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Since it seems that every heart that beats for freedom has no ...

2026-10-27T18:00:09Z

Since it seems that every heart that beats for freedom has no right to anything but a little slug of lead, I demand my share. If you let me live, I shall never cease to cry for vengeance.
-- Louise Michel

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To my mind, the struggle for liberty is too great and the few ...

2026-10-27T13:00:09Z

To my mind, the struggle for liberty is too great and the few steps we have gained have been won at too great a sacrifice, for the great mass of the people of this 20th century to consent to turn over to any political party the management of our social and industrial affairs.
-- Lucy Parsons

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Armies are necessary, before all things, for the defense of ...

2026-10-27T08:00:09Z

Armies are necessary, before all things, for the defense of governments from their own oppressed and enslaved subjects.
-- Leo Tolstoy

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We cannot help but believe that were every law, every title deed, ...

2026-10-27T02:00:09Z

We cannot help but believe that were every law, every title deed, every court, and every police officer or soldier abolished tomorrow with one sweep, we would be better off than now.
-- Lucy Parsons

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There is no principle of anarchy that denies the right of free ...

2026-10-26T22:00:09Z

There is no principle of anarchy that denies the right of free contract, and have I not a right to contract with others to live with them under the principles of communism?
-- Joseph Labadie

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The Communist power installed itself by military force, not only ...

2026-10-26T18:00:09Z

The Communist power installed itself by military force, not only when the Bolsheviks occupied a place after a battle to drive out the Petliurists, but also in places where the region was already free and the peasants were on their own.
-- Peter Arshinov

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Art is individualism, and individualism is a disturbing and ...

2026-10-26T13:00:10Z

Art is individualism, and individualism is a disturbing and disintegrating force. Therein lies its immense value.
-- Oscar Wilde

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Education is an admirable thing. But it is well to remember from ...

2026-10-26T08:00:10Z

Education is an admirable thing. But it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
-- Oscar Wilde

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From the outset of the industrial revolution, what is ...

2026-10-26T02:00:21Z

From the outset of the industrial revolution, what is nostalgically called "laissez-faire" was in fact a system of continuing state intervention to subsidize accumulation, guarantee privilege, and maintain work discipline.
-- Kevin Carson

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The only thing that one really knows about human nature is that ...

2026-10-25T22:00:10Z

The only thing that one really knows about human nature is that it changes.
-- Oscar Wilde

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We must make the world safe for poverty without dependence on ...

2026-10-25T18:00:09Z

We must make the world safe for poverty without dependence on government.
-- John Cage

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Freedom must be so extensive that it includes the right not to be ...

2026-10-25T14:00:20Z

Freedom must be so extensive that it includes the right not to be free.
-- Max Nettlau

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Some people become cops because they want to make the world a ...

2026-10-25T09:00:10Z

Some people become cops because they want to make the world a better place, some people become vandals because they want to make the world a better looking place.
-- Banksy

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Painters: bring back to life, with your talent and your heart, ...

2026-10-25T03:01:19Z

Painters: bring back to life, with your talent and your heart, the memory of the great revolts.
-- Fernand Pelloutier

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Our authority is our own conscience. She is the one that pushes ...

2026-10-24T22:00:10Z

Our authority is our own conscience. She is the one that pushes us, she is our spur. We are slaves, but to our duty.
-- Ricardo Flores Magon

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Man, your head is haunted; you have wheels in your head! You ...

2026-10-24T18:00:09Z

Man, your head is haunted; you have wheels in your head! You imagine great things, and depict to yourself a whole world of gods that has an existence for you, a spirit-realm to which you suppose yourself to be called, an ideal that beckons to you. You have a fixed idea!
-- Max Stirner

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Anarchism seeks to arouse the consciousness of oppression, the ...

2026-10-24T13:00:21Z

Anarchism seeks to arouse the consciousness of oppression, the desire for a better society, and a sense of the necessity for unceasing warfare against capitalism and the State.
-- Voltairine de Cleyre

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Indeed, in many cases, maliciousness and stupidity will put many ...

2026-10-24T08:01:17Z

Indeed, in many cases, maliciousness and stupidity will put many obstacles in the road of the new idea. That is the reason why hard struggles must be fought for unconditional mutual tolerance, until it is finally achieved. Only from then on will everything proceed automatically, science will bloom and advance, because the necessary foundation for every progress, namely experimental freedom and free research have been achieved.
-- Max Nettlau

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The Makhnovist movement was founded on the deep feeling of ...

2026-10-24T01:01:19Z

The Makhnovist movement was founded on the deep feeling of fraternity which characterizes only the most oppressed. During its entire history it did not for an instant appeal to national sentiments.
-- Peter Arshinov

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Anarchism is not mysticism; it is not a discourse on beauty; it ...

2026-10-23T21:00:21Z

Anarchism is not mysticism; it is not a discourse on beauty; it is not a cry of despair.
-- Peter Arshinov

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Anarchism embraces two worlds: the world of philosophy, of ideas, ...

2026-10-23T17:00:29Z

Anarchism embraces two worlds: the world of philosophy, of ideas, and the world of practice, of activity. The two are intimately linked.
-- Peter Arshinov

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Ironically, the world idealized by primitivists would actually ...

2026-10-23T12:00:09Z

Ironically, the world idealized by primitivists would actually preclude the radical individualism celebrated by the individualist heirs of Max Stirner.
-- Murray Bookchin

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There is nothing proletarian -- or revolutionary about immoralist ...

2026-10-23T07:00:09Z

There is nothing proletarian -- or revolutionary about immoralist cynicism.
-- Georges Fontenis

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There are no fair elections in America, certainly when the ...

2026-10-23T01:00:09Z

There are no fair elections in America, certainly when the questions of race and political power are evident.
-- Lorenzo Kom'boa Ervin

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What matters most is that people, all men, lose their sheepish ...

2026-10-22T21:00:21Z

What matters most is that people, all men, lose their sheepish instincts and habits that the millennial slavery inspired them, and they learn to think and act freely.
-- Errico Malatesta

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The task of the conscious minority is to profit from every ...

2026-10-22T17:00:09Z

The task of the conscious minority is to profit from every situation to change the environment in a way that will make possible the education of the whole people.
-- Errico Malatesta

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Laws: We know what they are, and what they are worth! -- ...

2026-10-22T12:00:08Z

Laws: We know what they are, and what they are worth!
-- Pierre-Joseph Proudhon

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The greatest crimes in the world are not committed by people ...

2026-10-22T07:00:20Z

The greatest crimes in the world are not committed by people breaking the rules. It's people who follow orders that drop bombs and massacre villages. As a precaution to ever committing major acts of evil it is our solemn duty never to do what we're told, this is the only way we can be sure.
-- Banksy

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Monopoly and privilege must be destroyed, opportunity afforded, ...

2026-10-22T01:00:09Z

Monopoly and privilege must be destroyed, opportunity afforded, and competition encouraged. This is liberty's work, and "Down with Authority" her war-cry.
-- Benjamin Tucker

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I despise humanity because it is not my humanity. I hate tyrants ...

2026-10-21T21:00:20Z

I despise humanity because it is not my humanity. I hate tyrants and I detest slaves.
-- Renzo Novatore

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I repeat that I am a political prisoner. The prosecution, ...

2026-10-21T17:00:09Z

I repeat that I am a political prisoner. The prosecution, whatever the attorney general may say, is political and nothing else.
-- Louise Michel

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To be good and lead a good life means to give to others more than ...

2026-10-21T12:01:49Z

To be good and lead a good life means to give to others more than one takes from them.
-- Leo Tolstoy

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I believe in individual freedom; that's my primary and ...

2026-10-21T07:00:16Z

I believe in individual freedom; that's my primary and complete commitment -- individual liberty. That's what it's all about. And that's what socialism was supposed to be about, or anarchism was supposed to be about, and tragically has been betrayed.
-- Murray Bookchin

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I am but too conscious of the fact that we are born in an age ...

