Our whole evolution has reached a stage where nearly every man is either ruler or ruled; sometimes he is both. By this the attitude of dependence has…

- Rudolf Rocker

Anarchism is no patent solution for all human problems, no Utopia of a perfect social order, as it has often been called, since on principle it rejec…

- Rudolf Rocker

Education is character development, harmonious completion of human personality. But what the state accomplishes in this field is dull drill, extincti…

- Rudolf Rocker

For the anarchist, freedom is not an abstract philosophical concept, but the vital concrete possibility of every human being to bring to full develop…

- Rudolf Rocker

Asceticism in most cases is either the result of a sordid imagination or of passion diverted from its natural course, and experience has shown that w…

- Rudolf Rocker

One compels respect from others when he knows how to defend his dignity as a human being.

- Rudolf Rocker

So long as millions of human beings in every country has to sell their labour-power to a small minority of owners, and to sink into the most wretched…

- Rudolf Rocker

The nation which can only be saved by one man and wants to be saved that way deserves a whipping!

- Rudolf Rocker

Political rights do not exist because they have been legally set down on a piece of paper, but only when they have become the ingrown habit of a peop…

- Rudolf Rocker