Aflameoffreedom
14th March 2012, 23:30
Below is a list of my favorite quotes, almost every one of them has shaped and affected my philosophy of how I live my life. The revolutionary far left struggle is an extremely difficult path, sometimes the words of another are the only thing that keeps us alive in our struggle for daily bread. I would love to here quotes that have shaped your philosophy of life. -Aflameoffreedom
-‘TIS BETTER TO HAVE LOVED AND LOST THAN NEVER TO HAVE LOVED AT ALL. - Alfred Lord Tennyson
-WE FEEL, WE LOVE, WE STRUGGLE, WE FIGHT. THEREFORE WE LIVE! -paraphrase of Peter Kropotkin
-LIFE IS A JOURNEY AND THE JOURNEY ITSELF HOME. – Matsuo Basho
-WHEREVER THERE IS OPPRESSION, THERE IS RESISTANCE.
-NOT WHETHER WE ACCOMPLISH ANARCHISM TODAY, TOMORROW, OR WITHIN TEN CENTURIES, BUT THAT WE WALK TOWARDS ANARCHISM TODAY, TOMORROW, AND ALWAYS. - Errico Malatesta
-I DON’T BELIEVE IN COPS, BOSSES, OR POLITICIANS. SOME CALL THAT ANARCHISM. I CALL IT HAVING A FUCKING HEART THAT BEATS. - Pat the Bunny
-Apprentice: BUT WHAT IF WE GET CAUGHT?
-Revolutionary: MOTHERFUCKER YOU’RE ALREADY CAUGHT! THE QUESTION IS – WHAT IF WE BREAK FREE?’
-SOCIETY ITSELF IS RESPONSIBLE FOR THE ANTI-SOCIAL DEEDS PERPETRATED IN ITS MIDST, AND THAT NO PUNISHMENT, NO PRISONS, AND NO HANGMEN CAN DIMINISH THE NUMBERS OF SUCH DEEDS; NOTHING SHORT OF A REORGANIZATION OF SOCIETY ITSELF. - Peter Kropotkin
-THE RICH ROB THE POOR AND THE POOR ROB ONE ANOTHER. - Sojourner Truth
-NOTHING GOOD OR DURABLE CAN BE DONE EXCEPT BY THE FREE INITIATIVE OF THE PEOPLE, AND EVERY GOVERNMENT TENDS TO DESTROY IT. - Peter Kropotkin
-THE MEANS OF PRODUCTION BEING THE COLLECTIVE WORK OF HUMANITY, THE PRODUCT SHOULD BE THE COLLECTIVE PROPERTY OF THE RACE. INDIVIDUAL APPROPRIATION IS NEITHER JUST NOR SERVICEABLE. ALL BELONGS TO ALL. ALL THINGS ARE FOR ALL MEN, SINCE ALL MEN HAVE NEED OF THEM, SINCE ALL MEN HAVE WORKED IN THE MEASURE OF THEIR STRENGTH TO PRODUCE THEM, AND SINCE IT IS NOT POSSIBLE TO EVALUATE EVERY ONE’S PART IN THE PRODUCTION OF THE WORLD’S WEALTH. ALL THINGS ARE FOR ALL! - Peter Kropotkin
-FROM EACH ACCORDING TO HIS ABILITY, TO EACH ACCORDING TO HIS NEED. - Karl Marx
-WE HAVE ALWAYS LIVED IN SLUMS AND HOLES IN THE WALL. WE WILL KNOW HOW TO ACCOMMODATE OURSELVES FOR A WHILE. FOR YOU MUST NOT FORGET THAT WE CAN ALSO BUILD. IT IS WE WHO BUILT THESE PALACES AND CITIES, HERE IN SPAIN AND AMERICA AND EVERYWHERE. WE, THE WORKERS. WE CAN BUILD OTHERS TO TAKE THEIR PLACE. AND BETTER ONES. WE ARE NOT IN THE LEAST AFRAID OF RUINS. WE ARE GOING TO INHERIT THE EARTH; THERE IS NOT THE SLIGHTEST DOUBT ABOUT THAT. THE BOURGEOIS MIGHT BLAST AND RUIN ITS OWN WORLD BEFORE IT LEAVES THE STAGE OF HISTORY. WE CARRY A NEW WORLD HERE, IN OUR HEARTS. THAT WORLD IS GROWING IN THIS MINUTE.- Buenaventura Durruti
