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The most violent element in society is ignorance. -- Emma Goldman #anarchism #quote #bot

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 #anarchism #quote #bot

Good people don't much like those who tread a different path. -- Georges Brassens #anarchism #quote #bot

No theory, no ready-made system, no book that has ever been written will save the world. I cleave to no system. I am a true seeker. -- Mikhail Bakunin #anarchism #quote #bot

Good people don't much like those who tread a different path. -- Georges Brassens #anarchism #quote #bot

Society will have no need to create special institutions for a social insurance. Since it expects all to work, it will determine the minimum and maximum working ages, before and after which all people will be provided, on an equal footing with others, with the necessities for existence and the […]

Freedom, the realization of freedom: who can deny that this is what today heads the agenda of history? -- Mikhail Bakunin #anarchism #quote #bot

The one duty we owe to history is to rewrite it. -- Oscar Wilde #anarchism #quote #bot

As the uselessness and harmfulness of patriotism have become manifest, so also has increased the power of the government and ruling class to excite patriotism among the people. -- Leo Tolstoy #anarchism #quote #bot

It is the fundamental duty of the citizen to resist and to restrain the violence of the state. -- Noam Chomsky #anarchism #quote #bot

The "equality of right" is a phantom just because right is nothing more and nothing less than admission, a matter of grace. -- Max Stirner #anarchism #quote #bot

All social arrangements should admit of this freedom of choice of every individual and all subordination should be voluntary. -- Josiah Warren #anarchism #quote #bot

"God" -- as revealed in his book of edicts and narratives is practically an idiot. He has nothing to say that any sensible person should want to listen to. -- Johann Most #anarchism #quote #bot

The individual is quite a world of federations, a whole universe in himself. -- Peter Kropotkin #anarchism #quote #bot

Only in respecting their human character do I respect my own. -- Mikhail Bakunin #anarchism #quote #bot

The hundreds of workers' associations organized during the period 1870-1900 and the tens of publications give ample testimony to the energetic anarchist activity designed to destroy bourgeois, state and religious influences among workers. -- Abel Paz #anarchism #quote #bot

The fight against the destruction of surplus product and against hoarding in Brazil cannot be carried out through the state, but through consumer cooperatives, which affiliated with powerful federations, will be able to deliver to the market and finance production and regulate prices on a fair […]

They call me "a teacher, a fomenter of violence." I would say point blank, "That is a lie. I'm not for wanton violence, I'm for justice." -- Malcolm X #anarchism #quote #bot

The people themselves, and only the people, determine the rhythm of our fight. -- Frederica Montseny #anarchism #quote #bot

Anarchy, today, is attack; it is war against every authority, every power, every state. In the future society, anarchy will be defence, the prevention of the re-establishment of any authority, any power, any state. -- Carlo Cafiero #anarchism #quote #bot

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 Woolf #anarchism #quote #bot

A map of the world that does not include Utopia is not worth even glancing at, for it leaves out the one country at which humanity is always landing. -- Oscar Wilde #anarchism #quote #bot

Anarchists are socialists because they want the improvement of society, and they are communists because they are convinced that such a transformation of society can only result from the establishment of a commonwealth of property. -- Johann Most #anarchism #quote #bot

The means of production being the collective work of humanity, the product should be the collective property of the race. -- Peter Kropotkin #anarchism #quote #bot

Is it not plain that all these governments are systematic poisoners, interested stupefiers of the masses? -- Mikhail Bakunin #anarchism #quote #bot

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 […]

The men of the future will yet fight their way to many a liberty that we do not even miss. -- Max Stirner #anarchism #quote #bot

Not to speak of war and its crimes, from the guilt of which no civilized state is free, can it be denied that chief among the consequences of the existing social system are murder, maladies, and death. -- Elisee Reclus #anarchism #quote #bot

History shows us that the most beneficial works, which were most effective in achieving their beneficial purposes, were precisely those that were directly managed. -- Mario Ferreira dos Santos #anarchism #quote #bot

That government is best which governs not at all; and when men are prepared for it, that will be the kind of government which they will have. -- Henry David Thoreau #anarchism #quote #bot

These revolutionaries, bare-necked politickers, have preserved with the imprint of the collar, the moral stain of servitude, the stiff neck of despotism. -- Joseph Dejacque #anarchism #quote #bot

Today is the parent of tomorrow. The present casts its shadow far into the future. -- Emma Goldman #anarchism #quote #bot

The anarchist teaching prescribes no method of struggle and rejects none which is in harmony with self-determination and free will. -- Erich Muhsam #anarchism #quote #bot

In creating the articles of the Criminal Code, the legislators forgot that they didn't attack the causes, but only the effects, and so they don't in any way destroy crime. In truth, the causes continuing to exist, the effects will necessarily flow from them. There will always be criminals, for […]

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 […]

Contemporary industrial society is now characterised more than ever by the need for stupefying work where it is no longer a real necessity. -- Herbert Marcuse #anarchism #quote #bot

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 Pestana #anarchism #quote #bot

Patriotism: a willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons. -- Bertrand Russell #anarchism #quote #bot

If we don't believe in free expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all. -- Noam Chomsky #anarchism #quote #bot

Since it seems that every heart that beats for freedom has no right to anything but a little slug of lead, I demand my share. If you let me live, I shall never cease to cry for vengeance. -- Louise Michel #anarchism #quote #bot

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 Malatesta #anarchism #quote #bot

Who cares about the victim if the gesture is beautiful? -- Laurent Tailhade #anarchism #quote #bot

We must be communists because we are anarchists, because anarchy and communism are the two essential terms of the revolution. -- Carlo Cafiero #anarchism #quote #bot

Direct action is the logical, consistent method of anarchism. -- Emma Goldman #anarchism #quote #bot

The liberty of every individual is only the reflection of his own humanity, or his human right through the conscience of all free men, his brothers and his equals. -- Mikhail Bakunin #anarchism #quote #bot

In America, the president reigns for four years, and journalism governs for ever and ever. -- Oscar Wilde #anarchism #quote #bot

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 […]

Terrorism is tempting with its tremendous possibilities. It offers a mechanical solution, as it were, in hopeless situations. -- Alexander Berkman #anarchism #quote #bot

You who are resigned, look: I spit on your idols. I spit on God, the Fatherland, I spit on Christ, I spit on the flag, I spit on capital and the golden calf; I spit on laws and Codes, on the symbols of religion; they are baubles, I could not care less about them, I laugh at them... -- Albert […]

Anarchy will be instituted only by there being more and more people who do not require the protection of governmental power and by there being more and more people who will be ashamed of applying this power. -- Leo Tolstoy #anarchism #quote #bot