"You must liberate your ego from all limitedness so entirely that it becomes a human ego."
"The situation is like this: they hired our parents to destroy this world, and now they'd like to put us to work rebuilding it, and -- to add insult to injury -- at a profit. The Invisible Committee Whoever will be free must make himself free. Freedom is no fairy gift to fall into a man's lap. What is freedom? To have the will to be responsible for one's self."
"The State always has the sole purpose to limit, tame, subordinate, the individual to make him subject to some generality or other;"
"Revolution is aimed at new arrangements; insurrection leads us no longer to let ourselves be arranged, but to arrange ourselves, and set no glittering hope on institutions"
"Moral influence takes its start where humiliation begins; yes, it is nothing else than this humiliation itself, the breaking and bending of the temper down to humility."
"All things are Nothing to Me"
"What do your laws amount to if no one obeys them?"
"Anarchism is for liberty, and neither for nor against anything else … I define Anarchism as the belief in the greatest amount of liberty compatible with equality of liberty; or, in other words, as the belief in every liberty except the liberty to invade."
"Might is a fine thing, and useful for many purposes; for one goes further with a handful of might than with a bagful of right."
"Never does a State aim to bring in the free activity of individuals, but always that which is bound to the purpose of the State."
"And capital punishment, however ineffective it may be and through whatever ignorance it may be resorted to, is a strictly defensive act, - at least in theory."
"It is possible I can make very little of myself; but this little is everything, and better than what I allow to be made out of me by the might of others, by the training of custom, religion, the laws, the State."
"Whoever will be free must make himself free. Freedom is no fairy gift to fall into a man's lap. What is freedom? To have the will to be responsible for one's self."
"My power is my property. My power gives me property. My power am I l myself, and through it am I my property."
"Are not laws dangerous which inhibit the passions? Compare the centuries of anarchy with those of the strongest legalism in any country you like and you will see that it is only when the laws are silent that the greatest actions appear."
"Do truth, freedom, humanity, justice, desire anything else than that you grow enthusiastic and serve them?"
"The State is said by some to be a "necessary evil"; it must be made unnecessary."
"Man, your head is haunted; you have wheels in your head! You imagine great things, and depict to yourself a whole world of gods that has an existence for you, a spirit-realm to which you suppose yourself to be called, an ideal that beckons to you. You have a fixed idea!"
"Liberate yourself as far as you can, and you have done your part; for it is not given to every one to break through all limits, or, more expressively: not to every one is that a limit which is a limit for the rest... he who overturns one of his limits may have shown others the way and the means."
"He who attempts to control another is a governor, an aggressor, an invader; and the nature of such invasion is not changed, whether it is made by one man upon another man, after the manner of the ordinary criminal, or by one man upon all other men, after the manner of an absolute monarch, or by all other men upon one man, after the manner of a modern democracy."
"Many claim to speak in liberty's name, but few really understand her."
"God and mankind have concerned themselves for nothing, for nothing but themselves. Let me then likewise concern myself for myself, who am equally with God the nothing of all others, who am my all, who am the only one."
"If the individual has a right to govern himself, all external government is tyranny. Hence the necessity of abolishing the state."
"What you have the power to be you have the right to be."
"Socialism, on the contrary, extends its function to the description of society as it should be, and the discovery of the means of making it what it should be."
"The poor are to blame for there being rich men."
"Aggression is simply another name for government."
"Education is a slow process, and may not come too quickly."
"The only thing I am not entitled to is what I do not do with a free cheer, that is, that I do not entitle myself to."
"Why, liberty of the press is only permission of the press, and the state never will or can voluntarily permit me to grind it to nothingness by the press."
"That the communist sees in you the man, the brother, is only the Sunday side of communism... If you were a "lazy-bones," he would not indeed fail to recognize the man in you, but would endeavour to cleanse him as a "lazy man" from laziness and to convert you to the faith that labor is man's "destiny and calling.""
"The state calls its own violence law, but that of the individual, crime."
"Freedom can only be the whole of freedom; a piece of freedom is not freedom."
"Whoever will be free must make himself free. Freedom is no fairy gift to fall into a man's lap."
"Society, from which we have everything, is a new master, a new spook, a new "supreme being," which "takes us into its service and allegiance!""
"I am unique. My flesh is not their flesh, my mind is not their mind."
"The divine is God's concern; the human, man's. My concern is neither the divine nor the human, not the true, good, just, free, etc., but solely what is mine."
"The population of the world is gradually dividing into two classes, anarchists and criminals."
"Before the sacred, people lose all sense of power and all confidence; they occupy a powerless and humble attitude toward it. And yet no thing is sacred of itself, but by my declaring it sacred, by my declaration, my judgment, my bending the knee; in short, by my conscience."
"Once for all, then, we are not opposed to the punishment of thieves and murderers; we are opposed to their manufacture."
"What is freedom? To have the will to be responsible for one's self."
"Every state is a despotism."
"In a republic, all are lords, that is, all despotize one over another."
"The republic is nothing whatever but absolute monarchy; for it makes no difference whether the monarch is called prince or people, both being a "majesty.""
"Monopoly and privilege must be destroyed, opportunity afforded, and competition encouraged. This is liberty's work, and "Down with Authority" her war-cry."
"This brings us to anarchism, which may be described as the doctrine that all the affairs of men should be managed by individuals or voluntary associations, and that the state should be abolished."
"The state behaves as the same ruler that the church was. The latter rests on godliness, the former on morality."
"The "equality of right" is a phantom just because right is nothing more and nothing less than admission, a matter of grace."
"Where crime exists, force must exist to repress it. Who denies it? Certainly not liberty; certainly not the anarchists."
"For, just as it has been said that there is no half-way house between Rome and Reason, so it may be said that there is no half-way house between state socialism and anarchism."
"Anarchists who endeavor to hasten it by joining in the propaganda of state socialism or revolution make a sad mistake indeed."
"The state always has the sole purpose to limit, tame, subordinate, the individual - to make him subject to some generality or other."
"The state is the most gigantic criminal extant. It manufactures criminals much faster than it punishes them."
"The men of the future will yet fight their way to many a liberty that we do not even miss."
"Protestantism has actually put a man in the position of a country governed by secret police. The spy and eavesdropper, "conscience," watches over every motion of the mind, and all thought and action is for it a "matter of conscience," that is, police business."
"The Revolution aimed at new arrangements; insurrection leads us no longer to let ourselves be arranged, but to arrange ourselves."
"The two principles referred to are authority and liberty, and the names of the two schools of socialistic thought which fully and unreservedly represent one or the other of them are, respectively, state socialism and anarchism."
"A fist full of might goes farther than a bag full of rights."
"The anarchists never have claimed that liberty will bring perfection; they simply say that its results are vastly preferable to those that follow authority."
"Liberty enters the field of journalism to speak for herself because she finds no one willing to speak for her."
"He who has might has right... is this wisdom so hard to attain?"
"To be looked upon as a mere part, part of society, the individual cannot bear - because he is more; his uniqueness puts from it this limited conception."
"It is not another state that men aim at, but their union, uniting, this ever-fluid uniting of everything standing."