-I HAVE BEEN AN ANARCHIST ALL MY LIFE. I HOPE I HAVE REMAINED ONE. I SHOULD CONSIDER IT VERY SAD INDEED, HAD I TO TURN INTO A GENERAL AND RULE THE MEN WITH A MILITARY ROD. THEY HAVE COME TO ME VOLUNTARILY, THEY ARE READY TO STAKE THEIR LIVES IN OUR ANTIFASCIST FIGHT. I BELIEVE, AS I ALWAYS HAVE, IN FREEDOM. THE FREEDOM WHICH RESTS ON THE SENSE OF RESPONSIBILITY. I CONSIDER DISCIPLINE INDISPENSABLE, BUT IT MUST BE INNER DISCIPLINE, MOTIVATED BY A COMMON PURPOSE AND A STRONG FEELING OF COMRADESHIP. - Buenaventura Durruti
-“SUBCOMANDANTE MARCOS, THE QUINTESSENTIAL ANTI-LEADER, INSISTS THAT HIS BLACK MAS IS A MIRROR, SO THAT ‘MARCOS IS GAY IN SAN FRANCISCO, BLACK IN SOUTH AFRICA, AN ASIAN IN EUROPE, A CHICANO IN SAN YSIDRO, AN ANARCHIST IN SPAIN, A PALESTINIAN IN ISRAEL, A MAYAN INDIAN IN THE STREETS OF SAN CRISTOBAL, A JEW IN GERMANY, A GYPSY IN POLAND, A MOHAWK IN QUEBEC, A PACIFIST IN BOSNIA, A SINGLE WOMAN ON THE METRO AT 10. P.M., A PESANT WITHOUT LAND, A GANG MEMBER IN THE SLUMS, AN UNEMPLOYED WORKER, AN UNHAPPY STUDENT AND, OF COURSE, A ZAPATISTA IN THE MOUNTAINS.’ IN OTHER WORDS, HE IS SIMPLY US: WE ARE THE LEADER WE’VE BEEN LOOKING FOR.”- Naomi Klein
-CONSENT IN THE BEDROOM. DISSENT IN THE STREETS.
-BE EXACTLY WHO YOU WANT TO BE, DO WHAT YOU WANT TO DO, I AM HE AND SHE IS SHE BUT YOU’RE THE ONLY YOU. - Crass
-THERE IS NO AUTHOIRTY BUT YOURSELF. - Crass
-I DISLIKE PEOPLE WHO TAKE DRUGS, Like cops, DEA Agents, & Customs officials.
-CAPITALISTS WILL SELL YOU THE VERY ROPE YOU WISH TO HANG THEM WITH. - Vladimir Lenin
-DELUIONS HELD BY ONE IS INSANITY, BY A FEW A CULT, AND BY MANY A RELGION.
-FOR OUR STRUGGLE IS NOT AGAINST FLESH AND BLOOD, BUT AGAINST THE RULERS, AGAINST THE AUTHORITIES, AGAINST THE POWERS OF THIS DARK WORLD. - Ephesians 6:12
-The flames of Freedom, how lovely, how just. Ahh, my precious Anarchy… “O beauty, ‘til now I never knew thee”. - V
-‘TIS BETTER TO HAVE LOVED AND LOST THAN NEVER TO HAVE LOVED AT ALL. - Alfred Lord Tennyson
-WE FEEL, WE LOVE, WE STRUGGLE, WE FIGHT. THEREFORE WE LIVE! -paraphrase of Peter Kropotkin
-LIFE IS A JOURNEY AND THE JOURNEY ITSELF HOME. – Matsuo Basho
-WHEREVER THERE IS OPPRESSION, THERE IS RESISTANCE.
-NOT WHETHER WE ACCOMPLISH ANARCHISM TODAY, TOMORROW, OR WITHIN TEN CENTURIES, BUT THAT WE WALK TOWARDS ANARCHISM TODAY, TOMORROW, AND ALWAYS. - Errico Malatesta
-I DON’T BELIEVE IN COPS, BOSSES, OR POLITICIANS. SOME CALL THAT ANARCHISM. I CALL IT HAVING A FUCKING HEART THAT BEATS. - Pat the Bunny
-Apprentice: BUT WHAT IF WE GET CAUGHT?
-Revolutionary: MOTHERFUCKER YOU’RE ALREADY CAUGHT! THE QUESTION IS – WHAT IF WE BREAK FREE?’
