“The state is not something which can be destroyed by a revolution, but is a condition, a certain relationship between human beings, a mode of human behaviour; we destroy it by contracting other relationships, by behaving differently.”
― Anarchism: A Very Short Introduction
― Anarchism: A Very Short Introduction
“So what exactly was the point of extracting the gold, stamping one’s picture on it, causing it to circulate among one’s subjects—and then demanding that those same subjects give it back again?”
― Debt: The First 5,000 Years
― Debt: The First 5,000 Years
“the value of a unit of currency is not the measure of the value of an object, but the measure of one’s trust in other human beings.”
― Debt: The First 5,000 Years
― Debt: The First 5,000 Years
“Good-natured satirists often remark that "the best way to cure an Anarchist is to give him a fortune." Substituting "corrupt" for "cure," I would subscribe to this;”
― Selected Works of Voltairine de Cleyre
― Selected Works of Voltairine de Cleyre
“I believe that in time we will have reached the point where we will deserve to be free of government.”
― Brodie's Report
― Brodie's Report
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