2026-10-21T01:00:09Z

I am but too conscious of the fact that we are born in an age when only the dull are treated seriously, and I live in terror of not being misunderstood.
-- Oscar Wilde

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Spirit, like flame, like freedom, like creativeness, is opposed ...

2026-10-20T21:02:24Z

Spirit, like flame, like freedom, like creativeness, is opposed to any social stagnation or any lifeless tradition.
-- Nikolai Berdyaev

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True, we have no conscription; that is, men are not usually ...

2026-10-20T17:00:09Z

True, we have no conscription; that is, men are not usually forced to enlist in the army, but we have developed a far more exacting and rigid force -- necessity.
-- Emma Goldman

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The more corrupt the state, the more numerous the laws. -- ...

2026-10-20T12:00:09Z

The more corrupt the state, the more numerous the laws.
-- Tacitus

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Is a democracy, such as we know it, the last improvement possible ...

2026-10-20T07:00:45Z

Is a democracy, such as we know it, the last improvement possible in government? Is it not possible to take a step further towards recognizing and organizing the rights of man?
-- Henry David Thoreau

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I do not want to unite with the multitude of those who flatter ...

2026-10-20T01:00:10Z

I do not want to unite with the multitude of those who flatter the proletariat, excusing them, praising them, adorning them with wreathes.
-- Bruno Filippi

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I would have been a coward if I hadn't had the courage to ...

2026-10-19T21:00:10Z

I would have been a coward if I hadn't had the courage to express, in my own way, my rancour and my disgust.
-- Germaine Berton

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We used to pay too little attention to utopias, or even disregard ...

2026-10-19T17:00:09Z

We used to pay too little attention to utopias, or even disregard them altogether, saying with regret they were impossible of realization. Now indeed they seem to be able to be brought about far more easily than we supposed, and we are actually faced by an agonising problem of quite another kind: how can we prevent their final realization?
-- Nikolai Berdyaev

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For us, everything that seeks to destroy economic and political ...

2026-10-19T12:00:09Z

For us, everything that seeks to destroy economic and political oppression, all that which serves to raise the moral and intellectual level of human beings, to give them the consciousness of their rights and of their forces and to persuade them to do their business by themselves, all that provokes hatred against oppression and love between people, brings us closer to our aim.
-- Errico Malatesta

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Do something right for once: throw off the straitjacket of ...

2026-10-19T07:00:09Z

Do something right for once: throw off the straitjacket of legislation; wash yourself off, and clean your body, the social body, of all the parasites and vermin that are devouring you. And then -- only then -- will you be able to fully come to life.
-- Albert Libertad

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Disobedience, in the eyes of any one who has read history, is ...

2026-10-19T01:00:21Z

Disobedience, in the eyes of any one who has read history, is man's original virtue. It is through disobedience that progress has been made, through disobedience and through rebellion.
-- Oscar Wilde

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I am a fanatic lover of liberty, considering it as the unique ...

2026-10-18T21:00:09Z

I am a fanatic lover of liberty, considering it as the unique condition under which intelligence, dignity and human happiness can develop and grow.
-- Mikhail Bakunin

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I hate governments and rules and fetters. Can't stand caged ...

2026-10-18T17:00:08Z

I hate governments and rules and fetters. Can't stand caged animals. People must be free.
-- Charlie Chaplin

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The history of anarchism is a history of unparalleled defeat and ...

2026-10-18T13:00:09Z

The history of anarchism is a history of unparalleled defeat and martyrdom, yet anarchists venerate their victimized forebears with a morbid devotion which occasions suspicion that the anarchists, like everybody else, think that the only good anarchist is a dead one.
-- Bob Black

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No future and no humanity, no communism and no anarchy is worthy ...

2026-10-18T08:00:20Z

No future and no humanity, no communism and no anarchy is worthy of the sacrifice of my life.
-- Renzo Novatore

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True, we have no conscription; that is, men are not usually ...

