We used to pay too little attention to utopias, or even disregard them altogether, saying with regret they were impossible of realization. Now indeed they seem to be able to be brought about far more easily than we supposed, and we are actually faced by an agonising problem of quite another kind: how can we prevent their final realization? -- Nikolai Berdyaevhttps://todon.eu/tags/anarchismhttps://todon.eu/@anarchistquotes/113355443996400655
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/113349781664890475
In order to destroy an effect you must first destroy the cause. If there is theft it is only because there is abundance on one hand and famine on the other; because everything only belongs to some. The struggle will only disappear when men will put their joys and suffering in common, their labors and their riches, when all will belong to everyone. -- Marius Jacobhttps://todon.eu/tags/anarchismhttps://todon.eu/@anarchistquotes/113333030930727827
Have not prisons -- which kill all will and force of character in man, which enclose within their walls more vices than are met with on any other spot of the globe -- always been universities of crime? Is not the court of a tribunal a school of ferocity? -- Peter Kropotkinhttps://todon.eu/tags/anarchismhttps://todon.eu/@anarchistquotes/113327132562050824
The paramount question of the day is not political, is not religious, but is economic. The crying-out demand of today is for a circle of principles that shall forever make it impossible for one man to control another by controlling the means of his existence. -- Voltairine de Cleyrehttps://todon.eu/tags/anarchismhttps://todon.eu/@anarchistquotes/113325716969323594
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/113322649877396955
One could wager, considering the number of anarchists when Franco took over, probably a considerable portion of the Spanish population are still anarchists. And if they could get out from under the Franco dictatorship they could attempt to implement anarchism once again. -- Robert Anton Wilsonhttps://todon.eu/tags/anarchismhttps://todon.eu/@anarchistquotes/113316987449849827
In the pettiest struggle, born of the needs of the moment, there must be mirrored the great goal of social liberation, and each such struggle must help to smooth the way and strengthen the spirit which transforms the inner longing of its bearers into will and deed. -- Rudolf Rockerhttps://todon.eu/tags/anarchismhttps://todon.eu/@anarchistquotes/113313448529528326
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/113308730026597816
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/113300236656842894
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/113297641579345839
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/113288675907474250
America is just the country that shows how all the written guarantees in the world for freedom are no protection against tyranny and oppression of the worst kind. There the politician has come to be looked upon as the very scum of society. -- Peter Kropotkinhttps://todon.eu/tags/anarchismhttps://todon.eu/@anarchistquotes/113273812342308156
Let every dirty, lousy tramp arm himself with a revolver or a knife, and lay in wait on the steps of the palaces of the rich and stab or shoot the owners as they come out. Let us kill them without mercy, and let it be a war of extermination. -- Lucy Parsonshttps://todon.eu/tags/anarchismhttps://todon.eu/@anarchistquotes/113271689467254438
If you list almost all of the assassinations that have been attributed to anarchists and assume that all of them were performed by anarchists (which is a dubious assumption by the way -- many of them were police frame-ups), but on that assumption it still turns out that more anarchists have been murdered by governments than all that can be accused of having murdered governors. -- Robert Anton Wilsonhttps://todon.eu/tags/anarchismhttps://todon.eu/@anarchistquotes/113266026790627890
The CNT's prisoners will have to thank the politicians for their release, and that to me who am an anarchist, has enormous implications. I would like to walk free thanks to the efforts of my comrades and not due to the philanthropy of someone whom I have to fight tooth and nail as soon as I am out. -- Buenaventura Durrutihttps://todon.eu/tags/anarchismhttps://todon.eu/@anarchistquotes/113251163104190189
If you consider these worthy electors as unable to look after their own interests themselves, how is it that they know how to choose for themselves the shepherds who must guide them? And how will they be able to solve this problem of social alchemy, of producing the election of a genius from the votes of a mass of fools? -- Errico Malatestahttps://todon.eu/tags/anarchismhttps://todon.eu/@anarchistquotes/113249039781985470
Society will have no need to create special institutions for a social insurance. Since it expects all to work, it will determine the minimum and maximum working ages, before and after which all people will be provided, on an equal footing with others, with the necessities for existence and the comforts of life. Similarly, society will provide for invalids, cripples and the sick. -- Gregori Maximoffhttps://todon.eu/tags/anarchismhttps://todon.eu/@anarchistquotes/113245500825431606
Private property has crushed true individualism, and set up an individualism that is false. It has debarred one part of the community from being individual by starving them. It has debarred the other part of the community from being individual by putting them on the wrong road and encumbering them. -- Oscar Wildehttps://todon.eu/tags/anarchismhttps://todon.eu/@anarchistquotes/113234176199695448
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/113225210909821464
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