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Errico Malatesta on Government

1853–1932

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Anarchy is a word that comes from the Greek, and signifies, strictly speaking, "without government": the state of a people without any constituted authority.

Anarchy (1891)

The "government of all the people", if we have to have government, can at best be only the government of the majority.

Neither Democrats, Nor Dictators: Anarchists (1926)

Government means the right to make the law and to impose it on everyone by force: without a police force there is no government.

Neither Democrats, Nor Dictators: Anarchists (1926)

Theoretically "democracy" means popular government; government by all for everybody by the efforts of all.

Neither Democrats, Nor Dictators: Anarchists (1926)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Errico Malatesta (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.