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To be governed is to be watched over, inspected, spied on, ...

2026-07-19T10:00:09+02:00

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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Like it or not, the future of life on this planet pivots on the ...

2026-07-15T19:00:08+02:00

Like it or not, the future of life on this planet pivots on the future of society.
-- Murray Bookchin

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He who attempts to control another is a governor, an aggressor, ...

2026-06-30T03:00:08+02:00

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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Freedoms are not given, they are taken. -- Peter Kropotkin ...

2026-04-26T15:00:08+02:00

Freedoms are not given, they are taken.
-- Peter Kropotkin

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The whole economic system of capitalism is an offshoot of a ...

2026-04-25T20:00:08+02:00

The whole economic system of capitalism is an offshoot of a devouring and overwhelming lust, of a kind that can hold sway only in a society that has deliberately renounced the Christian asceticism and turned away from heaven to give itself over exclusively to earthly gratifications.
-- Nikolai Berdyaev

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Disorganization is the twin sister of irresponsibility, and ...

2026-04-02T03:00:23+02:00

Disorganization is the twin sister of irresponsibility, and together they lead to impoverished ideas and futile practice.
-- Peter Arshinov

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If there is a state, there must be domination of one class by ...

2026-04-01T23:00:08+02:00

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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We love to have agents provocateurs in the party, because they ...

2026-04-01T19:00:08+02:00

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

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Bigness, or oversize, is really much more than just a social ...

2026-04-01T14:00:23+02:00

Bigness, or oversize, is really much more than just a social problem. It appears to be the one and only problem permeating all creation.
-- Leopold Kohr

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If power is to be abolished it must be abolished not by force but ...

2026-04-01T09:00:08+02:00

If power is to be abolished it must be abolished not by force but by men's consciousness of its uselessness and evil.
-- Leo Tolstoy

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Anarchy is order; government is civil war. -- Anselme ...

2026-04-01T03:00:09+02:00

Anarchy is order; government is civil war.
-- Anselme Bellagarrigue

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The politicians are put there to give you the idea that you have ...

2026-03-31T23:00:08+02:00

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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We cannot help but believe that were every law, every title deed, ...

2026-03-31T19:00:08+02:00

We cannot help but believe that were every law, every title deed, every court, and every police officer or soldier abolished tomorrow with one sweep, we would be better off than now.
-- Lucy Parsons

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Heaven is home. Utopia is here. Nirvana is now. -- Edward Abbey ...

2026-03-31T09:00:50+02:00

Heaven is home. Utopia is here. Nirvana is now.
-- Edward Abbey

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A man who does not think for himself does not think at all. -- ...

2026-03-31T03:02:19+02:00

A man who does not think for himself does not think at all.
-- Oscar Wilde

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Socialism and communism both demand a degree of joint effort and ...

2026-03-30T23:00:29+02:00

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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The things people say of a man do not alter a man. He is what he ...

2026-03-30T19:00:08+02:00

The things people say of a man do not alter a man. He is what he is. Public opinion is of no value whatsoever.
-- Oscar Wilde

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It's called the American Dream, 'cause you have to be ...

2026-03-30T14:00:23+02:00

It's called the American Dream, 'cause you have to be asleep to believe it.
-- George Carlin

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The domination of man by the creation of man is even more ...

2026-03-30T09:00:08+02:00

The domination of man by the creation of man is even more ridiculous than the domination of man by man.
-- George Woodcock

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The worst crime of any type of state is just that it always tries ...

2026-03-30T03:00:08+02:00

The worst crime of any type of state is just that it always tries to force the rich diversity of social life into definite forms and adjust it to one particular form, which allows for no wider outlook and regards the previously exciting status as finished.
-- Rudolf Rocker

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It is capitalism and government which stand for disorder and ...

2026-03-29T23:00:08+02:00

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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At the base of contemporary capitalist society lies the principle ...

2026-03-29T15:00:08+02:00

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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Before the sacred, people lose all sense of power and all ...

