pax_global_header00006660000000000000000000000064127246261470014525gustar00rootroot0000000000000052 comment=06dbd3ddf9609a230649f341ad74f299e97e2cf8 blag-fortune/000077500000000000000000000000001272462614700134565ustar00rootroot00000000000000blag-fortune/.gitignore000066400000000000000000000001211272462614700154400ustar00rootroot00000000000000 ORIGINAL.txt ORIGINAL_FRENCH.txt old_work release *.zip anarchism anarchism.dat blag-fortune/COPYING000066400000000000000000000001071272462614700145070ustar00rootroot00000000000000The BLAG Fortune Assortment Project is dedicated to the public domain. blag-fortune/DISTROS.md000066400000000000000000000010771272462614700151340ustar00rootroot00000000000000Distribution Options ==================== Because different distributions put fortune files in different places, the Makefile requires you to specify your distribution. For example, you must run the following command to install on Debian: $ sudo make install DISTRO=DEBIAN Here are the currently supported distributions. If you want your distribution supported, please file an issue along with the name of the directory for fortune files on that distribution. - DEBIAN: works for Debian and Ubuntu-based distributions. - FEDORA: works for Fedora-based distributions. blag-fortune/Makefile000066400000000000000000000006501272462614700151170ustar00rootroot00000000000000 SRC = people FEDORA = /usr/share/games/fortune/ DEBIAN = /usr/share/games/fortunes/ DISTRO = FEDORA TARGET = $($(DISTRO)) all: anarchism.dat anarchism.dat: anarchism @strfile anarchism anarchism:; @cat $(SRC)/* > anarchism clean:; @echo "cleaning" @rm -f anarchism.dat anarchism install: all cp anarchism $(TARGET) cp anarchism.dat $(TARGET) uninstall:; rm $(TARGET)/anarchism rm $(TARGET)/anarchism.dat blag-fortune/QUEUE.md000066400000000000000000000037061272462614700146720ustar00rootroot00000000000000Queue - a list of people to be added ==================================== Note that this list is subject to change. If you know an anarchist you want added to this list, or someone you see who does not belong here, please make an issue for it. I want a wide range of anarchists, including those who disagree with each other and are in direct conflict with each other. Because the French anarchist fortune has a disproportionate number of French thinkers and artists, I am trying to balance the ratio with Spanish, Italian, American, English, German, Eastern European, and Russian anarchists. I am also going to look for anarchistic thinking in East Asia, the Middle East, and Africa. The miscellaneous file allows for non-anarchists who had some ideas which are in the spirit of anarchism, for example Bertrand Russell and, er, J. R. R. Tolkien. However, explicit anarchists get priority. In progress: ------------ - None Other well-known anarchists: ---------------------------- - Janet Biehl - Nestor Makhno - Peter Arshinov - Nikolai Berdyaev - Saul Newman - Maria Lacerda de Moura - Francisco Ferrer - George Woodcock - Murray Bookchin - Bob Black - Lysander Spooner - Voltairine de Cleyre - Haymarket anarchists - Jo Labadie - Luigi Galleani - Lucia Sanchez Saornil - Oscar Wilde - Hakim Bey - Elbert Hubbard - Maria Nikiforova - L. Susan Brown - Noam Chomsky - Voline - Dave Andrews - Henry Appleton - Adolph Fischer - Buenaventura Durruti - Emile Armand - Herbert Read - David Graeber - Ricardo Flores Magon - Ferdinand Domela Nieuwenhuis - Moxie Marlinspike - Yakoub Islam - Ivan Illich - Kevin Carson - Shawn P. Wilbur - Zaher Baher - Victor Serge Other anarchist resources: -------------------------- - libcom.org - CrimethInc. - Invisible Committee - C4SS To add to a misc. file: ----------------------- - Zeno of Citium - Laozi - Diggers pamphlet - Famous Quakers - Rabindranath Tagore - J. R. R. Tolkien - Mohandas Gandhi - Banksy - Malcolm X - gmilcomic - George Carlin blag-fortune/README.md000066400000000000000000000042371272462614700147430ustar00rootroot00000000000000BLAG Fortune ============ This is my repository for my ongoing project to have English language anarchist fortunes in BLAG. Currently the only issue is packaging for easy installation. If someone who is familiar with distribution packaging in general, please feel free to make .deb and .rpm packages I can upload. ![red and black star](rb-star.png) Requirements ------------ All you need is fortune mod. On Debian-based systems: $ sudo apt-get install fortune-mod Installation ------------ To install: $ sudo make install DISTRO=DEBIAN To uninstall: $ sudo make uninstall DISTRO=DEBIAN Where DISTRO=DEBIAN should be replaced with your distribution's name. For example, on Fedora say DISTRO=FEDORA. For supported distribution options, [look here](DISTROS.md). Running ------- To run the program, simply say $ fortune anarchism When the people are being beaten with a stick, they are not much happier if it is called "the People's Stick." ----+- Mikhail Bakunin -+---- Here is a more whimsical example: $ fortune anarchism | cowsay _________________________________________ / Whosoever lays a hand on me in order to \ | govern me is a usurper and a tyrant; I | | declare him my enemy. | | | \ ----+- Pierre-Joseph Proudhon -+---- / ----------------------------------------- \ ^__^ \ (oo)\_______ (__)\ )\/\ ||----w | || || Show fortunes on Bash startup ----------------------------- > I want to see fortunes when my terminal starts, as in BLAG 140000! To do this quickly, enter the following command: $ echo -e "\nfortune -s anarchism\necho" >> $HOME/.bashrc To disable the fortunes, remove these lines from $HOME/.bashrc: fortune -s anarchism echo Quote Sources ------------- I have four sources for all my quotes: - [Wikiquote](https://en.wikiquote.org) - [BrainyQuote](https://www.brainyquote.com) (Generally requires verification) - [Marxists Internet Archive](https://marxists.org) - [The Anarchist Library](http://theanarchistlibrary.org) blag-fortune/people/000077500000000000000000000000001272462614700147425ustar00rootroot00000000000000blag-fortune/people/alan-moore000066400000000000000000000004121272462614700167140ustar00rootroot00000000000000Organised religion has corrupted one of the purest, most powerful and sustaining things in the human condition. It has imposed a middle management, not only in our politics and in our finances, but in our