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> [“No intelligent radical can fail to realize the need of the rational education of the young. The rearing of the child must become a process of liberation by methods which shall not impose ready-made ideas, but which should aid the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alexander-berkman/no-intelligent-radical-can-fail-to-realize-the-need-of-the-rational/)

[Alexander Berkman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alexander-berkman/)

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## More by Alexander Berkman

> [Anarchism means voluntary co-operation instead of forced participation. It means harmony and order in place of interference and disorder.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alexander-berkman/anarchism-means-voluntary-co-operation-instead-of-forced/)

[Alexander Berkman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alexander-berkman/)

> [When the highwayman holds his gun to your head, you turn your valuables over to him. You 'consent' alright, but you do so because…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alexander-berkman/when-the-highwayman-holds-his-gun-to-your-head-you-turn-your/)

[Alexander Berkman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alexander-berkman/)

> [War means blind obedience, unthinking stupidity, brutish callousness, wanton destruction, and irresponsible murder.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alexander-berkman/war-means-blind-obedience-unthinking-stupidity-brutish-callousness/)

[Alexander Berkman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alexander-berkman/)

> [“In an absolutism, the autocrat is visible and tangible. The real despotism of republican institutions is far deeper, more insidious, because it rests on…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alexander-berkman/in-an-absolutism-the-autocrat-is-visible-and-tangible-the-real/)

[Alexander Berkman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alexander-berkman/)

> [It is the system, rather than individuals, that is the source of pollution and degradation. My prison-house environment is but another manifestation of the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alexander-berkman/it-is-the-system-rather-than-individuals-that-is-the-source-of/)

[Alexander Berkman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alexander-berkman/)

> [...existence has become an unreasoning, wild dance around the golden calf, a mad worship of God Mammon. In that dance and in that worship…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alexander-berkman/existence-has-become-an-unreasoning-wild-dance-around-the-golden-calf/)

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> [Man's inhumanity to man is not the last word. The truth lies deeper. It is economic slavery, the savage struggle for a crumb, that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alexander-berkman/man-s-inhumanity-to-man-is-not-the-last-word-the-truth-lies-deeper-it/)

[Alexander Berkman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alexander-berkman/)

> [“No intelligent radical can fail to realize the need of the rational education of the young. The rearing of the child must become a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alexander-berkman/no-intelligent-radical-can-fail-to-realize-the-need-of-the-rational/)

[Alexander Berkman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alexander-berkman/)

> [War paralyzes your courage and deadens the spirit of true manhood. It degrades and stupefies with the sense that you are not responsible, that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alexander-berkman/war-paralyzes-your-courage-and-deadens-the-spirit-of-true-manhood-it/)

[Alexander Berkman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alexander-berkman/)

> [War paralyzes your courage and deadens the spirit of true manhood.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alexander-berkman/war-paralyzes-your-courage-and-deadens-the-spirit-of-true-manhood/)

[Alexander Berkman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alexander-berkman/)

> [Socialism, like Christianity destroyed itself to gain power](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alexander-berkman/socialism-like-christianity-destroyed-itself-to-gain-power/)

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> [If you can see, hear, feel, and think, you should know that King Dollar rules the United States, and that the workers are robbed…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alexander-berkman/if-you-can-see-hear-feel-and-think-you-should-know-that-king-dollar/)

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> [In short, Anarchism means a condition or society where all men and women are free, and where all enjoy equally the benefits of an…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alexander-berkman/in-short-anarchism-means-a-condition-or-society-where-all-men-and/)

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> [“I have said that there is no "average" American. That is due to the circumstance that the people of the United States differ from…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alexander-berkman/i-have-said-that-there-is-no-average-american-that-is-due-to-the/)

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> [“Violence is the method of ignorance, the weapon of the weak. The strong of heart and brain need no violence, for they are irresistible…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alexander-berkman/violence-is-the-method-of-ignorance-the-weapon-of-the-weak-the-strong/)

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