Notices by Anarchist Quotes (anarchistquotes@todon.eu)

The only generals that we should follow are the generals of the little tin soldiers.
-- Georges Brassens

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Oppressed brother, banish all power from within you and do not allow any to be established either over you or over your brother, be he near or far!
-- Nestor Makhno

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The Bolshevik practice of the last ten years shows clearly the counter-revolutionary role of their dictatorship of the Party.
-- Peter Arshinov

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It is the fundamental duty of the citizen to resist and to restrain the violence of the state.
-- Noam Chomsky

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If your object is to secure liberty, you must learn to do without authority and compulsion.
-- Alexander Berkman

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Most anarchists are, frankly, incapable of living in an autonomous cooperative manner. A lot of them aren't very bright. They tend to peruse their own classics and insider literature to the exclusion of broader knowledge of the world we live in.
-- Bob Black

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The sworn enemy of your emancipation is the state: it is best embodied by the union of these five stereotypes: the property-owner, the soldier, the judge, the priest and the one who serves them all, the intellectual.
-- Nestor Makhno

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When society refuses you the right to exist, you have to take it and not help it along, which is cowardice.
-- Clement Duval

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The solutions to each problem must not only be the most economically viable ones but must respond to the imperatives of justice and liberty and be those most likely to keep open the way to future improvements. If necessary, justice, liberty and solidarity must take priority over economic benefit.
-- Errico Malatesta

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Who cares about the victim if the gesture is beautiful?
-- Laurent Tailhade

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Socialism, on the contrary, extends its function to the description of society as it should be, and the discovery of the means of making it what it should be.
-- Benjamin Tucker

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All social arrangements should admit of this freedom of choice of every individual and all subordination should be voluntary.
-- Josiah Warren

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Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely.
-- Lord Acton

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How many times this must be proven in history before the libertarian believers in violent overthrow of the social order see the light is a deep and serious question. Some people never learn.
-- Laurance Labadie

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Freedom means more than the right to change masters.
-- Bob Black

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We do not fetishize organization, but in order to elaborate and defend this struggle, organization is a necessity.
-- Daniel Guerin

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Of course it's extremely easy to say, "The heck with it. I'm just going to adapt myself to the structures of power and authority and do the best I can within them." Sure, you can do that. But that's not acting like a decent person.
-- Noam Chomsky

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There are some whose nature it is to think and plead, and yield and yet return to the address, and so make headway in the minds of their fellowmen; and there are others who are stern and still, resolute, implacable as Judah's dream of God; -- and those men strike -- strike once and have ended. But the blow resounds across the world.
-- Voltairine de Cleyre

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The progress from an absolute to a limited monarchy, from a limited monarchy to a democracy, is a progress toward a true respect for the individual.
-- Henry David Thoreau

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Once the individual owns his own tools and his product, capitalism ceases to exist.
-- Emile Armand

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