Birth: November 21, 1870 Death: June 28, 1936
Are you not compelled to work for an employer? Your need compels you just as the highwayman’s gun. You must live … You can’t work for yourself … The ….
If you can see, hear, feel, and think, you should know that King Dollar rules the United States, and that the workers are robbed and exploited in thi….
It is the system, rather than individuals, that is the source of pollution and degradation. My prison-house environment is but another manifestation ….
The man who can face vilification and disgrace, who can stand up against the popular current, even against his friends and his country when he know h….
...existence has become an unreasoning, wild dance around the golden calf, a mad worship of God Mammon. In that dance and in that worship man has sac….
War paralyzes your courage and deadens the spirit of true manhood. It degrades and stupefies with the sense that you are not responsible, that 'tis n….
Certainly the worker has nothing to lose by a change from government and capitalism to a condition of no government, of anarchy..
Anarchy: It is NOT bombs, disorder or chaos. It is NOT robbery and murder. It is NOT a war of each against all. It is NOT a return to barbarism or to….
Inhumanity is the keynote of stupidity in power..
Socialism, like Christianity destroyed itself to gain power.
When the highwayman holds his gun to your head, you turn your valuables over to him. You 'consent' alright, but you do so because you cannot help you….
War means blind obedience, unthinking stupidity, brutish callousness, wanton destruction, and irresponsible murder..
What is this thing we call government? Is it anything but organized violence? The law orders you to obey, and if you don't obey, it will compel you b….
Man's inhumanity to man is not the last word. The truth lies deeper. It is economic slavery, the savage struggle for a crumb, that has converted mank….
Anarchism means voluntary co-operation instead of forced participation. It means harmony and order in place of interference and disorder..
In short, Anarchism means a condition or society where all men and women are free, and where all enjoy equally the benefits of an ordered and sensibl….
War paralyzes your courage and deadens the spirit of true manhood..
The cure for evil and disorder is more liberty, not suppression..