Notices by Anarchist Quotes (anarchistquotes@todon.eu)

The reaction always begins where one tries to bring life to a certain norm. That is why yesterday's revolutionaries so often become today's reactionaries.
-- Rudolf Rocker

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We must fight authority and privilege, while taking advantage from the benefits that civilization has conferred. We must not destroy anything that satisfies human need however badly -- until we have something better to put in its place.
-- Errico Malatesta

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If there be in nature such a principle as justice, it is necessarily the only political principle there ever was, or ever will be.
-- Lysander Spooner

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While we do preach perfect communism, it is not in the certainty or expectation of communism's being the social form of the future: it is in order to further men's education, and round it off as completely as possible, so that, by the time that the day of conflagration comes, they will have attained maximum emancipation.
-- Fernand Pelloutier

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No one should ever work. Workers of the world... relax!
-- Bob Black

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Laws: We know what they are, and what they are worth!
-- Pierre-Joseph Proudhon

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The social order of Spain ought to be overthrown; must be overthrown, will be overthrown; and Ferrer was doing a mighty work in that direction. The men who killed him knew and understood it well.
-- Voltairine de Cleyre

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The natural effect of unfettered market competition is socialism.
-- Kevin Carson

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Aggression is simply another name for government.
-- Benjamin Tucker

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If there is a state, there must be domination of one class by another and, as a result, slavery.
-- Mikhail Bakunin

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Is a democracy, such as we know it, the last improvement possible in government? Is it not possible to take a step further towards recognizing and organizing the rights of man?
-- Henry David Thoreau

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We need anarchists unencumbered by anarchism. Then, and only then, we can begin to get serious about fomenting anarchy.
-- Bob Black

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When we have but the will to do it, that very moment will Justice be done: that very instant the tyrants of the Earth shall bite the dust.
-- Peter Kropotkin

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Laws: We know what they are, and what they are worth!
-- Pierre-Joseph Proudhon

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All laws are wicked, all judgments are unfair, all judges are wrong, all prisoners are innocent.
-- Albert Libertad

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To weaken authority and criticize its acts is not enough. A negation, in order to be absolute, needs to complete itself with an affirmation. That is why I affirm liberty, why I deduce its consequences.
-- Joseph Dejacque

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What a strange development of patriotism that turns a thinking being into a loyal machine!
-- Emma Goldman

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Not all those who are considered anarchists are pure anarchists. Tolstoy and Kropotkin have to be thrown out, having very little anarchy in their systems. They are anarchists only in the political sphere, and in all other relations between people they remain ardent communists.
-- Lev Chernyi

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It is often said that anarchists live in a world of dreams to come, and do not see the things which happen today. We do see them only too well, and in their true colors, and that is what makes us carry the hatchet into the forest of prejudice that besets us.
-- Peter Kropotkin

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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 Cleyre

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