Alexander Berkman

Anarchism means voluntary co-operation instead of forced participation. It means harmony and order in place of interference and disorder.

— Alexander Berkman

When the highwayman holds his gun to your head, you turn your valuables over to him. You 'consent' alright, but you do…

— Alexander Berkman

War means blind obedience, unthinking stupidity, brutish callousness, wanton destruction, and irresponsible murder.

— Alexander Berkman

“In an absolutism, the autocrat is visible and tangible. The real despotism of republican institutions is far deeper, more insidious, because it…

— 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…

— Alexander Berkman

...existence has become an unreasoning, wild dance around the golden calf, a mad worship of God Mammon. In that dance and in…

— Alexander Berkman

Man's inhumanity to man is not the last word. The truth lies deeper. It is economic slavery, the savage struggle for a…

— Alexander Berkman

“No intelligent radical can fail to realize the need of the rational education of the young. The rearing of the child must…

— Alexander Berkman

War paralyzes your courage and deadens the spirit of true manhood. It degrades and stupefies with the sense that you are not…

— Alexander Berkman

War paralyzes your courage and deadens the spirit of true manhood.

— Alexander Berkman

Socialism, like Christianity destroyed itself to gain power

— Alexander Berkman

If you can see, hear, feel, and think, you should know that King Dollar rules the United States, and that the workers…

— Alexander Berkman

In short, Anarchism means a condition or society where all men and women are free, and where all enjoy equally the benefits…

— Alexander Berkman

“I have said that there is no "average" American. That is due to the circumstance that the people of the United States…

— Alexander Berkman

“Violence is the method of ignorance, the weapon of the weak. The strong of heart and brain need no violence, for they…

— Alexander Berkman

Inhumanity is the keynote of stupidity in power.

— Alexander Berkman

“The stupendous task of human regeneration will be accomplished only by the purified vision of hearts that grow not cold.”

— Alexander Berkman

The cure for evil and disorder is more liberty, not suppression.

— Alexander Berkman

Are you not compelled to work for an employer? Your need compels you just as the highwayman’s gun. You must live ……

— Alexander Berkman

What is this thing we call government? Is it anything but organized violence? The law orders you to obey, and if you…

— Alexander Berkman

The man who can face vilification and disgrace, who can stand up against the popular current, even against his friends and his…

— Alexander Berkman

Certainly the worker has nothing to lose by a change from government and capitalism to a condition of no government, of anarchy.

— Alexander Berkman

Anarchy: It is NOT bombs, disorder or chaos. It is NOT robbery and murder. It is NOT a war of each against…

— Alexander Berkman

“Away with the hypocritical horror on the part of capitalist, labor leader, and politician.”

— Alexander Berkman