Anarchist Quotes

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2024-09-24 01:00:10

One should always be a little improbable.
-- Oscar Wilde
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2024-09-18 12:00:09

All things are for all men, since all men have need of them, since all men have worked in the measure of their strength to produce them, and since it is not possible to evaluate every one's part in the production of the world's wealth.
-- Peter Kropotkin
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2024-09-17 17:00:25

Private property has crushed true individualism, and set up an individualism that is false. It has debarred one part of the community from being individual by starving them. It has debarred the other part of the community from being individual by putting them on the wrong road and encumbering them.
-- Oscar Wilde
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2024-09-17 07:00:09

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 Cleyre
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2024-09-16 12:00:09

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 Graeber
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2024-09-15 17:00:09

Take the principle that two wrongs don't make a right. If you really took it seriously, that alone would knock away almost the entire basis for war and the criminal justice system.
-- David Graeber
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2024-09-15 02:00:09

Libertarians make a dogma of liberty; anarchists make it an end.
-- Albert Libertad
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2024-09-13 12:00:18

Actually inventing or producing things is at best the path to small-time wealth. The really big fortunes -- the billionaire kind -- instead come from controlling the circumstances under which other people are allowed to produce things.
-- Kevin Carson
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2024-09-09 01:00:09

For anarchists, the state is much more than an expression of class and economic power. Rather the state has its own logic of domination and self-perpetuation, and is autonomous from class interests.
-- Saul Newman
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2024-09-08 13:00:09

In general, the vitality and relative dignity of an animal can be measured by the intensity of its instinct to revolt.
-- Mikhail Bakunin
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2024-08-31 08:00:08

The point social ecology emphasizes is not that moral and spiritual persuasion and renewal are meaningless or unnecessary; they are necessary and can be educational. But modern capitalism is structurally amoral and hence impervious to moral appeals.
-- Murray Bookchin
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2024-08-29 17:00:10

It has come to pass in history that the workers have defeated capitalism, but the victory then slipped from their grasp, because some state power emerged, amalgamating the interests of private capitalism and those of state capitalism for the sake of success over the toilers.
-- Nestor Makhno
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2024-08-29 01:00:09

The world does not need governing; in fact it should not be governed.
-- Zhuangzi
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2024-08-26 07:00:08

Governments never lead; they follow progress. When the prison, stake or scaffold can no longer silence the voice of the protesting minority, progress moves on a step, but not until then.
-- Lucy Parsons
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2024-08-24 13:00:07

Can one live without working? We can only live without working.
-- Raoul Vaneigem
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2024-08-19 12:00:25

Law never made men a whit more just; and, by means of their respect for it, even the well-disposed are daily made the agents of injustice.
-- Henry David Thoreau
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2024-08-17 13:00:08

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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2024-08-16 17:00:08

The law is an adroit mixture of customs that are beneficial to society, and could be followed even if no law existed, and others that are of advantage to a ruling minority, but harmful to the masses of men, and can be enforced on them only by terror.
-- Peter Kropotkin
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2024-08-15 17:00:09

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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2024-08-15 12:00:09

Conceit, arrogance and egotism are the essentials of patriotism.
-- Emma Goldman
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2024-08-14 17:00:08

Organization is, after all, only a means to an end. When it becomes an end in itself, it kills the spirit and the vital initiative of its members and sets up that domination by mediocrity which is the characteristic of all bureaucracies.
-- Rudolf Rocker
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2024-08-13 21:00:09

The only generals that we should follow are the generals of the little tin soldiers.
-- Georges Brassens
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2024-08-11 21:00:09

In fact, communism is the foundation of all human sociability. It is what makes society possible.
-- David Graeber
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2024-08-11 08:00:08

As long as we have a master in heaven, we will be slaves on earth.
-- Mikhail Bakunin
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2024-08-09 21:00:10

Capitalism is a system in which the central institutions of society are in principle under autocratic control.
-- Noam Chomsky
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2024-08-08 12:00:17

The police are making more anarchists than I could do in ten years.
-- Emma Goldman
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2024-07-30 21:00:09

The world does not need governing; in fact it should not be governed.
-- Zhuangzi
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2024-07-28 21:00:08