spirituality as well. ----+- Alan Moore -+---- % blag-fortune/people/albert-libertad000066400000000000000000000025661272462614700177330ustar00rootroot00000000000000All laws are wicked, all judgments are unfair, all judges are wrong, all prisoners are innocent. ----+- Albert Libertad -+---- % You who are resigned, look: I spit on your idols. I spit on God, the Fatherland, I spit on Christ, I spit on the flag, I spit on capital and the golden calf; I spit on laws and Codes, on the symbols of religion; they are baubles, I could care less about them, I laugh at them... ----+- Albert Libertad -+---- % Those that envision the goal from the first steps, those that want the certitude of reaching it before walking never arrive. ----+- Albert Libertad -+---- % Resignation is death. Revolt is life. ----+- Albert Libertad -+---- % Go on and have a nice vote! And trust your proxies, put your faith in the ones you've chosen. But then if you voted, don't complain. ----+- Albert Libertad -+---- % Do something right for once: throw off the straitjacket of legislation; wash yourself off, and clean your body, the social body, of all the parasites and vermin that are devouring you. And then -- only then -- will you be able to fully come to life. ----+- Albert Libertad -+---- % You complain, but you want to maintain the system where you vegetate. Occasionally you rebel, but it's only ever just to start doing the same thing again from scratch. ----+- Albert Libertad -+---- % blag-fortune/people/alexander-berkman000066400000000000000000000025461272462614700202540ustar00rootroot00000000000000If your object is to secure liberty, you must learn to do without authority and compulsion. ----+- Alexander Berkman -+---- % It is economic slavery, the savage struggle for a crumb, that has converted mankind into wolves and sheep. ----+- Alexander Berkman -+---- % May the enemies of the people be terrified at the unexpected awakening. ----+- Alexander Berkman -+---- % It is the system, rather than individuals, that is the source of pollution and degradation. ----+- Alexander Berkman -+---- % Terrorism is tempting with its tremendous possibilities. It offers a mechanical solution, as it were, in hopeless situations. ----+- Alexander Berkman -+---- % It is capitalism and government which stand for disorder and violence. Anarchism is the very reverse of it; it means order without government and peace without violence. ----+- Alexander Berkman -+---- % And as you are invaded and violated, so you subconsciously revenge yourself by invading and violating others over whom you have authority or can exercise compulsion. physical or moral. In this way all life has become a crazy quilt of authority, of domination and submission, of command and obedience, of coercion and subjection, of rulers and ruled, of violence and force in a thousand and one forms. ----+- Alexander Berkman -+---- % blag-fortune/people/andre-lorulot000066400000000000000000000027621272462614700174630ustar00rootroot00000000000000In the face of dogmas, of despots, of the sentimental, of charlatans and regimenters, humanity's future belongs to reason. ----+- Andre Lorulot -+---- % In the midst of the unspeakable chaos of philosophies of all kinds and of various moralities we can cull out the constant and persistent tendency which pushes the individual towards life. Towards an ever better life, freer and more noble: that is, towards happiness. ----+- Andre Lorulot -+---- % Man will only be able to act usefully when he will have managed to destroy all lies, freed himself from all the superstitions given birth to by error, sought the truth in the jumble of knowledge and observations. ----+- Andre Lorulot -+---- % The individualist is like a wolf who prefers the dangers of liberty to the routine of domestication. Individualists compare themselves to the bird who would prefer to suffer and struggle on its branch than to die a slow death in the servitude of a gilded cage. ----+- Andre Lorulot -+---- % People, beware of demagogues. They are your worst enemies. They caress you only so they can better shear you. ----+- Andre Lorulot -+---- % I passionately love humanity, and have dedicated my best efforts to the fight for the oppressed. All tyrants disgust me -- and all those who put up with them, adulate them, support them. After having brought them down will I make myself a tyrant in their place? I would be disgusted with myself. ----+- Andre Lorulot -+---- % blag-fortune/people/anonymous000066400000000000000000000004371272462614700167210ustar00rootroot00000000000000Parliament: A compound word from 'parler' (to speak) and 'mentir' (to lie). ----+- Anonymous -+---- % Those who suppress freedom always do so in the name of order. ----+- Anonymous -+---- % History is written by the victors. ----+- Anonymous -+---- % blag-fortune/people/august-spies000066400000000000000000000021031272462614700173120ustar00rootroot00000000000000Anarchism does not mean bloodshed; it does not mean robbery, arson, etc. These monstrosities are, on the contrary, the characteristic features of capitalism. Anarchism, or socialism, means the reorganization of society upon scientific principles and the abolition of causes which produce vice and crime. Capitalism first produces these social diseases and then seeks to cure them by punishment. ----+- August Spies -+---- % The day will come when our silence will be more powerful than the voices you strangle today. ----+- August Spies -+---- % I say, if death is the penalty for proclaiming truth, then I will proudly and defiantly pay the costly price! Truth crucified in Socrates, in Christ, in Giordano Bruno, in Huss, Galileo still lives -- they and others whose number is legion have preceded us on this path. We are ready to follow! ----+- August Spies -+---- % Then hang us! Here we will tread upon a spark, but there, and there, and behind you and in front of you, and everywhere, flames will blaze up. ----+- August Spies -+---- % blag-fortune/people/benjamin-tucker000066400000000000000000000061441272462614700177500ustar00rootroot00000000000000The state is the most gigantic criminal extant. It manufactures criminals much faster than it punishes them. ----+- Benjamin Tucker -+---- % Education is a slow process, and may not come too quickly. ----+- Benjamin Tucker -+---- % Anarchists who endeavor to hasten it by joining in the propaganda of state socialism or revolution make a sad mistake indeed. ----+- Benjamin Tucker -+---- % Liberty enters the field of journalism to speak for herself because she finds no one willing to speak for her. ----+- Benjamin Tucker -+---- % Many claim to speak in liberty's name, but few really understand her. ----+- Benjamin Tucker -+---- % Monopoly and privilege must be destroyed, opportunity afforded, and competition encouraged. This is liberty's work, and "Down with Authority" her war-cry. ----+- Benjamin Tucker -+---- % The two principles referred to are authority and liberty, and the names of the two schools of socialistic thought which fully and unreservedly represent one or the other of them are, respectively, state socialism and anarchism. ----+- Benjamin Tucker -+---- % For, just as it has been said that there is no half-way house between Rome and Reason, so it may be said that there is no half-way house between state socialism and anarchism. ----+- Benjamin Tucker -+---- % Socialism, on the contrary, extends its function to the description of society as it should be, and the discovery of the means of making it what it should be. ----+- Benjamin Tucker -+---- % This brings us to anarchism, which may be described as the doctrine that all the affairs of men should be managed by individuals or voluntary associations, and that the state should be abolished. ----+- Benjamin Tucker -+---- % If the individual has a right to govern himself, all external government is tyranny. Hence the necessity of abolishing the state. ----+- Benjamin Tucker -+---- % Aggression is simply another name for government. ----+- Benjamin Tucker -+---- % The anarchists never have claimed that liberty will bring perfection; they simply say that its results are vastly preferable to those that follow authority. ----+- Benjamin Tucker -+---- % Where crime exists, force must exist to repress it. Who denies it? Certainly not liberty; certainly not the anarchists. ----+- Benjamin Tucker -+---- % Once for all, then, we are not opposed to the punishment of thieves and murderers; we are opposed to their manufacture. ----+- Benjamin Tucker -+---- % The population of the world is gradually dividing into two classes, anarchists and criminals. ----+- Benjamin Tucker -+---- % He who attempts to control another is a governor, an aggressor, an invader; and the nature of such invasion is not changed, whether it is made by one man upon another man, after the manner of the ordinary criminal, or by one man upon all other men, after the manner of an absolute monarch, or by all other men upon one man, after the manner of a modern democracy. ----+- Benjamin Tucker -+---- % blag-fortune/people/bertrand-russell000066400000000000000000000022451272462614700201600ustar00rootroot00000000000000People seem good while they are oppressed, but they only wish to become oppressors in their turn: life is nothing but a competition to be the criminal rather than the victim. ----+- Bertrand Russell -+---- % Nine-tenths of the activities of modern government are harmful; therefore the worse they are performed, the better. ----+- Bertrand Russell -+---- % I do not myself feel that any person who is really profoundly humane can believe in everlasting punishment. ----+- Bertrand Russell -+---- % The infliction of cruelty with a good conscience is a delight to moralists. That is why they invented Hell. ----+- Bertrand Russell -+---- % Advocates of capitalism are very apt to appeal to the sacred principles of liberty, which are embodied in one maxim: The fortunate must not be restrained in the exercise of tyranny over the unfortunate. ----+- Bertrand Russell -+---- % Patriotism: a willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons. ----+- Bertrand Russell -+---- % I dislike communism because it is undemocratic, and capitalism because it favors exploitation. ----+- Bertrand Russell -+---- % blag-fortune/people/carlo-cafiero000066400000000000000000000021261272462614700173740ustar00rootroot00000000000000Comrades, let us hurry on the revolution as quickly as we can, since, as you see, our enemies are letting us die like this -- in prison or in exile, or crazed with sorrow. ----+- Carlo Cafiero -+---- % Anarchy, today, is attack; it is war against every authority, every power, every state. In the future society, anarchy will be defence, the prevention of the re-establishment of any authority, any power, any state. ----+- Carlo Cafiero -+---- % We must be communists because we are anarchists, because anarchy and communism are the two essential terms of the revolution. ----+- Carlo Cafiero -+---- % We have said and we shall not stop repeating it: no intermediaries, no agents and obedient servants who always end by becoming the real masters! ----+- Carlo Cafiero -+---- % We have no need to get involved with the games of our oppressors, unless we wish to take part in their oppression. ----+- Carlo Cafiero -+---- % Power makes you drunk, and the best, when invested with authority, become the worst. ----+- Carlo Cafiero -+---- % blag-fortune/people/edward-abbey000066400000000000000000000007761272462614700172250ustar00rootroot00000000000000Heaven is home. Utopia is here. Nirvana is now. ----+- Edward Abbey -+---- % We're all undesirable elements from somebody's point of view. ----+- Edward Abbey -+---- % An armed citizenry is the first defense, the best defense, and the final defense against tyranny. ----+- Edward Abbey -+---- % Anarchism is founded on the observation that since few men are wise enough to rule themselves, even fewer are wise enough to rule others. ----+- Edward Abbey -+---- % blag-fortune/people/elisee-reclus000066400000000000000000000042171272462614700174320ustar00rootroot00000000000000Our destiny is to reach that state of ideal perfection in which nations will no longer need to be under the tutelage of a government or of another nation; it is the absence of government, it is anarchy, the highest expression of order. ----+- Elisee Reclus -+---- % Instead of entrusting the defence of your interests to others, see to the matter by yourselves. Instead of trying to choose advisers that will guide you in future actions, do the thing yourselves, and do it now! Men of good will shall not have to