Quotes About Freedom

If I love freedom above all else, then any commitment becomes a metaphor, a symbol. This touches on the difference between the forest fleer and the partisan:this distinction is not qualitative but essential in nature. The anarch is closer to Being. The partisan moves within the social or national party structure, the anarch is outside of it. Of course, the anarch cannot elude the party structure, since he lives in society.

There are wolves hiding in the gray flock that is - characters who still know what freedom is. Moreover, these wolves are not only strong in themselves; there is also the danger that one fine morning they will transmit their characteristics to the masses, so that the flock turns into a pack. This is a ruler's nightmare.

The anarch, as I have expounded elsewhere, is the pendant to the monarch; he is as sovereign as the monarch, and also freer since he does not have to rule.

When two individuals love each other, they become free from the Leviathan, they create space it cannot control. Eros shall always triumph, as the true message of the gods, over all titanic creations.

Die Sklaverei lässt sich bedeutend steigern, indem man ihr den Anschein der Freiheit gewährt.

There are wolves hiding in the gray flock; characters who still know what freedom is. This is a ruler's worst nightmare.

History is the footsteps of free men towards destiny.

Authentic writing cannot be coerced.

For the anarch, things are not so simple, especially when he has a background in history. If he remains free of being ruled, whether by sovereigns or by society, this does not mean that he refuses to serve in any way. In general, he serves no worse than anyone else, and sometimes even better, if he likes the game. He only holds back from the pledge, the sacrifice, the ultimate devotion. These are issues of metaphysical integrity....

At the bottom I was quite content, for though I have never had great cares I have never had so care-free a life as at the front. Everything is clear and simple. My rights and duties are prescribed. I need earn no money. My food is provided me, and if things go badly with me I have a thousend fellow-sufferers, and above all, the shadow of death reduces every problem to a pleasant insignificance.

O bien poseer un destino propio o bien equivaler a un número: ésa es la disyuntiva que hoy nos viene impuesta -ciertamente por la fuerza- a todos y cada uno de nosotros, pero el inclinarse por lo uno o por lo otro es algo que corresponde decidir a cada uno por sí mismo

I had often doubted; now I was convinced: there were still noble beings among us in whose hearts knowledge of the higher order was preserved and perpetuated. A lofty example enjoins us to follow, and I swore before this head that for all the future I would cast my lot with the solitary and free rather than the triumphant and servile.

Each individual must know if freedom is more important to them—know whether they value how they are more than that they are.14

Kein Volk ist wahrhaft frei ohne die Freiheit seiner Nachbarn. Die Politiker belügen sich selbst und belügen die Bürger, sie nennen ihre Interessen Ideale, für diese Ideale, für Gold, für Land, für Erz, für Öl, für lauter tote Dinge sterben, hungern, verzweifeln die Menschen. Überall. Die Frage der Kriegsschuld verblaßt vor der Schuld des Kapitalismus.

Mots exagérés pour dire qu'il est des réclusions mineures où l'on passe finalement un temps très long avant de s'en libérer. Car c'est bien un acte de volonté subit qui décide du terme et l'on se demande pourquoi on ne s'en est pas délivré plus tôt.

Il rimorso non tormenta chi l'ha fatta franca". Oggi so che è vera.

This is what books should do: Carry a person and not be carried by him; take the day off his back, not add its own ounces of paper to his vertebrae.

Se la mia opinione è un reato, continuerò a commetterlo.

Les livres sont la plus grande contradiction des barreaux. Ils ouvrent le plafond de la cellule du prisonnier allongé sur son lit.

That's how you keep someone tied to you, not set them free. You say no to a man and don't give him the peace of repayment.

En mer il n'y a pas de tavernes.

Quand elle s'élançait soudain en courant du parasol vers la mer sans avertir personne, je ne courais pas derrière elle pour ne pas m'exposer au ridicule, mais je la suivais tout le temps de sa baignade avec la tension d'un chien à la chaîne.

Il rimorso non tormenta chi l'ha fatta franca

We anarchists do not want to emancipate the people; we want the people to emancipate themselves.