14 Monday Sep 2015
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“We need a powerful collective vision and determination that can inspire, that can transform, that can regenerate, that can sweep aside seemingly immovable obstacles and turn remote possibilities into hard realities. Humankind needs new generations of idealistic young revolutionaries, heretics, inspirés with a burning sense of purpose and destiny, with the unquenchable energy to will into existence the new world of which they dream”.
Paul Cudenec, The Stifled Soul of Humankind
14 Tuesday Jul 2015
“As free thinkers we can encourage a great transformation of the human spirit where we find solutions outside the left-right paradigm. That discussion and search must continue in earnest. I am done with the left-right divide. It’s now the humans versus the deadly robotic corporate state. ”.
Keith McHenry of Food Not Bombs, 2022 Interview
05 Sunday Jul 2015
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“I pointed out that Nietzsche was not a social theorist but a poet, a rebel and innovator. His aristocracy was neither of birth nor of purse; it was of the spirit. In that respect Nietzsche was an anarchist, and all true anarchists were aristocrats, I said”.
Emma Goldman, Living My Life
29 Monday Jun 2015
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“I despise this foul industrial epoch”.
Herbert Read, Poetry and Anarchism
19 Friday Jun 2015
“What if you believe that humans have a natural tendency for co-operation rather than for competition, for mutual aid rather than for mutual robbery? In this case, you obviously do not believe that a state is necessary to hold society together, as this is something that happens naturally from within”.
02 Saturday May 2015
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“Laws are rules, made by people who govern by means of organized violence, for non-compliance with which the non-complier is subjected to blows, to loss of liberty, or even to being murdered”.
Leo Tolstoy, The Slavery of Our Times
30 Monday Mar 2015
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“In France, as everywhere else, nostalgia for certain moral values from the past, the idealisation of certain pre-capitalist social forms (rural living or cottage industry) and the rejection of industrial/bourgeois civilization were an essential component of anarchist culture”.
Michael Löwy, Rédemption et utopie: le judaïsme libertaire en Europe centrale
[Read about Michael Löwy on the orgrad website]
21 Saturday Mar 2015
“The State was established for the precise purpose of imposing the rule of the landowners, the employers of industry, the warrior class, and the clergy upon the peasants on the land and the artisans in the city. And the rich perfectly well know that if the machinery of the State ceased to protect them, their power over the laboring classes would be gone immediately”.
Peter Kropotkin, Modern Science and Anarchism
[Read about Peter Kropotkin on the orgrad website]
27 Friday Feb 2015
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“Faith in the fundamental goodness of man; humility in the presence of natural laws; reason and mutual aid – these are the qualities that can save us. But they must be unified and vitalized by an insurrectionary passion, a flame in which all virtues are tempered and clarified, and brought to their most effective strength”.
Herbert Read, The Philosophy of Anarchism
[Find out more about Herbert Read on the orgrad website]
24 Tuesday Feb 2015
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“I had been told that our social institutions were founded on justice and equality; I observed all around me nothing but lies and impostures… I brought with me into the struggle a profound hatred which every day was renewed by the spectacle of this society where everything is base, everything is equivocal, everything is ugly, where everything is an impediment to the outflow of human passions, to the generous impulses of the heart, to the free flight of thought”.
Emile Henry, Speech in court
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