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"You may be of limited mentality; and that is all you require in the capitalist system. You need only small brains, but huge hands.
Most of your hands are calloused and you are taught by the capitalist politician, who is the political mercenary of the capitalist who fleeces you, you are taught by him to be proud of your horny hands. If that is true he ought to be ashamed of his. He doesnt have any horns on his hands. He has them on his brain. He is as busy with his brain as you are with your hands, and because he is busy with his brain and you neglect yours, he gets a goodly share of what you produce with your hands. He is the gentleman who calls you the horny handed sons of toil. That fetches you every time. I tell you that the time has come for you to use your brains in your own interest, and until you do that you will have to use your hands in the interest of your masters".
-Eugene Debs, "Revolutionary Unionism"
"If I had said, 'the French are shameless' I would have relinquished my French condition. Which I cannot renounce, since it is a fundamental truth. If on the contrary, in the form of a confession, I say 'we are shameless'...'we torture'...Because I think that it is in the name of French solidarity that I should, from inside of France, denounce those crimes. And, from the moment I denounce them, I make them mine". -Jean Paul Sartre
"Each discovery, each advance, each increase in the sum of human riches, owes its being to the physical and mental travail of the past and the present.
By what right then can any one whatever appropriate the least morsel of this immense whole say - This is mine, not yours?"
-Peter Kropotkin, "The Conquest of Bread"
"Every logical and sincere theory of the State is essentially founded on the principle of authority--that is to say on the eminently theological, metaphysical and political idea that the masses, always incapable of governing themselves, must submit at all times to the benevolent yoke of a wisdom and a justice, which in one way or another, is imposed on them from above. But imposed in the name of what and by whom?"
Mikhail Bakunin, "Marxism, Freedom and the State"
"We must remember that violence, unfortunately necessary to resist violence, is no use to build anything good: it is the natural enemy of freedom, the procreator of tyranny, therefore it must be kept within the limits of strict necessity."
-Errico Malatesta
