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Anarchism Quotes by Emma Goldman
- Anarchism...stands for direct action, the open defiance of, and resistance to, all laws and restrictions, economic, social, and moral.
- Anarchism aims to strip labor of its deadening, dulling aspect, of its gloom and compulsion. It aims to make work an instrument of joy, of…
- Anarchism is the only philosophy which brings to man the consciousness of himself; which maintains that God, the State, and society are non-existent, that their…
- ANARCHISM:The philosophy of a new social order based on liberty unrestricted by man-made law; the theory that all forms of government rest on violence, and…
- The emotions of the ignorant man are continuously kept at a pitch by the most blood-curdling stories about Anarchism. Not a thing too outrageous to…
- The political superstition is still holding sway over the hearts and minds of the masses, but the true lovers of liberty will have no more…
- Direct action against the authority in the shop, direct action against the authority of the law, direct action against the invasive, meddlesome authority of our…
- Anarchism asserts the possibility of an organization without discipline, fear, or punishment, and without the pressure of poverty: a new social organism which will make…
- Anarchism, the great leaven of thought, is today permeating every phase of human endeavor.... It is the philosophy of the sovereignty of the individual. It…
- Anarchism is the great liberator of man from the phantoms that have held him captive; it is the arbiter and pacifier of the two forces…
- Direct action is the logical, consistent method of Anarchism.
- Ask for work. If they don't give you work, ask for bread. If they do not give you work or bread, then take bread.
- Anarchism stands for the liberation of the human mind from the dominion of religion and liberation of the human body from the coercion of property;…
- I want freedom, the right to self-expression, everybody's right to beautiful, radiant things.' Anarchism meant that to me, and I would live it in spite…
- I did not believe that a Cause which stood for a beautiful ideal, for anarchism, for release and freedom from convention and prejudice, should demand…
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- Anarchism is founded on the observation that since few men are wise enough to rule themselves, even fewer are wise enough to… — Edward Abbey
- Anarchism's lone objective is to reach a point at which the belligerence of some humans against humanity, in whatever form, comes to… — Gustav Landauer
- Market Anarchism is the doctrine that the legislative, adjudicative, and protective functions unjustly and inefficiently monopolised by the coercive State should be… — Roderick T. Long
- Odonianism is anarchism. Not the bomb-in-the-pocket stuff, which is terrorism, whatever name it tries to dignify itself with, not the social-Darwinist economic… — Ursula K. Le Guin
- We have been civilized for a thousand millennia. We have histories of hundreds of those millennia. We have tried everything. Anarchism, in… — Ursula K. Le Guin
- Anarchism is a game at which the police can beat you. — George Bernard Shaw
- It was in the black mirror of anarchism that surrealism first recognised itself. — Andre Breton
- If you say that you reject violence when it exceeds the limits imposed by the needs of defense, they accuse you of… — 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
- Not whether we accomplish anarchism today, tomorrow, or within ten centuries, but that we walk towards anarchism today, tomorrow, and always. — Errico Malatesta
- Anarchism is the abolition of exploitation and oppression of man by man, that is, the abolition of private property and government; Anarchism… — Errico Malatesta
- Anarchism misunderstands the real nature of man. It would be practicable only in a world of angels and saints — Ludwig von Mises