Anarchism, nihilism, and terrorism are often mistakenly equated, and in most dictionaries will be found at least two definitions of the anarchist. One presents him as a man who believes that government must die before freedom can live. The other dismisses him as a mere promoter of disorder who offers nothing in place of the order he destroys. -- George Woodcockhttps://todon.eu/tags/anarchismhttps://todon.eu/@anarchistquotes/111665008371889535
The liberty of man consists solely in this: that he obeys natural laws because he has himself recognized them as such, and not because they have been externally imposed upon him by any extrinsic will whatever, divine or human, collective or individual. -- Mikhail Bakuninhttps://todon.eu/tags/anarchismhttps://todon.eu/@anarchistquotes/111662649251079431
We are neither for a majority nor for a minority government; neither for democracy not for dictatorship. We are for the abolition of the gendarme. We are for the freedom of all and for free agreement, which will be there for all when no one has the means to force others, and all are involved in the good running of society. We are for anarchy. -- Errico Malatestahttps://todon.eu/tags/anarchismhttps://todon.eu/@anarchistquotes/111658166457089021
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 Gravehttps://todon.eu/tags/anarchismhttps://todon.eu/@anarchistquotes/111651324605249436
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 basis. -- Mario Ferreira dos Santoshttps://todon.eu/tags/anarchismhttps://todon.eu/@anarchistquotes/111639999983581981
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 Woodcockhttps://todon.eu/tags/anarchismhttps://todon.eu/@anarchistquotes/111633157902092906
And as you are invaded and violated, so you subconsciously revenge yourself by invading and violating others over whom you have authority or can exercise compulsion. physical or moral. In this way all life has become a crazy quilt of authority, of domination and submission, of command and obedience, of coercion and subjection, of rulers and ruled, of violence and force in a thousand and one forms. -- Alexander Berkmanhttps://todon.eu/tags/anarchismhttps://todon.eu/@anarchistquotes/111621597461415344
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 Graeberhttps://todon.eu/tags/anarchismhttps://todon.eu/@anarchistquotes/111608385314987124
In this way, the state commune transforms the workers into soulless parts in the huge, centralised communist machine, parts who are obliged to be directed for their whole lives to a single purpose -- the maximum fulfilment of certain production tasks decreed by the state, and who are condemned to a minimum field of initiative, independent action and personal choice. -- Gregori Maximoffhttps://todon.eu/tags/anarchismhttps://todon.eu/@anarchistquotes/111604610431607174
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 Malatestahttps://todon.eu/tags/anarchismhttps://todon.eu/@anarchistquotes/111603666994800842
Apart from the individualist faction, we are all socialist anarchists and all in favor of community. I say all, because collectivism, as the Spanish anarchists understand it, is only a degree of the community of which, in their turn, those who call themselves communists do not reject a single word. -- Ricardo Mellahttps://todon.eu/tags/anarchismhttps://todon.eu/@anarchistquotes/111601543414957979
The collapse of communist systems nearly two decades ago led to a profound disillusionment in the west, not only with the communist project -- which had been in a state of crisis for some time -- but with radical left-wing politics generally. -- Saul Newmanhttps://todon.eu/tags/anarchismhttps://todon.eu/@anarchistquotes/111598004460689461
A consistent anarchist must oppose private ownership of the means of production, and the wage-slavery which is a component of this system, as incompatible with the principle that labor must be freely undertaken and under the control of the producer. -- Noam Chomskyhttps://todon.eu/tags/anarchismhttps://todon.eu/@anarchistquotes/111590454714044738
The power of the state will never deliver joy, happiness and fulfillment to any society. Such power was created by drones for the sole purpose of pillage and indulgence of their often murderous violence against those who do produce, through their toil -- whether through determination, intelligence or brawn -- everything useful and good in man's life. -- Nestor Makhnohttps://todon.eu/tags/anarchismhttps://todon.eu/@anarchistquotes/111578894387897651
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 Ervinhttps://todon.eu/tags/anarchismhttps://todon.eu/@anarchistquotes/111577714608548399
In order to destroy an effect you must first destroy the cause. If there is theft it is only because there is abundance on one hand and famine on the other; because everything only belongs to some. The struggle will only disappear when men will put their joys and suffering in common, their labors and their riches, when all will belong to everyone. -- Marius Jacobhttps://todon.eu/tags/anarchismhttps://todon.eu/@anarchistquotes/111568749117234494
The wise man notes that reforms change the names of things and not the things themselves. The slave became a serf, and then a salaried worker: nothing has been reformed but language. The wise man remains indifferent to these questions of philology. -- Han Rynerhttps://todon.eu/tags/anarchismhttps://todon.eu/@anarchistquotes/111566389930442252
Anarchism is not merely a doctrine that treats of man's social life, in the narrow meaning with which the term is invested in political dictionaries, and sometimes, at meetings, by our propagandist speakers. It is also a teaching that embraces the whole existence of man as a rounded individual. -- Nestor Makhnohttps://todon.eu/tags/anarchismhttps://todon.eu/@anarchistquotes/111560727635133718
Let every dirty, lousy tramp arm himself with a revolver or a knife, and lay in wait on the steps of the palaces of the rich and stab or shoot the owners as they come out. Let us kill them without mercy, and let it be a war of extermination. -- Lucy Parsonshttps://todon.eu/tags/anarchismhttps://todon.eu/@anarchistquotes/111557424500028407
Others invent more or less complicated system of mutuality. But in the long run it is always the searching for a more secure guarantee of freedom which is the common factor among anarchists, and which divides them into different schools. -- Errico Malatestahttps://todon.eu/tags/anarchismhttps://todon.eu/@anarchistquotes/111536662637427125
We cannot pretend that we do not see the policeman who walks in front of the windows with a loaded revolver, defending us, while we eat our savory dinner or view a new performance, or those soldiers who will immediately go with their guns and loaded cartridges to where our property will be violated. -- Leo Tolstoyhttps://todon.eu/tags/anarchismhttps://todon.eu/@anarchistquotes/111532416091820796
A man's natural rights are his own, against the whole world; and any infringement of them is equally a crime, whether committed by one man, or by millions; whether committed by one man, calling himself a robber, (or by any other name indicating his true character,) or by millions, calling themselves a government. -- Lysander Spoonerhttps://todon.eu/tags/anarchismhttps://todon.eu/@anarchistquotes/111530056690456994
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