“In a time of deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act.” George Orwell
We anarchists do not want to emancipate the people; we want the people to emancipate themselves.
Hate does not produce love, and by hate one cannot remake the world.
Impossibility never prevented anything from happening.
People are never free of trying to be content.
In all times and in all places, whatever may be the name that the government takes, whatever has been its origin, or its organization, its essential function is always that of oppressing and exploiting the masses, and of defending the oppressors and exploiters. Its principal characteristic and indispensable instruments are the bailiff and the tax collector, the soldier and the prison. And to these are necessarily added the time-serving priest or teacher, as the case may be, supported and protected by the government, to render the spirit of the people servile and make them docile under the yoke.”
People have only as much liberty as they have the intelligence to want and the courage to take.
Your pretty empire took so long to build, now, with a snap of history's fingers, down it goes.
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The history of human thought recalls the swinging of a pendulum which takes centuries to swing. After a long period of slumber comes a moment of awakening.
Then thought frees herself from the chains with which those interested — rulers, lawyers, clerics — have carefully enwound her. America is just the country that shows how all the written guarantees in the world for freedom are no protection against tyranny and oppression of the worst kind. There the politician has come to be looked upon as the very scum of society. The peoples of the world are becoming profoundly dissatisfied and are not appeased by the promise of the social-democrats to patch up the State into a new engine of oppression.
All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.
Political language is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.
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