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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

Kronsteen
18th March 2012, 03:03
So it's true. Anarchists do speak in capslock :p.

Grenzer
18th March 2012, 03:10
So it's true. Anarchists do speak in capslock :p.

Then Who Are The Fellows That Start Every Word With A Capital Letter?

l'Enfermé
18th March 2012, 03:26
"Why so serious "? - Mikhaul Bakunin
"It’s a funny world we live in. Speaking of funny, do you know how I got these scars? " - Pyotr Kropotkin

Kronsteen
18th March 2012, 03:58
Then Who Are The Fellows That Start Every Word With A Capital Letter?

Hmmmm....

Leninists - Can never say anything just once. Always have to say it several times. Every point occurs on several occasions. These are the people who repeat themselves. They repeat themselves. A lot.

Maoists - These! Are! The! Ones! Who! Always! SHOUT!

[There was an entry for Stalinist here, but it was cut out of the record.]

Pasasasists - Blow up the world! Destroy capitalism with bombs! Making things go bang is progressive! Nuclear winter is the workers's state! Boom! My heart goes boom!

Trotskyists - Actually, I actually think what you'll actually find, actually, is they actually, put the word 'actually', actually, into any place actually it'll actually fit. Actually.

Kirkites - Followers. Of. Capitain. Kirk. Give. Each. Word. Its. Own. Sentence.

So none of them. Maybe...Hegelians? They like to put Special Capital Letters on all the Important Words in a Sentence.

Add your own.....

Grenzer
18th March 2012, 05:47
Maybe...Hegelians? They like to put Special Capital Letters on all the Important Words in a Sentence.

I don't think so, last I checked most people on this site don't start every word with a capital letter.

bcbm
18th March 2012, 16:36
'i want to go to dog heaven'

Luís Henrique
18th March 2012, 18:41
Then Who Are The Fellows That Start Every Word With A Capital Letter?

Germans?

I wonder how one can know whether Hegel means "History" or "history" when he writes "Geschichte", but it doesn't seem a problem to his critics.

(Here (http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Douglas_R._Hofstadter#Schaffen), for instance, a German Wikipedia article; see how it has many more capitalised words than a text in English: German language capitalises all nouns.)

(But English speakers are a lot more metaphysic than Portuguese speakers, too, for they (obviously unnecessarily) capitalise the name of months and of week days. They must have some superstitious views of the calendar. Probably related to their blatant religious worship of the week days! Ah, and they also capitalise gentilic adjectives such as 'American' or 'Croatian': an obvious index of their mystical nationalism...)

[/sarcasm]

Luís Henrique

Aflameoffreedom
18th March 2012, 22:29
Most anarchists do not write in capitals because we're against capitalism. Broke the anarchist rules!

Knight of Cydonia
19th March 2012, 12:02
just see my signature....that's one of my favorite quote

Akshay!
21st March 2013, 03:45
“Rise like Lions after slumber
In unvanquishable number-
Shake your chains to earth like dew
Which in sleep had fallen on you
Ye are many-they are few.”
― Percy Bysshe Shelley

tuwix
21st March 2013, 10:27
“Property is a theft.”

P.-J. Proudhon

Os Cangaceiros
21st March 2013, 10:32
Grab the shovels, boys, we're goin' grave robbing!

TomHPMc
25th March 2013, 01:52
-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

Love that song!

"Anarchism is the great liberator of man from the phantoms that have held him captive; it is the arbiter and pacifier of the two forces for individual and social harmony" - Emma Goldman

"Authority, when first detecting chaos at its heels, will entertain the vilest schemes to save its orderly facade" - Alan Moore (in 'V for Vendetta')

No_Leaders
25th March 2013, 20:38
There's a lot of good quotes. I really like some of the slogans from leftists during the May 68' protests in France.

"They are buying your happiness. Steal it."

"The boss needs you, you don't need him."

"In a society that has abolished every kind of adventure the only adventure that remains is to abolish the society."

"Run, comrade, the old world is behind you!"

"Barricades close the street but open the way."

"Warning: ambitious careerists may now be disguised as “progressives.” "

"Be realistic, demand the impossible."

"No replastering, the structure is rotten."

"A cop sleeps inside each one of us. We must kill him. Drive the cop out of your head."

"Revolution is the active passage from dream to reality."

"The most beautiful sculpture is a paving stone thrown at a cop's head."

"Humanity won't be happy till the last capitalist is hung with the guts of the last bureaucrat."

"The liberation of humanity is all or nothing."

"The revolution doesn't belong to the committees, it's yours."

"Those who talk about revolution and class struggle without referring to everyday reality have a corpse in their mouth."

John Lennin
25th March 2013, 20:57
Obeying means lying. - Erich Mühsam (originally german: Sich fügen heißt Lügen)

Nonviolence can't be reached through violence. - Gustav Landauer (also originally german: Nie kommt man durch Gewalt zur Gewaltlosigkeit.)