"We anarchists do not want to emancipate the……" — Errico Malatesta

We anarchists do not want to emancipate the people; we want the… - Errico Malatesta

"We anarchists do not want to emancipate the people; we want the people to emancipate themselves."

— Errico Malatesta

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14 Quotes by Errico Malatesta

Errico Malatesta has 14 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

And by anarchist spirit I mean that deeply human sentiment, which aims at the good of all, freedom and justice…
We follow ideas and not men, and rebel against this habit of embodying a principle in a man.
If you say that you reject violence when it exceeds the limits imposed by the needs of defense, they accuse…
Anarchists are opposed to violence; everyone knows that. The main plank of anarchism is the removal of violence from human…
For anarchy to succeed or simply to advance towards its success it must be conceived not only as a lighthouse…
Not whether we accomplish anarchism today, tomorrow, or within ten centuries, but that we walk towards anarchism today, tomorrow, and…
While preaching against every kind of government, and demanding complete freedom, we must support all struggles for partial freedom, because…
Anarchism is the abolition of exploitation and oppression of man by man, that is, the abolition of private property and…
Intolerance of oppression, the desire to be free and develop one personality to its full limits, is not enough to…
The basic function of the government everywhere in all times, whatever title it adopts and whatever its origin and organisation…
The question may seem embarrassing, but it can be answered in a few words. For two people to live in…
Hate does not produce love, and by hate one cannot remake the world.

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I am truly free only when all human beings, men and women, are equally free. The freedom of other men,… — Mikhail Bakunin
To revolt is a natural tendency of life. Even a worm turns against the foot that crushes it. In general,… — Mikhail Bakunin
I am an anarchist in politics and an impressionist in art as well as a symbolist in literature. Not that… — Henry Adams
We started off trying to set up a small anarchist community, but people wouldn't obey the rules. — Alan Bennett
Confronted with the choice, the American people would choose the policeman's truncheon over the anarchist's bomb. — Spiro T. Agnew
I'm not an anarchist any more. I still love the Sex Pistols, but I don't want to be a punk… — Nicolas Cage
As a teenager I was more of an anarchist, but now I want people to thrive and be harmonious. — Nicolas Cage
The problem of values arises only when men try to fit together their need to be social animals with their… — Jacob Bronowski
I am an anarchist! Wherefore I will not rule and also ruled I will not be. — John Henry Mackay
In the Spanish people there is a mixture of Gothic, Frankish and Moorish blood. One can speak of the Spaniard… — Adolf Hitler
A Christian anarchist has no business belonging to such a reactionary organization [the Catholic Church]. I do not believe in… — Ammon Hennacy
An anarchist is an uncomprimising liberal. — Emile Faguet

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