Errico Malatesta Quotes

I am an Anarchist! Wherefore I will not rule, and also ruled I will not be!

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

The love of liberty and the sense of human dignity are the basic elements of the Anarchist creed.

We anarchists do not want to emancipate the people; we want the people to emancipate themselves.

I wish to say that we Anarchists have never changed our position. We are Anarchists as of old and still pursue the same ideals.

The anarchists are not promising anything to anyone. The anarchists only want people to be conscious of their own situation and seize freedom for themselves.

It's an old anarchist dream that people can take care of their own lives.

In order to fully realise our aspirations, we must create in the masses of the people the sense of sacrifice and responsibility that has been the characteristic of the anarchist movement throughout its historic development in Spain.

Anarchists are simply unterrified Jeffersonian Democrats.

Libertarian socialism is properly to be regarded as the inheritor of the liberal ideals of the Enlightenment.

There are Anarchists in other parts of the world who are unable to, comprehend the position of the Spanish Anarchists. I do not pretend to censor these Anarchists.

I believe that I have been basically anarchistic, anti-religion and anti-industry and business. In other words, anti-bureaucracy. I would like to see people behave well without having to have priests stand by, politicians stand by, or people collecting bills.

I don't believe we should have any rulers. It is right to kill them.

Anarchists are real enemies of Marxism

Anarchism means all sort of things to different people, but the traditional anarchists' movements assumed that there'd be a highly organized society, just one organized from below with direct participation and so on.

You know, putting power in people's hands was the central idea of the conservative platform. And so, to me, the E.U. was the direct opposite of that, and totally inconsistent.

What is an anarchist? One who, choosing, accepts the responsibility of choice.

I'm by no means convinced that capitalism and the development of technology has made anarchism easier.

I think we have to talk about educating the people for critical consciousness about what anarchy is.

Anarchism is democracy taken seriously.

That is what I have always understood to be the essence of anarchism: the conviction that the burden of proof has to be placed on authority, and that it should be dismantled if that burden cannot be met.

We have all in some degree become anarchistic.

A man is as free as he chooses to make himself, never an atom freer.

Freedom does not mean being free of something, but to be free to do something.

Anarchism aims to strip labor of its deadening, dulling aspect, of its gloom and compulsion. It aims to make work an instrument of joy, of strength, of color, of real harmony, so that the poorest sort of a man should find in work both recreation and hope.