2026-10-18T02:00:09Z

The freedom of everyone, and thereby the freedom of each ...

2026-10-17T22:00:09Z

The freedom of everyone, and thereby the freedom of each individual, requires community in socialism.
-- Erich Muhsam

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Far from checking the spread of immorality, repression has always ...

2026-10-17T18:00:20Z

Far from checking the spread of immorality, repression has always extended and deepended it. Thus it is futile to oppose it by rigorous legislation which trespasses on individual liberty.
-- Daniel Guerin

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In vices, the very essence of crime -- that is, the design to ...

2026-10-17T13:00:20Z

In vices, the very essence of crime -- that is, the design to injure the person or property of another -- is wanting.
-- Lysander Spooner

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What constitutes equity is the greatest question of all. It is ...

2026-10-17T08:00:09Z

What constitutes equity is the greatest question of all. It is the "unknown quantity" that even algebra has failed to furnish!
-- Josiah Warren

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To truly know freedom, one must develop the human being until one ...

2026-10-17T01:00:20Z

To truly know freedom, one must develop the human being until one makes sure that no authority has the possibility of existing.
-- Albert Libertad

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Any pretense of reducing the role of state in capitalism is a ...

2026-10-16T21:00:09Z

Any pretense of reducing the role of state in capitalism is a lie. It is impossible to smash the state without, as an immediate consequence, smashing capitalism along with it.
-- Kevin Carson

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They make revolutionary propaganda because they know the ...

2026-10-16T17:00:20Z

They make revolutionary propaganda because they know the privileged class can never be overturned peacefully.
-- Johann Most

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Liberty enters the field of journalism to speak for herself ...

2026-10-16T12:00:09Z

Liberty enters the field of journalism to speak for herself because she finds no one willing to speak for her.
-- Benjamin Tucker

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For, just as it has been said that there is no half-way house ...

2026-10-16T07:00:09Z

For, just as it has been said that there is no half-way house between Rome and Reason, so it may be said that there is no half-way house between state socialism and anarchism.
-- Benjamin Tucker

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I do not expect any help for a libertarian revolution from any ...

2026-10-16T01:01:18Z

I do not expect any help for a libertarian revolution from any government in the world... we expect no help, not even from our own government, in the last analysis.
-- Buenaventura Durruti

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All the results of the mistakes of governments are quite ...

2026-10-15T21:00:10Z

All the results of the mistakes of governments are quite admirable.
-- Oscar Wilde

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Then hang us! Here we will tread upon a spark, but there, and ...

2026-10-15T17:01:17Z

Then hang us! Here we will tread upon a spark, but there, and there, and behind you and in front of you, and everywhere, flames will blaze up.
-- August Spies

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The state, the society, the institutions, the body politic, the ...

2026-10-15T12:00:09Z

The state, the society, the institutions, the body politic, the nation, the system, or customs we live in, must not be permitted to become primary, but must be secondary!
-- Josiah Warren

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In its mad passion for power, the communist state even sought to ...

2026-10-15T07:00:21Z

In its mad passion for power, the communist state even sought to strengthen and deepen the very ideas and conceptions which the Revolution had come to destroy.
-- Emma Goldman

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We tried many times before to speed on the social revolution in ...

2026-10-15T01:00:23Z

We tried many times before to speed on the social revolution in Spain; attempted to stir up the feelings of the people and to raise the banner of libertarian communism.
-- Frederica Montseny

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There are some whose nature it is to think and plead, and yield ...

2026-10-14T21:00:09Z

There are some whose nature it is to think and plead, and yield and yet return to the address, and so make headway in the minds of their fellowmen; and there are others who are stern and still, resolute, implacable as Judah's dream of God; -- and those men strike -- strike once and have ended. But the blow resounds across the world.
-- Voltairine de Cleyre

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The anarchist individualists do not present themselves as ...

