The basic function of the government everywhere in all times, whatever title it adopts and whatever its origin and organisation may be, is always that of oppressing and exploiting the masses, of defending the oppressors and the exploiters: and it's principal, characteristic and indispensable instruments are the police agent and the tax-collector, the soldier and the gaoler - to whom must be invariably added the trader in lies, be he priest of schoolmaster, remunerated or protected by the government to enslave minds and make them docilely accept the yoke.
Anarchists are opposed to violence; everyone knows that. The main plank of anarchism is the removal of violence from human relations. It is life base… - Errico Malatesta
Anarchists are opposed to violence; everyone knows that. The main plank of anarchism is the removal of violence from human relations. It is life base…
- Errico Malatesta
And by anarchist spirit I mean that deeply human sentiment, which aims at the good of all, freedom and justice for all, solidarity and love among the… - Errico Malatesta
And by anarchist spirit I mean that deeply human sentiment, which aims at the good of all, freedom and justice for all, solidarity and love among the…
Anarchism is the abolition of exploitation and oppression of man by man, that is, the abolition of private property and government; Anarchism is the … - Errico Malatesta
Anarchism is the abolition of exploitation and oppression of man by man, that is, the abolition of private property and government; Anarchism is the …
We follow ideas and not men, and rebel against this habit of embodying a principle in a man. - Errico Malatesta
We follow ideas and not men, and rebel against this habit of embodying a principle in a man.
We anarchists do not want to emancipate the people; we want the people to emancipate themselves. - Errico Malatesta
We anarchists do not want to emancipate the people; we want the people to emancipate themselves.
The only limit to the oppression of government is the power with which the people show themselves capable of opposing it. - Errico Malatesta
The only limit to the oppression of government is the power with which the people show themselves capable of opposing it.
Hate does not produce love, and by hate one cannot remake the world. - Errico Malatesta
Hate does not produce love, and by hate one cannot remake the world.
Not whether we accomplish anarchism today, tomorrow, or within ten centuries, but that we walk towards anarchism today, tomorrow, and always. - Errico Malatesta
Not whether we accomplish anarchism today, tomorrow, or within ten centuries, but that we walk towards anarchism today, tomorrow, and always.
Organisation, far from creating authority, is the only cure for it and the only means whereby each of us will get used to taking an active and consci… - Errico Malatesta
Organisation, far from creating authority, is the only cure for it and the only means whereby each of us will get used to taking an active and consci…
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