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They knew too well that he who accepts a truth because of the bribe, will soon barter it away to a higher bidder.
Like a plague, the mad spirit is sweeping the country, infesting the clearest heads and staunchest hearts with the deathly germ of militarism.
Preparedness, the Road to Universal Slaughter (1915)
It is safe to say that no other superstition is so detrimental to growth, so enervating and paralyzing to the minds and hearts of the people, as the superstition of Morality.
Yes, love is free; it can dwell in no other atmosphere.
Anarchism and Other Essays (1910)
He who refuses to submit is at once labelled "queer," "different," and decried as a disturbing element in the comfortable stagnancy of modern life.
The Individual, Society and the State (1940)
Has not authority from time immemorial stamped every step of progress as treasonable?
Anarchism and Other Essays (1910)
I hope I shall never live to see Anarchism become thoroughly respectable, for then I shall have to look for a new ideal.
Letter to Helen Keller (1916)
Anarchism, more than any other social theory, values human life above things.
Anarchism and Other Essays (1910)
Human nature asserts itself regardless of all laws, nor is there any plausible reason why nature should adapt itself to a perverted conception of morality.
Anarchism and Other Essays (1910)
The more hideous the mental contortions, the greater the delight and bravos of the mass.
Anarchism and Other Essays (1910)
Perhaps even more than constituted authority, it is social uniformity and sameness that harass the individual most.
The Individual, Society and the State (1940)
It is everywhere present, in habits, tastes, dress, thoughts and ideas.
The Individual, Society and the State (1940)
Obviously, Anarchism, or any other social theory, making man a conscious social unit, will act as a leaven for rebellion.
Anarchism and Other Essays (1910)
When we can't dream any longer we die.
Every effort for progress, for enlightenment, for science, for religious, political, and economic liberty, emanates from the minority, and not from the mass. Today, as ever, the few are misunderstood, hounded, imprisoned, tortured, and killed.
I prefer to reach the few who really want to learn, rather than the many who come to be amused.
Anarchism and Other Essays (1910)
Society creates the victims that it afterwards vainly attempts to get rid of.
Anarchism and Other Essays (1910)
There is no reason whatever to assume that woman, in her climb to emancipation, has been, or will be, helped by the ballot.
Anarchism and Other Essays (1910)
Those who have a spark of self-respect left, prefer open defiance, prefer crime to the emaciated, degraded position of poverty.
Anarchism and Other Essays (1910)
An army and navy represents the people's toys.
Anarchism and Other Essays (1910)