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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2024-07-28 17:00:08

Unity is the great goal toward which humanity moves irresistibly.
-- Mikhail Bakunin
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2024-07-28 13:00:09

They will die of hunger at the proprietor's door, on the edge of that property which was their birthright; and the proprietor, watching them die, will exclaim, "So perish idlers and vagrants!"
-- Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
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2024-07-28 08:00:09

The work of the anarchist is above all a work of critique. The anarchist goes, sowing revolt against that which oppresses, obstructs, opposes itself to the free expansion of the individual being.
-- Emile Armand
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2024-07-28 02:00:10

Socialism, on the contrary, extends its function to the description of society as it should be, and the discovery of the means of making it what it should be.
-- Benjamin Tucker
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2024-07-27 22:00:09

Freedom, the realization of freedom: who can deny that this is what today heads the agenda of history?
-- Mikhail Bakunin
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2024-07-27 18:00:09

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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2024-07-27 13:00:09

Time is on the side of the oppressed today, it's against the oppressor. Truth is on the side of the oppressed today, it's against the oppressor. You don't need anything else.
-- Malcolm X
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2024-07-27 08:00:09

Anarchism is founded on the observation that since few men are wise enough to rule themselves, even fewer are wise enough to rule others.
-- Edward Abbey
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2024-07-27 01:00:10

If you wish to remain men, do not be soldiers; if you cannot stand humiliations do not don the uniform. If, however, you have already committed the imprudence of clothing yourselves therewith, and some day you find yourselves in the situation of being unable to control your indignation, then neither insult nor strike your superiors; LET DAYLIGHT THROUGH THEM! You will pay no more for it.
-- Jean Grave
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2024-07-26 21:00:09

Aggression is simply another name for government.
-- Benjamin Tucker
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2024-07-26 17:00:10

The realization of the usefulness of cooperation, which should have led to the triumph of solidarity in all human relations, instead gave rise to private property and government, that is to the exploitation of the labor of the whole community by a privileged minority.
-- Errico Malatesta
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2024-07-26 12:00:09

Every person who ever thought he had a right to assert, and went boldly and asserted it, himself, or jointly with others that shared his convictions, was a direct actionist.
-- Voltairine de Cleyre
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2024-07-26 07:00:09

The young whites, and blacks, too, are the only hope that America has, the rest of us have always been living in a lie.
-- Malcolm X
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2024-07-26 01:00:09

2024-07-25 21:00:08

Ah well, this is the crime that I am here for: for not recognizing the right of these people to die of plenty while the producers, the creators of all social wealth, starve.
-- Clement Duval
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2024-07-25 17:00:09

If you list almost all of the assassinations that have been attributed to anarchists and assume that all of them were performed by anarchists (which is a dubious assumption by the way -- many of them were police frame-ups), but on that assumption it still turns out that more anarchists have been murdered by governments than all that can be accused of having murdered governors.
-- Robert Anton Wilson
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2024-07-25 12:00:09

A man who does not think for himself does not think at all.
-- Oscar Wilde
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2024-07-25 07:00:09

Government intervention in the market is the main source of large fortunes.
-- Kevin Carson
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2024-07-25 01:00:09

The greatest bulwark of capitalism is militarism.
-- Emma Goldman
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2024-07-24 21:00:09

In the first place, we are unequivocally opposed to the doctrine of total depravity. We hold that men are depraved only in so far as their surroundings make them so, and if those surroundings were removed, their depravity would disappear.
-- Joseph Labadie
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2024-07-24 17:00:09

While we have entertained the contention that a deed may make more propaganda than hundreds of speeches, thousands of articles, and tens of thousands of pamphlets, we have held that an arbitrary act of violence will not necessarily have such an effect.
-- Johann Most
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2024-07-24 12:00:10

There are periods in the life of human society when revolution becomes an imperative necessity, when it proclaims itself as inevitable.
-- Peter Kropotkin
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2024-07-24 07:00:10

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 Armand
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2024-07-24 01:00:09

Plebeian and bourgeois are equivalent. They deserve each other.
-- Renzo Novatore
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2024-07-23 21:00:09

