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We anarchists do not want to emancipate the people; we want the people to emancipate themselves.
- Errico Malatesta
- Errico Malatesta
December 1, 2025 at 11:28 AM
We anarchists do not want to emancipate the people; we want the people to emancipate themselves.
- Errico Malatesta
- Errico Malatesta
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
- Lucy Parsons
December 1, 2025 at 1:16 AM
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
- Lucy Parsons
The state without slavery is unthinkable - and this is why we are the enemies of the state.
- Mikhail Bakunin
- Mikhail Bakunin
November 30, 2025 at 9:52 PM
The state without slavery is unthinkable - and this is why we are the enemies of the state.
- Mikhail Bakunin
- Mikhail Bakunin
That is what I have always understood to be the essence of anarchism: the conviction that the burden of proof has to be placed on authority, and that it should be dismantled if that burden cannot be met.
- Noam Chomsky
- Noam Chomsky
November 30, 2025 at 6:52 PM
That is what I have always understood to be the essence of anarchism: the conviction that the burden of proof has to be placed on authority, and that it should be dismantled if that burden cannot be met.
- Noam Chomsky
- Noam Chomsky
The liberty of man consists solely in this: that he obeys natural laws because he has himself recognized them as such, and not because they have been externally imposed upon him by any extrinsic will whatever, divine or human, collective or individual.
- Mikhail Bakunin
- Mikhail Bakunin
November 30, 2025 at 1:50 PM
The liberty of man consists solely in this: that he obeys natural laws because he has himself recognized them as such, and not because they have been externally imposed upon him by any extrinsic will whatever, divine or human, collective or individual.
- Mikhail Bakunin
- Mikhail Bakunin
Collective responsibility in revolutionary action... is a fundamental principle, which guides each one of us in our way of understanding the anarchist idea, in our determination that it should penetrate to the masses, in its spirit of sacrifice.
- Nestor Makhno
- Nestor Makhno
November 30, 2025 at 11:28 AM
Collective responsibility in revolutionary action... is a fundamental principle, which guides each one of us in our way of understanding the anarchist idea, in our determination that it should penetrate to the masses, in its spirit of sacrifice.
- Nestor Makhno
- Nestor Makhno
It is possible I can make very little of myself; but this little is everything, and better than what I allow to be made out of me by the might of others, by the training of custom, religion, the laws, the State.
Max Stirner
Max Stirner
November 29, 2025 at 9:58 PM
It is possible I can make very little of myself; but this little is everything, and better than what I allow to be made out of me by the might of others, by the training of custom, religion, the laws, the State.
Max Stirner
Max Stirner
The state is a social relationship; a certain way of people relating to one another. It can be destroyed by creating new social relationships; ie, by people relating to one another differently.
Gustav Landauer
Gustav Landauer
November 29, 2025 at 7:04 PM
The state is a social relationship; a certain way of people relating to one another. It can be destroyed by creating new social relationships; ie, by people relating to one another differently.
Gustav Landauer
Gustav Landauer
An anarchist is someone who doesn't need a cop to make him behave.
Ammon Hennacy
Ammon Hennacy
November 29, 2025 at 4:54 PM
An anarchist is someone who doesn't need a cop to make him behave.
Ammon Hennacy
Ammon Hennacy
Why, liberty of the press is only permission of the press, and the state never will or can voluntarily permit me to grind it to nothingness by the press.
- Max Stirner
- Max Stirner
November 29, 2025 at 2:14 PM
Why, liberty of the press is only permission of the press, and the state never will or can voluntarily permit me to grind it to nothingness by the press.
- Max Stirner
- Max Stirner
Efficiency' has come to mean vesting more and more power to managers, supervisors, and presumed 'efficiency experts,' so that actual producers have almost zero autonomy.
David Graeber
David Graeber
November 29, 2025 at 12:12 PM
Efficiency' has come to mean vesting more and more power to managers, supervisors, and presumed 'efficiency experts,' so that actual producers have almost zero autonomy.
David Graeber
David Graeber
The two principles referred to are authority and liberty, and the names of the two schools of socialistic thought which fully and unreservedly represent one or the other of them are, respectively, state socialism and anarchism.
- Benjamin Tucker
- Benjamin Tucker
November 28, 2025 at 11:26 PM
The two principles referred to are authority and liberty, and the names of the two schools of socialistic thought which fully and unreservedly represent one or the other of them are, respectively, state socialism and anarchism.
- Benjamin Tucker
- Benjamin Tucker
We must consciously create our own world, not according to mindless customs and destructive prejudices, but according to the canons of reason, reflection, and discourse that uniquely belong to our own species.
