“Liberalism and Democracy were pre-eminently political concepts, and, since the great majority of the original adherents of both maintained the right of… — Rudolf Rocker Democracy Copy Share Image
Power operates only destructively, bent always on forcing every manifestation of life into the straitjacket of its laws. Its intellectual form of… — Rudolf Rocker Bent Copy Share Image
The peoples owe all political rights and privileges which we enjoy today in greater or lesser measure, not to the good will… — Rudolf Rocker Enjoy Copy Share Image
“Just because the educational work of the Anarcho-Syndicalists is directed toward the development of independent thought and action, they are outspoken opponents… — Rudolf Rocker Anarcho-syndicalism Copy Share Image
“Just as you cannot see, at pleasure, with your ears and you cannot, at will, hear with your eyes so too you… — Rudolf Rocker Class struggle Copy Share Image
So long as millions of human beings in every country has to sell their labour-power to a small minority of owners, and… — Rudolf Rocker Buyers Copy Share Image
“A system which in every act of its life sacrifices the welfare of large sections of the people, yes, of whole nations,… — Rudolf Rocker Life Copy Share Image
“Political rights do not exist because they have been legally set down on a piece of paper, but only when they have… — Rudolf Rocker Habits Copy Share Image
“Anarchism recognizes only the relative significance of ideas, institutions, and social forms. It is, therefore, not a fixed, self-enclosed social system, but… — Rudolf Rocker Anarchism Copy Share Image
“People forgot that industry is not an end in itself, but should only be a means to ensure to man his material… — Rudolf Rocker Copy Share Image
Power operates only destructively, bent always on forcing every manifestation of life into the straitjacket of its laws. Its intellectual form of… — Rudolf Rocker Bent Copy Share Image
“Meanwhile, two other great currents in political thought, had a decisive significance on the development of socialist ideas: Liberalism, which had powerfully… — Rudolf Rocker Anarchism Copy Share Image
Asceticism in most cases is either the result of a sordid imagination or of passion diverted from its natural course, and experience… — Rudolf Rocker Asceticism Copy Share Image
“Every type of political power presupposes some particular form of human slavery, for the maintenance of which it is called into being.… — Rudolf Rocker Anarchism Copy Share Image
We have come more and more under the dominance of mechanics and sacrificed living humanity to the dead rhythm of the machine… — Rudolf Rocker Blood Copy Share Image
“From the daily battles against the employers and their allies, the workers gradually learn the deeper meaning of this struggle. At first… — Rudolf Rocker Daily bread Copy Share Image
The ever-growing power of a soulless political bureaucracy which supervises and safeguards the life of man from the cradle to the grave… — Rudolf Rocker Bureaucracy Copy Share Image
“The portentous development of our present economic system, leading to a mighty accumulation of social wealth in the hands of privileged minorities… — Rudolf Rocker Economic system Copy Share Image
“The Anarcho-Syndicalists know that wars are only waged in the interest of the ruling classes; they believe, therefore, that any means is… — Rudolf Rocker War Copy Share Image
Our whole evolution has reached a stage where nearly every man is either ruler or ruled; sometimes he is both. By this… — Rudolf Rocker Action Copy Share Image
“Political rights do not originate in parliaments; they are, rather, forced upon parliaments from without. And even their enactment into law has… — Rudolf Rocker Anarchism Copy Share Image
