anarchism
The peoples of the world are becoming profoundly dissatisfied and are not appeased by the promise of the social democrats to patch up the state into a new engine of oppression. -- Peter Kropotkinhttps://todon.eu/tags/anarchism
One thing only is needful: the knowledge of the simple and clear truth which finds place in every soul that is not stupefied by religious and scientific superstitions -- the truth that for our life one law is valid -- the law of love, which brings the highest happiness to every individual as well as to all mankind. -- Leo Tolstoyhttps://todon.eu/tags/anarchism
We might mention the monumental hypocrisy of the regulation of credit unions in the United States, which require that their membership must share some common bond, like working for the same employer. -- Kevin Carsonhttps://todon.eu/tags/anarchism
Nor does [our kind of individualist] wish to have anything in common with those armchair Nietzcheans or weekend Stirnerites who imagine, poor wretches, that they are "affirming their individuality" by petty dishonesty in money matters, or by forcing themselves upon the companion of a friend in prison. -- Emile Armandhttps://todon.eu/tags/anarchism
In our world everybody thinks of changing humanity, and nobody thinks of changing himself. -- Leo Tolstoyhttps://todon.eu/tags/anarchism
Anarchists emphatically reject a morality which denies the original concepts of right and wrong. -- Erich Muhsamhttps://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
By striving to do the impossible, man has always achieved what is possible. -- Mikhail Bakuninhttps://todon.eu/tags/anarchism
Whosoever looks back on the history of socialism after the exclusion of the anarchists can see for themselves the gradual degeneration of Marxism as a political philosophy through the interpretations and practices of the social democrats. -- Camillo Bernerihttps://todon.eu/tags/anarchism
Instead of taking aim at some vague enemy, it's better wait a moment for him to turn into a friend. -- Georges Brassenshttps://todon.eu/tags/anarchism
The freedom of everyone, and thereby the freedom of each individual, requires community in socialism. -- Erich Muhsamhttps://todon.eu/tags/anarchism
As moderate as they were, as sensible as they proved themselves to be, the founders of the Circle turned out to be too advanced in the judgment of the guardians of moral order. -- Fernand Pelloutierhttps://todon.eu/tags/anarchism
The subject is not whether we accomplish anarchism today, tomorrow, or within ten centuries, but that we walk towards anarchism today, tomorrow, and always. -- Errico Malatestahttps://todon.eu/tags/anarchism
Anarchism is just the way people act when they are free to do as they choose, and when they deal with others who are equally free. -- David Graeberhttps://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
In existing states a fresh law is looked upon as a remedy for evil. -- Peter Kropotkinhttps://todon.eu/tags/anarchism
I do not myself feel that any person who is really profoundly humane can believe in everlasting punishment. -- Bertrand Russellhttps://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
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
Property is impossible. -- Pierre-Joseph Proudhonhttps://todon.eu/tags/anarchism
Organised religion has corrupted one of the purest, most powerful and sustaining things in the human condition. It has imposed a middle management, not only in our politics and in our finances, but in our spirituality as well. -- Alan Moorehttps://todon.eu/tags/anarchism
For two decades the supporters of Bolshevism have been hammering it into the masses that dictatorship is a vital necessity for the defense of the so-called proletarian interests against the assaults of counter-revolution and for paving the way for socialism. -- Rudolf Rockerhttps://todon.eu/tags/anarchism
If God really existed, it would be necessary to abolish him. -- Mikhail Bakuninhttps://todon.eu/tags/anarchism
Oppressed brother, banish all power from within you and do not allow any to be established either over you or over your brother, be he near or far! -- Nestor Makhnohttps://todon.eu/tags/anarchism
There is no hope even that woman, with her right to vote, will ever purify politics. -- Emma Goldmanhttps://todon.eu/tags/anarchism
Is it not plain that all these governments are systematic poisoners, interested stupefiers of the masses? -- Mikhail Bakuninhttps://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
The men of the future will yet fight their way to many a liberty that we do not even miss. -- Max Stirnerhttps://todon.eu/tags/anarchism
