Man, according to the diverse conditions in which he moves, is more or less worthy or unworthy. The more he has a sense of his liberty, the more he also has a feeling of his dignity; the more respect he has for himself, and also for his fellows. -- Joseph Dejacquehttps://todon.eu/tags/anarchismhttps://todon.eu/@anarchistquotes/113202561624177707
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/113201146077868173
Men are as we have always known them, neither better nor worse from the hearts of rogues there springs a latent honesty, from the depths of honest men there emerges a brutish appetite -- a thirst for extermination, a desire for blood. -- Frederica Montsenyhttps://todon.eu/tags/anarchismhttps://todon.eu/@anarchistquotes/113164105125664841
All things are for all men, since all men have need of them, since all men have worked in the measure of their strength to produce them, and since it is not possible to evaluate every one's part in the production of the world's wealth. -- Peter Kropotkinhttps://todon.eu/tags/anarchismhttps://todon.eu/@anarchistquotes/113158442820187750
Workers, the most absolutely necessary part of the whole social structure, without whose services none can either eat, or clothe, or shelter himself, are just the ones who get the least to eat, to wear, and to be housed withal. -- Voltairine de Cleyrehttps://todon.eu/tags/anarchismhttps://todon.eu/@anarchistquotes/113151600834883944
Actually inventing or producing things is at best the path to small-time wealth. The really big fortunes -- the billionaire kind -- instead come from controlling the circumstances under which other people are allowed to produce things. -- Kevin Carsonhttps://todon.eu/tags/anarchismhttps://todon.eu/@anarchistquotes/113130131867169927
There is no horror, no cruelty, sacrilege, or perjury, no imposture, no infamous transaction, no cynical robbery, no bold plunder or shabby betrayal that has not been or is not daily being perpetrated by the representatives of the states, under no other pretext than those elastic words, so convenient and yet so terrible: "for reasons of state." -- Mikhail Bakuninhttps://todon.eu/tags/anarchismhttps://todon.eu/@anarchistquotes/113126592298722441
If you say that you reject violence when it exceeds the limits imposed by the needs of defense, they accuse you of pacifism, without understanding that violence is the whole essence of authoritarianism, just as the repudiation of violence is the whole essence of anarchism. -- Errico Malatestahttps://todon.eu/tags/anarchismhttps://todon.eu/@anarchistquotes/113118806620652221
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/113116211372002701
The anarchist ideals are far from being in contradiction, as the "scientific socialists" claim, to the laws of evolution as proved by science; they are a conception which fits these laws perfectly; they are the experimental system brought from the field of research to that of social realization. -- Errico Malatestahttps://todon.eu/tags/anarchismhttps://todon.eu/@anarchistquotes/113109605394799407
Yes: all men believe and repeat that equality of conditions is identical with equality of rights; that property and robbery are synonymous terms; that every social advantage accorded, or rather usurped, in the name of superior talent or service, is iniquity and extortion. All men in their hearts, I say, bear witness to these truths; they need only to be made to understand it. -- Pierre-Joseph Proudhonhttps://todon.eu/tags/anarchismhttps://todon.eu/@anarchistquotes/113107482026825978
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/113089315415483421
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/113086956096936307
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/113081293803511293
The most that a working-class party could do, even if its politicians remained honest, would be to form a strong faction in the legislatures which might, by combining its vote with one side or another, win certain political or economic palliatives. -- Voltairine de Cleyrehttps://todon.eu/tags/anarchismhttps://todon.eu/@anarchistquotes/113079170431722208
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