That the communist sees in you the man, the brother, is only the Sunday side of communism... If you were a "lazy-bones," he would not indeed fail to recognize the man in you, but would endeavour to cleanse him as a "lazy man" from laziness and to convert you to the faith that labor is man's "destiny and calling." -- Max Stirnerhttps://todon.eu/tags/anarchismhttps://todon.eu/@anarchistquotes/111839360353980181
Unless we realize that the present market society, structured around the brutally competitive imperative of "grow or die," is a thoroughly impersonal, self-operating mechanism, we will falsely tend to blame other phenomena -- such as technology or population growth -- for growing environmental dislocations. -- Murray Bookchinhttps://todon.eu/tags/anarchismhttps://todon.eu/@anarchistquotes/111822373405634606
Those who produce everything have nothing, and those who produce nothing have everything. Such a state of affairs can only produce antagonism between the laboring class and the owning, i.e., do-nothing, class. The fight breaks out and hatred delivers its blows. -- Marius Jacobhttps://todon.eu/tags/anarchismhttps://todon.eu/@anarchistquotes/111818834457612512
There are three kinds of despots. There is the despot who tyrannizes over the body. There is the despot who tyrannizes over the soul. There is the despot who tyrannizes over the soul and body alike. The first is called the Prince. The second is called the Pope. The third is called the People. -- Oscar Wildehttps://todon.eu/tags/anarchismhttps://todon.eu/@anarchistquotes/111817890790278288
Thus, on the one hand, the "unionised" are today in a position to understand, study and receive libertarian teachings: on the other, anarchists need not fear that, in taking part in the corporative movement, they will be required to forswear their independence. -- Fernand Pelloutierhttps://todon.eu/tags/anarchismhttps://todon.eu/@anarchistquotes/111816711201438541
There are some whose nature it is to think and plead, and yield and yet return to the address, and so make headway in the minds of their fellowmen; and there are others who are stern and still, resolute, implacable as Judah's dream of God; -- and those men strike -- strike once and have ended. But the blow resounds across the world. -- Voltairine de Cleyrehttps://todon.eu/tags/anarchismhttps://todon.eu/@anarchistquotes/111813172302997907
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 Pazhttps://todon.eu/tags/anarchismhttps://todon.eu/@anarchistquotes/111809869260699852
Anarchism, to me, means not only the denial of authority, not only a new economy, but a revision of the principles of morality. It means the development of the individual as well as the assertion of the individual. It means self-responsibility, and not leader worship. -- Voltairine de Cleyrehttps://todon.eu/tags/anarchismhttps://todon.eu/@anarchistquotes/111808453734377504
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/111806566219503642
In the name of Purity what lies are told! What queer morality it has engendered. For fear of it you dare not tell your own children the truth about their birth; the most sacred of all functions, the creation of a human being, is a subject for the most miserable falsehood. -- Voltairine de Cleyrehttps://todon.eu/tags/anarchismhttps://todon.eu/@anarchistquotes/111799724215083596
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/111795241623833591
The [specifically anarchist] organization is not a union or contractual understanding between individuals bringing their own artificial ideological convictions. It arises and develops as an organic, natural way because it corresponds to a real need. -- Georges Fontenishttps://todon.eu/tags/anarchismhttps://todon.eu/@anarchistquotes/111794297797939169
Those who produce everything have nothing, and those who produce nothing have everything. Such a state of affairs can only produce antagonism between the laboring class and the owning, i.e., do-nothing, class. The fight breaks out and hatred delivers its blows. -- Marius Jacobhttps://todon.eu/tags/anarchismhttps://todon.eu/@anarchistquotes/111793118308552060
Many anarchists, anarcho- and revolutionary-syndicalists, advocates of workers' councils, and other libertarian socialists, have made brilliant analyses of the workers' problems and come up with serious programs, but they continue to talk and dream instead of buckling down to work their ideas out in practice. -- Lorenzo Kom'boa Ervinhttps://todon.eu/tags/anarchismhttps://todon.eu/@anarchistquotes/111762211583867494
While we prefer the republic, we must recognise and proclaim that whatever the form of government may be, so long as human society continues to be divided into different classes as a result of the hereditary inequality of occupations, of wealth, of education, and of rights, there will always be a class-restricted government and the inevitable exploitation of the majorities by the minorities. -- Mikhail Bakuninhttps://todon.eu/tags/anarchismhttps://todon.eu/@anarchistquotes/111736259215711209
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/anarchismhttps://todon.eu/@anarchistquotes/111687657734993749
The worst crime of any type of state is just that it always tries to force the rich diversity of social life into definite forms and adjust it to one particular form, which allows for no wider outlook and regards the previously exciting status as finished. -- Rudolf Rockerhttps://todon.eu/tags/anarchismhttps://todon.eu/@anarchistquotes/111679636153228110
If our fathers, in 1776, had acknowledged the principle that a majority had the right to rule the minority, we should never have become a nation; for they were in a small minority, as compared with those who claimed the right to rule over them. -- Lysander Spoonerhttps://todon.eu/tags/anarchismhttps://todon.eu/@anarchistquotes/111675389390247279
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