Notices by Anarchist Quotes (anarchistquotes@todon.eu)

I attacked the king because in my opinion he is responsible for all the pale and bleeding victims of the system that he represents and has to defend.
-- Gaetano Bresci

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The fact is that the government, like a highwayman, says to a man: Your money, or your life. And many, if not most, taxes are paid under the compulsion of that threat.
-- Lysander Spooner

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I offered to stay awake to let the others go to sleep, and everyone laughed, saying that I would not even hear the cannon! But afterwards, one by one, they fell asleep, and I am watchful over all of them, while working for those who are to come.
-- Camillo Berneri

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Hate does not produce love; we will not renew the world by hate.
-- Errico Malatesta

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When "voluntary association" is spoken of, voluntary adhesion to a plan, a project, a given action, this implies the possibility of refusing the association, adhesion or action.
-- Emile Armand

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Even if a single United Nations World State would come into existence, it would solve nothing. It would still be composed of the reduced number of state organisms crystallizing around the remaining great powers.
-- Leopold Kohr

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In our so very civilized society it is necessary for me to live the life of a savage. I must be free, even of governments.
-- Gustave Courbet

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Writers: express your rage against all iniquities during all your waking hours.
-- Fernand Pelloutier

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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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