We have come more and more under the dominance of mechanics and sacrificed living humanity to the dead rhythm of the machine without most of us even being conscious of the monstrosity of the procedure. -- Rudolf Rockerhttps://todon.eu/tags/anarchism
If cost is made the limit of price, everyone becomes interested in reducing cost, by bringing in all the economies, all the facilities to their aid. But, on the contrary, if cost does not govern the price, but every thing is priced at what it will bring, there are no such cooperating interests. -- Josiah Warrenhttps://todon.eu/tags/anarchism
There are even moments when the authority of the socialists and communists is worse than the bourgeois, for they tear down their own ideas and trample on them. -- Nestor Makhnohttps://todon.eu/tags/anarchism
The criminalization of debt was the criminalization of the very basis of human society. -- David Graeberhttps://todon.eu/tags/anarchism
"Malcolm X advocates armed Negroes!" What was wrong with that? I'll tell you what's wrong. I was a black man talking about physical defense against the white man. The white man can lynch and burn and bomb and beat Negroes -- that's all right: "Have patience" ... "The customs are entrenched" ... "Things will get better." -- Malcolm Xhttps://todon.eu/tags/anarchism
When society refuses you the right to exist, you have to take it and not help it along, which is cowardice. -- Clement Duvalhttps://todon.eu/tags/anarchism
As man seeks justice in equality, so society seeks order in anarchy. -- Pierre-Joseph Proudhonhttps://todon.eu/tags/anarchism
Although a firm friend of order, I am (in the full force of the term) an anarchist. -- Pierre-Joseph Proudhonhttps://todon.eu/tags/anarchism
Anarchism is an ethic, it's a way of behaving. -- Henri Cartier-Bressonhttps://todon.eu/tags/anarchism
Below a certain size, everything fuses, joins, or accumulates. But beyond a certain size, everything collapses or explodes. -- Leopold Kohrhttps://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
Well I sometimes call myself a libertarian but that's only because most people don't know what anarchist means. Most people hear you're an anarchist and they think you're getting ready to throw a bomb at a building. -- Robert Anton Wilsonhttps://todon.eu/tags/anarchism
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 Durrutihttps://todon.eu/tags/anarchism
It is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong. -- Voltairehttps://todon.eu/tags/anarchism
Infinite diversity instead of unity is inevitable, especially in the progressive or transitionary stage. -- Josiah Warrenhttps://todon.eu/tags/anarchism
Freedom, the realization of freedom: who can deny that this is what today heads the agenda of history? -- Mikhail Bakuninhttps://todon.eu/tags/anarchism
I am not a political man and I have no political convictions. I am an individual and a believer in liberty. That is all the politics I have. -- Charlie Chaplinhttps://todon.eu/tags/anarchism
We cannot help but believe that were every law, every title deed, every court, and every police officer or soldier abolished tomorrow with one sweep, we would be better off than now. -- Lucy Parsonshttps://todon.eu/tags/anarchism
It's impossible for a white person to believe in capitalism and not believe in racism. You can't have capitalism without racism. -- Malcolm Xhttps://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
The police are making more anarchists than I could do in ten years. -- Emma Goldmanhttps://todon.eu/tags/anarchism
In general, the vitality and relative dignity of an animal can be measured by the intensity of its instinct to revolt. -- Mikhail Bakuninhttps://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
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
All social arrangements should admit of this freedom of choice of every individual and all subordination should be voluntary. -- Josiah Warrenhttps://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
He who has might has right... is this wisdom so hard to attain? -- Max Stirnerhttps://todon.eu/tags/anarchism
Writers: express your rage against all iniquities during all your waking hours. -- Fernand Pelloutierhttps://todon.eu/tags/anarchism
To analyze ownership, such as it is now constituted, is a chore little more than superfluous. Its justification has yet to be formulated; nobody has ventured to defend it as anything more than something necessary. -- Ricardo Mellahttps://todon.eu/tags/anarchism
The progress from an absolute to a limited monarchy, from a limited monarchy to a democracy, is a progress toward a true respect for the individual. -- Henry David Thoreauhttps://todon.eu/tags/anarchism
Once for all, then, we are not opposed to the punishment of thieves and murderers; we are opposed to their manufacture. -- Benjamin Tuckerhttps://todon.eu/tags/anarchism