We anarchists do not want to emancipate the people; we want the people to emancipate themselves. — Errico Malatesta Copy Share Image
Not whether we accomplish anarchism today, tomorrow, or within ten centuries, but that we walk towards anarchism today, tomorrow, and always. — Errico Malatesta Copy Share Image
If you say that you reject violence when it exceeds the limits imposed by the needs of defense, they accuse you of… — Errico Malatesta Copy Share Image
Intolerance of oppression, the desire to be free and develop one personality to its full limits, is not enough to make one… — Errico Malatesta Copy Share Image
Anarchy is a word that comes from the Greek, and signifies, strictly speaking, "without government": the state of a people without any… — Errico Malatesta Copy Share Image
In the anarchist milieu, communism, individualism, collectivism, mutualism and all the intermediate and eclectic programmes are simply the ways considered best for… — Errico Malatesta Copy Share Image
Anarchists are opposed to violence; everyone knows that. The main plank of anarchism is the removal of violence from human relations. It… — Errico Malatesta Copy Share Image
Anarchists generally make use if the word "State" to mean all the collection of institutions, political, legislative, judicial, military, financial, etc., by… — Errico Malatesta Copy Share Image
Anarchism is the abolition of exploitation and oppression of man by man, that is, the abolition of private property and government; Anarchism… — Errico Malatesta Copy Share Image
“The methods from which the different non-anarchist parties expect, or say they do, the greatest good of one and all can be… — Errico Malatesta Copy Share Image
The only limit to the oppression of government is the power with which the people show themselves capable of opposing it. — Errico Malatesta Copy Share
Anarchists are opposed to violence; everyone knows that. The main plank of anarchism is the removal of violence from human relations. It is life… — Errico Malatesta Copy Share
The question may seem embarrassing, but it can be answered in a few words. For two people to live in peace they must both… — Errico Malatesta Copy Share
The basic function of the government everywhere in all times, whatever title it adopts and whatever its origin and organisation may be, is always… — Errico Malatesta Copy Share
“In all times and in all places, whatever may be the name that the government takes, whatever has been its origin, or its organization,… — Errico Malatesta Copy Share
“Capitalism is the same everywhere. In order to survive and prosper it needs a permanent situation of partial scarcity: it needs it to maintain… — Errico Malatesta Copy Share
“Communism made through the will of a government instead of through the direct and voluntary work of groups of workers does not really appeal… — Errico Malatesta Copy Share
Experience through freedom is the only means to arrive at the truth and the best solutions; and there is no freedom if there is… — Errico Malatesta Copy Share
We follow ideas and not men, and rebel against this habit of embodying a principle in a man. — Errico Malatesta Copy Share
“The methods from which the different non-anarchist parties expect, or say they do, the greatest good of one and all can be reduced to… — Errico Malatesta Copy Share
And by anarchist spirit I mean that deeply human sentiment, which aims at the good of all, freedom and justice for all, solidarity and… — Errico Malatesta Copy Share
If you say that you reject violence when it exceeds the limits imposed by the needs of defense, they accuse you of pacifism, without… — Errico Malatesta Copy Share
Not whether we accomplish anarchism today, tomorrow, or within ten centuries, but that we walk towards anarchism today, tomorrow, and always. — Errico Malatesta Copy Share
The person who thinks with [their] own brain is to be preferred to the one who blindly approves everything… Better an error consciously committed… — Errico Malatesta Copy Share
