

“Give us what belongs to us in peace, and if you don't give it to us in peace, we will take it by force.”
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“The philosophy of Atheism represents a concept of life without any metaphysical Beyond or Divine Regulator. It is the concept of an actual, real world with its liberating, expanding and beautifying possibilities, as against an unreal world, which, with its spirits, oracles, and mean contentment has kept humanity in helpless degradation.”
― Anarchism and Other Essays
― Anarchism and Other Essays

“The individual cannot bargain with the State. The State recognizes no coinage but power: and it issues the coins itself.”
― The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia
― The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia

“You are what you do. If you do boring, stupid monotonous work, chances are you'll end up boring, stupid and monotonous. Work is a much better explanation for the creeping cretinization all around us than even such significant moronizing mechanisms as television and education.”
― The Abolition of Work and Other Essays
― The Abolition of Work and Other Essays
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