Johann Most Quotes

I can't imagine people telling me what to do - I just can't imagine it.

I've never reacted well to other people telling me what to do.

Our aim in waging the war in the [Middle] East was to ensure the complete and final emancipation of all those people so long oppressed by the Turks, to establish national governments and administrations which shall derive their authority from the initiative and free will of the peoples themselves

British people do not like being bossed around.

I don't like people telling me what to do.

Freedom is like birth. Till we are fully free, we are slaves.

Death is better than slavery.

I'm no one's lap dog, you can't put me on a leash.

I don't like people telling me what to do. I'm very independent.

I can never consent to being dictated to.

People demand freedom only when they have no power.

Anarchism is founded on the observation that since few men are wise enough to rule themselves, even fewer are wise enough to rule others.

But I can tell you what your folly and injustice will compel us to do. It will compel us to be free from your domination, and more self-reliant than we have been.

Liberation is not deliverance.

I have to say I have never been comfortable with somebody else telling me what to do - in any way.

If you don't want to be a slave, stop acting like a slave.

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

Emancipation from every kind of bondage is my principle.

You do not want bread. You want freedom, because freedom will allow you to get that bread.

You only have power over people so long as you don’t take everything away from them. But when you’ve robbed a man of everything he’s no longer in your power — he’s free again.

Liberty has never come from the government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it.

I've always had a problem with authority. That's why I had to be my own boss.

When I'm out there, it's just me. Nobody's controlling me, and I can do whatever I want to do. I'm my own man.

I care about people, but if they try to control me, I don't care about them.

I never liked being told what to do, so even in school plays, I never liked being an actor.