Government is as unreal, as intangible, as unapproachable as God. Try it, if you don't believe it. Seek through the legislative halls of America and find, if you can, the Government. In the end you will be doomed to confer… — Voltairine de Cleyre Copy Share Image
And now, what has Anarchism to say to all this, this bankruptcy of republicanism, this modern empire that has grown up on the ruins… — Voltairine de Cleyre Copy Share
“It is the city that is wrong, and its creations can never be right; they may be improved; they can never be what they… — Voltairine de Cleyre Copy Share
Private enterprise manages better all that to which it is equal. Anarchism declares that private enterprise, whether individual or cooperative, is equal to all… — Voltairine de Cleyre Copy Share
No one can hate petitions worse than I, and no one has less faith in them than I. But for my champion I am… — Voltairine de Cleyre Copy Share
“[T]o remain in a continually exalted moral condition is not human nature.” — Voltairine de Cleyre Copy Share
“As to the essence of Commerce and Manufacture, it is this: to establish bonds between every corner of the earth’s surface and every other… — Voltairine de Cleyre Copy Share
Anarchism, to me, means not only the denial of authority, not only a new economy, but a revision of the principles of morality. It… — Voltairine de Cleyre Copy Share
There is one common struggle against those who have appropriated the earth, the money, and the machines. — Voltairine de Cleyre Copy Share
“It is understood that when we speak of history we do not allude to the unspeakable trash contained in public school text-books (which in… — Voltairine de Cleyre Copy Share
“Nearly all the laws which were originally framed with the intention of benefiting the workers, have either turned into weapons in their enemies’ hands,… — Voltairine de Cleyre Copy Share
[The married woman is] is a bonded slave, who takes her master's name, her master's bread, and serves her master's passion; [and] who passes… — Voltairine de Cleyre Copy Share
Is it not enough that 'things are cruel and blind'? Must we also be cruel and blind? — Voltairine de Cleyre Copy Share
The revolution is ... the blow dealt ... agains the counter force of tyranny, which has never entirely recovered from the blow, but which… — Voltairine de Cleyre Copy Share
... it is better to study how to live rather than how to die; ... it is better to have a religion of deeds… — Voltairine de Cleyre Copy Share
