I do not believe in God, because I believe in man. Whatever his mistakes, man has for thousands of years been working to undo the botched job your god has made.
The ultimate end of all revolutionary social change is to establish the sanctity of human life, the dignity of man, the right of every human being to liberty and well-being.
Civilization has been a continuous struggle of the individual or of groups of individuals against the State and even against "society," that is, against the majority subdued and hypnotized by the State and State worship.
I'd rather have roses on my table than diamonds on my neck.
What a strange development of patriotism that turns a thinking being into a loyal machine!
religion and morality are a much better whip to keep people in submission than even the club and the gun.
I believe - indeed, I know - that whatever is fine and beautiful in the human expresses and asserts itself in spite of government, and not because of it.
Political violence is organized violence on the top which creates individual violence at the bottom.
Perhaps even more than constituted authority, it is social uniformity and sameness that harass the individual most.
I regard it as a tragedy that people of a differing sexual orientation find themselves proscribed in a world that has so little understanding for homosexuals and that displays such gross indifference for sexual gradations and variations and the great significance they have for living. It is completely foreign to me to wish to regard such people as less valuable, less moral, incapable of noble sentiments and behavior.
Lack of fairness to an opponent is essentially a sign of weakness.
I may be arrested, I may be tried and thrown into jail, but I never will be silent.
Poor human nature, what horrible crimes have been committed in thy name!
Every society has the criminals it deserves.
... nothing satisfies the craving of most women so much as scandal.
Direct action against the authority in the shop, direct action against the authority of the law, direct action against the invasive, meddlesome authority of our moral code, is the logical, consistent method of Anarchism. Will it not lead to a revolution? Indeed, it will. No real social change has ever come without a revolution. People are either not familiar with their history, or they have not yet learned that revolution is but thought carried into action.
Life without an ideal is spiritual death.
Religion, the dominion of the human mind; Property, the dominion of human needs; and Government, the dominion of human conduct, represent the stronghold of man's enslavement and all the horrors it entails.
If not for the direct action of a John Brown and his comrades, America would still trade in the flesh of the black man.
To the moralist prostitution does not consist so much in the fact that the woman sells her body, but rather that she sells it out of wedlock.
Give us what belongs to us in peace, and if you don't give it to us in peace, we will take it by force.
Indeed, the keynote of government is injustice. With the arrogance and self-sufficiency of the King who could do no wrong, governments ordain, judge, condemn, and punish the most insignificant offenses, while maintaining themselves by the greatest of all offenses, the annihilation of individual liberty.
Revolution is but thought carried into action.
Leo Tolstoy ... defines patriotism as the principle that will justify the training of wholesale murderers.
... resistance to tyranny is man's highest ideal.
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