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  • #1
    Edgar Allan Poe
    “I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.”
    Edgar Allan Poe

  • #2
    Mikhail Bakunin
    “Human nature is so constituted that the propensity for evil is always intensified by external circumstances, and the morality of the individual depends much more on the conditions of his existence and the environment in which he lives than on his own will. ”
    Mikhail Bakunin

  • #3
    Mikhail Bakunin
    “The freedom of all is essential to my freedom.”
    Mikhail Bakunin

  • #4
    Mikhail Bakunin
    “I reverse the phrase of Voltaire, and say that if God really existed, it would be necessary to abolish him. ”
    Mikhail Bakunin

  • #5
    Mikhail Bakunin
    “But here steps in Satan, the eternal rebel, the first freethinker and the emancipator of worlds. He makes man ashamed of his bestial ignorance and obedience; he emancipates him, stamps upon his brow the seal of liberty and humanity, in urging him to disobey and eat of the fruit of knowledge.”
    Mikhail Bakunin

  • #6
    Mikhail Bakunin
    “The urge for destruction is also a creative urge!”
    Mikhail Alexandrovich Bakunin

  • #7
    Mikhail Bakunin
    “En el fondo, la conquista no sólo es el origen, es también el fin supremo de todos los Estados grandes o pequeños, poderosos o débiles, despóticos o liberales, monárquicos o aristocráticos, democráticos y socialistas también, suponiendo que el ideal de los socialistas alemanes, el de un gran Estado comunista, se realice alguna vez.

    Que ella fue el punto de partida de todos los Estados, antiguos y modernos, no podrá ser puesto en duda por nadie, puesto que cada página de la historia universal lo prueba suficientemente. Nadie negará tampoco que los grandes Estados actuales tienen por objeto, más o menos confesado, la conquista. Pero los Estados medianos y sobre todo los pequeños, se dirá, no piensan más que en defenderse y sería ridículo por su parte soñar en la conquista.

    Todo lo ridículo que se quiera, pero sin embargo es su sueño, como el sueño del más pequeño campesino propietario es redondear sus tierras en detrimento del vecino; redondearse, crecer, conquistar a cualquier precio y siempre, es una tendencia fatalmente inherente a todo Estado, cualquiera que sea su extensión, su debilidad o su fuerza, porque es una necesidad de su naturaleza. ¿Qué es el Estado si no es la organización del poder? Pero está en la naturaleza de todo poder la imposibilidad de soportar un superior o un igual, pues el poder no tiene otro objeto que la dominación, y la dominación no es real más que cuando le está sometido todo lo que la obstaculiza; ningún poder tolera otro más que cuando está obligado a ello, es decir, cuando se siente impotente para destruirlo o derribarlo. El solo hecho de un poder igual es una negación de su principio y una amenaza perpetua contra su existencia; porque es una manifestación y una prueba de su impotencia. Por consiguiente, entre todos los Estados que existen uno junto al otro, la guerra es permanente y su paz no es más que una tregua.

    Está en la naturaleza del Estado el presentarse tanto con relación a sí mismo como frente a sus súbditos, como el objeto absoluto. Servir a su prosperidad, a su grandeza, a su poder, esa es la virtud suprema del patriotismo. El Estado no reconoce otra, todo lo que le sirve es bueno, todo lo que es contrario a sus intereses es declarado criminal; tal es la moral de los Estados.

    Es por eso que la moral política ha sido en todo tiempo, no sólo extraña, sino absolutamente contraria a la moral humana. Esa contradicción es una consecuencia inevitable de su principio: no siendo el Estado más que una parte, se coloca y se impone como el todo; ignora el derecho de todo lo que, no siendo él mismo, se encuentra fuera de él, y cuando puede, sin peligro, lo viola. El Estado es la negación de la humanidad.”
    Mikhail Alexandrovich Bakunin, God and the State

  • #8
    Emma Goldman
    “ Free love? As if love is anything but free! Man has bought brains, but all the millions in the world have failed to buy love. Man has subdued bodies, but all the power on earth has been unable to subdue love. Man has conquered whole nations, but all his armies could not conquer love. Man has chained and fettered the spirit, but he has been utterly helpless before love. High on a throne, with all the splendor and pomp his gold can command, man is yet poor and desolate, if love passes him by. And if it stays, the poorest hovel is radiant with warmth, with life and color. Thus love has the magic power to make of a beggar a king. Yes, love is free; it can dwell in no other atmosphere. In freedom it gives itself unreservedly, abundantly, completely. All the laws on the statutes, all the courts in the universe, cannot tear it from the soil, once love has taken root.”
    Emma Goldman, Marriage and Love

  • #9
    Emma Goldman
    “Before we can forgive one another, we have to understand one another.”
    Emma Goldman

  • #10
    Emma Goldman
    “If voting changed anything, they'd make it illegal.”
    Emma Goldman

  • #11
    Emma Goldman
    “The most violent element in society is ignorance. ”
    Emma Goldman

  • #12
    Emma Goldman
    “Anarchism, then, really stands for the liberation of the human mind from the dominion of religion; the liberation of the human body from the dominion of property; liberation from the shackles and restraint of government.”
    Emma Goldman

  • #13
    Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
    “Karl Marx got a bum rap. All he was trying to do was figure out how to take care of a whole lot of people. Of course, socialism is just “evil” now. It’s completely discredited, supposedly, by the collapse of the Soviet Union. I can’t help noticing that my grandchildren are heavily in hock to communist China now, which is evidently a whole lot better at business than we are. You talk about the collapse of communism or the Soviet Union. My goodness, this country collapsed in 1929. I mean it crashed, big time, and capitalism looked like a very poor idea.”
    Kurt Vonnegut

  • #14
    Karl Marx
    “The foundation of irreligious criticism is: Man makes religion, religion does not make man. Religion is, indeed, the self-consciousness and self-esteem of man who has either not yet won through to himself, or has already lost himself again. But man is no abstract being squatting outside the world. Man is the world of man – state, society. This state and this society produce religion, which is an inverted consciousness of the world, because they are an inverted world...