2026-10-14T17:00:09Z

The anarchist individualists do not present themselves as proletarians, absorbed only in the search for material amelioration, tied to a class determined to transform the world and to substitute a new society for the actual one.
-- Emile Armand

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The state is the most gigantic criminal extant. It manufactures ...

2026-10-14T12:00:08Z

The state is the most gigantic criminal extant. It manufactures criminals much faster than it punishes them.
-- Benjamin Tucker

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While judging me judge all the unfortunate who poverty, combined ...

2026-10-14T07:01:17Z

While judging me judge all the unfortunate who poverty, combined with natural pride, made criminals, and who wealth or ease would have made honest men. An intelligent society would have made of them men like any other!
-- Ravachol

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Must the citizen ever for a moment, or in the least degree, ...

2026-10-14T01:00:19Z

Must the citizen ever for a moment, or in the least degree, resign his conscience to the legislator? Why has every man a conscience, then?
-- Henry David Thoreau

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Fascism becomes less and less possible. We have to accept that we ...

2026-10-13T21:00:21Z

Fascism becomes less and less possible. We have to accept that we are moving towards some sort of anarchy.
-- Alan Moore

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Are there any altruists who would go to hell in order that their ...

2026-10-13T17:00:09Z

Are there any altruists who would go to hell in order that their neighbors should go to heaven? There is no hope of reward in hell, and a true altruist must expect no reward for his acts.
-- Joseph Labadie

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The whole economic system of capitalism is an offshoot of a ...

2026-10-13T12:00:09Z

The whole economic system of capitalism is an offshoot of a devouring and overwhelming lust, of a kind that can hold sway only in a society that has deliberately renounced the Christian asceticism and turned away from heaven to give itself over exclusively to earthly gratifications.
-- Nikolai Berdyaev

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After all, it means thirteen dollars per month, three meals a ...

2026-10-13T07:00:16Z

After all, it means thirteen dollars per month, three meals a day, and a place to sleep. Yet even necessity is not sufficiently strong a factor to bring into the army an element of character and manhood.
-- Emma Goldman

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I attacked the king because in my opinion he is responsible for ...

2026-10-13T01:00:14Z

I attacked the king because in my opinion he is responsible for all the pale and bleeding victims of the system that he represents and has to defend.
-- Gaetano Bresci

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The fact is that the government, like a highwayman, says to a ...

2026-10-12T21:00:09Z

The fact is that the government, like a highwayman, says to a man: Your money, or your life. And many, if not most, taxes are paid under the compulsion of that threat.
-- Lysander Spooner

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I offered to stay awake to let the others go to sleep, and ...

2026-10-12T17:00:09Z

I offered to stay awake to let the others go to sleep, and everyone laughed, saying that I would not even hear the cannon! But afterwards, one by one, they fell asleep, and I am watchful over all of them, while working for those who are to come.
-- Camillo Berneri

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Hate does not produce love; we will not renew the world by hate. ...

2026-10-12T12:01:16Z

Hate does not produce love; we will not renew the world by hate.
-- Errico Malatesta

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When "voluntary association" is spoken of, voluntary ...

2026-10-12T07:00:09Z

When "voluntary association" is spoken of, voluntary adhesion to a plan, a project, a given action, this implies the possibility of refusing the association, adhesion or action.
-- Emile Armand

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Even if a single United Nations World State would come into ...

2026-10-12T01:00:34Z

Even if a single United Nations World State would come into existence, it would solve nothing. It would still be composed of the reduced number of state organisms crystallizing around the remaining great powers.
-- Leopold Kohr

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In our so very civilized society it is necessary for me to live ...

2026-10-11T21:00:20Z

In our so very civilized society it is necessary for me to live the life of a savage. I must be free, even of governments.
-- Gustave Courbet

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Writers: express your rage against all iniquities during all your ...

2026-10-11T17:00:10Z

Writers: express your rage against all iniquities during all your waking hours.
-- Fernand Pelloutier

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The reaction always begins where one tries to bring life to a ...

