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The CNT which is the most powerful organisation in Spain must take up its rightful place in the collective order. Its battles must be in tune with its greatness. - Buenaventura Durruti

Merciless criticism and independent thinking are two traits of revolutionary thinking. Lovers, lunatics and poets are made of the same stuff Bhagat Singh

Those animals which acquire habits of mutual aid are undoubtedly the fittest. - Peter Kropotkin

Our destiny is to reach that state of ideal perfection in which nations will no longer need to be under the tutelage of a government or of another nation; it is the absence of government, it is anarchy, the highest expression of order. - Elisee Reclus

The struggle is so great that the triumph over fascism alone is worth the sacrifice of our lives. Federica Montseny

The anarchists, on behalf of the proletariat, therefore consider it necessary to show the proletariat that it will have to win a gigantic battle before it realizes its goals. Johann Most

One who is constantly striving to force everything into a mechanical order at last becomes a machine himself and loses all human feeling. Rudolf Rocker

The morality which is born out of the present conception of the state and social hierarchy is necessarily corrupt. - Elisee Reclus

It is from the love of humanity that we are revolutionaries: it is not our fault if history has forced on us this distressing necessity. - Errico Malatesta

Proletarians of the world, look into the depths of your own beings, seek out the truth and realise it yourselves: you will find it nowhere else. - Peter Arshinov

The lunacy of the Soviet regime must be eliminated and replaced by the vital principles of the exploited workers, on a basis of solidarity, freedom and equal voice for each and every person. - Nestor Makhno

Police are bureaucrats with weapons. David Graeber

Did the seed of tyranny ever bear good fruit? And can you expect liberty to undo in a moment what oppression has been doing for ages? - Voltairine de Cleyre

Impossibility never prevented anything from happening. Errico Malatesta

Give us what belongs to us in peace, and if you don't give it to us in peace, we will take it by force. Emma Goldman

Painters: bring back to life, with your talent and your heart, the memory of the great revolts. - Fernand Pelloutier

Where classical anarchism is mostly focused on analyzing power relations between people, the economy, and the state, queer theory understands people in relation to the norm and deviant, creating infinite possibilities for resistance. Susan Song

Liberty enters the field of journalism to speak for herself because she finds no one willing to speak for her. - Benjamin Tucker

Anarchists know that a long period of education must precede any great fundamental change in society, hence they do not believe in vote begging, nor political campaigns, but rather in the development of self-thinking individuals. Lucy Parsons

The anti-sexualism of authoritarian societies and the people who run them does not spring from conviction (they themselves have sex), but from the vague perception that freedom here might lead to a liking for freedom elsewhere. Alex Comfort