Errico Malatesta Quotes

There can be hope only for a society which acts as one big family, not as many separate ones.

I believe in the brotherhood of all men, but I don't believe in wasting brotherhood on anyone who doesn't want to practice it with me. Brotherhood is a two-way street.

If we desire a society in which men are brothers, then we must act towards one another with brotherhood. If we can build such a society, then we would have achieved the ultimate goal of human freedom.

Those words freedom and opportunity do not mean a license to climb upwards by pushing other people down.

Our Union cannot safely stand on the cold calculation of interest alone.

We are members of one another. What binds us together is far greater than what separates us... because of our interconnectivity, what happens to the least of us happens to all of us. Whatever you do for the least of us, you do for all of us.

I don't believe in charity. I believe in solidarity. Charity is so vertical. It goes from the top to the bottom. Solidarity is horizontal. It respects the other person. I have a lot to learn from other people.

To help all created things, that is the measure of all our responsibility; to be helped by all, that is the measure of our hope.

To realize that new world we must prefer the values of freedom and equality above all other values - above personal wealth, technical power and nationalism.

Solidarity is the basis of my politics.

Brotherhood is not just a Bible word. Out of comradeship can come and will come the happy life for all.

No one can be perfectly free till all are free; no one can be perfectly moral till all are moral; no one can be perfectly happy till all are happy.

There cannot be enduring peace, prosperity, equality and brotherhood in this world if our aims are so separate and divergent, if we do not accept that in the end we are people, all alike, sharing the Earth among ourselves and also with other sentient beings, all of whom have an equal role and stake in the state of this planet and its players.

There has to be a social commitment, a social consciousness that joins men together. On the basis of their coming together, they do not transgress against themselves and they do not transgress against others.

The good we secure for ourselves is precarious and uncertain until it is secured for all of us and incorporated into our common life.

Reciprocity helps us balance the need for self-determination and creative individuality with mutual hope and, therefore, what might be described as 'solidarity.'

In all things that are purely social we can be as separate as the fingers yet as one hand in all things essential to mutual progress..

Happy the generation where the great listen to the small, for it follows that in such a generation the small will listen to the great.

Let no more gods or exploiters be served. Let us learn rather to love one another.

What is not good for everyone is not good for anyone.

I'm the friend of the little people.

Each wants to be free, but none can succeed in obtaining freedom unless all are permitted to enjoy it

No man can be fully free while his neighbor is not.

No longer need capitalist and worker, farmer and clerk, city and countryside, struggle to divide our bounty. By working shoulder to shoulder, together we can increase the bounty of all.

In order to have a large number of values in common, all members of the group must have an equitable opportunity to receive and to take from others. Members must be able to accept each other’s ideas and must be able to compromise. There must be a large variety of shared undertakings and experiences. Otherwise, the influences … educate some into masters, educate others into slaves.