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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, 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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.
-- Errico Malatesta
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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 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 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 waking hours.
-- Fernand Pelloutier
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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 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 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 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 Black
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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 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.
-- Kevin Carson
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