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The world cannot utterly ignore men who lay down their lives for any cause.
Violence and the Labor Movement (1914)
If one's point of view is that of the anarchist, he is led inevitably to make his war upon individuals.
Violence and the Labor Movement (1914)
Shall we admit that there is a duel between society and these souls deranged by the wrongs of society?
Violence and the Labor Movement (1914)
One can cut off the head of an individual, but it is not possible to cut off the head of an economic law.
Violence and the Labor Movement (1914)
Throughout Bakounin's writings there appears again and again the plea for "terrible, total, inexorable, and universal destruction.
Violence and the Labor Movement (1914)
Both socialists and anarchists preach their gospel to the weary and heavy-laden, to the despondent and the outraged, who may readily be led to commit acts of despair.
Violence and the Labor Movement (1914)
Unquestionably socialism and anarchism attract distinctly different types, who are in many ways alien to each other. Their mental processes differ.
Violence and the Labor Movement (1914)
To those... who see in certain underlying economic forces, the source of nearly all of our distressing social evils, individual hatred and malice can make in reality no appeal.
Violence and the Labor Movement (1914)
In contrasting the temperaments, the points of view, the philosophy, and the methods of these two antagonistic minds, I have been forced to take two extremes, the Bakouninist anarchist and the Marxian socialist.
Violence and the Labor Movement (1914)
If it be true that doctrines have naught to do with the spread of terrorism, why is it that among many million socialists there are almost no terrorists, while among a few thousand anarchists there are many terrorists?
Violence and the Labor Movement (1914)
About the kindest criticism that the socialist makes of the anarchist is that he is a child, while the anarchist is convinced that the socialist is a Philistine and an inbred conservative who, should he ever get power, would immediately hang the anarchists.
Violence and the Labor Movement (1914)
We seek to terrorize them, as they seek to terrorize us. As the anarchist believes that oppression may be ended by the murder of the oppressor, so society cherishes the thought that anarchism may be ended by the murder of the anarchist.
Violence and the Labor Movement (1914)