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/112252473160884062
I hate communism because it is the negation of liberty and because for me humanity is unthinkable without liberty. I am not a communist, because communism concentrates and swallows up in itself for the benefit of the state all the forces of society, because it inevitably leads to the concentration of property in the hands of the state. -- Mikhail Bakuninhttps://todon.eu/tags/anarchismhttps://todon.eu/@anarchistquotes/112248934195309287
I say, if death is the penalty for proclaiming truth, then I will proudly and defiantly pay the costly price! Truth crucified in Socrates, in Christ, in Giordano Bruno, in Huss, Galileo still lives -- they and others whose number is legion have preceded us on this path. We are ready to follow! -- August Spieshttps://todon.eu/tags/anarchismhttps://todon.eu/@anarchistquotes/112237609571512584
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/112235486181498565
Class is massively underrepresented in literature. Most books are written for the middle class, and generally they only have two modes of talking about the working class. The first is a kind of lofty contempt at the vulgarity, the stupidity of those people. The second is a kind of patronizing concern, which paints the working class as nothing but victims. -- Alan Moorehttps://todon.eu/tags/anarchismhttps://todon.eu/@anarchistquotes/112234306598565457
I -- anarchist and individualist -- don't want to and cannot embrace the cause of atheist communism, because I don't believe in the supreme elevation of the masses and therefore I refuse the realization of Anarchy understood as a social form of human life together. -- Renzo Novatorehttps://todon.eu/tags/anarchismhttps://todon.eu/@anarchistquotes/112232891111258128
Today, go blossom in the shadow of the dark and sad prisons. Go, bloom near the somber captive, and tell them truly that we love them. Tell them that through fleeting time, everything belongs to the future, that the livid conqueror can die more surely than the conquered. -- Louise Michelhttps://todon.eu/tags/anarchismhttps://todon.eu/@anarchistquotes/112231947244098831
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/112231003549193116
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. -- Banksyhttps://todon.eu/tags/anarchismhttps://todon.eu/@anarchistquotes/112227464696042932
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/112226521060990629
In order to fully realise our aspirations, we must create in the masses of the people the sense of sacrifice and responsibility that has been the characteristic of the anarchist movement throughout its historic development in Spain. -- Frederica Montsenyhttps://todon.eu/tags/anarchismhttps://todon.eu/@anarchistquotes/112218499239539647
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/111917453126299221
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/111908723657181586
By anarchist spirit I mean that deeply human sentiment, which aims at the good of all, freedom and justice for all, solidarity and love among the people; which is not an exclusive characteristic only of self-declared anarchists, but inspires all people who have a generous heart and an open mind. -- Errico Malatestahttps://todon.eu/tags/anarchismhttps://todon.eu/@anarchistquotes/111902825437025437
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/111897163236069297
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/111894803970200129
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/111890321279173712
Everyone complains about politicians. Everyone says they suck. But where do people think these politicians come from? They don't fall out of the sky; they don't pass through a membrane from a separate reality. They come from American homes, American families, American schools, American churches, and American businesses. And they're elected by American voters. This is what our system produces, folks. This is the best we can do. -- George Carlinhttps://todon.eu/tags/anarchismhttps://todon.eu/@anarchistquotes/111887726193815879
From the earliest days of the "revolution", anarchists began their trek through moral tragedy along the paths of pain -- the deportations, the exile, the imprisonment, the ghastly persecution and the shootings. Such is the lot of anarchists today. Just as it was yesterday and will be tomorrow. -- Severino Di Giovannihttps://todon.eu/tags/anarchismhttps://todon.eu/@anarchistquotes/111880176199431983
Even if you believe that voting is more than a selection of meaningless choices designed to mask the true lack of agency we have, there is a tremendous amount of money and power and influence on the other side of this equation. So don't just vote or petition. -- Moxie Marlinspikehttps://todon.eu/tags/anarchismhttps://todon.eu/@anarchistquotes/111875457603249865
In the United States, the New Left has agreed to regard itself as Marxist and speaks of seizing power and building socialism, although it is strongly opposed to centralized power and it has no economic theory whatever for a society and technology like ours. -- Paul Goodmanhttps://todon.eu/tags/anarchismhttps://todon.eu/@anarchistquotes/111870975120119045
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/111870031330044699
I hate communism because it is the negation of liberty and because for me humanity is unthinkable without liberty. I am not a communist, because communism concentrates and swallows up in itself for the benefit of the state all the forces of society, because it inevitably leads to the concentration of property in the hands of the state. -- Mikhail Bakuninhttps://todon.eu/tags/anarchismhttps://todon.eu/@anarchistquotes/111864133106514655
Theft is the restitution, the regaining of possession. Instead of being cloistered in a factory, like in a penal colony; instead of begging for what I had a right to, I preferred to rebel and fight my enemy face to face by making war on the rich, by attacking their goods. -- Marius Jacobhttps://todon.eu/tags/anarchismhttps://todon.eu/@anarchistquotes/111862009719293057
I mean, "chaos" is a meaning of the word, but it's not a meaning that has any relevance to social thought. Anarchy as a social philosophy has never meant "chaos" -- in fact, anarchists have typically believed in a highly organized society, just one that's organized democratically from below. -- Noam Chomsky https://todon.eu/tags/anarchismhttps://todon.eu/@anarchistquotes/111856347347273306
Anarchy's roots go deep: its spouts from the bosom of a rotten society that is falling apart; it is a violent backlash against the established order; it stands for the aspirations to equality and liberty which have entered the lists against the current authoritarianism. -- Emile Henryhttps://todon.eu/tags/anarchismhttps://todon.eu/@anarchistquotes/111855167834241695
Durruti had learned endless things during the months of civil war, but the main lesson that he received was a full confirmation of the working class's capacity to govern itself and the damage done by the committees' bureaucratic leaderism. -- Abel Pazhttps://todon.eu/tags/anarchismhttps://todon.eu/@anarchistquotes/111852808419540922
The revolution has cast a powerful net of sympathy among the workers of the entire world, and it would be most unfortunate if we were to deliver ourselves over to debates that are more or less partisan and biased and thus destroy the achievements to which this sympathy has given rise. -- Angel Pestanahttps://todon.eu/tags/anarchismhttps://todon.eu/@anarchistquotes/111849505534708752
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As a credo, individualist anarchism remained largely a bohemian lifestyle, most conspicuous in its demands for sexual freedom ("free love") and enamored of innovations in art, behavior, and clothing. -- Murray Bookchinhttps://todon.eu/tags/anarchism https://todon.eu/@anarchistquotes/111851864687174588