Notices by Anarchist Quotes (anarchistquotes@todon.nl), page 5

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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The paramount question of the day is not political, is not religious, but is economic. The crying-out demand of today is for a circle of principles that shall forever make it impossible for one man to control another by controlling the means of his existence.
-- Voltairine de Cleyre

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Non-violent resistance activities cannot succeed against an enemy that is able freely to use violence.
-- Noam Chomsky

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Anarchism, to me, means not only the denial of authority, not only a new economy, but a revision of the principles of morality. It means the development of the individual as well as the assertion of the individual. It means self-responsibility, and not leader worship.
-- Voltairine de Cleyre

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The authoritarian principle has been proven bankrupt by the experience of the Russian Revolution.
-- Emma Goldman

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We anarchists do not want to emancipate the people; we want the people to emancipate themselves.
-- Errico Malatesta

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There are even moments when the authority of the socialists and communists is worse than the bourgeois, for they tear down their own ideas and trample on them.
-- Nestor Makhno

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We're all undesirable elements from somebody's point of view.
-- Edward Abbey

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If this is the price to be paid for an idea, then let us pay. There is no need of being troubled about it, afraid, or ashamed. This is the time to boldly say, "Yes, I believe in the displacement of this system of injustice by a just one; I believe in the end of starvation, exposure, and the crimes caused by them.
-- Voltairine de Cleyre

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Anarchism does not depend on theory or programs, which try to grasp man's life in its entirety. It is a teaching, which is based on real life, which outgrows all artificial limitations, which cannot be constricted by any system.
-- Nestor Makhno

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Rights have never been granted by authority. They have always been asserted against authority, and won from it.
-- Kevin Carson

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I hate communism because it is the negation of liberty and because for me humanity is unthinkable without liberty. I am not a communist, because communism concentrates and swallows up in itself for the benefit of the state all the forces of society, because it inevitably leads to the concentration of property in the hands of the state.
-- Mikhail Bakunin

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Liberate yourself as far as you can, and you have done your part; for it is not given to every one to break through all limits, or, more expressively: not to every one is that a limit which is a limit for the rest... he who overturns one of his limits may have shown others the way and the means.
-- Max Stirner

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They call me "a teacher, a fomenter of violence." I would say point blank, "That is a lie. I'm not for wanton violence, I'm for justice."
-- Malcolm X

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Liberty without socialism is privilege and injustice; socialism without liberty is slavery and brutality.
-- Mikhail Bakunin

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The paramount question of the day is not political, is not religious, but is economic. The crying-out demand of today is for a circle of principles that shall forever make it impossible for one man to control another by controlling the means of his existence.
-- Voltairine de Cleyre

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That government is best which governs not at all; and when men are prepared for it, that will be the kind of government which they will have.
-- Henry David Thoreau

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Since the birth of the state, the world of politics has always been and continues to be the stage for unlimited rascality and brigandage.
-- Mikhail Bakunin

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The anarchists never have claimed that liberty will bring perfection; they simply say that its results are vastly preferable to those that follow authority.
-- Benjamin Tucker

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We anarchists do not want to emancipate the people; we want the people to emancipate themselves.
-- Errico Malatesta