Notices by Anarchist Quotes (anarchistquotes@todon.nl), page 2

With the development of industrial capitalism, a new and unanticipated system of injustice, it is libertarian socialism that has preserved and extended the radical humanist message of the Enlightenment and the classical liberal ideals that were perverted into an ideology to sustain the emerging social order.
-- Noam Chomsky

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Does it follow that I reject all authority? Far from me such a thought. In the matter of boots, I refer to the authority of the bootmaker; concerning houses, canals, or railroads, I consult that of the architect or engineer.
-- Mikhail Bakunin

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Wanton killing of innocent civilians is terrorism, not a "war against terrorism."
-- Noam Chomsky

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I have as much authority as the Pope, I just don't have as many people who believe it.
-- George Carlin

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Capitalism and communism felt like they were always going to be around, but it turns out they were just two ways of ordering an industrial society. If you were looking for more fundamental human political poles, you'd take anarchy and fascism, for my money.
-- Alan Moore

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Those animals which acquire habits of mutual aid are undoubtedly the fittest.
-- Peter Kropotkin

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The concept of the "majority" is particularly troubling. By always accepting the will of the majority, democracy allows for majorities to have an absolute tyranny over everyone else.
-- Moxie Marlinspike

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Anarchy is not perfection, it is not the absolute ideal which like the horizon recedes as fast as we approach it; but it is the way open to all progress and all improvements for the benefit of everybody.
-- Errico Malatesta

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Arguing that you don't care about the right to privacy because you have nothing to hide is no different than saying you don't care about free speech because you have nothing to say.
-- Edward Snowden

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If the machine of government is of such a nature that it requires you to be the agent of injustice to another, then, I say, break the law.
-- Henry David Thoreau

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Anarchists are socialists because they want the improvement of society, and they are communists because they are convinced that such a transformation of society can only result from the establishment of a commonwealth of property.
-- Johann Most

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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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Freedom means more than the right to change masters.
-- Bob Black

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Law never made men a whit more just; and, by means of their respect for it, even the well-disposed are daily made the agents of injustice.
-- Henry David Thoreau

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Anarchism does not mean bloodshed; it does not mean robbery, arson, etc. These monstrosities are, on the contrary, the characteristic features of capitalism. Anarchism, or socialism, means the reorganization of society upon scientific principles and the abolition of causes which produce vice and crime. Capitalism first produces these social diseases and then seeks to cure them by punishment.
-- August Spies

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Free election of masters does not abolish the masters or the slaves.
-- Herbert Marcuse

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If we do not do the impossible, we shall be faced with the unthinkable.
-- Murray Bookchin

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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.
-- Peter Kropotkin

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Our being is becoming, not stasis. Our science is utopia, our reality is eros, our desire is revolution.
-- Murray Bookchin

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Someone has said that it requires less mental effort to condemn than to think.
-- Emma Goldman

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