Notices by Anarchist Quotes (anarchistquotes@todon.nl), page 2

Protestantism has actually put a man in the position of a country governed by secret police. The spy and eavesdropper, "conscience," watches over every motion of the mind, and all thought and action is for it a "matter of conscience," that is, police business.
-- Max Stirner

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Anarchy is order; government is civil war.
-- Anselme Bellagarrigue

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Wanton killing of innocent civilians is terrorism, not a "war against terrorism."
-- Noam Chomsky

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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.
-- Peter Kropotkin

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This flagrant negation of humanity which constitutes the very essence of the state is, from the standpoint of the state, its supreme duty and its greatest virtue.
-- Mikhail Bakunin

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No one wants a boss, to be a boss, to work under a boss. The people you like working with are the people you respect as individuals.
-- Alan Moore

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Wheresoever it be, there will exist the power of certain men over others, and there will not be freedom, but there will be the oppression of one portion of mankind by another. Therefore power must be abolished.
-- Leo Tolstoy

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Every anarchist, as an anarchist, would be perfectly willing to surrender his own scheme directly, if he saw that another worked better.
-- Voltairine de Cleyre

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Side neither with nations nor with parties. Be neither Russians, Poles nor Slavs. Rather, be men who hunger for truth, free from any thoughts of particular interests, and from speculative ideas concerning the Chinese, Africans or Europeans. The patriot always ends up hating the foreigner, and loses the sense of justice that once kindled his enthusiasm.
-- Elisee Reclus

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Humanity can not be made equal by declarations on paper. Unless the material conditions for equality exist, it is worse than mockery to pronounce men equal.
-- Voltairine de Cleyre

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Freedom must be so extensive that it includes the right not to be free.
-- Max Nettlau

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A worker is a part-time slave.
-- Bob Black

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To be governed is to be watched over, inspected, spied on, directed, legislated at, regulated, docketed, indoctrinated, preached at, controlled, assessed, weighed, censored, ordered about, by men who have neither the right, nor the knowledge, nor the virtue.
-- Pierre-Joseph Proudhon

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In Spain, we should have enough intelligence, enough sense of individual and collective responsibility to do for ourselves that which would be imposed upon us by a dictatorship.
-- Frederica Montseny

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If we don't believe in free expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all.
-- Noam Chomsky

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The police are making more anarchists than I could do in ten years.
-- Emma Goldman

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The strongest bulwark of authority is uniformity; the least divergence from it is the greatest crime.
-- Emma Goldman

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Anarchism is the usher of science -- the master of ceremonies to all forms of truth. It would remove all barriers between the human being and natural development.
-- Lucy Parsons

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The "government of all the people", if we have to have government, can at best be only the government of the majority.
-- Errico Malatesta

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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.
-- Peter Kropotkin

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