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While judging me judge all the unfortunate who poverty, combined ...

2026-10-14T07:01:17Z

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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Must the citizen ever for a moment, or in the least degree, ...

2026-10-14T01:00:19Z

Must the citizen ever for a moment, or in the least degree, resign his conscience to the legislator? Why has every man a conscience, then?
-- Henry David Thoreau

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Fascism becomes less and less possible. We have to accept that we ...

2026-10-13T21:00:21Z

Fascism becomes less and less possible. We have to accept that we are moving towards some sort of anarchy.
-- Alan Moore

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Are there any altruists who would go to hell in order that their ...

2026-10-13T17:00:09Z

Are there any altruists who would go to hell in order that their neighbors should go to heaven? There is no hope of reward in hell, and a true altruist must expect no reward for his acts.
-- Joseph Labadie

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

2026-10-13T12:00:09Z

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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After all, it means thirteen dollars per month, three meals a ...

2026-10-13T07:00:16Z

After all, it means thirteen dollars per month, three meals a day, and a place to sleep. Yet even necessity is not sufficiently strong a factor to bring into the army an element of character and manhood.
-- Emma Goldman

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I attacked the king because in my opinion he is responsible for ...

2026-10-13T01:00:14Z

I attacked the king because in my opinion he is responsible for all the pale and bleeding victims of the system that he represents and has to defend.
-- Gaetano Bresci

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The fact is that the government, like a highwayman, says to a ...

2026-10-12T21:00:09Z

The fact is that the government, like a highwayman, says to a man: Your money, or your life. And many, if not most, taxes are paid under the compulsion of that threat.
-- Lysander Spooner

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I offered to stay awake to let the others go to sleep, and ...

2026-10-12T17:00:09Z

I offered to stay awake to let the others go to sleep, and everyone laughed, saying that I would not even hear the cannon! But afterwards, one by one, they fell asleep, and I am watchful over all of them, while working for those who are to come.
-- Camillo Berneri

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Hate does not produce love; we will not renew the world by hate. ...

2026-10-12T12:01:16Z

Hate does not produce love; we will not renew the world by hate.
-- Errico Malatesta

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When "voluntary association" is spoken of, voluntary ...

2026-10-12T07:00:09Z

When "voluntary association" is spoken of, voluntary adhesion to a plan, a project, a given action, this implies the possibility of refusing the association, adhesion or action.
-- Emile Armand

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Even if a single United Nations World State would come into ...

2026-10-12T01:00:34Z

Even if a single United Nations World State would come into existence, it would solve nothing. It would still be composed of the reduced number of state organisms crystallizing around the remaining great powers.
-- Leopold Kohr

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In our so very civilized society it is necessary for me to live ...

2026-10-11T21:00:20Z

In our so very civilized society it is necessary for me to live the life of a savage. I must be free, even of governments.
-- Gustave Courbet

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Writers: express your rage against all iniquities during all your ...

2026-10-11T17:00:10Z

Writers: express your rage against all iniquities during all your waking hours.
-- Fernand Pelloutier

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The reaction always begins where one tries to bring life to a ...

2026-10-11T13:00:44Z

The reaction always begins where one tries to bring life to a certain norm. That is why yesterday's revolutionaries so often become today's reactionaries.
-- Rudolf Rocker

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We must fight authority and privilege, while taking advantage ...

2026-10-11T08:00:21Z

We must fight authority and privilege, while taking advantage from the benefits that civilization has conferred. We must not destroy anything that satisfies human need however badly -- until we have something better to put in its place.
-- Errico Malatesta

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If there be in nature such a principle as justice, it is ...

2026-10-11T02:00:08Z

If there be in nature such a principle as justice, it is necessarily the only political principle there ever was, or ever will be.
-- Lysander Spooner

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While we do preach perfect communism, it is not in the certainty ...

2026-10-10T22:00:21Z

While we do preach perfect communism, it is not in the certainty or expectation of communism's being the social form of the future: it is in order to further men's education, and round it off as completely as possible, so that, by the time that the day of conflagration comes, they will have attained maximum emancipation.
-- Fernand Pelloutier

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No one should ever work. Workers of the world... relax! -- Bob ...

2026-10-10T18:02:24Z

No one should ever work. Workers of the world... relax!
-- Bob Black

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Laws: We know what they are, and what they are worth! -- ...

