"The question may seem embarrassing, but it can……" — 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 want peace; if one insists on using force to oblige the other to work for him and serve him, then the other, if he wishes to retain his dignity as a man and not be reduced to abject slavery, will be obliged in spite of his love of peace, to resist force with adequate means."
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Errico Malatesta
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14 Quotes by Errico Malatesta
Errico Malatesta has 14 quotes on this site.
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And by anarchist spirit I mean that deeply human sentiment, which aims at the good of all, freedom and justice…
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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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If you say that you reject violence when it exceeds the limits imposed by the needs of defense, they accuse…
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Anarchists are opposed to violence; everyone knows that. The main plank of anarchism is the removal of violence from human…
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For anarchy to succeed or simply to advance towards its success it must be conceived not only as a lighthouse…
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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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While preaching against every kind of government, and demanding complete freedom, we must support all struggles for partial freedom, because…
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Anarchism is the abolition of exploitation and oppression of man by man, that is, the abolition of private property and…
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Intolerance of oppression, the desire to be free and develop one personality to its full limits, is not enough to…
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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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In the same way that we need statesmen to spare us the abjection of exercising power, we need scholars to…
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The abjection of our political situation is the only true challenge today. Only facing up to this situation in all…
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I will go to my grave in a state of abject endless fascination that we all have the capacity to…
— Berkeley Breathed
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Terrorists are not 100 feet tall. Nor do they deserve the abject fear they seek to instill.
— John O. Brennan
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May we not suspect that the vague but very real fears of children, which are quite independent of experience, are…
— Charles Darwin
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Self-respect will keep a man from being abject when he is in the power of enemies, and will enable him…
— Bertrand Russell
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I am proud up to the point of equality; everything above or below that appears to me arrant impertinence or…
— William Hazlitt
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Let death be daily before your eyes, and you will never entertain any abject thought, nor too eagerly covet anything.
— Epictetus
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The crisis is arrived when we must assert our rights, or submit to every imposition, that can be heaped upon…
— George Washington
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Social Science, is not a 'gay science' but rueful, which finds the secret of this universe in 'supply and demand'…
— Thomas Carlyle
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If peace is equated simply with the absence of war, it can become abject pacifism that turns the world over…
— Henry A. Kissinger
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The Koran calls for belief and consequent obedience. It is, surely, calculated to inspire fear, indeed abject terror, rather than…
— Antony Flew
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