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Emma Goldman | do you not realize that the State is the worst enemy you have?

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“Men and women … do you not realize that the State is the worst enemy you have? It is a machine that crushes you in order to sustain the ruling class, your masters. Like naïve children you put your trust in your political leaders. You make it possible for them to creep into your confidence, only to have them betray you to the first bidder. But even where there is no direct betrayal, the labour politicians make common cause with your enemies to keep you in leash, to prevent your…

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Michael Rivero | Hence, most propaganda is not designed to fool the critical thinker

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“Most people prefer to believe their leaders are just and fair even in the face of evidence to the contrary, because once a citizen acknowledges that the government under which they live is lying and corrupt, the citizen has to choose what he or she will do about it. To take action in the face of a corrupt government entails risks of harm to life and loved ones. To choose to do nothing is to surrender one’s self-image of standing for principles. Most people do not have the courage to…

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John Henry Mackay | I am an Anarchist

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“Ever reviled, accursed, ne’er understood, Thou art the grisly terror of our age. “Wreck of all order,” cry the multitude, “Art thou, and war and murder’s endless rage.” O, let them cry. To them that ne’er have striven The truth that lies behind a word to find, To them the word’s right meaning was not given. They shall continue blind among the blind. But thou, O word, so clear, so strong, so pure, Thou sayest all which I for goal have taken. I give thee to the future! Thine secure…

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Murray Rothbard | not for equal freedom but for equal slavery

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“The egalitarians are arguing not for equal freedom but for equal slavery or equal robbery in the name of “fairness.” Murray Rothbard “Die Egalitären argumentieren nicht für gleiche Freiheit, sondern für gleiche Sklaverei, bzw. gleichen Raub, im Namen der „Fairness” Nützliche und hilfreiche Links…

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Mark Passio | The more moral a population is, the freer it becomes

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“The more moral a population is, the freer it becomes. The more immoral a population is, the deeper into bondage and slavery it goes. Another way of saying this is to say that the presence of truth and morality in the lives of the people of any given society is always inversely proportional to the presence of tyranny and slavery in that society. The more truth and morality there is, the less tyranny and slavery there is. The less truth and morality there is, the more tyranny and slavery there…

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Lysander Spooner | agents of the people

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“If a man is my servant, agent, or attorney, I necessarily make myself responsible for all his acts done within the limits of the power I have intrusted to him. If I have intrusted him, as my agent, with either absolute power, or any power at all, over the persons or properties of other men than myself, I thereby necessarily make myself responsible to those other persons for any injuries he may do them, so long as he acts within the limits of the power I have granted him. But…

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Lysander Spooner | Majorities, as such, afford no guarantees for justice

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“Majorities, as such, afford no guarantees for justice. They are men of the same nature as minorities. They have the same passions for fame, power, and money, as minorities; and are liable and likely to be equally – perhaps more than equally, because more boldly – rapacious, tyrannical and unprincipled, if intrusted with power.” Lysander Spooner “Mehrheiten als solche bieten keine Garantien für Gerechtigkeit. Sie sind Menschen von derselben Natur wie Minderheiten. Sie haben die gleichen Leidenschaften für Ruhm, Macht und Geld wie Minderheiten; und sie sind ebenso – vielleicht…

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Jacques Élisée Reclus | the policy of hatred always breeds hatred

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“History permits the well-founded observation that the policy of hatred always breeds hatred and fatally complicates the general situation, if not leads to final ruin. How many nations perished in this way. Oppressors as well as oppressed! Should we also be doomed? I hope not! And I owe this hope also to the anarchist thinking, which penetrates day by day more and more into the light and renews the human initiative.” Jacques Élisée Reclus was a French geographer and anarchist. (1830-1905) “Die Geschichte lässt die wohlbegründete Feststellung zu, dass die…

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Charlie Chaplin | As for politics, I’m an anarchist

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“As for politics, I’m an anarchist. I hate governments and rules and fetters. Can’t stand caged animals. People must be free.” Charlie Chaplin “Was die Politik angeht, bin ich Anarchist. Ich hasse Regierungen, Regeln und Fesseln. Ich kann eingesperrte Tiere nicht ausstehen. Die Menschen müssen frei sein.” Nützliche und hilfreiche Links…

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Roland Baader | It is … a naivety that cannot be excused by anything to believe

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“It is … a naivety that cannot be excused by anything to believe that a state can be total in the economic sphere without being so at the same time in the political and spiritual sphere ….” … Democracy and socialism are not a tautology (à la Oskar),but radical, mutually exclusive opposites. Democracy is a method of limiting and controlling power. Socialism, on the other hand, always denies the individual freedom of choice of individuals over their economic preferences and life goals (supposedly in favor of the general public, the…

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Samuel Edward Konkin III | Every victim of statism

