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/112937848631880909
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/112557058291972900
Ever since FDR and Truman crafted the postwar order at the end of WWII, the central goal of U.S. security policy has been to globalize the economy, expand the volume of international trade and maintain institutional arrangements for propping up global corporate rule. -- Kevin Carsonhttps://todon.eu/tags/anarchismhttps://todon.eu/@anarchistquotes/112537712108450068
Children, by nature, are keen, passionate and curious. What was referred to as laziness is often merely an awakening of sensitivity, a psychological inability to submit to certain absurd duties, and a natural result of the distorted, unbalanced education given to them. This laziness, which leads to an insuperable reluctance to learn, is, contrary to appearances, sometimes proof of intellectual superiority and a condemnation of the teacher. -- Octave Mirbeauhttps://todon.eu/tags/anarchismhttps://todon.eu/@anarchistquotes/112345429444108294
The anarchist believes that the government is the limit of liberty. He hopes, by destroying government, to expand liberty. The true limit is not government, but society. Government is a social product like another. We don't destroy a tree by cutting one of its branches. -- Han Rynerhttps://todon.eu/tags/anarchismhttps://todon.eu/@anarchistquotes/112344485702678483
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/112322544199851968
Only when one understands that she or he is part of a revolutionary movement to restructure society, even if it only wins immediate gains in the early stages, can the talk of functional "unity" be given any credence whatsoever. -- Lorenzo Kom'boa Ervinhttps://todon.eu/tags/anarchismhttps://todon.eu/@anarchistquotes/112317825764817810
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/112314758592730640
Nor can the nation-state and the capitalist system survive indefinitely. Not only is this system widening the divisions between rich and poor around the world into a yawning chasm, but it is also on a collision course with the biosphere. -- Janet Biehlhttps://todon.eu/tags/anarchismhttps://todon.eu/@anarchistquotes/112303669931885442
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. -- Banksyhttps://todon.eu/tags/anarchismhttps://todon.eu/@anarchistquotes/112286446930514603
If a man walk in the woods for love of them half of each day, he is in danger of being regarded as a loafer; but if he spends his whole day as a speculator, shearing off those woods and making earth bald before her time, he is esteemed an industrious and enterprising citizen. -- Henry David Thoreauhttps://todon.eu/tags/anarchismhttps://todon.eu/@anarchistquotes/112281964324434421
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/112270639684427529
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/112258135393237844
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