2026-10-11T13:00:44Z

The reaction always begins where one tries to bring life to a certain norm. That is why yesterday's revolutionaries so often become today's reactionaries.
-- Rudolf Rocker

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We must fight authority and privilege, while taking advantage ...

2026-10-11T08:00:21Z

We must fight authority and privilege, while taking advantage from the benefits that civilization has conferred. We must not destroy anything that satisfies human need however badly -- until we have something better to put in its place.
-- Errico Malatesta

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If there be in nature such a principle as justice, it is ...

2026-10-11T02:00:08Z

If there be in nature such a principle as justice, it is necessarily the only political principle there ever was, or ever will be.
-- Lysander Spooner

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While we do preach perfect communism, it is not in the certainty ...

2026-10-10T22:00:21Z

While we do preach perfect communism, it is not in the certainty or expectation of communism's being the social form of the future: it is in order to further men's education, and round it off as completely as possible, so that, by the time that the day of conflagration comes, they will have attained maximum emancipation.
-- Fernand Pelloutier

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No one should ever work. Workers of the world... relax! -- Bob ...

2026-10-10T18:02:24Z

No one should ever work. Workers of the world... relax!
-- Bob Black

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Laws: We know what they are, and what they are worth! -- ...

2026-10-10T13:00:20Z

The social order of Spain ought to be overthrown; must be ...

2026-10-10T08:00:09Z

The social order of Spain ought to be overthrown; must be overthrown, will be overthrown; and Ferrer was doing a mighty work in that direction. The men who killed him knew and understood it well.
-- Voltairine de Cleyre

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The natural effect of unfettered market competition is socialism. ...

2026-10-10T01:00:09Z

The natural effect of unfettered market competition is socialism.
-- Kevin Carson

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Aggression is simply another name for government. -- Benjamin ...

2026-10-09T21:00:45Z

Aggression is simply another name for government.
-- Benjamin Tucker

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If there is a state, there must be domination of one class by ...

2026-10-09T17:00:09Z

If there is a state, there must be domination of one class by another and, as a result, slavery.
-- Mikhail Bakunin

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Is a democracy, such as we know it, the last improvement possible ...

2026-10-09T12:00:09Z

We need anarchists unencumbered by anarchism. Then, and only ...

2026-10-09T07:00:09Z

We need anarchists unencumbered by anarchism. Then, and only then, we can begin to get serious about fomenting anarchy.
-- Bob Black

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When we have but the will to do it, that very moment will Justice ...

2026-10-09T01:00:09Z

When we have but the will to do it, that very moment will Justice be done: that very instant the tyrants of the Earth shall bite the dust.
-- Peter Kropotkin

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Laws: We know what they are, and what they are worth! -- ...

2026-10-08T21:00:09Z

All laws are wicked, all judgments are unfair, all judges are ...

2026-10-08T17:01:01Z

All laws are wicked, all judgments are unfair, all judges are wrong, all prisoners are innocent.
-- Albert Libertad

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To weaken authority and criticize its acts is not enough. A ...

2026-10-08T12:00:20Z

To weaken authority and criticize its acts is not enough. A negation, in order to be absolute, needs to complete itself with an affirmation. That is why I affirm liberty, why I deduce its consequences.
-- Joseph Dejacque

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What a strange development of patriotism that turns a thinking ...

2026-10-08T07:00:09Z

What a strange development of patriotism that turns a thinking being into a loyal machine!
-- Emma Goldman

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Not all those who are considered anarchists are pure anarchists. ...

2026-10-08T01:00:09Z

Not all those who are considered anarchists are pure anarchists. Tolstoy and Kropotkin have to be thrown out, having very little anarchy in their systems. They are anarchists only in the political sphere, and in all other relations between people they remain ardent communists.
-- Lev Chernyi

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It is often said that anarchists live in a world of dreams to ...

2026-10-07T21:00:09Z

It is often said that anarchists live in a world of dreams to come, and do not see the things which happen today. We do see them only too well, and in their true colors, and that is what makes us carry the hatchet into the forest of prejudice that besets us.
-- Peter Kropotkin

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