-SOCIETY ITSELF IS RESPONSIBLE FOR THE ANTI-SOCIAL DEEDS PERPETRATED IN ITS MIDST, AND THAT NO PUNISHMENT, NO PRISONS, AND NO HANGMEN CAN DIMINISH THE NUMBERS OF SUCH DEEDS; NOTHING SHORT OF A REORGANIZATION OF SOCIETY ITSELF. - Peter Kropotkin
-THE RICH ROB THE POOR AND THE POOR ROB ONE ANOTHER. - Sojourner Truth
-NOTHING GOOD OR DURABLE CAN BE DONE EXCEPT BY THE FREE INITIATIVE OF THE PEOPLE, AND EVERY GOVERNMENT TENDS TO DESTROY IT. - Peter Kropotkin
-THE MEANS OF PRODUCTION BEING THE COLLECTIVE WORK OF HUMANITY, THE PRODUCT SHOULD BE THE COLLECTIVE PROPERTY OF THE RACE. INDIVIDUAL APPROPRIATION IS NEITHER JUST NOR SERVICEABLE. ALL BELONGS TO ALL. ALL THINGS ARE FOR ALL MEN, SINCE ALL MEN HAVE NEED OF THEM, SINCE ALL MEN HAVE WORKED IN THE MEASURE OF THEIR STRENGTH TO PRODUCE THEM, AND SINCE IT IS NOT POSSIBLE TO EVALUATE EVERY ONE’S PART IN THE PRODUCTION OF THE WORLD’S WEALTH. ALL THINGS ARE FOR ALL! - Peter Kropotkin
-FROM EACH ACCORDING TO HIS ABILITY, TO EACH ACCORDING TO HIS NEED. - Karl Marx
-WE HAVE ALWAYS LIVED IN SLUMS AND HOLES IN THE WALL. WE WILL KNOW HOW TO ACCOMMODATE OURSELVES FOR A WHILE. FOR YOU MUST NOT FORGET THAT WE CAN ALSO BUILD. IT IS WE WHO BUILT THESE PALACES AND CITIES, HERE IN SPAIN AND AMERICA AND EVERYWHERE. WE, THE WORKERS. WE CAN BUILD OTHERS TO TAKE THEIR PLACE. AND BETTER ONES. WE ARE NOT IN THE LEAST AFRAID OF RUINS. WE ARE GOING TO INHERIT THE EARTH; THERE IS NOT THE SLIGHTEST DOUBT ABOUT THAT. THE BOURGEOIS MIGHT BLAST AND RUIN ITS OWN WORLD BEFORE IT LEAVES THE STAGE OF HISTORY. WE CARRY A NEW WORLD HERE, IN OUR HEARTS. THAT WORLD IS GROWING IN THIS MINUTE.- Buenaventura Durruti
-I HAVE BEEN AN ANARCHIST ALL MY LIFE. I HOPE I HAVE REMAINED ONE. I SHOULD CONSIDER IT VERY SAD INDEED, HAD I TO TURN INTO A GENERAL AND RULE THE MEN WITH A MILITARY ROD. THEY HAVE COME TO ME VOLUNTARILY, THEY ARE READY TO STAKE THEIR LIVES IN OUR ANTIFASCIST FIGHT. I BELIEVE, AS I ALWAYS HAVE, IN FREEDOM. THE FREEDOM WHICH RESTS ON THE SENSE OF RESPONSIBILITY. I CONSIDER DISCIPLINE INDISPENSABLE, BUT IT MUST BE INNER DISCIPLINE, MOTIVATED BY A COMMON PURPOSE AND A STRONG FEELING OF COMRADESHIP. - Buenaventura Durruti
-“SUBCOMANDANTE MARCOS, THE QUINTESSENTIAL ANTI-LEADER, INSISTS THAT HIS BLACK MAS IS A MIRROR, SO THAT ‘MARCOS IS GAY IN SAN FRANCISCO, BLACK IN SOUTH AFRICA, AN ASIAN IN EUROPE, A CHICANO IN SAN YSIDRO, AN ANARCHIST IN SPAIN, A PALESTINIAN IN ISRAEL, A MAYAN INDIAN IN THE STREETS OF SAN CRISTOBAL, A JEW IN GERMANY, A GYPSY IN POLAND, A MOHAWK IN QUEBEC, A PACIFIST IN BOSNIA, A SINGLE WOMAN ON THE METRO AT 10. P.M., A PESANT WITHOUT LAND, A GANG MEMBER IN THE SLUMS, AN UNEMPLOYED WORKER, AN UNHAPPY STUDENT AND, OF COURSE, A ZAPATISTA IN THE MOUNTAINS.’ IN OTHER WORDS, HE IS SIMPLY US: WE ARE THE LEADER WE’VE BEEN LOOKING FOR.”- Naomi Klein
-CONSENT IN THE BEDROOM. DISSENT IN THE STREETS.
-BE EXACTLY WHO YOU WANT TO BE, DO WHAT YOU WANT TO DO, I AM HE AND SHE IS SHE BUT YOU’RE THE ONLY YOU. - Crass
-THERE IS NO AUTHOIRTY BUT YOURSELF. - Crass
-I DISLIKE PEOPLE WHO TAKE DRUGS, Like cops, DEA Agents, & Customs officials.
-CAPITALISTS WILL SELL YOU THE VERY ROPE YOU WISH TO HANG THEM WITH. - Vladimir Lenin
-DELUIONS HELD BY ONE IS INSANITY, BY A FEW A CULT, AND BY MANY A RELGION.
-FOR OUR STRUGGLE IS NOT AGAINST FLESH AND BLOOD, BUT AGAINST THE RULERS, AGAINST THE AUTHORITIES, AGAINST THE POWERS OF THIS DARK WORLD. - Ephesians 6:12
-The flames of Freedom, how lovely, how just. Ahh, my precious Anarchy… “O beauty, ‘til now I never knew thee”. - V