Errico Malatesta Quotes

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

The only limit to the oppression of government is the power with which the people show themselves capable of opposing it.

Impossibility never prevented anything from happening.

Not whether we accomplish anarchism today, tomorrow, or within ten centuries, but that we walk towards anarchism today, tomorrow, and always.

We follow ideas and not men, and rebel against this habit of embodying a principle in a man.

Hate does not produce love, and by hate one cannot remake the world.

While preaching against every kind of government, and demanding complete freedom, we must support all struggles for partial freedom, because we are convinced that one learns through struggle.

Experience through freedom is the only means to arrive at the truth and the best solutions; and there is no freedom if there is not the freedom to be wrong.