Anarchism is the great liberator of man from the phantoms that have held him captive; it is the arbiter and pacifier of the two fo...rces for individual and social harmony.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
And as for sickness: would we not almost be tempted to ask whether we can in any way do without it? Only great pain is, as the tea...cher of great suspicion, the ultimate liberator of the spirit.... It is only great pain, that slow protracted pain which takes its time and in which we are as it were burned with green wood, that compels us philosophers to descend into our ultimate depths and to put from us all trust, all that is good-hearted, palliated, gentle, average, wherein perhaps our humanity previously reposed. I doubt whether such pain "improves"Mbut I do know it deepens us.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It is more manifest than ever that tyranny rules. I see this government to be effectually allied with France and Austria in oppres...sing mankind. There sits a tyrant holding four millions of slaves; here comes their heroic liberator. This most hypocritical and diabolical government looks up from its seat on the gasping four millions, and inquires with an assumption of innocence: "What do you assault me for? Am I not an honest man? Cease agitation on this subject, or I will make a slave of you, too, or else hang you."LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Let us rise in the moral power of womanhood; and give utterance to the voice of outraged mercy, and insulted justice, and eternal ...truth, and mighty love and holy freedom.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
With a generous endowment of motherhood provided by legislation, with all laws against voluntary motherhood and education in its m...ethods repealed, with the feminist ideal of education accepted in home and school, and with all special barriers removed in every field of human activity, there is no reason why woman should not become almost a human thing. It will be time enough then to consider whether she has a soul.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Men will not give up their privilege of helplessness without a struggle. The average man has a carefully cultivated ignorance abou...t household matters--from what to do with the crumbs to the grocer's telephone number--a sort of cheerful inefficiency which protects him better than the reputation for having a violent temper.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
What is the problem of women's freedom? It seems to me to be this: how to arrange the world so that women can be human beings, wit...h a chance to exercise their infinitely varied gifts in infinitely varied ways, instead of being destined by the accident of their sex to one field of activity--housework and child-raising. And second, if and when they choose housework and child-raising to have that occupation recognized by the world as work, requiring a definite economic reward and not merely entitling the performer to be dependent on some man.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
... men and women are not yet free.... The slavery of greed endures. Little child workers, the hope of the future, are sacrificed ...to industry. Young men are sent out by the billion to die for profits.... We must destroy industrial slavery and build industrial democracy.... The people everywhere must come into possession of the earth [second, third, and fourth ellipses in source].LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Tell a man whose house is on fire to give a moderate alarm; tell him to moderately rescue his wife from the hands of the ravisher;... tell the mother to gradually extricate her babe from the fire into which it has fallen; but urge me not to use moderation in a case like the present.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »