"When society refuses you the right to exist, you have to take it and not help it along, which is cowardice."
"Parliament: A compound word from "parler" (to speak) and "mentir" (to lie)."
"We can't do anything to change the world until capitalism crumbles. In the meantime we should all go shopping to console ourselves."
"What consoles me is that there are combatants that remain, because despite all the persecution, the anarchist idea has germinated and the theoretical revolution is ending, being quickly replaced by the practice of action."
"In the midst of the unspeakable chaos of philosophies of all kinds and of various moralities we can cull out the constant and persistent tendency which pushes the individual towards life. Towards an ever better life, freer and more noble: that is, towards happiness."
"Some people become cops because they want to make the world a better place, some people become vandals because they want to make the world a better looking place."
"Anarchy is the negation of all authority."
"You can win the rat race but you're still a rat."
"The greatest crimes in the world are not committed by people breaking the rules. It's people who follow orders that drop bombs and massacre villages. As a precaution to ever committing major acts of evil it is our solemn duty never to do what we're told, this is the only way we can be sure."
"The anarchists have but one party, and that is humanity."
"Ah well, this is the crime that I am here for: for not recognizing the right of these people to die of plenty while the producers, the creators of all social wealth, starve."
"You have accused me of theft, as if a worker that has nothing could be a thief."
"I passionately love humanity, and have dedicated my best efforts to the fight for the oppressed. All tyrants disgust me -- and all those who put up with them, adulate them, support them. After having brought them down will I make myself a tyrant in their place? I would be disgusted with myself."
"People, beware of demagogues. They are your worst enemies. They caress you only so they can better shear you."
"People who should be shot: Fascist thugs, religious fundamentalists, people who write lists telling you who should be shot."
"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."
"History is written by the victors."
"I am not a thief but a sincere revolutionary, who has the courage of his convictions and who is devoted to his cause."
"The art we look at is made by only a select few. A small group create, promote, purchase, exhibit and decide the success of art. Only a few hundred people in the world have any real say. When you go to an art gallery you are simply a tourist looking at the trophy cabinet of a few millionaires."
"Man will only be able to act usefully when he will have managed to destroy all lies, freed himself from all the superstitions given birth to by error, sought the truth in the jumble of knowledge and observations."
"The individualist is like a wolf who prefers the dangers of liberty to the routine of domestication. Individualists compare themselves to the bird who would prefer to suffer and struggle on its branch than to die a slow death in the servitude of a gilded cage."
"In the face of dogmas, of despots, of the sentimental, of charlatans and regimenters, humanity's future belongs to reason."
"Imagination is very important to having vision and trying to find things that are different, alternate ways."
"Money should be for ponies, not for war, I think."
"When you create Hope in people, you create expectations. When you do not fulfill those expectations, when the change becomes more of the same old, same old, the Hope that was created can only turn to anger, frustration and bitter disappointment."
"Like an operating system, the State defines us in relation to itself and each other. It defines us, for example, as citizens or residents, households and taxpayers. And these definitions make clear whether the state approves of our behavior."
"As a social anarchist, I believe that capitalism itself is an inherently exploitative hierarchical situation - you do have a boss, you do have somebody in charge."
"My personal view of the anarch-capitalists is that it's an oxymoron."
"The coming Revolution could render no greater service to humanity than by making the wage system, in all its forms, an impossibility, and by rendering Communism, which is the negation of wage-slavery, the only possible solution."
"No one is more qualified than you are to decide how you live; no one should be able to vote on what you do with your time and your potential unless you invite them to."
"Socialism greatly needs Anarchism as a critic and to keep it from sacrificing the individual and his originality to the domination of the mass."
"Anarchists believe we can run our lives without the government."
"Prisons are universities of crime, maintained by the state."
"The police represent the authority of the state, the willingness of the state to use violence to assert their will."
"Well, mutual aid is a very critical and important thing. For a while, I was saying libertarians have no souls, but I promised them I wouldn't if they hammered home the importance of mutual aid."
"Be strong. Overflow with emotional and intellectual energy, and you will spread your intelligence, your love, your energy of action broadcast among others! This is what all moral teaching comes to."
"The mutual-aid tendency in man has so remote an origin, and is so deeply interwoven with all the past evolution of the human race, that is has been maintained by mankind up to the present time, notwithstanding all vicissitudes of history."
"Bodies and the bullets are real. Painfully real. The concrete does not self-organize into the Wall. No border, invented by humans minds, asserts its own existence. No gun shoots itself. There is human action behind every border, every wall."
"When we have but the will to do it, that very moment will Justice be done: that very instant the tyrants of the Earth shall bite the dust."
"Have not prisons - which kill all will and force of character in man, which enclose within their walls more vices than are met with on any other spot of the globe - always been universities of crime? Is not the court of a tribunal a school of ferocity?"
"A structure based on centuries of history cannot be destroyed with a few kilos of explosives."
"It is a sad sight to see those who believe themselves to be revolutionaries unleashing their hatred on the anarchist."
"The state idea means something quite different from the idea of government."
"Idlers do not make history: they suffer it!"
"The means of production being the collective work of humanity, the product should be the collective property of the race."
"America is just the country that shows how all the written guarantees in the world for freedom are no protection against tyranny and oppression of the worst kind."
"Governmental communism, like theocratic communism, is repugnant to the worker."
"It is often said that anarchists live in a world of dreams to come, and do not see the things which happen today. We do see them only too well, and in their true colors, and that is what makes us carry the hatchet into the forest of prejudice that besets us."
"In place of the cowardly phrase, "Obey the law," our cry is "Revolt against all laws!""
"Instead of inanely repeating the old formula, "Respect the law," we say, "Despise law and all its attributes!""
"What economists call over-production is but a production that is above the purchasing power of the worker, who is reduced to poverty by capital and state."
"Freedoms are not given, they are taken."
"Sociability is as much a law of nature as mutual struggle."
"There are periods in the life of human society when revolution becomes an imperative necessity, when it proclaims itself as inevitable."
"It is above all over the question of the state that socialists are divided."
"In existing states a fresh law is looked upon as a remedy for evil."
"The individual is quite a world of federations, a whole universe in himself."
"The peoples of the world are becoming profoundly dissatisfied and are not appeased by the promise of the social democrats to patch up the state into a new engine of oppression."
"The word "state" is identical with the word "war.""
"Courage, devotion, the spirit of sacrifice, are as contagious as cowardice, submission, and panic."
"Individual appropriation is neither just nor serviceable. All belongs to all."
"America is just the country that shows how all the written guarantees in the world for freedom are no protection against tyranny and oppression of the worst kind. There the politician has come to be looked upon as the very scum of society."
"The law has no claim to human respect. It has no civilizing mission; its only purpose is to protect exploitation."
"The Roman Empire was a state in the real sense of the word. To this day it remains the legist's ideal."
"All things are for all men, since all men have need of them, since all men have worked in the measure of their strength to produce them, and since it is not possible to evaluate every one's part in the production of the world's wealth."
"Those animals which acquire habits of mutual aid are undoubtedly the fittest."
"The law is an adroit mixture of customs that are beneficial to society, and could be followed even if no law existed, and others that are of advantage to a ruling minority, but harmful to the masses of men, and can be enforced on them only by terror."
"One courageous act has sufficed to upset in a few days the entire governmental machinery, to make the colossus tremble."
"It is especially in the domain of ethics that the dominating importance of the mutual aid principle appears in full."
"A different conception of society, very different from that which now prevails, is in process of formation."
