"Asceticism in most cases is either the result……" — Rudolf Rocker
"Asceticism in most cases is either the result of a sordid imagination or of passion diverted from its natural course, and experience has shown that when the protection of public morals is entrusted to its votaries, the consequences are usually appalling."
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Rudolf Rocker
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14 Quotes by Rudolf Rocker
Rudolf Rocker has 14 quotes on this site.
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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 anarchist, freedom is not an abstract philosophical concept, but the vital concrete possibility of every human being to…
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Power operates only destructively, bent always on forcing every manifestation of life into the straitjacket of its laws. Its intellectual…
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The peoples owe all political rights and privileges which we enjoy today in greater or lesser measure, not to the…
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For the machine, because of the way it is built, can work only in a given direction, no matter who…
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I am an Anarchist not because I believe Anarchism is the final goal, but because there is no such thing…
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Power operates only destructively, bent always on forcing every manifestation of life into the straitjacket of its laws. Its intellectual…
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Anarchism is no patent solution for all human problems, no Utopia of a perfect social order, as it has often…
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Power always acts destructively, for its possessors are ever striving to lace all phenomena of social life into a corset…
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Political [or individual] rights do not exist because they have been legally set down on a piece of paper, but…
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People forgot that industry is not an end in itself, but should be only a means to insure to man…
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Culture is not created by command. It creates itself, arising spontaneously from the necessities of men and their social cooperative…
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More Appalling Quotes
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You have to steer a course between not appalling people, but at the same time not misleading them.
— David Attenborough
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The writer's greed is appalling. He wants, or seems to want, everything and practically everybody, in another sense, and at…
— James A. Baldwin
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My school reports always used to point out that my concentration levels were appalling. I never listened in class because…
— Jenson Button
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The appalling thing about war is that it kills all love of truth.
— Georg Brandes
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Someone must show that the Afro-American race is more sinned against than sinning, and it seems to have fallen to…
— William Wells Brown
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From a wine critic's perspective, there are far too many innocuous, over-oaked, over-acidified, or over-cropped wines emerging from California. While…
— Robert M. Parker, Jr.
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Anti-Semitism hits me on the head: I am enraged, I am bled white by an appalling battle, I am deprived…
— Frantz Fanon
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On the golf course, a man may be the dogged victim of inexorable fate, be struck down by an appalling…
— Bobby Jones
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In no other profession are the penalties for employing untrained personnel so appalling or so irrevocable as in the military.
— Douglas MacArthur
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Cheats, liars and criminals may resist every blandishment while respectable gentlemen have been moved to appalling treasons by watery cabbage…
— John le Carre
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One might be led to question whether the scientists acted wisely in presenting the statesmen of the world with this…
— Enrico Fermi
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The mindless rejoicing at home is really appalling; it makes me fear that the first blow against Tokyo will make…
— Isoroku Yamamoto
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