Occupation: Writer Birth: June 27, 1869 Death: May 14, 1940
'Rugged individualism' has meant all the 'individualism' for the masters, while the people are regimented into a slave caste to serve a handful of se….
"All government in essence," says Emerson, "is tyranny." It matters not whether it is government by divine right or majority rule. In every instance ….
The benefits brought to the Russian people by Bolshevism exist only on paper painted in glowing colors by Bolshevist propaganda..
I demand the independence of woman, her right to support herself; to live for herself; to love whomever she pleases, or as many as she pleases. I dem….
It is organized violence on top which creates individual violence at the bottom. It is the accumulated indignation against organized wrong, organized….
Men and women ... do you not realize that the State is the worst enemy you have? It is a machine that crushes you in order to sustain the ruling clas….
The most absurd apology for authority and law is that they serve to diminish crime. Aside from the fact that the State is itself the greatest crimina….
When in the course of human development, existing institutions prove inadequate to the needs of man, when they serve merely to enslave, rob and oppre….
The most vital right is the right to love and be loved..
A revolution without dancing is not a revolution worth having..
Liberty will not descend to a people, a people must raise themselves to liberty....
You cannot build up a standing army and then throw it back into a box like tin soldiers. Armies equipped to the teeth with weapons, with highly devel….
Anarchism stands for the liberation of the human mind from the dominion of religion and liberation of the human body from the coercion of property; l….
'What I believe' is a process rather than a finality. Finalities are for gods and governments, not for the human intellect..
Some people never seem to learn from experience. No matter how often they had seen the lion devour the lamb, they continued to cling to the hope that….
Art is a part of the rebellion against the realities of its unfulfilled desire..
John Burroughs has stated that experimental study of animals in captivity is absolutely useless. Their character, their habits, their appetites under….
There is no hope even that woman, with her right to vote, will ever purify politics..
If voting changed anything, they'd make it illegal..
People have only as much liberty as they have the intelligence to want and the courage to take..
In modern capitalism economic exploitation rather than political oppression is the real enemy of the people..