Rudolf Rocker Quotes

#1. I am an Anarchist not because I believe Anarchism is the final goal, but because there is no such thing as a final goal.

Rudolf Rocker

#2. The ever-growing power of a soulless political bureaucracy which supervises and safeguards the life of man from the cradle to the grave is putting ever-greater obstacles in the way of co-operation among human beings.

Rudolf Rocker

#3. Champions do ordinary things better than everyone else.

Chuck Noll

#4. Modern Anarcho-Syndicalism is a direct continuation of those social aspirations which took shape in the bosom of the First International and which were best understood and most strongly held by the libertarian wing of the great workers' alliance.

Rudolf Rocker

#5. I'll write for a while and then I'll find an appropriate song and in a weird way the music will keep me in the mood. I find music to define the mood of the movie, the rhythm the movie is going to play in.

Quentin Tarantino

#6. Just as you cannot see, at pleasure, with your ears and you cannot, at will, hear with your eyes so too you cannot make the state act in the interests of the working people. As an organ in the social body, its purpose is for the repression of self-determination.

Rudolf Rocker

#7. One compels respect from others when he knows how to defend his dignity as a human being.

Rudolf Rocker

#8. The nation which can only be saved by one man and wants to be saved that way deserves a whipping!

Rudolf Rocker

#9. 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

#10. You're alive!" Fezzik cried.
The man in black sat immobile, like a ventriloquist's dummy, just his mouth moving. "That is perhaps the most childishly obvious remark I have ever come across ...

William Goldman

#11. Money is worth what it will help you to produce or buy and no more.

Henry Ford

#12. I am a lover of what is, not because I'm a spiritual person, but because it hurts when I argue with reality.

Byron Katie

#13. If you're always worrying about what other people think, you'll never get any tougher.

Kanae Minato

#14. I was creating commitment devices of my own long before I knew what they were. So when I was a starving post-doc at Columbia University, I was deep in a publish-or-perish phase of my career. I had to write five pages a day towards papers, or I would have to give up five dollars.

Daniel Goldstein

#15. Regulatory failings mean that the cost of breaking the law is far below that of obeying it - businesses are happier to pay fines than to control pollution.

Ma Jun

#16. I'd never seen him before, but he looked a lot like my next mistake.

Jamie McGuire

#17. I'm not in this sport to take punishment.

Floyd Mayweather Jr.

#18. For the anarchist, freedom is not an abstract philosophical concept, but the vital concrete possibility of every human being to bring to full development all the powers, capacities and talents with which nature has endowed them, and turn them to social account.

Rudolf Rocker

#19. Anarchism has a broad back, like paper it endures anything,

Rudolf Rocker

#20. As far as I'm concerned, high school sucked when I went, and probably sucks now. I tend to regard people who remember it as the best four years of their lives with caution and a degree of pity.

Stephen King

#21. Power operates only destructively, bent always on forcing every manifestation of life into the straitjacket of its laws. Its intellectual form of expression is dead dogma, its physical form brute force.

Rudolf Rocker

#22. Asceticism in most cases is either the result of a sordid imagination or of passion diverted from its natural course, and experience has shown that when the protection of public morals is entrusted to its votaries, the consequences are usually appalling.

Rudolf Rocker

#23. The moral man does something,
and when no one responds
he rolls up his sleeves and uses force.

Lao-Tzu

#24. I never saw a discontented tree. They grip the ground as though they liked it, and though fast rooted they travel about as far as we do.

John Muir

#25. Diane suddenly felt like the words she was saying were twisting in her mouth and coming out as different words altogether.

Joseph Fink

#26. Even the birds sing in the face of death
But the rest of the world hears only a scream

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