2026-10-10T13:00:20Z

Laws: We know what they are, and what they are worth!
-- Pierre-Joseph Proudhon

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The social order of Spain ought to be overthrown; must be ...

2026-10-10T08:00:09Z

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

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The natural effect of unfettered market competition is socialism. ...

2026-10-10T01:00:09Z

The natural effect of unfettered market competition is socialism.
-- Kevin Carson

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Freedom can only be the whole of freedom; a piece of freedom is ...

2026-08-27T17:00:09Z

Freedom can only be the whole of freedom; a piece of freedom is not freedom.
-- Max Stirner

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Society, from which we have everything, is a new master, a new ...

2026-08-21T17:00:21Z

Society, from which we have everything, is a new master, a new spook, a new "supreme being," which "takes us into its service and allegiance!"
-- Max Stirner

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Government means the right to make the law and to impose it on ...

2026-07-23T21:00:20Z

Government means the right to make the law and to impose it on everyone by force: without a police force there is no government.
-- Errico Malatesta

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

2026-06-30T01:00:08Z

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 ...

2026-04-26T13:00:08Z

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

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

2026-03-12T08:00:08Z

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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The love of liberty and the sense of human dignity are the basic ...

2026-03-02T02:00:23Z

The love of liberty and the sense of human dignity are the basic elements of the anarchist creed. -- Frederica Montsenyhttps://todon.eu/tags/anarchism

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The people are conservative: they are satisfied with the society ...

2026-01-08T13:00:08Z

The people are conservative: they are satisfied with the society they find. The minority are innovators instead and therefore they rebel. -- Bruno Filippihttps://todon.eu/tags/anarchism

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The future social revolution must take into account the ...

2026-01-01T02:00:08Z

The future social revolution must take into account the circumstance that the industry and agriculture inherited by it from capitalism would not be uniform in the degrees of development of their various branches. -- Gregori Maximoffhttps://todon.eu/tags/anarchism

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Never ever separate thought from action, the things we know, the ...

2025-12-24T08:00:24Z

Never ever separate thought from action, the things we know, the things we understand, from the things we do, the things with which we carry out our actions. -- Alfredo Bonannohttps://todon.eu/tags/anarchism

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I desire neither to rule nor to be ruled. -- ...

2025-12-07T03:00:23Z

I desire neither to rule nor to be ruled. -- Otaneshttps://todon.eu/tags/anarchism

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In the name of Purity what lies are told! What queer morality it ...

2025-11-29T14:02:19Z

In the name of Purity what lies are told! What queer morality it has engendered. For fear of it you dare not tell your own children the truth about their birth; the most sacred of all functions, the creation of a human being, is a subject for the most miserable falsehood. -- Voltairine de Cleyrehttps://todon.eu/tags/anarchism

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

2025-09-19T21:00:09Z

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 Carlinhttps://todon.eu/tags/anarchism

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I am a fanatic lover of liberty, considering it as the unique ...

2025-09-08T01:00:25Z

I am a fanatic lover of liberty, considering it as the unique condition under which intelligence, dignity and human happiness can develop and grow. -- Mikhail Bakuninhttps://todon.eu/tags/anarchism

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As early as World War I, American historians offered themselves ...

2025-09-07T17:00:11Z

As early as World War I, American historians offered themselves to President Woodrow Wilson to carry out a task they called "historical engineering," by which they meant designing the facts of history so that they would serve state police. -- Noam Chomskyhttps://todon.eu/tags/anarchism

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Government means the right to make the law and to impose it on ...

2025-05-19T07:00:08Z

Government means the right to make the law and to impose it on everyone by force: without a police force there is no government. -- Errico Malatestahttps://todon.eu/tags/anarchism

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To be really medieval one should have no body. To be really ...

2025-04-07T21:00:08Z

To be really medieval one should have no body. To be really modern one should have no soul. To be really Greek one should have no clothes. -- Oscar Wildehttps://todon.eu/tags/anarchism

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The world does not need governing; in fact it should not be ...

2024-10-30T02:00:11Z

The world does not need governing; in fact it should not be governed. -- Zhuangzihttps://todon.eu/tags/anarchism

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One who pays some attention to history will not be surprised if ...

2024-09-29T17:00:11Z

One who pays some attention to history will not be surprised if those who cry most loudly that we must smash and destroy are later found among the administrators of some new system of repression. -- Noam Chomskyhttps://todon.eu/tags/anarchism

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