"For the anarchist, freedom is not an abstract……" — Rudolf Rocker
"For the anarchist, freedom is not an abstract philosophical concept, but the vital concrete possibility of every human being to bring to full development all the powers, capacities and talents with which nature has endowed them, and turn them to social account."
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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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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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Asceticism in most cases is either the result of a sordid imagination or of passion diverted from its natural course,…
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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 Abstract Quotes
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To those who have exhausted politics, nothing remains but abstract thought.
— Honore de Balzac
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I was a really lousy artist as a kid. Too abstract expressionist; or I'd draw a big ram's head, really…
— Jean-Michel Basquiat
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In the abstract conception of universal wrong, all concrete responsibility vanishes.
— Theodor Adorno
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None of the abstract concepts comes closer to fulfilled utopia than that of eternal peace.
— Theodor Adorno
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Good science fiction is intelligent. It asks big questions that are on people's minds. It's not impossible. It has some…
— Nicolas Cage
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Science fiction is a way that I can go into the abstract, go into the imagination, and audiences are still…
— Nicolas Cage
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I am searching for abstract ways of expressing reality, abstract forms that will enlighten my own mystery.
— Eric Cantona
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Abstract art: a product of the untalented sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.
— Al Capp
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Change means movement. Movement means friction. Only in the frictionless vacuum of a nonexistent abstract world can movement or change…
— Saul Alinsky
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'Woman on the Plaza,' with its distinct horizon, snow-like surfaces, wintry wall, stunning sunlight, sharp shadows, and hurrying figure, would…
— Sam Abell
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Old ideas give way slowly; for they are more than abstract logical forms and categories. They are habits, predispositions, deeply…
— John Dewey
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It is difficult to talk about fashion in the abstract, without a human body before my eyes, without drawings, without…
— Giorgio Armani
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