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> [“Just as you cannot see, at pleasure, with your ears and you cannot, at will, hear with your eyes so too you cannot make the state act in the interests of the working people. As an organ in the social…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rudolf-rocker/just-as-you-cannot-see-at-pleasure-with-your-ears-and-you-cannot-at/)

[Rudolf Rocker](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rudolf-rocker/)

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## More by Rudolf Rocker

> [Anarchism is a definite intellectual current in the life of our times, whose adherents advocate the abolition of economic monopolies and of all political…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rudolf-rocker/anarchism-is-a-definite-intellectual-current-in-the-life-of-our-times/)

[Rudolf Rocker](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rudolf-rocker/)

> [Every culture, if its natural development is not too much affected by political restrictions, experiences a perpetual renewal of the formative urge, and out…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rudolf-rocker/every-culture-if-its-natural-development-is-not-too-much-affected-by/)

[Rudolf Rocker](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rudolf-rocker/)

> [“For the Anarchist, freedom is not an abstract philosophical concept, but the vital concrete possibility for every human being to bring to full development…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rudolf-rocker/for-the-anarchist-freedom-is-not-an-abstract-philosophical-concept/)

[Rudolf Rocker](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rudolf-rocker/)

> [For the anarchist, freedom is not an abstract philosophical concept, but the vital concrete possibility of every human being to bring to full development…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rudolf-rocker/for-the-anarchist-freedom-is-not-an-abstract-philosophical-concept-2/)

[Rudolf Rocker](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rudolf-rocker/)

> [Education is character development, harmonious completion of human personality. But what the state accomplishes in this field is dull drill, extinction of natural feeling,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rudolf-rocker/education-is-character-development-harmonious-completion-of-human/)

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> [The nation which can only be saved by one man and wants to be saved that way deserves a whipping!](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rudolf-rocker/the-nation-which-can-only-be-saved-by-one-man-and-wants-to-be-saved/)

[Rudolf Rocker](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rudolf-rocker/)

> [For the machine, because of the way it is built, can work only in a given direction, no matter who pulls its levers.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rudolf-rocker/for-the-machine-because-of-the-way-it-is-built-can-work-only-in-a/)

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> [Modern Anarcho-Syndicalism is a direct continuation of those social aspirations which took shape in the bosom of the First International and which were best…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rudolf-rocker/modern-anarcho-syndicalism-is-a-direct-continuation-of-those-social/)

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> [The will to power which always emanates from individuals or from small minorities in society is in fact a most important driving force in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rudolf-rocker/the-will-to-power-which-always-emanates-from-individuals-or-from/)

[Rudolf Rocker](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rudolf-rocker/)

> [One compels respect from others when he knows how to defend his dignity as a human being.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rudolf-rocker/one-compels-respect-from-others-when-he-knows-how-to-defend-his/)

[Rudolf Rocker](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rudolf-rocker/)

> [Freedom is the very essence of life, the impelling force in all intellectual and social development, the creator of every new outlook for the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rudolf-rocker/freedom-is-the-very-essence-of-life-the-impelling-force-in-all/)

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> [Anarchism has a broad back, like paper it endures anything,](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rudolf-rocker/anarchism-has-a-broad-back-like-paper-it-endures-anything/)

[Rudolf Rocker](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rudolf-rocker/)

> [Culture is not created by command. It creates itself, arising spontaneously from the necessities of men and their social cooperative activity. No ruler could…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rudolf-rocker/culture-is-not-created-by-command-it-creates-itself-arising/)

[Rudolf Rocker](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rudolf-rocker/)

> [“Anarchism has in common with Liberalism the idea that the happiness and prosperity of the individual must be the standard of all social matters.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rudolf-rocker/anarchism-has-in-common-with-liberalism-the-idea-that-the-happiness/)

[Rudolf Rocker](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rudolf-rocker/)

> [ Political \[or individual\] rights do not exist because they have been legally set down on a piece of paper, but only when they have… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rudolf-rocker/political-or-individual-rights-do-not-exist-because-they-have-been/)

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