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Before the sacred, people lose all sense of power and all confidence; they occupy a powerless and humble attitude toward it. And yet no thing is sacred of itself, but by my declaring it sacred, by my declaration, my judgment, my bending the knee; in short, by my conscience.
-- Max Stirner

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The English are always degrading truths into facts. When a truth ...

2026-03-29T04:00:08+02:00

The English are always degrading truths into facts. When a truth becomes a fact it loses all its intellectual value.
-- Oscar Wilde

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When we have undermined the patriotic lie, we shall have cleared ...

2026-03-28T20:00:23+01:00

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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Given a choice between anarchism and anarchy, most anarchists ...

2026-03-28T15:00:08+01:00

Given a choice between anarchism and anarchy, most anarchists would go for the anarchism ideology and subculture rather than take a dangerous leap into the unknown, into a world of stateless liberty.
-- Bob Black

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We want freedom by any means necessary. We want justice by any ...

2026-03-28T10:00:08+01:00

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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Revolutionary methods must be in tune with revolutionary aims. -- ...

2026-03-28T03:00:08+01:00

Revolutionary methods must be in tune with revolutionary aims.
-- Emma Goldman

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The anarchist individualists do not present themselves as ...

2026-03-27T23:00:08+01:00

The anarchist individualists do not present themselves as proletarians, absorbed only in the search for material amelioration, tied to a class determined to transform the world and to substitute a new society for the actual one.
-- Emile Armand

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Our authority is our own conscience. She is the one that pushes ...

2026-03-27T19:00:24+01:00

Our authority is our own conscience. She is the one that pushes us, she is our spur. We are slaves, but to our duty.
-- Ricardo Flores Magon

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"Class", "power", "state", are three ...

2026-03-27T03:00:15+01:00

"Class", "power", "state", are three inseparable terms, one of which presupposes the other two.
-- Mikhail Bakunin

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The one thing that the public dislike is novelty. -- Oscar Wilde ...

2026-03-26T23:01:12+01:00

The one thing that the public dislike is novelty.
-- Oscar Wilde

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If God really existed, it would be necessary to abolish him. -- ...

2026-03-26T14:00:09+01:00

If God really existed, it would be necessary to abolish him.
-- Mikhail Bakunin

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The most violent element in society is ignorance. -- Emma Goldman ...

2026-03-26T09:00:08+01:00

The most violent element in society is ignorance.
-- Emma Goldman

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Those that envision the goal from the first steps, those that ...

2026-03-26T03:00:24+01:00

Those that envision the goal from the first steps, those that want the certitude of reaching it before walking never arrive.
-- Albert Libertad

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If we hope and even assume that the social question will be ...

2026-03-25T23:00:08+01:00

If we hope and even assume that the social question will be answered through communism, and not in this or that country but in the world, any thought of centralization must be a monstrosity.
-- Johann Most

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We must not only act politically, but in our politics act ...

2026-03-25T19:00:23+01:00

We must not only act politically, but in our politics act religiously, religiously in the sense of freedom, of which the one true expression is justice and love.
-- Mikhail Bakunin

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Of the exercise of a right power may deprive me; of the right ...

2026-03-25T14:00:09+01:00

Of the exercise of a right power may deprive me; of the right itself, never.
-- Voltairine de Cleyre

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Revolutionary methods must be in tune with revolutionary aims. -- ...

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Instead of taking aim at some vague enemy, it's better wait a ...

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Instead of taking aim at some vague enemy, it's better wait a moment for him to turn into a friend.
-- Georges Brassens

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The subject is not whether we accomplish anarchism today, ...

2026-03-24T23:00:07+01:00

The subject is not whether we accomplish anarchism today, tomorrow, or within ten centuries, but that we walk towards anarchism today, tomorrow, and always.
-- Errico Malatesta

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If there be such a thing as truth, it must infallibly be struck ...

2026-03-24T09:00:23+01:00

If there be such a thing as truth, it must infallibly be struck out by the collision of mind with mind.
-- William Godwin

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The enemy is very strong because, for centuries past, he has made ...

2026-03-24T03:00:08+01:00

The enemy is very strong because, for centuries past, he has made his living from theft and violence: he has the accumulated experience of that, he has overcome internal crises and now he puts on a new face.
-- Nestor Makhno

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"Communist society"; in the sense of a society organized ...

