Alexander Berkman Quotes

War means blind obedience, unthinking stupidity, brutish callousness, wanton destruction, and irresponsible murder.

Man's inhumanity to man is not the last word. The truth lies deeper. It is economic slavery, the savage struggle for a crumb, that has converted mankind into wolves and sheep.

Anarchism means voluntary co-operation instead of forced participation. It means harmony and order in place of interference and disorder.

The cure for evil and disorder is more liberty, not suppression.

Certainly the worker has nothing to lose by a change from government and capitalism to a condition of no government, of anarchy.

In short, Anarchism means a condition or society where all men and women are free, and where all enjoy equally the benefits of an ordered and sensible life.

Inhumanity is the keynote of stupidity in power.

Socialism, like Christianity destroyed itself to gain power

War paralyzes your courage and deadens the spirit of true manhood.

Violence is the method of ignorance, the weapon of the weak. The strong of heart and brain need no violence, for they are irresistible in their consciousness of being right.