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.
-- Banksy
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2024-07-23 17:00:09

As you have undertaken to destroy these races, not inferior, but merely latecomer, you tend in like manner to destroy the working class, which you also qualify as inferior.
-- Jean Grave
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2024-07-23 12:00:09

Anybody can make history. Only a great man can write it.
-- Oscar Wilde
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2024-07-23 07:00:10

I had been told that society's institutions were founded on justice and equality, and all around me I could see nothing but lies and treachery.
-- Emile Henry
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2024-07-23 01:00:10

Sexually progressive cultures gave us mathematics, literature, philosophy, civilization and the rest, while sexually restrictive cultures gave us the Dark Ages and the Holocaust.
-- Alan Moore
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2024-07-22 21:00:10

If revolution results only in a change of dictatorship, then it is hardly worth while.
-- Emma Goldman
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2024-07-22 17:00:11

The act of revolution brings an immediate transformation in the sense that the foundations of society are radically changed, but a progressive transformation in the sense that communism is a constant development.
-- Georges Fontenis
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2024-07-22 12:00:08

True intellectual culture and the demand for higher interests in life does not become possible until man has achieved a certain material standard of living, which makes him capable of these.
-- Rudolf Rocker
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2024-07-22 07:00:18

The government of man by man (under whatever name it be disguised) is oppression.
-- Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
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2024-07-22 01:00:09

Writers: express your rage against all iniquities during all your waking hours.
-- Fernand Pelloutier
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2024-07-21 21:00:08

I don't vote, because I firmly believe that if you vote, you have no right to complain.
-- George Carlin
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2024-07-21 17:00:09

The word "state" is identical with the word "war."
-- Peter Kropotkin
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2024-07-21 13:00:09

The whole history of man is continuous proof of the maxim that to divest one's methods of ethical concepts means to sink into the depths of utter demoralization.
-- Emma Goldman
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2024-07-21 08:00:08

At their very simplest, anarchist beliefs turn on to two elementary assumptions. The first is that human beings are, under ordinary circumstances, about as reasonable and decent as they are allowed to be, and can organize themselves and their communities without needing to be told how. The second is that power corrupts.
-- David Graeber
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2024-07-21 02:00:08

Most anarchists are, frankly, incapable of living in an autonomous cooperative manner. A lot of them aren't very bright. They tend to peruse their own classics and insider literature to the exclusion of broader knowledge of the world we live in.
-- Bob Black
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2024-07-20 22:00:09

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 Arshinov
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2024-07-20 18:00:09

If the machine of government is of such a nature that it requires you to be the agent of injustice to another, then, I say, break the law.
-- Henry David Thoreau
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2024-07-20 13:00:09

To revolt is a natural tendency of life. Even a worm turns against the foot that crushes it.
-- Mikhail Bakunin
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2024-07-20 08:00:30

Never do anything against conscience even if the state demands it.
-- Albert Einstein
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2024-07-20 01:00:09

There is no hope even that woman, with her right to vote, will ever purify politics.
-- Emma Goldman
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2024-07-19 21:00:08

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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2024-07-19 17:00:09

What is "being an active agent?" It is women struggling for liberation with their own might. What is "being a passive agent?" It is men's granting liberation to women... what active forces there have been have come from men, and as a result the benefits to women have not equaled those garnered by men.
-- He Zhen
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2024-07-19 12:00:09

I regretted Mathillet's death because he was a prole like us, a slave of bourgeois society. It was his gesture that was fatal.
-- Jules Bonnot
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2024-07-19 07:00:10

Do not preach the straight and narrow way while going joyously upon the wide one. Preach the wide one, or do not preach at all; but do not fool yourself by saying you would like to help usher in a free society, but you cannot sacrifice an armchair for it.
-- Voltairine de Cleyre
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2024-07-19 01:00:09

Stability means we run it. There are countries that are very stable. Cuba is stable, but that's not called stability.
-- Noam Chomsky
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2024-07-18 21:00:08

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 Ryner
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2024-07-18 17:00:09

Cybernetics is going to drive the whole world to decentralization which is what the anarchists have always urged. -- Robert Anton Wilson
-- Robert Anton Wilson
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2024-07-18 12:00:08

