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The will to power which always emanates from individuals or from small minorities in society is in fact a most important driving force in history.

— Rudolf Rocker Nationalism and Culture (1937)

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The peoples owe all the political rights and privileges which we enjoy today in greater or lesser measure, not to the good will of their governments, but to their own strength.

Anarcho-Syndicalism (1938)

Anarchism is a definite intellectual current in the life of our times, whose adherents advocate the abolition of economic monopolies and of all political and social coercive institutions within society.

Anarcho-Syndicalism (1938)

Organisation is, after all, only a means to an end. When it becomes an end in itself, it kills the spirit and the vital initiative of its members and sets up that domination by mediocrity which is the characteristic of all bureaucracies.

Anarcho-Syndicalism (1938)

For the machine, because of the way it is built, can work only in a given direction, no matter who pulls its levers.

Nationalism and Culture (1937)

I am an Anarchist not because I believe Anarchism is the final goal, but because there is no such thing as a final goal.

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