look long in vain for the opportunity. To put on others' shoulders the responsibility of one's actions is cowardice. ----+- Elisee Reclus -+---- % The morality which is born out of the present conception of the state and social hierarchy is necessarily corrupt. ----+- Elisee Reclus -+---- % I am sorry to see friends impelled by passion drifting to the idea of vengeance, which is so little scientific, so sterile. But armed defense of a right is not violence. ----+- Elisee Reclus -+---- % Side neither with nations nor with parties. Be neither Russians, Poles nor Slavs. Rather, be men who hunger for truth, free from any thoughts of particular interests, and from speculative ideas concerning the Chinese, Africans or Europeans. The patriot always ends up hating the foreigner, and loses the sense of justice that once kindled his enthusiasm. ----+- Elisee Reclus -+---- % Do not quarrel or deal in personalities. Listen to opposing arguments after you have presented your own. Learn how to remain silent and reflect. Do not try to get the better in an argument at the expense of your own sincerity. ----+- Elisee Reclus -+---- % You should reject every authority, but also commit yourself to a deep respect for all sincere convictions. Live your own life, but also allow others the complete freedom to live theirs. ----+- Elisee Reclus -+---- % Not to speak of war and its crimes, from the guilt of which no civilized state is free, can it be denied that chief among the consequences of the existing social system are murder, maladies, and death. ----+- Elisee Reclus -+---- % blag-fortune/people/emile-henry000066400000000000000000000030451272462614700171050ustar00rootroot00000000000000[President of the court]: This hand that we today see covered in blood. [Emile]: My hands are covered in blood, like your red robe is! ----+- Emile Henry -+---- % In that pitiless war which we have declared on the bourgeoisie, we ask for no pity. We give death, and we know how to endure it. ----+- Emile Henry -+---- % The influence that theoretical anarchists pretend to wield over the revolutionary movement is nil. Today the field is open to action, without weakness or retreat. ----+- Emile Henry -+---- % Hanged in Chicago, beheaded in Germany, garroted in Xerez, shot in Barcelona, guillotined in Montbrison and in Paris, our dead are many; but you have not been able to destroy anarchy. ----+- Emile Henry -+---- % Anarchy's roots go deep: its spouts from the bosom of a rotten society that is falling apart; it is a violent backlash against the established order; it stands for the aspirations to equality and liberty which have entered the lists against the current authoritarianism. ----+- Emile Henry -+---- % I had been told that society's institutions were founded on justice and equality, and all around me I could see nothing but lies and treachery. ----+- Emile Henry -+---- % Drawn at first to socialism, I was not slow in separating myself from that party. I have too much love of freedom, too much respect for individual initiative, too much repugnance for military organization, to assume a number in the ordered army of the fourth estate. ----+- Emile Henry -+---- % blag-fortune/people/emma-goldman000066400000000000000000000133221272462614700172240ustar00rootroot00000000000000I do not believe in God, because I believe in man. ----+- Emma Goldman -+---- % There are some potentates I would kill by any and all means at my disposal. They are ignorance, superstition, and bigotry -- the most sinister and tyrannical rulers on earth. ----+- Emma Goldman -+---- % Someone has said that it requires less mental effort to condemn than to think. ----+- Emma Goldman -+---- % Crime is naught but misdirected energy. ----+- Emma Goldman -+---- % Free love? As if love is anything but free! Yes, love is free; it can dwell in no other atmosphere. ----+- Emma Goldman -+---- % The police are making more anarchists than I could do in ten years. ----+- Emma Goldman -+---- % Every daring attempt to make a great change in existing conditions, every lofty vision of new possibilities for the human race, has been labelled utopian. ----+- Emma Goldman -+---- % The strongest bulwark of authority is uniformity; the least divergence from it is the greatest crime. ----+- Emma Goldman -+---- % He who refuses to submit is at once labelled "queer," "different," and decried as a disturbing element in the comfortable stagnancy of modern life. ----+- Emma Goldman -+---- % Perhaps even more than constituted authority, it is social uniformity and sameness that harass the individual most. ----+- Emma Goldman -+---- % Conceit, arrogance and egotism are the essentials of patriotism. ----+- Emma Goldman -+---- % The greatest bulwark of capitalism is militarism. ----+- Emma Goldman -+---- % True, we have no conscription; that is, men are not usually forced to enlist in the army, but we have developed a far more exacting and rigid force -- necessity. ----+- Emma Goldman -+---- % After all, it means thirteen dollars per month, three meals a day, and a place to sleep. Yet even necessity is not sufficiently strong a factor to bring into the army an element of character and manhood. ----+- Emma Goldman -+---- % Thinking men and women the world over are beginning to realize that patriotism is too narrow and limited a conception to meet the necessities of our time. ----+- Emma Goldman -+---- % When we have undermined the patriotic lie, we shall have cleared the path for the great structure where all shall be united into a universal brotherhood -- a truly free society. ----+- Emma Goldman -+---- % It is characteristic of theistic "tolerance" that no one really cares what the people believe in, just so they believe or pretend to believe. ----+- Emma Goldman -+---- % The authoritarian principle has been proven bankrupt by the experience of the Russian Revolution. ----+- Emma Goldman -+---- % The inherent tendency of the state is to concentrate, to narrow, and monopolize all social activities. ----+- Emma Goldman -+---- % Revolution is indeed a violent process. ----+- Emma Goldman -+---- % If revolution results only in a change of dictatorship, then it is hardly worth while. ----+- Emma Goldman -+---- % In its mad passion for power, the communist state even sought to strengthen and deepen the very