Anarchism Quote by Voltairine de Cleyre

And now, what has Anarchism to say to all this, this bankruptcy of republicanism, this modern empire that has grown up on the ruins…

— Voltairine de Cleyre

“It is the city that is wrong, and its creations can never be right; they may be improved; they can never be what they…

— Voltairine de Cleyre

Private enterprise manages better all that to which it is equal. Anarchism declares that private enterprise, whether individual or cooperative, is equal to all…

— Voltairine de Cleyre

No one can hate petitions worse than I, and no one has less faith in them than I. But for my champion I am…

— Voltairine de Cleyre

A standing army is a standing menace to liberty.

— Voltairine de Cleyre

“[T]o remain in a continually exalted moral condition is not human nature.”

— Voltairine de Cleyre

“As to the essence of Commerce and Manufacture, it is this: to establish bonds between every corner of the earth’s surface and every other…

— Voltairine de Cleyre

Anarchism, to me, means not only the denial of authority, not only a new economy, but a revision of the principles of morality. It…

— Voltairine de Cleyre

There is one common struggle against those who have appropriated the earth, the money, and the machines.

— Voltairine de Cleyre

“It is understood that when we speak of history we do not allude to the unspeakable trash contained in public school text-books (which in…

— Voltairine de Cleyre

“Nearly all the laws which were originally framed with the intention of benefiting the workers, have either turned into weapons in their enemies’ hands,…

— Voltairine de Cleyre

[The married woman is] is a bonded slave, who takes her master's name, her master's bread, and serves her master's passion; [and] who passes…

— Voltairine de Cleyre