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“Every victim of statism has internalized the State to some degree. The IRS’s annual proclamation that the income tax depends on “voluntary compliance” is ironically true. Should the taxpayer completely cut off the blood supply, the vampire State would helplessly perish, its unpaid police and army deserting almost immediately, defanging the Monster.” Samuel Edward Konkin III (New Libertarian Manifesto) “Jedes Opfer der Staatsgewalt hat den Staat bis zu einem gewissen Grad verinnerlicht. Die jährliche Botschaft des Finanzamtes, dass die Einkommenssteuer von der “freiwilligen Einhaltung” abhängt, ist ironischerweise wahr. Sollte der…

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Machiavelli | All power is robbery

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“All power is robbery and all its justification is pure ideology.” Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli ( 3. Mai 1469 – – 21. Juni 1527) is a statesman, philosopher and theorist of politics, history and war. “Alle Macht ist Raub und all ihre Rechtfertigung pure Ideologie.” Nützliche und hilfreiche Links…

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Alexis de Tocqueville | the species of oppression by which democratic nations

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„I think then that the species of oppression by which democratic nations are menaced is unlike anything which ever before existed in the world: our contemporaries will find no prototype of it in their memories. I am trying myself to choose an expression which will accurately convey the whole of the idea I have formed of it, but in vain; the old words “despotism” and “tyranny” are inappropriate: the thing itself is new; and since I cannot name it, I must attempt to define it. I seek to trace the…

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Walt Whitman | once unquestioning obedience, once fully enslaved

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“To the States or any one of them, or any city of the States, Resist much, obey little, once unquestioning obedience, once fully enslaved, once fully enslaved, no nation, state, city of this earth, ever afterward resumes its liberty.” Walt Whitman “An die Staaten, oder an irgend einen von ihnen, oder an irgend eine Stadt der Staaten: Widersetzt euch viel! Gehorcht wenig! Einmal fragloser Gehorsam, einmal völlig unterjocht, einmal ganz zum Sklaven gemacht, Erlangt keine Nation, kein Staat, keine Stadt dieser Erde je ihre Freiheit zurück!” Nützliche und hilfreiche Links…

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John Adam | All the Perplexities, Confusions and Distresses in America

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“All the Perplexities, Confusions and Distresses in America arise not from defects in their Constitutions or Confederation, not from a want of Honour or Virtue, So much as from downright Ignorance of the Nature of Coin, Credit and Circulation.” John Adams | 25. August 1787 an Thomas Jefferson “Alle Schwierigkeiten, Verwirrungen und Bedrängnisse in Amerika rühren nicht von Mängeln in ihren Verfassungen oder ihrer Konföderation her, nicht von einem Mangel an Ehre oder Tugend, sondern von der völligen Unkenntnis der Natur der Münze, des Kredits und des Umlaufs.” Nützliche und…

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Murray N. Rothbard | The State is that organization in society

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“The State is that organization in society which attempts to maintain a monopoly of the use of force and violence in a given territorial area; in particular, it is the only organization in society that obtains its revenue not by voluntary contribution or payment for services rendered but by coercion.” Murray N. Rothbard “Der Staat ist diejenige Organisation in der Gesellschaft, die versucht, das Monopol der Anwendung von Zwang und Gewalt in einem bestimmten territorialen Bereich aufrechtzuerhalten; insbesondere ist er die einzige Organisation in der Gesellschaft, die ihre Einnahmen nicht…

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Aristoteles | Tyrants must ensure

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“Tyrants must ensure that the people are poor, busy, lonely, distrustful, highly taxed, distracted by trivia, spied on, and at war.” Aristoteles (Allegedly) “Tyrannen müssen sicherstellen, dass das Volk arm, beschäftigt, einsam, misstrauisch, hoch besteuert, von Kleinigkeiten abgelenkt, ausspioniert und im Krieg ist.” Nützliche und hilfreiche Links…

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Leo Tolstoi | There is something in the human spirit that will survive

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“There is something in the human spirit that will survive and prevail, there is a tiny and brilliant light burning in the heart of man that will not go out no matter how dark the world becomes.” Leo Tolstoi “Es gibt etwas im menschlichen Geist, das überleben und siegen wird, es brennt ein winziges und brillantes Licht im Herzen des Menschen, das nicht ausgehen wird, egal wie dunkel die Welt wird.” Nützliche und hilfreiche Links…

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Theodore J. Kaczynski | These engineered human

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“These engineered human beings may be happy in such a society, but they most certainly will not be free. They will have been reduced to the status of domestic animals.” Theodore J. Kaczynski “Diese manipulierten Menschen mögen in einer solchen Gesellschaft vielleicht glücklich sein, sie sind aber mit Sicherheit nicht frei. Sie sind auf die Stufe von Haustieren gesunken.” Nützliche und hilfreiche Links…

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Dave Smith | basic human liberties

