185 quotes found
“A libertarian is someone who graduated from thinking that there are problems with the state to realizing that the state is the problem.”
“Because I care about human beings, I want them to be free to do what is right for them. Isn't that more important than mere peace on earth? Isn't freedom, even dangerous freedom, preferable to the ...”
“A thorough investigation would prove that nine crimes out of ten could be traced, directly or indirectly, to our economic and social iniquities, to our system of remorseless exploitation and robbery.”
“An anarchist is someone who rejects the curious notion that crimes become virtues as they grow in size.”
“Plantie is a very strong Protestant, that is to say, he's against all churches, especially the Protestant: and he thinks a lot of Buddha, Karma and Confucius. He is also a bit of an anarchist and t...”
“In Labor movements generally, success through violence can hardly be expected except in circumstances where success without violence is attainable.”
“Whom one is speaking to - or which aspect of their character - fundamentally determines the meaning and consequences of an exhortation. 'Indulge Your Desires' comes across very differently on a bil...”
“To be GOVERNED is to be watched, inspected, spied upon, directed, law-driven, numbered, regulated, enrolled, indoctrinated, preached at, controlled, checked, estimated, valued, censured, commanded,...”
“Anarchists did not try to carry out genocide against the Armenians in Turkey; they did not deliberately starve millions of Ukrainians; they did not create a system of death camps to kill Jews, gyps...”
“I believe that in time we will have reached the point where we will deserve to be free of government.”
“Anarchy is a state of society where the only government is reason.”
“Historical definition of a country's borders... "...here's where my murder geography ends and your murder geography begins, at least until I get more murderers to expand my murder-fest.”
“But what about human nature? Can it be changed? And if not, will it endure under Anarchism?Poor human nature, what horrible crimes have been committed in thy name! Every fool, from king to policema...”
“I consider Anarchism the most beautiful and practical philosophy that has yet been thought of in its application to individual expression and the relation it establishes between the individual and ...”
“Do not all theists insist that there can be no morality, no justice, honesty or fidelity without the belief in a Divine Power? Based upon fear and hope, such morality has always been a vile product...”
“But the question is, historically, part of the group that you're a part of - whether it's racial, gender, religious, whatever - how has your group fared historically? The groups that you're a part ...”
“Failure to recognize the historical specificity of the bourgeois conception of rights and duties leads to serious errors. It is for this reason that Marx registers...a vigorous indictment of the an...”
“As man seeks justice in equality, so society seeks order in anarchy”
“These ideas grew out of the Enlightenment; their roots are in Rousseaus Discourse on Inequality, Humboldts Limits of State Action, Kants insistence, in his defense of the French Revolution, that fr...”
“Anarchism? You bet your sweet betsy. The only cure for the ills of democracy is more democracy. Much more.”