ideas and conceptions which the Revolution had come to destroy. ----+- Emma Goldman -+---- % The sense of justice and equality, the love of liberty and of human brotherhood -- these fundamentals of the real regeneration of society -- the communist state suppressed to the point of extermination. ----+- Emma Goldman -+---- % This perversion of the ethical values soon crystallized into the all-dominating slogan of the Communist Party: THE END JUSTIFIES ALL MEANS. ----+- Emma Goldman -+---- % The whole history of man is continuous proof of the maxim that to divest one's methods of ethical concepts means to sink into the depths of utter demoralization. ----+- Emma Goldman -+---- % The period of the actual revolution, the so-called transitory stage, must be the introduction, the prelude to the new social conditions. ----+- Emma Goldman -+---- % Today is the parent of tomorrow. The present casts its shadow far into the future. ----+- Emma Goldman -+---- % Revolution that divests itself of ethical values thereby lays the foundation of injustice, deceit, and oppression for the future society. ----+- Emma Goldman -+---- % It cannot be sufficiently emphasized that revolution is in vain unless inspired by its ultimate ideal. ----+- Emma Goldman -+---- % Revolutionary methods must be in tune with revolutionary aims. ----+- Emma Goldman -+---- % The free expression of the hopes and aspirations of a people is the greatest and only safety in a sane society. ----+- Emma Goldman -+---- % Our cause cannot expect me to become a nun and the movement will not be turned into a cloister. ----+- Emma Goldman -+---- % The people are asleep; they remain indifferent. They forge their own chains and do the bidding of their masters to crucify their Christs. ----+- Emma Goldman -+---- % There is no hope even that woman, with her right to vote, will ever purify politics. ----+- Emma Goldman -+---- % The right to vote, or equal civil rights, may be good demands, but true emancipation begins neither at the polls nor in courts. It begins in woman's soul. ----+- Emma Goldman -+---- % 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 -+---- % Direct action is the logical, consistent method of anarchism. ----+- Emma Goldman -+---- % blag-fortune/people/erich-muhsam000066400000000000000000000014431272462614700172510ustar00rootroot00000000000000Anarchists emphatically reject a morality which denies the original concepts of right and wrong. ----+- Erich Muhsam -+---- % The anarchist teaching prescribes no method of struggle and rejects none which is in harmony with self-determination and free will. ----+- Erich Muhsam -+---- % The freedom of everyone, and thereby the freedom of each individual, requires community in socialism. ----+- Erich Muhsam -+---- % The demand for equality is nothing other than the demand: equal rights for all! ----+- Erich Muhsam -+---- % The complete transformation of everyone's living conditions can never be achieved on the path of slow development, through which at most improvements within a social system are possible. ----+- Erich Muhsam -+---- % blag-fortune/people/errico-malatesta000066400000000000000000000154601272462614700201270ustar00rootroot00000000000000We anarchists do not want to emancipate the people; we want the people to emancipate themselves. ----+- Errico Malatesta -+---- % By anarchist spirit I mean that deeply human sentiment, which aims at the good of all, freedom and justice for all, solidarity and love among the people; which is not an exclusive characteristic only of self-declared anarchists, but inspires all people who have a generous heart and an open mind. ----+- Errico Malatesta -+---- % If you say that you reject violence when it exceeds the limits imposed by the needs of defense, they accuse you of pacifism, without understanding that violence is the whole essence of authoritarianism, just as the repudiation of violence is the whole essence of anarchism. ----+- Errico Malatesta -+---- % What matters most is that people, all men, lose their sheepish instincts and habits that the millennial slavery inspired them, and they learn to think and act freely. ----+- Errico Malatesta -+---- % Others invent more or less complicated system of mutuality. But in the long run it is always the searching for a more secure guarantee of freedom which is the common factor among anarchists, and which divides them into different schools. ----+- Errico Malatesta -+---- % Individualist anarchism and communist anarchism are the same, or nearly so, in terms of moral motivations and ultimate goals. ----+- Errico Malatesta -+---- % The "government of all the people", if we have to have government, can at best be only the government of the majority. ----+- Errico Malatesta -+---- % Government means the right to make the law and to impose it on everyone by force: without a police force there is no government. ----+- Errico Malatesta -+---- % We are neither for a majority nor for a minority government; neither for democracy not for dictatorship. We are for the abolition of the gendarme. We are for the freedom of all and for free agreement, which will be there for all when no one has the means to force others, and all are involved in the good running of society. We are for anarchy. ----+- Errico Malatesta -+---- % The subject is not whether we accomplish anarchism today, tomorrow, or within ten centuries, but that we walk towards Anarchism today, tomorrow, and always. ----+- Errico Malatesta -+---- % Anarchism was born in a moral revolt against social injustice. ----+- Errico Malatesta -+---- % Anarchy is not perfection, it is not the absolute ideal which like the horizon recedes as fast as we approach it; but it is the way open to all progress and all improvements for the benefit of everybody. ----+- Errico Malatesta -+---- % If in order to win it were necessary to erect the gallows in the public square, then I would prefer to lose. ----+- Errico Malatesta -+---- % For us, everything that seeks to destroy economic and political oppression, all that which serves to raise the moral and intellectual level of human beings, to give them the consciousness of their rights and of their forces and to persuade them to do their business by themselves, all that provokes hatred against oppression and love between people, brings