Alexander Berkman Quotes

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• War paralyzes your courage and deadens the spirit of true manhood.
• War means blind obedience, unthinking stupidity, brutish callousness, wanton destruction, and irresponsible murder.
• The cure for evil and disorder is more liberty, not suppression.
• 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…
• War paralyzes your courage and deadens the spirit of true manhood. It degrades and stupefies with the sense that you are not responsible, that 'tis…
• Inhumanity is the keynote of stupidity in power.
• 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 has…
• Are you not compelled to work for an employer? Your need compels you just as the highwayman’s gun. You must live … You can’t work…
• 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…
• Anarchy: It is NOT bombs, disorder or chaos. It is NOT robbery and murder. It is NOT a war of each against all. It is…
• When the highwayman holds his gun to your head, you turn your valuables over to him. You 'consent' alright, but you do so because you…
• ...existence has become an unreasoning, wild dance around the golden calf, a mad worship of God Mammon. In that dance and in that worship man…
• If you can see, hear, feel, and think, you should know that King Dollar rules the United States, and that the workers are robbed and…

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