Agents Quote by Voltairine de Cleyre

“Government is as unreal, as intangible, as unapproachable as God. Try it, if you don't believe it. Seek through the legislative halls of America and find, if you can, the Government. In the end you will be doomed to confer with the agent, as before.” quote by Voltairine de Cleyre — Download Open image

“Government is as unreal, as intangible, as unapproachable as God. Try it, if you don't believe it. Seek through the legislative halls of America and find, if you can, the Government. In the end you will be doomed to confer with the agent, as before.”

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And now, what has Anarchism to say to all this, this bankruptcy of republicanism, this modern empire that has grown up on the ruins of our early freedom? We say this, that the sin our fathers sinned was that they did not trust liberty wholly. They thought it possible to compromise between liberty and government, believing the latter to be…

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“It is the city that is wrong, and its creations can never be right; they may be improved; they can never be what they should… Until the whole atrocious system of herding working people in close-built cities, by way of making them serviceable cogwheels in the capitalistic machine for grinding out rent and profit, comes to an end, the physical…

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

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

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A standing army is a standing menace to liberty.

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

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“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…

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

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

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“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 general resemble a cellar junk-shop of chronologies, epaulettes, bad drawings, and silly tales, and are a striking instance of the corrupting influence of State management of education, by which the mediocre, nay the absolutely empty, is…

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

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[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…

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