Anarchists emphatically reject a morality which denies the original concepts of right and wrong.
-- Erich Muhsam
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2024-07-18 07:00:09

A government that shall punish all vices impartially is so obviously an impossibility, that nobody was ever found, or ever will be found, foolish enough to propose it.
-- Lysander Spooner
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2024-07-18 01:00:10

In a republic, all are lords, that is, all despotize one over another.
-- Max Stirner
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2024-07-17 21:00:17

I am not myself free or human until or unless I recognize the freedom and humanity of all my fellowmen.
-- Mikhail Bakunin
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2024-07-17 17:00:09

If the federal government can't even count how many laws there are, what chance does an individual have of being certain that they are not acting in violation of one of them?
-- Moxie Marlinspike
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2024-07-17 12:00:09

Political freedom without economic equality is a pretense, a fraud, a lie; and the workers want no lying.
-- Mikhail Bakunin
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2024-07-17 07:00:17

I am a famous man. My name has been trumpeted to the four corners of the globe. All those people who go through so much trouble to get others to talk about them, yet don't succeed, must be very jealous about the publicity that the press has given my humble self.
-- Jules Bonnot
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2024-07-17 01:00:09

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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2024-07-16 21:00:18

As man grows refined, he comes also to live not only for himself and in himself.
-- Jean Grave
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2024-07-16 17:00:09

The revolution will be the flowering of humanity as love is the flowering of the heart.
-- Louise Michel
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2024-07-16 12:00:08

There are periods in the life of human society when revolution becomes an imperative necessity, when it proclaims itself as inevitable.
-- Peter Kropotkin
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2024-07-16 07:00:17

We live in a nightmare of falsehoods, and there are few who are sufficiently awake and aware to see things as they are. Our first duty is to clear away illusions and recover a sense of reality.
-- Nikolai Berdyaev
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2024-07-16 01:00:09

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 Carson
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2024-07-15 21:00:08

Parliament: A compound word from "parler" (to speak) and "mentir" (to lie).
-- Anonymous
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2024-07-15 17:00:08

I stand ready to negotiate, but I want no part of laws: I acknowledge none.
-- Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
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2024-07-15 12:00:09

Government intervention in the market is the main source of large fortunes.
-- Kevin Carson
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2024-07-15 07:00:08

In this country, where we have no continuing anarchist tradition, the young hardly know their tendency at all.
-- Paul Goodman
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2024-07-15 01:00:09

A man won't steal, ordinarily, unless that which he steals is something he cannot as easily get without stealing; in liberty the cost of stealing would involve greater difficulties than producing, and consequently he would not be apt to steal.
-- Voltairine de Cleyre
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2024-07-14 21:00:08

It is the fundamental duty of the citizen to resist and to restrain the violence of the state.
-- Noam Chomsky
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2024-07-14 17:00:08

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 Goldman
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2024-07-14 13:00:08

Anarchists know that a long period of education must precede any great fundamental change in society, hence they do not believe in vote begging, nor political campaigns, but rather in the development of self-thinking individuals.
-- Lucy Parsons
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2024-03-16 14:00:09

I consider it immoral to be a supporter of a power system.
-- Noam Chomsky
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2024-03-15 13:00:10

Whether individually or as a countless mass, man finds himself at the mercy of this band of drones going under the name of "governors and masters," when in reality they are nothing but straightforward exploiters and oppressors.
-- Nestor Makhno
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2024-03-13 22:00:11

As long as we have a master in heaven, we will be slaves on earth.
-- Mikhail Bakunin
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2024-03-13 18:00:10

It's impossible for a white person to believe in capitalism and not believe in racism. You can't have capitalism without racism.
-- Malcolm X
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2023-12-08 13:00:09

Anarchism does not mean bloodshed; it does not mean robbery, arson, etc. These monstrosities are, on the contrary, the characteristic features of capitalism. Anarchism, or socialism, means the reorganization of society upon scientific principles and the abolition of causes which produce vice and crime. Capitalism first produces these social diseases and then seeks to cure them by punishment.
-- August Spies
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