The most improper job of any man is bossing other men. Not one in a million is fit for it, and least of all those who seek the opportunity.
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Every anarchist, as an anarchist, would be perfectly willing to surrender his own scheme directly, if he saw that another worked better.
-- Voltairine de Cleyre
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I am not myself free or human until or unless I recognize the freedom and humanity of all my fellowmen.
-- Mikhail Bakunin
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It is the secret scandal of capitalism that at no point has it been organized primarily around free labor.
-- David Graeber
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The means of production being the collective work of humanity, the product should be the collective property of the race.
-- Peter Kropotkin
Usually, when people are sad, they don't do anything. They just cry over their condition. But when they get angry, they bring about a change.
-- Malcolm X
The world does not need governing; in fact it should not be governed.
-- Zhuangzi
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In fact, communism is the foundation of all human sociability. It is what makes society possible.
-- David Graeber
No, Henry VIII could never have obtained an air conditioner or computer. But Henry VIII didn't spend half his month's income on rent, or live a single paycheck away from eviction.
-- Kevin Carson
You can't separate peace from freedom, because no one can be at peace unless he has his freedom.
-- Malcolm X
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I am not a political man and I have no political convictions. I am an individual and a believer in liberty. That is all the politics I have.
-- Charlie Chaplin
Below a certain size, everything fuses, joins, or accumulates. But beyond a certain size, everything collapses or explodes.
-- Leopold Kohr
At their very simplest, anarchist beliefs turn on to two elementary assumptions. The first is that human beings are, under ordinary circumstances, about as reasonable and decent as they are allowed to be, and can organize themselves and their communities without needing to be told how. The second is that power corrupts.
-- David Graeber
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Apart from the individualist faction, we are all socialist anarchists and all in favor of community. I say all, because collectivism, as the Spanish anarchists understand it, is only a degree of the community of which, in their turn, those who call themselves communists do not reject a single word.
-- Ricardo Mella
All that's left to be done is that the workers take possession of the factory, the workshop, the mine, the foundry, the railroad, the ship, in a word, everything -- that they recognize no bosses of any type.
-- Ricardo Flores Magon
We need do no more than repeat: only under communism does the individual become himself and lead his own life.
-- Johann Most
Never do anything against conscience even if the state demands it.
-- Albert Einstein
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No future and no humanity, no communism and no anarchy is worthy of the sacrifice of my life.
-- Renzo Novatore
It is not a crumb of bread, but the harvest of the entire world that the human race needs, without exploiters and without exploited.
-- Louise Michel
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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
Abundant cheap credit would drastically alter the balance of power between capital and labor, and returns on labor would replace returns on capital as the dominant form of economic activity.
-- Kevin Carson
People who should be shot: Fascist thugs, religious fundamentalists, people who write lists telling you who should be shot.
-- Banksy
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For two decades the supporters of Bolshevism have been hammering it into the masses that dictatorship is a vital necessity for the defense of the so-called proletarian interests against the assaults of counter-revolution and for paving the way for socialism.
-- Rudolf Rocker
Cybernetics is going to drive the whole world to decentralization which is what the anarchists have always urged. -- Robert Anton Wilson
-- Robert Anton Wilson
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
Out of the class or property social system there cannot emerge a "representation" which signifies an honest attempt to secure just exposition of principles and expressions of antagonistic interests.
-- Guy Aldred
Anarchism seeks to arouse the consciousness of oppression, the desire for a better society, and a sense of the necessity for unceasing warfare against capitalism and the State.
-- Voltairine de Cleyre
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A structure based on centuries of history cannot be destroyed with a few kilos of explosives.
-- Peter Kropotkin
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What we mean by equality between the sexes is not just that men will no longer oppress women. We also want men to no longer be oppressed by other men and women no longer to be oppressed by other women.
-- He Zhen
There are periods in the life of human society when revolution becomes an imperative necessity, when it proclaims itself as inevitable.
-- Peter Kropotkin
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Heaven is home. Utopia is here. Nirvana is now.
-- Edward Abbey
The old motives of profit and self-interest will cease to dominate economic life. Instead the incentive will be the good of the members of society, without distinction.
-- George Woodcock
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Whosoever looks back on the history of socialism after the exclusion of the anarchists can see for themselves the gradual degeneration of Marxism as a political philosophy through the interpretations and practices of the social democrats.
-- Camillo Berneri
Is anarchism possible? The failure of attempts to attain freedom does not mean the cause is lost.
-- Johann Most
The only thing that one really knows about human nature is that it changes.
-- Oscar Wilde
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There are socialists all over the world, by the millions; but where is socialism... political socialism is politics without socialism, and nothing else.
-- Mario Ferreira dos Santos
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Today the anarchists are numerous enough to overthrow the current state of things, and if that hasn't yet happened, it's because we must complete the education of the followers, give birth in them to the energy and the firm will to assist in the realization of their projects.
-- Ravachol
Equality! I had always thought that it was the natural fruit of Liberty, which has no need of theory nor of constraint.
-- Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
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Anarchists prepare for social revolution and use every means -- speech, writing, or deed, whichever is more to the point -- to accelerate revolutionary development.
-- Johann Most
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Poverty is the cause of crime, and the laws that stand in the way of free production and exchange are the cause of poverty.
-- Joseph Labadie
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The right to vote, or equal civil rights, may be good demands, but true emancipation begins neither at the polls nor in courts. It begins in woman's soul.
-- Emma Goldman
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Infinite diversity instead of unity is inevitable, especially in the progressive or transitionary stage.
-- Josiah Warren
Now for the remedy. It is in one word, the only word that ever brought equity anywhere -- LIBERTY!
-- Voltairine de Cleyre
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
As far as the problem of the state goes, the lesson of the Russian revolution is written on the wall for all to see.
-- Daniel Guerin
It has come to pass in history that the workers have defeated capitalism, but the victory then slipped from their grasp, because some state power emerged, amalgamating the interests of private capitalism and those of state capitalism for the sake of success over the toilers.
-- Nestor Makhno
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We want freedom by any means necessary. We want justice by any means necessary. We want equality by any means necessary.
-- Malcolm X
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Patriotism: a willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons.
-- Bertrand Russell
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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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