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• Whoever looks at America will see: the ship is powered by stupidity, corruption, or prejudice,
• He who negates present society, and seeks social conditions based on the sharing of property, is a revolutionary whether he calls himself an anarchist or…
• It is the lash of hunger which compels the poor man to submit. In order to live he must sell - 'voluntarily' sell - himself…
• Among all mental diseases that have been systematically inoculated into the human cranium, the religious pest is the most abominable.
• The god of the Christians, as we have seen, is the god who makes promises only to break them; who sends them pestilence and disease…
• Is anarchism desirable? Well, who does not seek freedom? What man, unless willing to declare himself in bondage, would care to call any control agreeable?…
• Anarchists prepare for social revolution and use every means - speech, writing, or deed, whichever is more to the point; to accelerate revolutionary development.
• The existing system will be quickest and most radically overthrown by the annihilation of its exponents. Therefore, massacres of the enemies of the people must…
• Is anarchism possible? The failure of attempts to attain freedom does not mean the cause is lost.
• If on the one side we do not harbor the illusion that the entire proletariat must be enlightened before it can be called into battle,…
• Above all, what socialist, without flushing with shame, maintains he is not a revolutionary? We say: none!.
• Fortunately, no country was ever more suited for anarchist agitation than present-day America.
• As set forth by theologians, the idea of 'God' is an argument that assumes its own conclusions, and proves nothing.
• Anarchists are socialists because they want the improvement of society, and they are communists because they are convinced that such a transformation of society can…
• 'God' - as revealed in his book of edicts and narratives is practically an idiot. He has nothing to say that any sensible person should…
• We need do no more than repeat: only under communism does the individual become himself and lead his own life.
• If we hope and even assume that the social question will be answered through communism, and not in this or that country but in the…
• The aims of anarchists and true communists are identical.
• They make revolutionary propaganda because they know the privileged class can never be overturned peacefully.
• The anarchists, on behalf of the proletariat, therefore consider it necessary to show the proletariat that it will have to win a gigantic battle before…

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