Top 21 Malatesta 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

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#2. If he were ever to break up with me, I would so be that stalker ex-girlfriend who stole his underwear and hid in the hedges outside his bedroom window.

Darynda Jones

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#3. 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

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#4. Dark energy is a mysterious pressure in the vacuum of space that acts in the opposite direction of gravity, forcing the universe to expand faster than it otherwise would.

Neil DeGrasse Tyson

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#5. How far was a feeling genuine if it did not find expression in an external act?

Brian W. Aldiss

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#6. You can't just sit there and put everyone's lives ahead of yours and think that counts as love. You just can't. You have to do things.

Stephen Chbosky

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#7. Impossibility never prevented anything from happening.

Errico Malatesta

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

Errico Malatesta

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#9. In every wreck and crash, there is some unseen man rubbing his hands with thoughts of tidy profits.

Hugh Howey

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#10. 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

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

Errico Malatesta

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#12. 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

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#13. 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

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

Errico Malatesta

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#15. 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

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#16. 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

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#17. 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

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#18. Our ships, God be thanked, have received little hurt.

John Hawkins

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

Errico Malatesta

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

Errico Malatesta

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

Errico Malatesta

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