The basic function of the government everywhere in all times, whatever title it adopts and whatever its origin and organisation may be, is always that of oppressing and exploiting the masses, of defending the oppressors and the exploiters: and it's… — 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