2026-03-23T23:00:40+01:00

"Communist society"; in the sense of a society organized exclusively on that single principle -- could never exist. But all social systems, even economic systems like capitalism, have always been built on top of a bedrock of actually-existing communism.
-- David Graeber

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Capitalism and communism felt like they were always going to be ...

2026-03-23T19:01:12+01:00

Capitalism and communism felt like they were always going to be around, but it turns out they were just two ways of ordering an industrial society. If you were looking for more fundamental human political poles, you'd take anarchy and fascism, for my money.
-- Alan Moore

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In Germany, Austria-Hungary, Serbia, Romania, Belgium, England, ...

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In Germany, Austria-Hungary, Serbia, Romania, Belgium, England, the trade union organizations were political; they tailored their policies to be in accord with the socialist parties; can you deny that they collaborated in the war?
-- Angel Pestana

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As surprising as it might seem, there's a strong parallel ...

2026-03-23T03:00:39+01:00

As surprising as it might seem, there's a strong parallel between this free market vision of abundance and the Marxist vision of full communism.
-- Kevin Carson

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Never do anything against conscience even if the state demands ...

2026-03-22T19:00:24+01:00

Never do anything against conscience even if the state demands it.
-- Albert Einstein

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As a credo, individualist anarchism remained largely a bohemian ...

2026-03-22T10:00:55+01:00

As a credo, individualist anarchism remained largely a bohemian lifestyle, most conspicuous in its demands for sexual freedom ("free love") and enamored of innovations in art, behavior, and clothing.
-- Murray Bookchin

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The state is the most gigantic criminal extant. It manufactures ...

2026-03-21T20:00:23+01:00

The state is the most gigantic criminal extant. It manufactures criminals much faster than it punishes them.
-- Benjamin Tucker

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In the face of dogmas, of despots, of the sentimental, of ...

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In the face of dogmas, of despots, of the sentimental, of charlatans and regimenters, humanity's future belongs to reason.
-- Andre Lorulot

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Anarchism is the usher of science -- the master of ceremonies to ...

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Anarchism is the usher of science -- the master of ceremonies to all forms of truth. It would remove all barriers between the human being and natural development.
-- Lucy Parsons

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The great appear great because we are on our knees: Let us rise. ...

2026-03-21T03:00:23+01:00

The great appear great because we are on our knees: Let us rise.
-- James Larkin

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The anarchists have but one party, and that is humanity. -- ...

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The anarchists have but one party, and that is humanity.
-- Clement Duval

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The anarchists, on behalf of the proletariat, therefore consider ...

2026-03-20T19:00:24+01:00

The anarchists, on behalf of the proletariat, therefore consider it necessary to show the proletariat that it will have to win a gigantic battle before it realizes its goals.
-- Johann Most

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There is no such thing as harmless power. -- Nestor Makhno ...

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There is no such thing as harmless power.
-- Nestor Makhno

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Generally speaking, individualists are mere philosophers rather ...

2026-03-20T03:00:23+01:00

Generally speaking, individualists are mere philosophers rather than revolutionary activists.
-- Lorenzo Kom'boa Ervin

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If it is right for America to draft us, and teach us how to be ...

2026-03-19T23:00:08+01:00

If it is right for America to draft us, and teach us how to be violent in defense of her, then it is right for you and me to do whatever is necessary to defend our own people right here in this country.
-- Malcolm X

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In existing states a fresh law is looked upon as a remedy for ...

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In existing states a fresh law is looked upon as a remedy for evil.
-- Peter Kropotkin

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Anarchists no more want to be masters than they want to be ...

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Anarchists no more want to be masters than they want to be servants -- they no more want to exercise violence than to submit to it. They expose, they propose, but they do not impose.
-- Emile Armand

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Education is a slow process, and may not come too quickly. -- ...

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Education is a slow process, and may not come too quickly.
-- Benjamin Tucker

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Philosophy will not change the course of events: destiny will ...

