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Rudolf Rocker has 14 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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The nation which can only be saved by one man and wants to be saved that way deserves a whipping!
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For the anarchist, freedom is not an abstract philosophical concept, but the vital concrete possibility of every human being to bring to…
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Power operates only destructively, bent always on forcing every manifestation of life into the straitjacket of its laws. Its intellectual form of…
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The peoples owe all political rights and privileges which we enjoy today in greater or lesser measure, not to the good will…
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For the machine, because of the way it is built, can work only in a given direction, no matter who pulls its…
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I am an Anarchist not because I believe Anarchism is the final goal, but because there is no such thing as a…
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Power operates only destructively, bent always on forcing every manifestation of life into the straitjacket of its laws. Its intellectual form of…
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Anarchism is no patent solution for all human problems, no Utopia of a perfect social order, as it has often been called,…
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Power always acts destructively, for its possessors are ever striving to lace all phenomena of social life into a corset of their…
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Asceticism in most cases is either the result of a sordid imagination or of passion diverted from its natural course, and experience…
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Political [or individual] rights do not exist because they have been legally set down on a piece of paper, but only when…
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People forgot that industry is not an end in itself, but should be only a means to insure to man his material…
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If I err in belief that the souls of men are immortal, I gladly err, nor do I wish this error which…
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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[If you understood the natural rights of mankind,] [y]ou would be convinced that natural liberty is a gift of the beneficent Creator…
— Alexander Hamilton
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Conscious man, to be sure, has at all times been keenly aware that life is an adventure, that life must, forever, be…
— Albert Einstein
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Professor Focke and his technicians standing below grew ever smaller as I continued to rise straight up, 50 metres, 75 metres, 100…
— Hanna Reitsch
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The peoples owe all political rights and privileges which we enjoy today in greater or lesser measure, not to the good will…
— Rudolf Rocker
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Salt is the only rock directly consumed by man. It corrodes but preserves, desiccates but is wrested from the water. It has…
— Margaret Visser
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Such is the grasping tendency of the human heart, that it must have a something to lay hold of—and which, if wrested…
— Thomas Chalmers
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Opportunities are not offered. They must be wrested and worked for. And this calls for perseverance... and courage.
— Indira Gandhi
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Victory is only wrested by running risks.
— Winston Churchill
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There could be no honor in a sure success, but much might be wrested from a sure defeat.
— Ann Landers
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Scientific principles and laws do not lie on the surface of nature. They are hidden, and must be wrested from nature by…
— John Dewey
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The liberties of our country, the freedoms of our civil Constitution are worth defending at all hazards; it is our duty to…
— Samuel Adams
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