us closer to our aim. ----+- Errico Malatesta -+---- % Obviously, the revolution will produce many misfortunes, many sufferings; but if it produced one hundred times more of them, it would still be a blessing relative to what one endures today. ----+- Errico Malatesta -+---- % It is from the love of humanity that we are revolutionaries: it is not our fault if history has forced on us this distressing necessity. ----+- Errico Malatesta -+---- % Hate does not produce love; we will not renew the world by hate. ----+- Errico Malatesta -+---- % The realisation of the usefulness of cooperation, which should have led to the triumph of solidarity in all human relations, instead gave rise to private property and government, that is to the exploitation of the labor of the whole community by a privileged minority. ----+- Errico Malatesta -+---- % If today we fall without compromising, we can be sure of victory tomorrow. ----+- Errico Malatesta -+---- % The real sense of gradualism remains the same: everything in nature and in life changes by degrees, and this is no less true of anarchy. It can only come about little by little. ----+- Errico Malatesta -+---- % The solutions to each problem must not only be the most economically viable ones but must respond to the imperatives of justice and liberty and be those most likely to keep open the way to future improvements. If necessary, justice, liberty and solidarity must take priority over economic benefit. ----+- Errico Malatesta -+---- % There is no need to think in terms of destroying everything in the belief that things will look after themselves. ----+- Errico Malatesta -+---- % It is the task of all comrades to think, study and prepare -- and to do so with all speed and thoroughly because the times are "dynamic" and we must be ready for what might happen. ----+- Errico Malatesta -+---- % We must fight authority and privilege, while taking advantage from the benefits that civilisation has conferred. We must not destroy anything that satisfies human need however badly -- until we have something better to put in its place. ----+- Errico Malatesta -+---- % The task of the conscious minority is to profit from every situation to change the environment in a way that will make possible the education of the whole people. ----+- Errico Malatesta -+---- % The anarchist ideals are far from being in contradiction, as the "scientific socialists" claim, to the laws of evolution as proved by science; they are a conception which fits these laws perfectly; they are the experimental system brought from the field of research to that of social realisation. ----+- Errico Malatesta -+---- % If you consider these worthy electors as unable to look after their own interests themselves, how is it that they know how to choose for themselves the shepherds who must guide them? And how will they be able to solve this problem of social alchemy, of producing the election of a genius from the votes of a mass of fools? ----+- Errico Malatesta -+---- % What we want, therefore, is the complete destruction of the domination and exploitation of man by man; we want men united as brothers by a conscious and desired solidarity, all cooperating voluntarily for the well-being of all; we want society to be constituted for the purpose of supplying everybody with the means for achieving the maximum well-being, the maximum possible moral and spiritual development; we want bread, freedom, love, and science -- for everybody. ----+- Errico Malatesta -+---- % blag-fortune/people/federica-montseny000066400000000000000000000055631272462614700203120ustar00rootroot00000000000000The love of liberty and the sense of human dignity are the basic elements of the anarchist creed. ----+- Frederica Montseny -+---- % If all our comrades of Europe, America and other countries, who do not understand what we are doing to Spanish anarchism, would come to Spain, we could then see how they would react. ----+- Frederica Montseny -+---- % Men are as we have always known them, neither better nor worse from the hearts of rogues there springs a latent honesty, from the depths of honest men there emerges a brutish appetite -- a thirst for extermination, a desire for blood. ----+- Frederica Montseny -+---- % We need no messiah and no sterile conception of a god menacing us with hell and purgatory. ----+- Frederica Montseny -+---- % The struggle is so great that the triumph over fascism alone is worth the sacrifice of our lives. ----+- Frederica Montseny -+---- % In order to fully realise our aspirations, we must create in the masses of the people the sense of sacrifice and responsibility that has been the characteristic of the anarchist movement throughout its historic development in Spain. ----+- Frederica Montseny -+---- % But we must create in each person a sense of responsibility in order that each one of us can have the right to enjoy all his rights. ----+- Frederica Montseny -+---- % Never will the anarchists in Spain be made to suffer as they have been and are in Russia. ----+- Frederica Montseny -+---- % Authority is something from which we are constantly subtracting, of which there remains always a residue, and which we attempt to make smaller and smaller. ----+- Frederica Montseny -+---- % In Spain, we should have enough intelligence, enough sense of individual and collective responsibility to do for ourselves that which would be imposed upon us by a dictatorship. ----+- Frederica Montseny -+---- % We have confirmed something we only knew in theory, namely that revolution, in which uncontrolled and uncontrollable forces operate imperiously, is blind and destructive, grandiose and cruel. ----+- Frederica Montseny -+---- % I wish to say that we anarchists have never changed our position. We are anarchists as of old and still pursue the same ideals. ----+- Frederica Montseny -+---- % The people themselves, and only the people, determine the rhythm of our fight. ----+- Frederica Montseny -+---- % There is, therefore, no solution possible other than an economy directed by the workers through their organisations of control -- through the workers' syndicates. ----+- Frederica Montseny -+---- % We tried many times before to speed on the social revolution in Spain; attempted to stir up the feelings of the people and to raise the