2026-03-19T03:00:23+01:00

Philosophy will not change the course of events: destiny will fulfill itself regardless of prophecy. Besides, must not justice be done and our education be finished?
-- Pierre-Joseph Proudhon

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So long as the people do not care to exercise their freedom, ...

2026-03-18T23:00:23+01:00

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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The ecological principle of unity in diversity grades into a ...

2026-03-18T19:00:24+01:00

The ecological principle of unity in diversity grades into a richly mediated social principle; hence my use of the term social ecology.
-- Murray Bookchin

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The fact that Sacco and Vanzetti were murdered although obviously ...

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The fact that Sacco and Vanzetti were murdered although obviously innocent proves only one thing: that the concept of innocence and guilt is not an objective fact but is a measure imposed by the class struggle.
-- Alfredo Bonanno

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An anarchist society, far from being a remote ideal, has become a ...

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An anarchist society, far from being a remote ideal, has become a precondition for the practice of ecological principles.
-- Murray Bookchin

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Freedom, we want nothing more than freedom, since what freedom ...

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Freedom, we want nothing more than freedom, since what freedom does not do, not one institution whatsoever will be able to make possible.
-- Ricardo Mella

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Free culture benefits consumers, it benefits artists, and it ...

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Free culture benefits consumers, it benefits artists, and it benefits the general culture. The only people who don't benefit are the parastic corporations of Big Content.
-- Kevin Carson

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Only the man who has successfully rid himself of the chains of ...

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Only the man who has successfully rid himself of the chains of oppression and seen all the horrors being perpetrated against the human race can be persuaded that his freedom and that of his neighbor are inviolable, as are their lives, and that his neighbor is his brother.
-- Nestor Makhno

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The individualist anarchist critiques to free themselves and ...

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The individualist anarchist critiques to free themselves and others.
-- Emile Armand

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I am sorry to see friends impelled by passion drifting to the ...

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I am sorry to see friends impelled by passion drifting to the idea of vengeance, which is so little scientific, so sterile. But armed defense of a right is not violence.
-- Elisee Reclus

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Who wants a world in which the guarantee that we shall not die of ...

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Who wants a world in which the guarantee that we shall not die of starvation entails the risk of dying of boredom?
-- Raoul Vaneigem

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I had been told that society's institutions were founded on ...

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I had been told that society's institutions were founded on justice and equality, and all around me I could see nothing but lies and treachery.
-- Emile Henry

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To weaken authority and criticize its acts is not enough. A ...

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To weaken authority and criticize its acts is not enough. A negation, in order to be absolute, needs to complete itself with an affirmation. That is why I affirm liberty, why I deduce its consequences.
-- Joseph Dejacque

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The peoples owe all the political rights and privileges which we ...

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The peoples owe all the political rights and privileges which we enjoy today in greater or lesser measure, not to the good will of their governments, but to their own strength.
-- Rudolf Rocker

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Our destiny is to reach that state of ideal perfection in which ...

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Our destiny is to reach that state of ideal perfection in which nations will no longer need to be under the tutelage of a government or of another nation; it is the absence of government, it is anarchy, the highest expression of order.
-- Elisee Reclus

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An unjust law is no law at all. -- Augustine of Hippo ...

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An unjust law is no law at all.
-- Augustine of Hippo

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Ironically, the world idealized by primitivists would actually ...

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Ironically, the world idealized by primitivists would actually preclude the radical individualism celebrated by the individualist heirs of Max Stirner.
-- Murray Bookchin

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The demeaning system of domination I've described rules over ...

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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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The police are making more anarchists than I could do in ten ...

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The police are making more anarchists than I could do in ten years. -- Emma Goldmanhttps://todon.eu/tags/anarchism

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Capitalism and communism felt like they were always going to be ...

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Capitalism and communism felt like they were always going to be around, but it turns out they were just two ways of ordering an industrial society. If you were looking for more fundamental human political poles, you'd take anarchy and fascism, for my money. -- Alan Moorehttps://todon.eu/tags/anarchism

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So long as the people do not care to exercise their freedom, ...

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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 Cleyrehttps://todon.eu/tags/anarchism

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Just as I'm opposed to political fascism, I'm opposed to ...

