"Laws: We know what they are, and what they are worth! They are spider webs for the rich and mighty, steel chains for the poor and weak, fishing nets in the hands of government."
--Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
#anarchism#revolutionow#eattherich
"Above all we should not forget, that government is an evil, an usurpation upon the private judgment and individual conscience of mankind."
--William Godwin
#anarchism#revolution#nogodsnomasters
I can't see coherent political structures in the traditional sense lasting beyond the next twenty years, I don't think that would be possible.
--Alan Moore
#trump#politics#revolution
To revolt is a natural tendency of life. Even a worm turns against the foot that crushes it. In general, the vitality and relative dignity of an animal can be measured by the intensity of its instinct to revolt.
--Mikhail Bakunin
#anarchy#revolt#deathtoyourmasters
My political opinions lean more and more to Anarchy (philosophically understood, meaning abolition of control not whiskered men with bombs).
--J. R. R. Tolkien
#anarchy#tolkien#fantasy#revolutionnow
America is just the country that shows how all the written guarantees in the world for freedom are no protection against tyranny and oppression of the worst kind.
--Peter Kropotkin
#anarchism#revolutionnow#failed#america
You don't have a peaceful revolution. You don't have a turn-the-cheek revolution. There's no such thing as a nonviolent revolution.
--Malcolm X
#revolution#failedstate#UnitedStatesofAmerica
You cannot buy the revolution. You cannot make the revolution. You can only be the revolution. It is in your spirit, or it is nowhere.
--Ursula K. Le Guin
#anarchism#revolution#thedispossessed
I am truly free only when all human beings, men and women, are equally free. The freedom of other men, far from negating or limiting my freedom, is, on the contrary, its necessary premise and confirmation.
--Mikhail Bakunin
#Palestine#Gaza
The life that society offers us is not a full, free and joyful life. It is a crushed, mutilated, humiliated life. We must refuse it.
--Renzo Novatore
#anarchism#revolution#RevolutionNow#freedom
Anarchism is not a romantic fable but the hardheaded realization, based on five thousand years of experience, that we cannot entrust the management of our lives to kings, priests, politicians, generals, and county commissioners.
--Edward Abbey #anarchy#revolution#BurnTesla