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Anarchism, to me, means not only the denial of authority, not only a new economy, but a revision of the principles of morality. It means…

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A standing army is a standing menace to liberty.
Make no laws whatever concerning speech, and speech will be free; so soon as you make a declaration on paper that speech…
There is no peace now, and there will never be peace, so long as one rules over another.
The paramount question of the day is not political, is not religious, but is economic. The crying-out demand of today is for…
There is one common struggle against those who have appropriated the earth, the money, and the machines.
I never expect men to give us liberty. No, women, we are not worth it until we take it.
No one can hate petitions worse than I, and no one has less faith in them than I. But for my champion…
Government is as unreal, as intangible, as unapproachable as God. Try it, if you don't believe it. Seek through the legislative halls…
Capitalistic Anarchism ? Oh, yes, if you choose to call it so. Names are indifferent to me; I am not afraid of…
Socialism and Communism both demand a degree of joint effort and administration which would beget more regulation than is wholly consistent with…
If the believers in liberty wish the principles of liberty taught, let them never intrust that instruction to any government; for the…
And now, what has Anarchism to say to all this, this bankruptcy of republicanism, this modern empire that has grown up on…

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Anecdote: It is by no means self-evident that human beings are most real when most violently excited; violent physical passions do not… — Thomas Stearns Eliot
It is, let me say, at the very least by no means self-evident that there is more liberty, equality, and fraternity in… — Immanuel Wallerstein
After all, all knowledge simply means self-knowledge. — Bruce Lee
The core of understanding lies in the individual mind, and until that is touched everything is uncertain and superficial. Truth cannot be… — Bruce Lee
We demand entire freedom of action and then expect the government in some miraculous way to save us from the consequences of… — Calvin Coolidge
The fact is that liberty, in any true sense, is a concept that lies quite beyond the reach of the inferior man's… — H. L. Mencken
Work not of enthusiasm but of love, conscious of duty-which means self-denial. — Salvador Bernal
Self-government means self support. — Calvin Coolidge
We insist on producing a farm surplus, but think the government should find a profitable market for it. We overindulge in speculation,… — Calvin Coolidge
In the application of Satyagraha, I discovered, in the earliest stages, that pursuit of Truth did not admit of violence being inflicted… — Mahatma Gandhi
When one gives up the Christian faith, one pulls the right to Christian morality out from under one's feet. This morality is… — Friedrich Nietzsche
What led me to my science and what fascinated me from a young age was the, by no means self-evident, fact that… — Max Planck

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