    Religious suffering is, at one and the same time, the expression of real suffering and a protest against real suffering. Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, and the soul of soulless conditions. It is the opium of the people.

    The abolition of religion as the illusory happiness of the people is the demand for their real happiness. To call on them to give up their illusions about their condition is to call on them to give up a condition that requires illusions. The criticism of religion is, therefore, in embryo, the criticism of that vale of tears of which religion is the halo.

    Criticism has plucked the imaginary flowers on the chain not in order that man shall continue to bear that chain without fantasy or consolation, but so that he shall throw off the chain and pluck the living flower. The criticism of religion disillusions man, so that he will think, act, and fashion his reality like a man who has discarded his illusions and regained his senses, so that he will move around himself as his own true Sun. Religion is only the illusory Sun which revolves around man as long as he does not revolve around himself.”
    Karl Marx, Critique of Hegel's Philosophy of Right

  • #15
    Karl Marx
    “The last capitalist we hang shall be the one who sold us the rope.”
    Karl Marx

  • #16
    Karl Marx
    “A specter is haunting Europe—the specter of Communism. All the powers of old Europe have entered into a holy alliance to exorcise this specter; Pope and Czar, Metternich and Guizot, French radicals and German police spies.

    Where is the party in opposition that has not been decried as Communistic by its opponents in power? Where the opposition that has not hurled back the branding reproach of Communism, against the more advanced opposition parties, as well as against its reactionary adversaries?

    Two things result from this fact.

    I. Communism is already acknowledged by all European powers to be in itself a power.

    II. It is high time that Communists should openly, in the face of the whole world, publish their views, their aims, their tendencies, and meet this nursery tale of the Specter of Communism with a Manifesto of the party itself.”
    Karl Marx, The Communist Manifesto

  • #17
    Emiliano Zapata
    “Perdono al que roba al que mata, porque quizá lo hacen por necesidad, pero al traidor jamas”
    Emiliano Zapata

  • #19
    Subcomandante Marcos
    “We are sorry for the inconvenience, but this is a revolution.”
    Subcomandante Marcos

  • #20
    Subcomandante Marcos
    “I shit on all the revolutionary vanguards of this planet”
    Subcomandante Marcos

  • #21
    Subcomandante Marcos
    “Yes, Marcos is gay. Marcos is gay in San Francisco, black in South Africa, an Asian in Europe, a Chicano in San Ysidro, an anarchist in Spain, a Palestinian in Israel, a Mayan Indian in the streets of San Cristobal, a Jew in Germany, a Gypsy in Poland, a Mohawk in Quebec, a pacifist in Bosnia, a single woman on the Metro at 10pm, a peasant without land, a gang member in the slums, an unemployed worker, an unhappy student and, of course, a Zapatista in the mountains.
    Marcos is all the exploited, marginalised, oppressed minorities resisting and saying `Enough'. He is every minority who is now beginning to speak and every majority that must shut up and listen. He is every untolerated group searching for a way to speak. Everything that makes power and the good consciences of those in power uncomfortable -- this is Marcos.”
    Subcomandante Marcos

  • #22
    Abbie Hoffman
    “I believe in compulsory cannibalism. If people were forced to eat what they killed, there would be no more wars.”
    Abbie Hoffman

  • #23
    Abbie Hoffman
    “There is absolutely no greater high than challenging the power structure as a nobody, giving it your all, and winning!”
    Abbie Hoffman

  • #24
    Abbie Hoffman
    “You measure democracy by the freedom it gives its dissidents, not the freedom it gives its assimilated conformists.”
    Abbie Hoffman

  • #25
    Abbie Hoffman
    “Smoking dope and hanging up Che's picture is no more a
    commitment than drinking milk and collecting postage stamps.”
    Abbie Hoffman, Steal This Book

  • #26
    Abbie Hoffman
    “Free speech is the right to shout 'theater' in a crowded fire.”
    Abbie Hoffman, Steal This Book

  • #27
    Abbie Hoffman
    “The only way to support a revolution is to make your own.”
    Abbie Hoffman

  • #28
    Abbie Hoffman
    “Above all, what you have as young people that's vitally needed to make social change, is impatience. You want it to happen now. There have to be enough people that say, "We want it now, in our lifetime. " We want to see apartheid in South Africa come down right now. We want to see the war in Central America stop right now. We want the CIA off our campus right now. We want an end to sexual harassment in our communities right now. Be adventurists in the sense of being bold and daring. Be opportunists and seize this opportunity, this moment in history, to go out and save our country. It's your turn now.”
    Abbie Hoffman

  • #29
    Abbie Hoffman
    “Revolution is not something fixed in ideology, nor is it something fashioned to a particular decade. It is a perpetual process embedded in the human spirit.”
    Abbie Hoffman

  • #30
    Abbie Hoffman
    “In this state, dig it, you get twenty years for sale of dope to a minor. You only get five to ten for manslaughter. So like, the thing is, if you're selling to a kid and cops come, shoot the kid real quick!”
    Abbie Hoffman

  • #31
    Abbie Hoffman
    “Usually when you ask somebody in college why they are there, they'll tell you it's to get an education. The truth of it is, they are there to get the degree so that they can get ahead in the rat race. Too many college radicals are two-timing punks. The only reason you should be in college is to destroy it.”
    Abbie Hoffman, Steal This Book



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