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“If you believe that the most basic human liberties ought to be contingent on taking a product from a giant pharmaceutical company then you are not liberal or left wing. You’re not a conservative or patriotic. There is only one word to describe you and that is Fascist.” Dave Smith “Wenn Sie glauben, dass die grundlegendsten menschlichen Freiheiten von der Einnahme eines Produkts eines riesigen Pharmakonzerns abhängig gemacht werden sollten, dann sind Sie nicht liberal oder links. Sie sind weder konservativ noch patriotisch. Es gibt nur ein Wort, um Sie…

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Will Spencer | an alcoholic trying to drink yourself sober

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“If your answer to every failure of government is more government, you are like an alcoholic trying to drink yourself sober.” Will Spencer “Wenn deine Antwort auf jedes Versagen des Staats mehr Staat ist, bist du wie ein Alkoholiker, der versucht, sich nüchtern zu saufen. Nützliche und hilfreiche Links…

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Robert A. Heinlein | There is no worse tyranny

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“There is no worse tyranny than to force a man to pay for what he does not want merely because you think it would be good for him.” Robert A. Heinlein “Es gibt keine schlimmere Tyrannei, als einen Menschen zu zwingen, für etwas zu bezahlen, das er nicht will, nur weil man glaubt, es wäre gut für ihn.” Nützliche und hilfreiche Links…

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Albert Jay Nock | The State, both in its genesis and by its primary intention, is purely anti-social

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“The State, both in its genesis and by its primary intention, is purely anti-social. It is not based on the idea of natural rights, but on the idea that the individual has no rights except those that the State may provisionally grant him. It has always made justice costly and difficult of access, and has invariably held itself above justice and common morality whenever it could advantage itself by so doing.” Albert Jay Nock (1870-1945) American libertarian author, editor, educational theorist, Georgist, social critic “Der Staat ist sowohl in seiner…

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C.S. Lewis | I do not like the pretensions of Government

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“I do not like the pretensions of Government — the grounds on which it demands my obedience — to be pitched too high. I don’t like the medicine-man’s magical pretensions nor the Bourbon’s Divine Right. This is not solely because I disbelieve in magic and in Bossuet’s Politique. I believe in God, but I detest theocracy. For every Government consists of mere men and is, strictly viewed, a makeshift; if it adds to its commands ‘Thus saith the Lord’, it lies, and lies dangerously. On just the same ground I…

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Ayn Rand | He is free to evade reality

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“He is free to evade reality, he is free to unfocus his mind and stumble blindly down any road he pleases, but not free to avoid the abyss he refuses to see.” Ayn Rand “Es steht ihm frei, sich der Realität zu entziehen, es steht ihm frei, seinen Verstand zu verwirren und blindlings jeden Weg zu beschreiten, der ihm gefällt, aber es steht ihm nicht frei, dem Abgrund zu vermeiden, den er nicht sehen will.” Nützliche und hilfreiche Links…

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Rose Wilder Lane | No state, no government exists

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“The picture of the economic revolution as the final step to freedom was false as soon as I asked myself that question. For, in actual fact, The State, The Government, cannot exist. They are abstract concepts, useful enough in their place, as the theory of minus numbers is useful in mathematics. In actual living experience, however, it is impossible to subtract anything from nothing; when a purse is empty, it is empty, it cannot contain a minus ten dollars. On this same plane of actuality, no State, no Government, exists….

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Mahatma Gandhi | the truth is still the truth

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“Many people, especially ignorant people, want to punish you for speaking the truth, for being correct, for being you. Never apologize for being correct, or for being years ahead of your time. If you’re right and you know it, speak your mind. Speak your mind. Even if you are a minority of one, the truth is still the truth.” Mahatma Gandhi “Viele Menschen, besonders die ignoranten Menschen, möchten Dich dafür bestrafen, dass Du die Wahrheit sprichst, dafür, dass Du das Richtige tust, dass Du Du bist. Entschuldige Dich niemals dafür,…

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Leo Tolstoy | The Anarchists are right in everything

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“The Anarchists are right in everything; in the negation of the existing order and in the assertion that, without Authority there could not be worse violence than that of Authority under existing conditions. They are mistaken only in thinking that anarchy can be instituted by a violent revolution. But it will be instituted only by there being more and more people who do not require the protection of governmental power and by there being more and more people who will be ashamed of applying this power.” Lew Nikolajewitsch Graf Tolstoi…

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Ignazio Silone | You can’t beg your freedom from someone

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“Freedom is not something you get as a present,” said Pietro. “You can live in a dictatorship and be free – on one condition: that you fight the dictatorship. The man who thinks with is own mind and keeps it uncorrupted is free. The man who fights for what he thinks is right is free. But you can live in the most democratic country on earth, and if you’re lazy, obtuse or servile within yourself, you’re not free. Even without any violent coercion, you’re a slave. You can’t beg your…