banner of libertarian communism. ----+- Frederica Montseny -+---- % blag-fortune/people/georges-brassens000066400000000000000000000014211272462614700201340ustar00rootroot00000000000000The only generals that we should follow are the generals of the little tin soldiers. ----+- Georges Brassens -+---- % Instead of taking aim at some vague enemy, it's better wait a moment for him to turn into a friend. ----+- Georges Brassens -+---- % All that marching music doesn't concern me. ----+- Georges Brassens -+---- % Good people don't much like those who tread a different path. ----+- Georges Brassens -+---- % The only revolution is to improve yourself, hoping that others follow. Then the world will improve. ----+- Georges Brassens -+---- % An anarchist is a man who is careful to always use pedestrian crossings, because he utterly detests talking with policemen. ----+- Georges Brassens -+---- % blag-fortune/people/han-ryner000066400000000000000000000024741272462614700165770ustar00rootroot00000000000000The wise man knows that the words "The happiness of the people," have no meaning. Happiness is internal and individual. It can only be produced within oneself. ----+- Han Ryner -+---- % The wise man knows that the oppressed who complain aspire to be oppressors. He relieves them according to his means, but he doesn't believe in salvation through common action. ----+- Han Ryner -+---- % The wise man notes that reforms change the names of things and not the things themselves. The slave became a serf, and then a salaried worker: nothing ahs been reformed but language. The wise man remains indifferent to these questions of philology. ----+- Han Ryner -+---- % Experience proves to the wise man that revolutions never have lasting results. Reason tells him that lies are not refuted by lies, and that violence isn't destroyed by violence. ----+- Han Ryner -+---- % The anarchist believes that the government is the limit of liberty. He hopes, by destroying government, to expand liberty. The true limit is not government, but society. Government is a social product like another. We don't destroy a tree by cutting one of its branches. ----+- Han Ryner -+---- % Is work a social or a natural law? Work is a natural law worsened by society. ----+- Han Ryner -+---- % blag-fortune/people/he-zhen000066400000000000000000000016261272462614700162300ustar00rootroot00000000000000I have a good idea that will exempt you from relying on others while still finding food naturally. How? By practicing communism. ----+- He Zhen -+---- % What is the most important thing in the world? It is eating. Why do you women suffer mistreatment? It is relying on others in order to eat. ----+- He Zhen -+---- % What is "being an active agent?" It is women struggling for liberation with their own might. What is "being a passive agent?" It is men's granting liberation to women... what active forces there have been have come from men, and as a result the benefits to women have not equaled those garnered by men. ----+- He Zhen -+---- % What we mean by equality between the sexes is not just that men will no longer oppress women. We also want men to no longer be oppressed by other men and women no longer to be oppressed by other women. ----+- He Zhen -+---- % blag-fortune/people/henry-david-thoreau000066400000000000000000000060251272462614700205470ustar00rootroot00000000000000If the machine of government is of such a nature that it requires you to be the agent of injustice to another, then, I say, break the law. ----+- Henry David Thoreau -+---- % That government is best which governs not at all; and when men are prepared for it, that will be the kind of government which they will have. ----+- Henry David Thoreau -+---- % The law will never make men free; it is men who have got to make the law free. ----+- Henry David Thoreau -+---- % That virtue we appreciate is as much ours as another's. We see so much only as we possess. ----+- Henry David Thoreau -+---- % Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty. The obedient must be slaves. ----+- Henry David Thoreau -+---- % Any fool can make a rule, and any fool will mind it. ----+- Henry David Thoreau -+---- % Must the citizen ever for a moment, or in the least degree, resign his conscience to the legislator? Why has every man a conscience, then? ----+- Henry David Thoreau -+---- % The only obligation which I have a right to assume is to do at any time what I think right. ----+- Henry David Thoreau -+---- % Law never made men a whit more just; and, by means of their respect for it, even the well-disposed are daily made the agents of injustice. ----+- Henry David Thoreau -+---- % A wise man will not leave the right to the mercy of chance, nor wish it to prevail through the power of the majority. There is but little virtue in the action of masses of men. ----+- Henry David Thoreau -+---- % Any man more right than his neighbors constitutes a majority of one. ----+- Henry David Thoreau -+---- % I am as desirous of being a good neighbor as I am of being a bad subject. ----+- Henry David Thoreau -+---- % The progress from an absolute to a limited monarchy, from a limited monarchy to a democracy, is a progress toward a true respect for the individual. ----+- Henry David Thoreau -+---- % Is a democracy, such as we know it, the last improvement possible in government? Is it not possible to take a step further towards recognizing and organizing the rights of man? ----+- Henry David Thoreau -+---- % There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root. ----+- Henry David Thoreau -+---- % If a man walk in the woods for love of them half of each day, he is in danger of being regarded as a loafer; but if he spends his whole day as a speculator, shearing off those woods and making earth bald before her time, he is esteemed an industrious and enterprising citizen. ----+- Henry David Thoreau -+---- % Those services which the community will most readily pay for it is most disagreeable to render. You are paid for being something less than a man. ----+- Henry David Thoreau -+---- % Do we call this the land of the free? What is it to be free from King George and continue the slaves of King Prejudice? ----+- Henry David Thoreau -+---- % blag-fortune/people/johann-most000066400000000000000000000077241272462614700171340ustar00rootroot00000000000000Anarchists