Rudolf Rocker Quotes
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“Power operates only destructively, bent always on forcing every manifestation of life into the straitjacket of its laws. Its intellectual form of expression is dead dogma, its physical form brute force.”
— Rudolf Rocker —
For the anarchist, freedom is not an abstract philosophical concept, but the vital concrete possibility of every human being to bring to full development all the powers, capacities and talents with which nature has endowed them, and turn them to social account.
— Rudolf Rocker
The peoples owe all political rights and privileges which we enjoy today in greater or lesser measure, not to the good will of their governments, but to their own strength. One need only study the history of the past three hundred years to understand by what relentless struggles every right has had to be wrested inch by inch from the despots.
— Rudolf Rocker
— Rudolf Rocker
Education is character development, harmonious completion of human personality. But what the state accomplishes in this field is dull drill, extinction of natural feeling, narrowing of the spiritual field of vision, destruction of all the deeper elements of character in man. The state can train subjects ... but it can never develop free men who take their affairs into their own hands; for independent thought is the greatest danger that it has to fear.
— Rudolf Rocker
“One compels respect from others when he knows how to defend his dignity as a human being.”
— Rudolf Rocker
“Anarchism has a broad back, like paper it endures anything,”
— Rudolf Rocker
For the machine, because of the way it is built, can work only in a given direction, no matter who pulls its levers.
— Rudolf Rocker
“The nation which can only be saved by one man and wants to be saved that way deserves a whipping!”
— Rudolf Rocker
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