Creeds Quote by Voltairine de Cleyre

“... it is better to study how to live rather than how to die; ... it is better to have a religion of deeds rather than a religion of creeds; ... it is better to work for humanity than for God.”

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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…

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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…

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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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