Errico Malatesta

The only limit to the oppression of government is the power with which the people show themselves capable of opposing it.

— Errico Malatesta

Anarchists are opposed to violence; everyone knows that. The main plank of anarchism is the removal of violence from human relations. It…

— Errico Malatesta

The question may seem embarrassing, but it can be answered in a few words. For two people to live in peace they…

— Errico Malatesta

The basic function of the government everywhere in all times, whatever title it adopts and whatever its origin and organisation may be,…

— Errico Malatesta

“In all times and in all places, whatever may be the name that the government takes, whatever has been its origin, or…

— Errico Malatesta

“Capitalism is the same everywhere. In order to survive and prosper it needs a permanent situation of partial scarcity: it needs it…

— Errico Malatesta

Impossibility never prevented anything from happening.

— Errico Malatesta

“Communism made through the will of a government instead of through the direct and voluntary work of groups of workers does not…

— Errico Malatesta

Experience through freedom is the only means to arrive at the truth and the best solutions; and there is no freedom if…

— Errico Malatesta

We follow ideas and not men, and rebel against this habit of embodying a principle in a man.

— Errico Malatesta

“The methods from which the different non-anarchist parties expect, or say they do, the greatest good of one and all can be…

— Errico Malatesta

And by anarchist spirit I mean that deeply human sentiment, which aims at the good of all, freedom and justice for all,…

— Errico Malatesta

If you say that you reject violence when it exceeds the limits imposed by the needs of defense, they accuse you of…

— Errico Malatesta

Not whether we accomplish anarchism today, tomorrow, or within ten centuries, but that we walk towards anarchism today, tomorrow, and always.

— Errico Malatesta

The person who thinks with [their] own brain is to be preferred to the one who blindly approves everything.... Better an error…

— Errico Malatesta

Intolerance of oppression, the desire to be free and develop one personality to its full limits, is not enough to make one…

— Errico Malatesta

Hate does not produce love, and by hate one cannot remake the world.

— Errico Malatesta

“Anarchism is organization, organization and more organization.”

— Errico Malatesta

Anarchy is a word that comes from the Greek, and signifies, strictly speaking, "without government": the state of a people without any…

— Errico Malatesta

While preaching against every kind of government, and demanding complete freedom, we must support all struggles for partial freedom, because we are…

— Errico Malatesta

Anarchists generally make use if the word "State" to mean all the collection of institutions, political, legislative, judicial, military, financial, etc., by…

— Errico Malatesta

Organisation, far from creating authority, is the only cure for it and the only means whereby each of us will get used…

— Errico Malatesta

“we are, in any case, only one of the forces acting in society”

— Errico Malatesta

For anarchy to succeed or simply to advance towards its success it must be conceived not only as a lighthouse which illuminates…

— Errico Malatesta

We anarchists do not want to emancipate the people; we want the people to emancipate themselves.

— Errico Malatesta