Rudolf Rocker Quotes

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• The nation which can only be saved by one man and wants to be saved that way deserves a whipping!
• For the anarchist, freedom is not an abstract philosophical concept, but the vital concrete possibility of every human being to bring to full development all…
• Power operates only destructively, bent always on forcing every manifestation of life into the straitjacket of its laws. Its intellectual form of expression is dead…
• The peoples owe all political rights and privileges which we enjoy today in greater or lesser measure, not to the good will of their governments,…
• For the machine, because of the way it is built, can work only in a given direction, no matter who pulls its levers.
• I am an Anarchist not because I believe Anarchism is the final goal, but because there is no such thing as a final goal.
• Power operates only destructively, bent always on forcing every manifestation of life into the straitjacket of its laws. Its intellectual form of expression is dead…
• Anarchism is no patent solution for all human problems, no Utopia of a perfect social order, as it has often been called, since on principle…
• Power always acts destructively, for its possessors are ever striving to lace all phenomena of social life into a corset of their laws to give…
• Asceticism in most cases is either the result of a sordid imagination or of passion diverted from its natural course, and experience has shown that…
• Political [or individual] rights do not exist because they have been legally set down on a piece of paper, but only when they have become…
• People forgot that industry is not an end in itself, but should be only a means to insure to man his material subsistence and to…
• Culture is not created by command. It creates itself, arising spontaneously from the necessities of men and their social cooperative activity. No ruler could ever…
• Anarchism has a broad back, like paper it endures anything,

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