Happiness Quote by Rudolf Rocker

“Anarchism has in common with Liberalism the idea that the happiness and prosperity of the individual must be the standard of all social matters.” quote by Rudolf Rocker — Download Open image

““Anarchism has in common with Liberalism the idea that the happiness and prosperity of the individual must be the standard of all social matters.””

Rudolf Rocker

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Anarchism is a definite intellectual current in the life of our times, whose adherents advocate the abolition of economic monopolies and of all political and social coercive institutions within society. In place of the present capitalistic economic order Anarchists would have a free association of all productive forces based upon co-operative labour, which would have as its sole purpose the…

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Every culture, if its natural development is not too much affected by political restrictions, experiences a perpetual renewal of the formative urge, and out of that comes an ever growing diversity of creative activity. Every successful piece of work stirs the desire for greater perfection and deeper inspiration; each new form becomes the herald of new possibilities of development.

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“For the Anarchist, freedom is not an abstract philosophical concept, but the vital concrete possibility for every human being to bring to full development…

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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 full development…

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Education is character development, harmonious completion of human personality. But what the state accomplishes in this field is dull drill, extinction of natural feeling,…

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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 machine, because of the way it is built, can work only in a given direction, no matter who pulls its levers.

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Modern Anarcho-Syndicalism is a direct continuation of those social aspirations which took shape in the bosom of the First International and which were best understood and most strongly held by the libertarian wing of the great workers' alliance.

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The will to power which always emanates from individuals or from small minorities in society is in fact a most important driving force in…

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One compels respect from others when he knows how to defend his dignity as a human being.

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Freedom is the very essence of life, the impelling force in all intellectual and social development, the creator of every new outlook for the future of mankind. The liberation of man from economic exploitation and from intellectual and political oppression, which finds its finest expression in the world-philosophy of Anarchism, is the first prerequisite for the evolution of a higher…

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Anarchism has a broad back, like paper it endures anything,

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