If I want to transform patriotism then I do not proceed in the slightest against the fine fact of the nation but against the mixing up of the nation …

- Gustav Landauer

The State is a condition, a certain relationship between human beings, a mode of behavior; we destroy it by contracting other relationships, by behav…

- Gustav Landauer

The state is a social relationship; a certain way of people relating to one another. It can be destroyed by creating new social relationships; ie, by…

- Gustav Landauer

Nothing can prevent the united consumer from working for themselves with the aid of mutual credit, from building factories, workshops, houses for the…

- Gustav Landauer

We are the state, and we shall continue to be the state until we have created the institutions that form a real community and society of men.

- Gustav Landauer

You don’t know what order with freedom means! You only know what revolt against oppression is! You don’t know that the rod, discipline, violence, the…

- Gustav Landauer

The real transformation of society will come only in love, in work, and in stillness.

- Gustav Landauer

Anarchism's lone objective is to reach a point at which the belligerence of some humans against humanity, in whatever form, comes to a halt.

- Gustav Landauer