Notices by Anarchist Quotes (anarchistquotes@todon.eu), page 5

Anarchy -- the sovereignty of the individual over his own actions -- is the goal for which we strive. Communism is one of those incidents that come afterwards.
-- Joseph Labadie

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Our standard account of monetary history is precisely backwards. We did not begin with barter, discover money, and then eventually develop credit systems. It happened precisely the other way around.
-- David Graeber

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Humanity can not be made equal by declarations on paper. Unless the material conditions for equality exist, it is worse than mockery to pronounce men equal.
-- Voltairine de Cleyre

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Socialism and communism both demand a degree of joint effort and administration which would beget more regulation than is wholly consistent with ideal anarchism.
-- Voltairine de Cleyre

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We are apolitical and take no part in party quarrels. In all spheres we are for the voluntary against the obligatory; for consent against imposition; for reason against violence; for free examination against dogmatism.
-- Emile Armand

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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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The population of the world is gradually dividing into two classes, anarchists and criminals.
-- Benjamin Tucker

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When we have undermined the patriotic lie, we shall have cleared the path for the great structure where all shall be united into a universal brotherhood -- a truly free society.
-- Emma Goldman

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I am unique. My flesh is not their flesh, my mind is not their mind.
-- Max Stirner

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Justice, equality, fraternity, prosperity of men... if God exists, all these things are condemned to non-existence.
-- Mikhail Bakunin

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What would have happened if one had really managed to enter the base and destroy it? I don't know. Probably nothing, possibly everything.
-- Alfredo Bonanno

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We love to have agents provocateurs in the party, because they always propose the most revolutionary motions.
-- Louise Michel

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To be governed is to be watched over, inspected, spied on, directed, legislated at, regulated, docketed, indoctrinated, preached at, controlled, assessed, weighed, censored, ordered about, by men who have neither the right, nor the knowledge, nor the virtue.
-- Pierre-Joseph Proudhon

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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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Non-violent resistance activities cannot succeed against an enemy that is able freely to use violence.
-- Noam Chomsky

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It is highly advantageous for the business world to foster hatred for pointy-headed government bureaucrats and to drive out of people's minds the subversive idea that the government might become an instrument of popular will, a government of, by and for the people.
-- Noam Chomsky

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So long as the people do not care to exercise their freedom, those who wish to tyrannize will do so; for tyrants are active and ardent, and will devote themselves in the name of any number of gods, religious and otherwise, to put shackles upon sleeping men.
-- Voltairine de Cleyre

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I think my brief period in the Panthers was very important because it taught me about the limits of -- and even the bankruptcy of -- leadership in a revolutionary movement.
-- Lorenzo Kom'boa Ervin

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Private capitalism, condemned by history, only survives today thanks to the arms race on the one hand, and the comparative failure of state communism on the other.
-- Daniel Guerin

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At the base of contemporary capitalist society lies the principle of private property, owing to which society is divided into two fundamental classes -- the capitalists and the proletariat.
-- Gregori Maximoff

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