Voltairine de Cleyre Quotes

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• A standing army is a standing menace to liberty. Army
• Make no laws whatever concerning speech, and speech will be free; so soon as you make a declaration on paper that speech shall be free,… Abuse
• There is no peace now, and there will never be peace, so long as one rules over another. Anarchy
• The paramount question of the day is not political, is not religious, but is economic. The crying-out demand of today is for a circle of… Circle
• There is one common struggle against those who have appropriated the earth, the money, and the machines. Appropriated
• I never expect men to give us liberty. No, women, we are not worth it until we take it. Expect
• No one can hate petitions worse than I, and no one has less faith in them than I. But for my champion I am willing… Any
• Government is as unreal, as intangible, as unapproachable as God. Try it, if you don't believe it. Seek through the legislative halls of America and… Agent
• Capitalistic Anarchism ? Oh, yes, if you choose to call it so. Names are indifferent to me; I am not afraid of bugaboos. Let it… Afraid
• Socialism and Communism both demand a degree of joint effort and administration which would beget more regulation than is wholly consistent with ideal Anarchism; Individualism… Administration
• If the believers in liberty wish the principles of liberty taught, let them never intrust that instruction to any government; for the nature of government… Any
• And now, what has Anarchism to say to all this, this bankruptcy of republicanism, this modern empire that has grown up on the ruins of… All
• The question of souls is old—we demand our bodies, now. We are tired of promises, god is deaf, and his church is our worst enemy. Bodies
• I think it can be shown that the law makes ten criminals where it restrains one. Criminals
• Private enterprise manages better all that to which it is equal. Anarchism declares that private enterprise, whether individual or cooperative, is equal to all the… All
• The revolution is ... the blow dealt ... agains the counter force of tyranny, which has never entirely recovered from the blow, but which from… Agains
• Miss Goldman is a Communist; I am an Individualist. She wishes to destroy the right of property; I wish to assert it. I make my… Always Exist
• Is it not enough that 'things are cruel and blind'? Must we also be cruel and blind? Blind
• If you choose the liberty and pride and strength of the single soul, and the free fraternization of men, as the purpose which your life… Bitter
• We are bound first to imform ourselves concerning so great a matter as the revolt of millions of people- what they are struggling for, what… Among

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