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 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 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 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 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 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 it changes.
-- Oscar Wilde

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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 free.
-- Max Nettlau

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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, the memory of the great revolts.
-- Fernand Pelloutier

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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 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 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 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 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 is not a cry of despair.
-- Peter Arshinov

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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 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 cynicism.
-- Georges Fontenis

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