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
Organisation, far from creating authority, is the only cure for it and the only means whereby each of us will get used to taking an active and conscious part in collective work, and cease being passive instruments in the hands… — 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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
We follow ideas and not men, and rebel against this habit of embodying a principle in a man. — 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 reduced to… — Errico Malatesta Copy Share Image
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 Image
