John Henry Mackay famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

The beneficial effect of state intervention, especially in the form of legislation, is direct, immediate, and so to speak, visible, while its evil effects are gradual and indirect and lay out of sight ... Hence the majority of mankind must almost of necessity look with undue favor upon governmental intervention.
Many free countries have lost their liberty, and ours may lose hers; but, if she shall, be it my proudest plume, not that I was the last to desert, but that I never deserted her.
Now that I look back, I realize that a life predicated on being obedient is a very comfortable life indeed. Living in such a way reduces to a minimum one's own need to think.
An anarchist is someone who doesn't need a cop to make him behave.
The Anarchists never have claimed that liberty will bring perfection; they simply say that its results are vastly preferable to those that follow authority.
When anarchy is declared, the first thing we do, let's kill all the anarchists.
I wish to say that we Anarchists have never changed our position. We are Anarchists as of old and still pursue the same ideals.
I am an anarchist, and according to anarchist principles nation states become obstacles to a true humanistic globalization.
If I was an aspirant litterateur, I was also an aspirant anarchist. I have disliked Authority always, though sometimes seduced by its resplendence.
The aims of anarchists and true communists are identical.

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