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"Gentlemen, you can't fight in here! This is the War Room!"

Dr Strangelove

"If you're looking to make bombs or drugs, do yourself a favor and DON'T; why poison yourself or blow your hand off when you'd be better off learning what anarchism is really about? Avoid the Anarchist Cookbook; it's junk -- anarchy isn't about blowing people up, about terrorizing or killing people; it's about working people organizing against illegitimate authority, which is a lot more fun than sitting in your basement making bombs or growing weed in your bathtub!"
--Unknown

“Freethinkers are those who are willing to use their minds without prejudice and without fearing to understand things that clash with their own customs, privileges, or beliefs. This state of mind is not common, but it is essential for right thinking;”
-Tolstoy

“The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education.”
-Einstein

“People think they have taken quite an extraordinarily bold step forward when they have rid themselves of belief in hereditary monarchy and swear by the democratic republic. In reality, however, the state is nothing but a machine for the oppression of one class by another, and indeed in the democratic republic no less than in the monarchy.”
-Friedrich Engels

“Sometimes if you want to get rid of the gun, you have to pick the gun up.”
-Huey Newton

“If you stop struggling, then you stop life.”
-Huey Newton

“The first lesson a revolutionary must learn is that he is a doomed man.”
-Huey Newton

“As I have said before, the ever more sophisticated weapons piling up in the arsenals of the wealthiest and the mightiest can kill the illiterate, the ill, the poor and the hungry, but they cannot kill ignorance, illness, poverty or hunger”
-Fidel Castro

“They talk about the failure of socialism but where is the success of capitalism in Africa, Asia and Latin America?”
-Fidel Castro

“Freedom in capitalist society always remains about the same as it was in ancient Greek republics: Freedom for slave owners.”
-V. Lenin

“Under socialism all will govern in turn and will soon become accustomed to no one governing.”
-V. Lenin

“Worst of all, it is women who usually have to do, usually alone, all the dirty work of the kitchen and household, work that is unimportant, hard, tiresome, and soul-destroying”
-V. Lenin

“When there is state there can be no freedom, but when there is freedom there will be no state.”
-V. Lenin

“If you want to be happy, be.”
-Tolstoy

"Sometimes I wonder if God had a choice in creating the world."
Albert Einstein

"Sleep all day, party all night. Never grow old, never die- Helsinki Vampires" - The 69 Eyes/ The Lost Boys

I love that quote

"Freedom is always the freedom of dissenters"

Or

"Freedom is always and exclusively freedom for the one who thinks differently". -Rosa Luxembourg

This is part of a much larger quote:

"Freedom only for the members of the government, only for the members of the Party — though they are quite numerous — is no freedom at all. Freedom is always the freedom of dissenters. The essence of political freedom depends not on the fanatics of 'justice', but rather on all the invigorating, beneficial, and detergent effects of dissenters. If 'freedom' becomes 'privilege', the workings of political freedom are broken."-Rosa Luxembourg

"Without..... unrestricted freedom of press and assembly, without a free struggle of opinion, life dies out in every public institution, becomes a mere semblance of life, in which only the bureaucracy remains as the active element." -Rosa Luxembourg

And then one of my favorites:

"The idea of God implies the abdication of human reason and justice; it is the most decisive negation of human liberty, and necessarily ends in the enslavement of mankind, in theory and practice." -Mikhail Bakunin

Additionally, he also reversed Voltaire's famous aphorism that "if God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent Him", writing instead that:

"If God really did exist, it would be necessary to abolish Him."


Also from Bakunin:

"If you took the most ardent revolutionary, vested him in absolute power, within a year he would be worse than the Tsar himself."

"The liberty of man consists solely in this, that he obeys the laws of nature because he has himself recognized them as such, and not because they have been imposed upon him externally by any foreign will whatsoever, human or divine, collective or individual."

"... it is the peculiarity of privilege and of every privileged position to kill the intellect and heart of man. The privileged man, whether he be privileged politically or economically, is a man depraved in intellect and heart."

One of my favorite Anarchist philosophers, save for the blatant Anti- Semitism (he didn't like Karl Marx that much). confused