Drawn at first to socialism, I was not slow in separating myself from that party. I have too much love of freedom, too much respect for individual initiative, too much repugnance for military organization, to assume a number in the ordered army of the fourth estate. -- Emile Henryhttps://todon.eu/tags/anarchismhttps://todon.eu/@anarchistquotes/113064306867274091
The point social ecology emphasizes is not that moral and spiritual persuasion and renewal are meaningless or unnecessary; they are necessary and can be educational. But modern capitalism is structurally amoral and hence impervious to moral appeals. -- Murray Bookchinhttps://todon.eu/tags/anarchismhttps://todon.eu/@anarchistquotes/113055577456647320
The equal exchange of labor would give as great a reward for honest and useful employments as for useless and fraudulent ones, and individual and unequivocal responsibilities (if for no other reasons) would induce a preference for the honest. -- Josiah Warrenhttps://todon.eu/tags/anarchismhttps://todon.eu/@anarchistquotes/113052982194238461
Without doubt, conventional right, contract and law, even universally and directly exercised, is not natural right, or justice. It is a compromise between anarchy and authority, and everything that is not completely just is injustice. -- Joseph Dejacquehttps://todon.eu/tags/anarchismhttps://todon.eu/@anarchistquotes/113031276703106635
The whole economic system of capitalism is an offshoot of a devouring and overwhelming lust, of a kind that can hold sway only in a society that has deliberately renounced the Christian asceticism and turned away from heaven to give itself over exclusively to earthly gratifications. -- Nikolai Berdyaevhttps://todon.eu/tags/anarchismhttps://todon.eu/@anarchistquotes/113013346015270362
The history of anarchism is a history of unparalleled defeat and martyrdom, yet anarchists venerate their victimized forebears with a morbid devotion which occasions suspicion that the anarchists, like everybody else, think that the only good anarchist is a dead one. -- Bob Blackhttps://todon.eu/tags/anarchismhttps://todon.eu/@anarchistquotes/113007683716878266
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/113004380865328436
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/112977484720294599
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/112976305179678477
The law is an adroit mixture of customs that are beneficial to society, and could be followed even if no law existed, and others that are of advantage to a ruling minority, but harmful to the masses of men, and can be enforced on them only by terror. -- Peter Kropotkinhttps://todon.eu/tags/anarchismhttps://todon.eu/@anarchistquotes/112972766156069551
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/112960261974088468
The proper method for hastening the decay of error is not by brute force, or by regulation which is one of the classes of force, to endeavour to reduce men to intellectual uniformity; but on the contrary by teaching every man to think for himself. -- William Godwinhttps://todon.eu/tags/anarchismhttps://todon.eu/@anarchistquotes/112954599589375942
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