Notices by Anarchist Quotes (anarchistquotes@todon.eu)

We anarchists do not want to emancipate the people; we want the people to emancipate themselves.
-- Errico Malatesta

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Just as I'm opposed to political fascism, I'm opposed to economic fascism. I think that until major institutions of society are under the popular control of participants and communities, it's pointless to talk about democracy.
-- Noam Chomsky

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The influence that theoretical anarchists pretend to wield over the revolutionary movement is nil. Today the field is open to action, without weakness or retreat.
-- Emile Henry

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The most complete freedom for the individual, his right to full satisfaction of all his needs, are absolutely legitimate claims, and there was no need to go out to dig up Nietszche and Stirner to give them some consecration.
-- Jean Grave

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In America, the president reigns for four years, and journalism governs for ever and ever.
-- Oscar Wilde

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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 Carson

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You may be wondering if I'm joking or serious. I'm joking and serious.
-- Bob Black

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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 Bakunin

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Consumer debt is the lifeblood of our economy. All modern nation states are built on deficit spending. Debt has come to be the central issue of international politics. But nobody seems to know exactly what it is, or how to think about it.
-- David Graeber

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In its mad passion for power, the communist state even sought to strengthen and deepen the very ideas and conceptions which the Revolution had come to destroy.
-- Emma Goldman

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Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live.
-- Oscar Wilde

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I do not myself feel that any person who is really profoundly humane can believe in everlasting punishment.
-- Bertrand Russell

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A person is strong only when he stands upon his own truth, when he speaks and acts from his deepest convictions.
-- Mikhail Bakunin

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Whosoever lays a hand on me in order to govern me is a usurper and a tyrant; I declare him my enemy.
-- Pierre-Joseph Proudhon

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Everyone complains about politicians. Everyone says they suck. But where do people think these politicians come from? They don't fall out of the sky; they don't pass through a membrane from a separate reality. They come from American homes, American families, American schools, American churches, and American businesses. And they're elected by American voters. This is what our system produces, folks. This is the best we can do.
-- George Carlin

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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 Dejacque

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Anarchism is not mysticism; it is not a discourse on beauty; it is not a cry of despair.
-- Peter Arshinov

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The liberty of man consists solely in this: that he obeys natural laws because he has himself recognized them as such, and not because they have been externally imposed upon him by any extrinsic will whatever, divine or human, collective or individual.
-- Mikhail Bakunin

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While judging me judge all the unfortunate who poverty, combined with natural pride, made criminals, and who wealth or ease would have made honest men. An intelligent society would have made of them men like any other!
-- Ravachol

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Network executives, talk show hosts, and newspaper publishers and editors travel in the same social circle as the powerful state and corporate figures whom they're theoretically supposed to serve as watchdogs over.
-- Kevin Carson

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