"Anarchists are opposed to violence; everyone knows that.……" — 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 based on freedom of the individual, without the intervention of the gendarme. For this reason we are the enemies of capitalism which depends on the protection of the gendarme to oblige workers to allow themselves to be exploited--or even to remain idle and go hungry when it is not in the interest of the bosses to exploit them. We are therefore enemies of the State which is the coercive violent organization of society."
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Errico Malatesta
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14 Quotes by Errico Malatesta
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We follow ideas and not men, and rebel against this habit of embodying a principle in a man.
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Not whether we accomplish anarchism today, tomorrow, or within ten centuries, but that we walk towards anarchism today, tomorrow, and…
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The basic function of the government everywhere in all times, whatever title it adopts and whatever its origin and organisation…
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We anarchists do not want to emancipate the people; we want the people to emancipate themselves.
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Hate does not produce love, and by hate one cannot remake the world.
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