Murray Bookchin
Murray Bookchin
November 28, 2025 at 9:08 PM
We must consciously create our own world, not according to mindless customs and destructive prejudices, but according to the canons of reason, reflection, and discourse that uniquely belong to our own species.
Murray Bookchin
Murray Bookchin
Give us what belongs to us in peace, and if you don't give it to us in peace, we will take it by force.
Emma Goldman
Emma Goldman
November 28, 2025 at 6:22 PM
Give us what belongs to us in peace, and if you don't give it to us in peace, we will take it by force.
Emma Goldman
Emma Goldman
Capitalism is a system in which the central institutions of society are in principle under autocratic control.
- Noam Chomsky
- Noam Chomsky
November 28, 2025 at 3:22 PM
Capitalism is a system in which the central institutions of society are in principle under autocratic control.
- Noam Chomsky
- Noam Chomsky
People get accustomed to the established order of things and tremble at the idea of change. It is this lethargic spirit that needs be replaced by the revolutionary spirit
Bhagat Singh
Bhagat Singh
November 28, 2025 at 11:42 AM
People get accustomed to the established order of things and tremble at the idea of change. It is this lethargic spirit that needs be replaced by the revolutionary spirit
Bhagat Singh
Bhagat Singh
"Know thyself" was written over the portal of the antique world. Over the portal of the new world, "Be thyself" shall be written.
- Oscar Wilde
- Oscar Wilde
November 27, 2025 at 9:00 PM
"Know thyself" was written over the portal of the antique world. Over the portal of the new world, "Be thyself" shall be written.
- Oscar Wilde
- Oscar Wilde
Capitalism is the same everywhere. In order to survive and prosper it needs a permanent situation of partial scarcity: it needs it to maintain its prices and to create hungry masses to work under any conditions.
Errico Malatesta
Errico Malatesta
November 27, 2025 at 6:32 PM
Capitalism is the same everywhere. In order to survive and prosper it needs a permanent situation of partial scarcity: it needs it to maintain its prices and to create hungry masses to work under any conditions.
Errico Malatesta
Errico Malatesta
As a society, western democracies have moved beyond democracy into a new socio-economic formation, the formation/framework of the soft-totalitarian-state.
Michel Luc Bellemare
Michel Luc Bellemare
November 27, 2025 at 3:52 PM
As a society, western democracies have moved beyond democracy into a new socio-economic formation, the formation/framework of the soft-totalitarian-state.
Michel Luc Bellemare
Michel Luc Bellemare
Anarchists are socialists because they want the improvement of society, and they are communists because they are convinced that such a transformation of society can only result from the establishment of a commonwealth of property.
Johann Most
Johann Most
November 27, 2025 at 1:48 PM
Anarchists are socialists because they want the improvement of society, and they are communists because they are convinced that such a transformation of society can only result from the establishment of a commonwealth of property.
Johann Most
Johann Most
The soldier is applauded who refuses to serve in an unjust war by those who do not refuse to sustain the unjust government which makes the war.
- Henry David Thoreau
- Henry David Thoreau
November 27, 2025 at 11:38 AM
The soldier is applauded who refuses to serve in an unjust war by those who do not refuse to sustain the unjust government which makes the war.
- Henry David Thoreau
- Henry David Thoreau
Is it not plain that all these governments are systematic poisoners, interested stupefiers of the masses?
- Mikhail Bakunin
- Mikhail Bakunin
November 26, 2025 at 8:40 PM
Is it not plain that all these governments are systematic poisoners, interested stupefiers of the masses?
- Mikhail Bakunin
- Mikhail Bakunin
Individualist anarchism and communist anarchism are the same, or nearly so, in terms of moral motivations and ultimate goals.
- Errico Malatesta
- Errico Malatesta
November 26, 2025 at 6:24 PM
Individualist anarchism and communist anarchism are the same, or nearly so, in terms of moral motivations and ultimate goals.
- Errico Malatesta
- Errico Malatesta
Ambition is the last refuge of the failure.
- Oscar Wilde
- Oscar Wilde
November 26, 2025 at 4:20 PM
Ambition is the last refuge of the failure.
- Oscar Wilde
- Oscar Wilde
Most anarchists believe the coming change can only come through a revolution, because the possessing class will not allow a peaceful change to take place; still we are willing to work for peace at any price, except at the price of liberty.
- Lucy Parsons
- Lucy Parsons
November 26, 2025 at 2:16 PM
Most anarchists believe the coming change can only come through a revolution, because the possessing class will not allow a peaceful change to take place; still we are willing to work for peace at any price, except at the price of liberty.
- Lucy Parsons
- Lucy Parsons