The anarchist ideals are far from being in contradiction, as the "scientific socialists" claim, to the laws of evolution as proved by science; they are a conception which fits these laws perfectly; they are the experimental system brought from the field of research to that of social realization. -- Errico Malatestahttps://todon.eu/tags/anarchismhttps://todon.eu/@anarchistquotes/113494170742245246
Cuba has probably been the target of more international terrorism than the rest of the world combined and, therefore, in the American ideological system it is regarded as the source of international terrorism, exactly as Orwell would have predicted. -- Noam Chomskyhttps://todon.eu/tags/anarchismhttps://todon.eu/@anarchistquotes/113491811442876655
Our destiny is to reach that state of ideal perfection in which nations will no longer need to be under the tutelage of a government or of another nation; it is the absence of government, it is anarchy, the highest expression of order. -- Elisee Reclushttps://todon.eu/tags/anarchismhttps://todon.eu/@anarchistquotes/113487092851001632
The anarchist ideal is large and rich in its diversity. Nevertheless, the role of anarchists in the social struggle of the masses is extremely modest. Their task is to help the masses take the right road in the struggle and in the construction of the new society. -- Peter Arshinovhttps://todon.eu/tags/anarchismhttps://todon.eu/@anarchistquotes/113485913087288076
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 Bookchinhttps://todon.eu/tags/anarchismhttps://todon.eu/@anarchistquotes/113481430428703635
It is highly advantageous for the business world to foster hatred for pointy-headed government bureaucrats and to drive out of people's minds the subversive idea that the government might become an instrument of popular will, a government of, by and for the people. -- Noam Chomskyhttps://todon.eu/tags/anarchismhttps://todon.eu/@anarchistquotes/113456421879824614
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/anarchismhttps://todon.eu/@anarchistquotes/113455478307245917
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 Rockerhttps://todon.eu/tags/anarchismhttps://todon.eu/@anarchistquotes/113450523715738824
Today the anarchists are numerous enough to overthrow the current state of things, and if that hasn't yet happened, it's because we must complete the education of the followers, give birth in them to the energy and the firm will to assist in the realization of their projects. -- Ravacholhttps://todon.eu/tags/anarchismhttps://todon.eu/@anarchistquotes/113443917583935556
No one who knew that the flag consisted of a bit of black stuff on the end of a broomstick would believe it, and no more do you, sir. I wished to show that the laborers were dying of hunger and in need of work. It is the flag of strikes and famines. -- Louise Michelhttps://todon.eu/tags/anarchismhttps://todon.eu/@anarchistquotes/113415842785471649
The solutions to each problem must not only be the most economically viable ones but must respond to the imperatives of justice and liberty and be those most likely to keep open the way to future improvements. If necessary, justice, liberty and solidarity must take priority over economic benefit. -- Errico Malatestahttps://todon.eu/tags/anarchismhttps://todon.eu/@anarchistquotes/113402158112998884
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 Zhenhttps://todon.eu/tags/anarchismhttps://todon.eu/@anarchistquotes/113399563023347684
While governments are subjected to the principle of free experimentation, to free competition, they will improve and perfect themselves on their own. No more aloofness, up in the clouds, which only hides their emptiness. Success for them will entirely depend upon them doing it better and cheaper than the others do. -- Max Nettlauhttps://todon.eu/tags/anarchismhttps://todon.eu/@anarchistquotes/113396495905784354
Between these two classes, and with the growth of manufacture and commerce, there arose an intermediate class whose affluence depended on personal ingenuity and ability, in whose attitude entered little of either the master or slave psychology but who clearly saw that their well-being depended on the freedom to exercise their abilities. -- Laurance Labadiehttps://todon.eu/tags/anarchismhttps://todon.eu/@anarchistquotes/113392013240091101
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 Malatestahttps://todon.eu/tags/anarchismhttps://todon.eu/@anarchistquotes/113387294514703965
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/anarchismhttps://todon.eu/@anarchistquotes/113378565203611365
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 Cleyrehttps://todon.eu/tags/anarchismhttps://todon.eu/@anarchistquotes/113359690811114429
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