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

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Source : Alexander Berkman (1929). “What is Communist Anarchism?”, New York : Dover Publications

Alexander Berkman

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“Datin'is a lot like fishin'. Sometimes catch and release is the best method.”
“Energy conservation is the foundation of energy independence.”
“It is not easy for a people conditioned by fear under the iron rule of the principle that might is right to free themselves from the enervating miasma of fear. Yet even under the most crushing state machinery courage rises up again and again, for fear is not the natural state of civilized man.”
“We seem to be a long way off from the kind of Fascism which we behold in Italy today, but we are not so far from the kind of Fascism which Mussolini preached in Italy before he assumed power, and we are slowly approaching the conditions which made Fascism there possible.”
“The fear of punishment, the desire of reward, the sense of duty, are all useful arguments, in their way, to persuade people to holiness. But they are all weak and powerless, until a person loves Christ.”
“The true story is vicious and multiple and untrue after all. Why do you need it? Donâ€™t ever ask for the true story.”
“I wish I could remember the moment when I was a kid and I discovered that the letters linked into words, and that the words linked to real things. What a revelation that must have been. We don't have the words for it, since we hadn't yet learned the words. It must have been astonishing, to be given the key to the kingdom and see it turn in our hands so easily.”
“Everything changes, even stone.”

Source : Joachim Pissarro, Claude Monet (1990). “Monet's cathedral: Rouen 1892-1894”, Pavilion Books, Limited

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