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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 Chomskyhttps://todon.eu/tags/anarchism

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No nation keeps its word. A nation is a big, blind worm, ...

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No nation keeps its word. A nation is a big, blind worm, following what? Fate perhaps. A nation has no honor, it has no word to keep. -- Carl Junghttps://todon.eu/tags/anarchism

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The most improper job of any man is bossing other men. Not one in ...

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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. -- J. R. R. Tolkienhttps://todon.eu/tags/anarchism

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I am not a robber but one who has been robbed, someone who brings ...

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I am not a robber but one who has been robbed, someone who brings justice, who says that everything belongs to everyone, and that it is this clear logic of the anarchist idea, which makes your legs tremble. -- Clement Duvalhttps://todon.eu/tags/anarchism

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The oppression of one is the oppression of all, and we cannot ...

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The oppression of one is the oppression of all, and we cannot violate the liberty of one being without violating the freedom of all of us. -- Mikhail Bakuninhttps://todon.eu/tags/anarchism

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In the face of dogmas, of despots, of the sentimental, of ...

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In the face of dogmas, of despots, of the sentimental, of charlatans and regimenters, humanity's future belongs to reason. -- Andre Lorulothttps://todon.eu/tags/anarchism

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The State is said by some to be a "necessary evil"; it ...

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The State is said by some to be a "necessary evil"; it must be made unnecessary. -- Benjamin Tuckerhttps://todon.eu/tags/anarchism

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Durruti had learned endless things during the months of civil ...

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Durruti had learned endless things during the months of civil war, but the main lesson that he received was a full confirmation of the working class's capacity to govern itself and the damage done by the committees' bureaucratic leaderism. -- Abel Pazhttps://todon.eu/tags/anarchism

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Overcoming the problem of voluntary servitude, which has proved ...

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Overcoming the problem of voluntary servitude, which has proved such a hindrance to radical political projects in the past, implies this sort of ethical questioning of the self, an interrogation of one's subjective involvement and complicity with power. -- Saul Newmanhttps://todon.eu/tags/anarchism

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The Left (including the Black nationalist movement) really is in ...

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The Left (including the Black nationalist movement) really is in a backward stage. Rather than building on the legacy of the 1960's protests, we are instead losing ground and taking reactionary positions. -- Lorenzo Kom'boa Ervinhttps://todon.eu/tags/anarchism

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Unfortunately, a preoccupation with technical size, scale, and ...

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Unfortunately, a preoccupation with technical size, scale, and even artistry deflects our attention away from the most significant problems of technics -- notably, its ties with the ideals and social structures of freedom. -- Murray Bookchinhttps://todon.eu/tags/anarchism

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Durruti had learned endless things during the months of civil ...

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The one thing that the public dislike is novelty. -- Oscar ...

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The one thing that the public dislike is novelty. -- Oscar Wildehttps://todon.eu/tags/anarchism

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England is a prison. The variety of subtleties in the laws ...

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England is a prison. The variety of subtleties in the laws preserved by the sword are bolts, bars, and doors of the prison; the lawyers are the jailors; and poor men are the prisoners. -- Gerrard Winstanleyhttps://todon.eu/tags/anarchism

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A worker is a part-time slave. -- Bob ...

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A worker is a part-time slave. -- Bob Blackhttps://todon.eu/tags/anarchism

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At the basis of Proudhon's economic theory we find two ...

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At the basis of Proudhon's economic theory we find two essential ideas, that of value and that of exchange. These two ideas are only of interest in the regime of individual property. -- James Guillaumehttps://todon.eu/tags/anarchism

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It is the fundamental duty of the citizen to resist and to ...

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It is the fundamental duty of the citizen to resist and to restrain the violence of the state. -- Noam Chomskyhttps://todon.eu/tags/anarchism

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Take the principle that two wrongs don't make a right. If you ...

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Take the principle that two wrongs don't make a right. If you really took it seriously, that alone would knock away almost the entire basis for war and the criminal justice system. -- David Graeberhttps://todon.eu/tags/anarchism

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