"Is it not enough that 'things are cruel……" — Voltairine de Cleyre

"Is it not enough that 'things are cruel and blind'? Must we also be cruel and blind?"

— Voltairine de Cleyre

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23 Quotes by Voltairine de Cleyre

Voltairine de Cleyre has 23 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

A standing army is a standing menace to liberty.
Make no laws whatever concerning speech, and speech will be free; so soon as you make a declaration on paper…
There is no peace now, and there will never be peace, so long as one rules over another.
The paramount question of the day is not political, is not religious, but is economic. The crying-out demand of today…
There is one common struggle against those who have appropriated the earth, the money, and the machines.
I never expect men to give us liberty. No, women, we are not worth it until we take it.
No one can hate petitions worse than I, and no one has less faith in them than I. But for…
Government is as unreal, as intangible, as unapproachable as God. Try it, if you don't believe it. Seek through the…
Capitalistic Anarchism ? Oh, yes, if you choose to call it so. Names are indifferent to me; I am not…
Socialism and Communism both demand a degree of joint effort and administration which would beget more regulation than is wholly…
If the believers in liberty wish the principles of liberty taught, let them never intrust that instruction to any government;…
And now, what has Anarchism to say to all this, this bankruptcy of republicanism, this modern empire that has grown…

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The blind audition process can be nerve-wracking. — Christina Aguilera

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