"When society refuses you the right to exist, you have to take it and not help it along, which is cowardice."
"Back down? No. Not even when -- at the end of the road -- with no means of escape, I find myself against the wall of death."
"Rest in peace, poor Mata! Someone who never knew you has sworn to avenge you. And the memory of your blood-drenched eyes will drive his dagger; the vision of your mutilated body will render his bomb more effective."
"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."
"Anarchy is the negation of all authority."
"From the earliest days of the "revolution", anarchists began their trek through moral tragedy along the paths of pain -- the deportations, the exile, the imprisonment, the ghastly persecution and the shootings. Such is the lot of anarchists today. Just as it was yesterday and will be tomorrow."
"The people are conservative: they are satisfied with the society they find. The minority are innovators instead and therefore they rebel."
"I know that I live and that I desire to live."
"I have a god (dio) like everyone else; but this god is myself (io)."
"Maybe I am crazy. But my madness is the most terrible rationality. I see further, I feel life more vividly."
"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."
"If this is the road we must take, we cannot do it sustained and fettered by some phoney unproductive sentimentalism without also setting obstacles in the path of what we seek to advance as the goal of energetic rebellion."
"You have accused me of theft, as if a worker that has nothing could be a thief."
"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."
"We must ask in a manly and proud posture and not beg on our knees."
"I am not a thief but a sincere revolutionary, who has the courage of his convictions and who is devoted to his cause."
"Let us light the fuse on the dynamite of vengeance!"
"I envy the savages. And I will cry to them in a loud voice: "Save yourselves, civilization is coming.""
"To monotonously live the mouldy hours of the ordinary people, the submissive, the accommodated, a life of convenience, is not living, it is only vegetating and carrying around an amorphous mass of flesh and bones. To life one should give the exquisite elevation of the rebellion of the arms and the mind."
"I do not want to unite with the multitude of those who flatter the proletariat, excusing them, praising them, adorning them with wreathes."
"I regretted Mathillet's death because he was a prole like us, a slave of bourgeois society. It was his gesture that was fatal."
"In order to destroy an effect you must first destroy the cause. If there is theft it is only because there is abundance on one hand and famine on the other; because everything only belongs to some. The struggle will only disappear when men will put their joys and suffering in common, their labors and their riches, when all will belong to everyone."
"A small group of comrades, a small group who simply meet in the evening to have a chat would not be an affinity group but a group of friends, pub-mates who meet in the evenings to talk about anything under the sun."
"I am a famous man. My name has been trumpeted to the four corners of the globe. All those people who go through so much trouble to get others to talk about them, yet don't succeed, must be very jealous about the publicity that the press has given my humble self."
"In an informal organization there is no question of synthesis."
"Those who produce everything have nothing, and those who produce nothing have everything. Such a state of affairs can only produce antagonism between the laboring class and the owning, i.e., do-nothing, class. The fight breaks out and hatred delivers its blows."
"Theft is the restitution, the regaining of possession. Instead of being cloistered in a factory, like in a penal colony; instead of begging for what I had a right to, I preferred to rebel and fight my enemy face to face by making war on the rich, by attacking their goods."
"In creating the articles of the Criminal Code, the legislators forgot that they didn't attack the causes, but only the effects, and so they don't in any way destroy crime. In truth, the causes continuing to exist, the effects will necessarily flow from them. There will always be criminals, for today you destroy one, but tomorrow ten will be born."
"Being an anarchist does not mean one has reached a certainty or said once and for all, "There, from now on I hold the truth and as such, at least from the point of view of the idea, I am a privileged person." Anyone who thinks like this is an anarchist in word alone."
"I am not appreciated in this society. I have the right to live, and while your imbecilic criminal society tries to stop me, well too bad for it, too bad for you!"
"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."
"Very young, the virus of justice was inoculated to me and it earned me many a trouble."
"What would have happened if one had really managed to enter the base and destroy it? I don't know. Probably nothing, possibly everything."
"We are certain that communities of joy will emerge from our struggle here and now. And for the first time life will triumph over death."
"We'll burn off our last round against the cops, and if they don't care to come, we'll certainly know how to find them."
"Anarchy is the obliteration of property."
"Now, in a situation where the working class has practically disintegrated, the possibility of an expropriation of the means of production no longer exists."
"Masters aren't necessary, these people whose idleness is maintained by our labor; everyone must make himself useful to society, by which I mean work according to his ability and his aptitude."
"When [the synthesis anarchist organization] develops itself fully (as happened in Spain in '36) it begins to dangerously resemble a party. Synthesis becomes control."
"It is society that makes criminals and you, jury members, instead of striking you should use your intelligence and your strength to transform society. In one fell swoop you'll suppress all crime. And your work, in attacking causes, will be greater and more fruitful than your justice, which belittles itself in punishing its effects."
"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!"
"So that is why anarchists keep coming back to the question of what anarchism is. Because anarchism is not a political movement. Or rather it is, but only in a minor aspect."
"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."
"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."
"The world does not belong to us. If it has a master who is stupid enough to want it the way it is, let him have it."
