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One does not negotiate with assassins.
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...the important thing was not the republic, the question was that there should be a revolution.
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The tragedy that stalks every revolution is the emergence of a new dominant class which before long establishes a new monopoly over opportunity.
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From its very inception, Anarchism and its greatest teachers have maintained that it is not the abuse of power which corrupts everybody, the best more often than the worst men, but that it is the thing itself, namely power, which is evil and which takes the very spirit and revolutionary fighting strength out of everybody who wields power.
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Any central government, taking upon itself to rule a nation, must certainly be a mere hindrance to the revolution. It cannot fail to be made up of the most incongruous elements, and its very essence as a government is conservatism. It will do nothing but hold back the revolution in communes ready to go ahead, without being able to inspire backward communes with the breath of revolution. The same within a commune in revolt. Either the communal government will merely sanction accomplished facts and then it will be a useless and dangerous bit of machinery; or else it will wish to take the lead to make rules for what has yet to be freely worked out by the people themselves if it is to be really viable.
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...the governments existing at present ought to be abolished, so that liberty, equality, and fraternity should no longer be empty words but become living realities, and that all forms of government as yet tried have only been so many forms of oppression and ought to be replaced by a new form of grouping will be agreed by all who have a brain and a temperament ever so revolutionary.
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Those who build walls are their own prisoners. I'm going to fulfill my proper function in the social organism. I'm going to go unbuild walls.
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...[great is] the ability of the people to get along without the kind of law and order which had to be imposed upon them from without...
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The power of the state can only be defeated by the power of revolution.
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...people do not begin building barricades unless they have received something that they regard as a provocation.
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...revolutions are inevitably corrupted when organized or channeled by a hierarchically-structured, self-proclaimed vanguard movement.
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When I have accomplished all that can be gained in this way, I shall return to take up the legal end of the case, ever delighting in the fact that the authorities cannot imprison my contempt for their stupidity, nor deprive the workers of the knowledge they have already received.
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It has been said that the issue advocated in this paper is fifty years ahead of the times. But this I deny. Rather is it a few narrow-minded officials who are fifty years behind the times...
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...for meaningful social revolution, concepts of liberation must be freed from the parameters of the status quo.
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Some are petitioning the State to dissolve the Union, to disregard the requisitions of the President. Why do they not dissolve it themselves—the union between themselves and the State—and refuse to pay their quota into its treasury? Do not they stand in same relation to the State that the State does to the Union? And have not the same reasons prevented the State from resisting the Union which have prevented them from resisting the State?
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People who take part in Government, or work under its direction, may deceive themselves or their sympathizers by making a show of struggling; but those against whom they struggle (the Government) know quite well, by the strength of the resistance experienced, that these people are not really pulling, but are only pretending to. Our Government knows this with respect to the Liberals, and constantly tests the quality of the opposition, and finding that genuine resistance is practically non-existent, it continues its course in full assurance that it can do what it likes with such opponents.
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Ah, gentlemen, if the governing classes could go down among the unfortunates! But no, they prefer to remain deaf to their appeals. It seems that a fatality impels them, like the royalty of the eighteenth century, toward the precipice which will engulf them, for woe be to those who remain deaf to the cries of the starving, woe to those who, believing themselves of superior essence, assume the right to exploit those beneath them! There comes a time when the people no longer reason; they rise like a hurricane, and pass away like a torrent. Then we see bleeding heads impaled on pikes.
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...we fix things by kicking out all the jailers, guards, and wardens.
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...in general that they who meddle with the administration of public affairs die sometimes miserably, and that they deserve it...
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...exclusive concentration on formal liberties would mean the death of the Revolution.
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...you should not have waited for the king to exile you, you should have exiled yourself.
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November 25, 2020 : The State -- Added.
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