Famous quotes by Activists

"To force a man to pay for the violation of his own liberty is indeed an addition of insult to injury"

Benjamin Tucker, Activist

"Therefore coercion of the non-invasive, when justifiable at all, is to be justified on the ground that it secures, not a minimum of ' invasion', but a minimum of pain"

Benjamin Tucker, Activist

"The cost of justice can be justly paid only by the invader"

Benjamin Tucker, Activist

"Marx, as we have seen, solved it by declaring capital to be a different thing from product, and maintaining that it belonged to society and should be seized by society and employed for the benefit of all alike"

Benjamin Tucker, Activist

"Laissez Faire was very good sauce for the goose, labor, but was very poor sauce for the gander, capital"

Benjamin Tucker, Activist

"First, then, State Socialism, which may be described as the doctrine that all the affairs of men should be managed by the government, regardless of individual choice"

Benjamin Tucker, Activist

"The exercise of authority over the same area by two States is a contradiction"

Benjamin Tucker, Activist

"Opinions differ most when there is least scientific warrant for having any"

Daisy Bates, Activist

"Socialism, on the contrary, extends its function to the description of society as it should be, and the discovery of the means of making it what it should be"

Benjamin Tucker, Activist

"For, just as it has been said that there is no half-way house between Rome and Reason, so it may be said that there is no half-way house between State Socialism and Anarchism"

Benjamin Tucker, Activist

"And capital punishment, however ineffective it may be and through whatever ignorance it may be resorted to, is a strictly defensive act, - at least in theory"

Benjamin Tucker, Activist

"We are here, on earth. Not one of us has any right to the earth"

Benjamin Tucker, Activist

"This brings us to Anarchism, which may be described as the doctrine that all the affairs of men should be managed by individuals or voluntary associations, and that the State should be abolished"

Benjamin Tucker, Activist

"The right of such control is already admitted by the State Socialists, though they maintain that, as a matter of fact, the individual would be allowed a much larger liberty than he now enjoys"

Benjamin Tucker, Activist

"One thing, however, is sure, - that in all cases the effort should be to impose all the cost of repairing the wrong upon the doer of the wrong. This alone is real justice, and of course such justice is necessarily free"

Benjamin Tucker, Activist

"Defence was an afterthought, prompted by necessity; and its introduction as a State function, though effected doubtless with a view to the strengthening of the State, was really and in principle the initiation of the State's destruction"

Benjamin Tucker, Activist

"But which is the State's essential function, aggression or defence? Few seem to know or care"

Benjamin Tucker, Activist

"And this is the Anarchistic definition of the State: the embodiment of the principle of invasion in an individual, or a band of individuals, assuming to act as representatives or masters of the entire people within a given area"

Benjamin Tucker, Activist

"Almost the only persons who may be said to comprehend even approximately the significance, principles, and purposes of Socialism are the chief leaders of the extreme wings of the Socialistic forces, and perhaps a few of the money kings themselves"

Benjamin Tucker, Activist

"Such security is equal liberty. But it is not necessarily equality in the use of the earth"

Benjamin Tucker, Activist

"I insist that there is nothing sacred in the life of an invader, and there is no valid principle of human society that forbids the invaded to protect themselves in whatever way they can"

Benjamin Tucker, Activist

"The essence of government is control, or the attempt to control"

Benjamin Tucker, Activist

"Anarchists are simply unterrified Jeffersonian Democrats"

Benjamin Tucker, Activist

"Many people still regard many users of public services as undeserving"

Elaine MacDonald, Activist

"A life coach does for the rest of your life what a personal trainer does for your health and fitness"

Elaine MacDonald, Activist

"It was the very government and the way they treated us that started us on that road... I only asked for justice for the people, I only asked for education to be better, I asked that there be no more massacres like the terrible San Juan massacre"

Domitila Barrios de Chungara, Activist

"For us, the principal work was not to fight against our companeros but with them to change the system for another one, where men and women may have the right of life, work, and of our own organization"

Domitila Barrios de Chungara, Activist

"I want to leave future generations the only valid inheritance: a free country and social justice"

Domitila Barrios de Chungara, Activist

"Some people are genetically programmed to be difficult"

Bruce Kent, Activist

"Well, fear and homophobia are both pervasive"

Kathy Acker, Activist

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