Notices by Anarchist Quotes (anarchistquotes@todon.eu), page 2

It is from the love of humanity that we are revolutionaries: it is not our fault if history has forced on us this distressing necessity.
-- Errico Malatesta

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It is not the product of their labors to which the workers have a right. It is the satisfaction of their needs, whatever the nature of those needs.
-- Joseph Dejacque

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Ever since the advent of "Scientific Socialism" every attempt to better the conditions of mankind has been labelled "Utopian" by the followers of Karl Marx.
-- Laurance Labadie

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The whole history of man is continuous proof of the maxim that to divest one's methods of ethical concepts means to sink into the depths of utter demoralization.
-- Emma Goldman

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Each of you hungry tramps who read these lines, avail yourselves of those little methods of warfare which science has placed in the hands of the poor man, and you will become a power in this or any other land. Learn the use of explosives!
-- Lucy Parsons

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They call me "a teacher, a fomenter of violence." I would say point blank, "That is a lie. I'm not for wanton violence, I'm for justice."
-- Malcolm X

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It is obvious that in calling on anarchists to organise on the basis of a definite program, we are not taking away as such the right of anarchists of other tendencies to organise as they think fit.
-- Peter Arshinov

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There cannot be a history of anarchism in the sense of establishing a permanent state of things called "anarchist." It is always a continual coping with the next situation, and a vigilance to make sure that past freedoms are not lost and do not turn into the opposite.
-- Paul Goodman

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First, then, God, being all-just, wishes to do justice; being all-wise, knows what justice is; being all-powerful, can do justice. Why then injustice?
-- Voltairine de Cleyre

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Dictatorship, the most extreme form of tyranny, can never lead to social liberation.
-- Rudolf Rocker

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It is capitalism and government which stand for disorder and violence. Anarchism is the very reverse of it; it means order without government and peace without violence.
-- Alexander Berkman

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Wars are, probably, the greatest of all destroyers of property, and they originate chiefly in two roots. First, for direct or indirect plunder; secondly, for the privileges of governing.
-- Josiah Warren

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He who attempts to control another is a governor, an aggressor, an invader; and the nature of such invasion is not changed, whether it is made by one man upon another man, after the manner of the ordinary criminal, or by one man upon all other men, after the manner of an absolute monarch, or by all other men upon one man, after the manner of a modern democracy.
-- Benjamin Tucker

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The demeaning system of domination I've described rules over half the waking hours of a majority of women and the vast majority of men for decades, for most of their lifespans.
-- Bob Black

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Organization is, after all, only a means to an end. When it becomes an end in itself, it kills the spirit and the vital initiative of its members and sets up that domination by mediocrity which is the characteristic of all bureaucracies.
-- Rudolf Rocker

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Like such titles as Christian and Quaker, "anarchist" was in the end proudly adopted by one of those against whom it had been used in condemnation.
-- George Woodcock

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The politicians are put there to give you the idea that you have freedom of choice. You don't. You have no choice. You have owners. They own you.
-- George Carlin

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While we prefer the republic, we must recognise and proclaim that whatever the form of government may be, so long as human society continues to be divided into different classes as a result of the hereditary inequality of occupations, of wealth, of education, and of rights, there will always be a class-restricted government and the inevitable exploitation of the majorities by the minorities.
-- Mikhail Bakunin

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The concept of the "majority" is particularly troubling. By always accepting the will of the majority, democracy allows for majorities to have an absolute tyranny over everyone else.
-- Moxie Marlinspike

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There is only one class in the community that thinks more about money than the rich, and that is the poor.
-- Oscar Wilde

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