Errico Quotes

#1. The person who thinks with [their] own brain is to be preferred to the one who blindly approves everything ... Better an error consciously committed and in good faith, than a good action performed in a servile manner.

Errico Malatesta

#2. The freedom we want, for ourselves and for others, is not an absolute metaphysical, abstract freedom which in practice is inevitably translated into the oppression of the weak; but it is real freedom, possible freedom, which is the conscious community of interests, voluntary solidarity.

Errico Malatesta

#3. Literature is greater than any of us, dammit.

Romain Gary

#4. Impossibility never prevented anything from happening.

Errico Malatesta

#5. Sometimes it seems that bad luck always flows like the sea to me. Hardly has one wave of bad luck subsided, when another washed into my life.

Chun Yu Wang

#6. 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

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

Errico Malatesta

#8. Would you like a paddle to help you up Shit Creek in your douchecanoe? Catcher

Katie Ashley

#9. I must not sleep. If he slept, he might dream.

George R R Martin

#10. All paintings start with concept, which is another word for image or imagination. The mistake is to isolate the concept as if the idea did not need to be given permanent form.

Joseph Plaskett

#11. 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,

Errico Malatesta

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

Errico Malatesta

#13. But without effort [God] sets in motion all things by mind and thought.

Xenophanes

#14. Ronowski looked scared when he asked God what he was doing. "You shouldn't be alone tonight." God's tone clearly indicated it was a command not a suggestion. "Hey,

A.E. Via

#15. If only I could have trapped fire and dreams in jewels, I could have had them forever.

S.T. Rucker

#16. If you say that you reject violence when it exceeds the limits imposed by the needs of defense, they accuse you of pacifism, without understanding that violence is the whole essence of authoritarianism, just as the repudiation of violence is the whole essence of anarchism.

Errico Malatesta

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

Errico Malatesta

#18. By anarchist spirit I mean that deeply human sentiment, which aims at the good of all, freedom and justice for all, solidarity and love among the people; which is not an exclusive characteristic only of self-declared anarchists, but inspires all people who have a generous heart and an open mind.

Errico Malatesta

#19. Organisation, far from creating authority, is the only cure for it and the only means whereby each of us will get used to taking an active and conscious part in collective work, and cease being passive instruments in the hands of leaders.

Errico Malatesta

#20. 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.

Errico Malatesta

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

Errico Malatesta

#22. Every time there was an unspoken promise that this would be the last time, but it would only be the last time until the next time.

Tom Upton

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

Errico Malatesta

#24. We are, in any case, only one of the forces acting in society

Errico Malatesta

#25. For anarchy to succeed or simply to advance towards its success it must be conceived not only as a lighthouse which illuminates and attracts, but as something possible and attainable, not in centuries to come, but in a relatively short time and without relying on miracles ...

Errico Malatesta