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Things will change and the masses will awaken to the realisation that no one, no political Party or governmental clique must be permitted in the future to monopolise the Revolution, to control or direct it, for such attempts inevitably result in the death of the Revolution itself.

— Peter Kropotkin

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Vladimir Ilyich, your concrete actions are completely unworthy of the ideas you pretend to hold.

Sociability is as much a law of nature as mutual struggle.

The history of human thought recalls the swinging of a pendulum which takes centuries to swing. After a long period of slumber comes a moment of awakening.

Anarchist Morality (1890)

She starts research in new paths, enriches our knowledge with new discoveries, creates new sciences.

Anarchist Morality (1890)

The whole aspect of the universe changes with this new conception.

Anarchism: Its Philosophy and Ideal (1896)

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The moment the idea is admitted into society, that property is not as sacred as the law of God, and that there is not a force of law and public justice to protect it, anarchy and tyranny commence.

John Adams A Defence of the Constitutions of Government (1787)

There is no governor anywhere; you are all absolutely free. There is no restraint that cannot be escaped.

Robert Anton Wilson

When we see a great man desiring power instead of his real goal we soon recognize that he is sick, or more precisely that his attitude to his work is sick.

Martin Buber What is Man? (1938)

Of all tyrannies a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive.

C. S. Lewis God in the Dock (1970)

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