What is this thing we call government? Is it anything but organized violence? The law orders you to obey, and if you don't obey, it will compel you by force - all governments, all law and authority finally rest on… — Alexander Berkman Copy Share Image
The man who can face vilification and disgrace, who can stand up against the popular current, even against his friends and his country when he know he is right, who can defy those in authority over him, who can take… — Alexander Berkman Copy Share Image
Anarchism means voluntary co-operation instead of forced participation. It means harmony and order in place of interference and disorder. — Alexander Berkman Copy Share Image
When the highwayman holds his gun to your head, you turn your valuables over to him. You 'consent' alright, but you do so because… — Alexander Berkman Copy Share Image
War means blind obedience, unthinking stupidity, brutish callousness, wanton destruction, and irresponsible murder. — Alexander Berkman Copy Share Image
“In an absolutism, the autocrat is visible and tangible. The real despotism of republican institutions is far deeper, more insidious, because it rests on… — Alexander Berkman Copy Share Image
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… — Alexander Berkman Copy Share Image
...existence has become an unreasoning, wild dance around the golden calf, a mad worship of God Mammon. In that dance and in that worship… — Alexander Berkman Copy Share Image
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… — Alexander Berkman Copy Share Image
“No intelligent radical can fail to realize the need of the rational education of the young. The rearing of the child must become a… — Alexander Berkman Copy Share Image
War paralyzes your courage and deadens the spirit of true manhood. It degrades and stupefies with the sense that you are not responsible, that… — Alexander Berkman Copy Share Image
War paralyzes your courage and deadens the spirit of true manhood. — Alexander Berkman Copy Share Image
If you can see, hear, feel, and think, you should know that King Dollar rules the United States, and that the workers are robbed… — Alexander Berkman Copy Share Image
