Vernon Richards Quotes

• Violence, contrary to popular belief, is not part of the anarchist philosophy. It has repeatedly been pointed out by anarchist thinkers that the revolution can neither be won, nor the anarchist society established and maintained, by armed violence.

  Vernon Richards

  Philosophy, Violence, Revolution

  Vernon Richards (1953). “Lessons of the Spanish Revolution, 1936-1939”

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• "The true Islamic concept of peace goes something like this: "Peace comes through submission to Muhammad and his concept of Allah" (i.e. Islam). As such the Islamic concept of peace, meaning making the whole world Muslim, is actually a mandate for war. It was inevitable and unavoidable that the conflict would eventually reach our borders, and so it has."

  Vernon Richards

  War, Islamic, Borders

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