Aim Quote by Errico Malatesta

The only limit to the oppression of government is the power with which the people show themselves capable of opposing it.

— Errico Malatesta

Anarchists are opposed to violence; everyone knows that. The main plank of anarchism is the removal of violence from human relations. It is life…

— Errico Malatesta

The question may seem embarrassing, but it can be answered in a few words. For two people to live in peace they must both…

— Errico Malatesta

The basic function of the government everywhere in all times, whatever title it adopts and whatever its origin and organisation may be, is always…

— Errico Malatesta

“In all times and in all places, whatever may be the name that the government takes, whatever has been its origin, or its organization,…

— Errico Malatesta

“Capitalism is the same everywhere. In order to survive and prosper it needs a permanent situation of partial scarcity: it needs it to maintain…

— Errico Malatesta

Impossibility never prevented anything from happening.

— Errico Malatesta

“Communism made through the will of a government instead of through the direct and voluntary work of groups of workers does not really appeal…

— Errico Malatesta

Experience through freedom is the only means to arrive at the truth and the best solutions; and there is no freedom if there is…

— Errico Malatesta

We follow ideas and not men, and rebel against this habit of embodying a principle in a man.

— Errico Malatesta

“The methods from which the different non-anarchist parties expect, or say they do, the greatest good of one and all can be reduced to…

— Errico Malatesta

If you say that you reject violence when it exceeds the limits imposed by the needs of defense, they accuse you of pacifism, without…

— Errico Malatesta