are socialists because they want the improvement of society, and they are communists because they are convinced that such a transformation of society can only result from the establishment of a commonwealth of property. ----+- Johann Most -+---- % The god of the Christians, as we have seen, is the god who makes promises only to break them; who sends them pestilence and disease in order to heal them; a god who demoralizes mankind in order to improve it. ----+- Johann Most -+---- % He who negates present society, and seeks social conditions based on the sharing of property, is a revolutionary whether he calls himself an anarchist or a communist. ----+- Johann Most -+---- % We need do no more than repeat: only under communism does the individual become himself and lead his own life. ----+- Johann Most -+---- % Is anarchism desirable? Well, who does not seek freedom? What man, unless willing to declare himself in bondage, would care to call any control agreeable? Think about it! ----+- Johann Most -+---- % Whoever looks at America will see: the ship is powered by stupidity, corruption, or prejudice. ----+- Johann Most -+---- % If on the one side we do not harbor the illusion that the entire proletariat must be enlightened before it can be called into battle, so on the other we do not doubt that as much enlightenment as possible must be produced with oral and printed agitation. ----+- Johann Most -+---- % The existing system will be quickest and most radically overthrown by the annihilation of its exponents. Therefore, massacres of the enemies of the people must be set in motion. ----+- Johann Most -+---- % Fortunately, no country was ever more suited for anarchist agitation than present-day America. ----+- Johann Most -+---- % As set forth by theologians, the idea of 'God' is an argument that assumes its own conclusions, and proves nothing. ----+- Johann Most -+---- % It is the lash of hunger which compels the poor man to submit. In order to live he must sell -- "voluntarily" sell -- himself every day and hour to the "beast of property." ----+- Johann Most -+---- % Is anarchism possible? The failure of attempts to attain freedom does not mean the cause is lost. ----+- Johann Most -+---- % They make revolutionary propaganda because they know the privileged class can never be overturned peacefully. ----+- Johann Most -+---- % 'God' -- as revealed in his book of edicts and narratives is practically an idiot. He has nothing to say that any sensible person should want to listen to. ----+- Johann Most -+---- % Anarchists prepare for social revolution and use every means -- speech, writing, or deed, whichever is more to the point -- to accelerate revolutionary development. ----+- Johann Most -+---- % If we hope and even assume that the social question will be answered through communism, and not in this or that country but in the world, any thought of centralization must be a monstrosity. ----+- Johann Most -+---- % While we have entertained the contention that a deed may make more propaganda than hundreds of speeches, thousands of articles, and tens of thousands of pamphlets, we have held that an arbitrary act of violence will not necessarily have such an effect. ----+- Johann Most -+---- % Above all, what socialist, without flushing with shame, maintains he is not a revolutionary? We say: none! ----+- Johann Most -+---- % The aims of anarchists and true communists are identical. ----+- Johann Most -+---- % The anarchists, on behalf of the proletariat, therefore consider it necessary to show the proletariat that it will have to win a gigantic battle before it realizes its goals. ----+- Johann Most -+---- % Is anarchism possible? The failure of attempts to attain freedom does not mean the cause is lost. ----+- Johann Most -+---- % blag-fortune/people/john-cage000066400000000000000000000007161272462614700165240ustar00rootroot00000000000000I can't understand why people are frightened by new ideas. I'm frightened of old ones. ----+- John Cage -+---- % Revolution can never stop. ----+- John Cage -+---- % We must do the impossible -- rid the world of nations, bringing the play of intelligent anarchy into a world environment. ----+- John Cage -+---- % We must make the world safe for poverty without dependence on government. ----+- John Cage -+---- % blag-fortune/people/joseph-dejacque000066400000000000000000000045611272462614700177420ustar00rootroot00000000000000These revolutionaries, bare-necked politickers, have preserved with the imprint of the collar, the moral stain of servitude, the stiff neck of despotism. ----+- Joseph Dejacque -+---- % Dictatorship, whether it is a hydra with a hundred heads or a hundred tails, whether they are autocratic or demagogic, can certainly do nothing for liberty: it can only perpetuate slavery, morally and physically. ----+- Joseph Dejacque -+---- % All that which is not liberty is against liberty. Liberty is not a thing that can be allocated. ----+- Joseph Dejacque -+---- % Whoever calls himself revolutionary and speaks of dictatorship is only an imbecile or a traitor. ----+- Joseph Dejacque -+---- % A dictatorial committee composed of workers is certainly the thing one could find most inflated with self-importance and nullity and, consequently, the most anti-revolutionary. ----+- Joseph Dejacque -+---- % The emancipation of woman is nothing else than the emancipation of humanity -- both sexes. ----+- Joseph Dejacque -+---- % Emancipation or non-emancipation of woman, emancipation or non-emancipation of man -- what does it mean? Is it that by nature one has rights and the other has no rights? ----+- Joseph Dejacque -+---- % It is not the product of their labors to which the workers have a right. It is the satisfaction of their needs, whatever the nature of those needs. ----+- Joseph Dejacque -+---- % What is a utopia? A dream unrealized, but not unrealizable. ----+- Joseph Dejacque -+---- % Man, according to the diverse conditions in which he moves, is more or less worthy or unworthy. The more he has a sense of his liberty, the more he also has a feeling of his dignity; the more respect he has for himself, and also for his fellows. ----+- Joseph Dejacque -+---- % Without doubt, conventional right, contract and law, even universally and directly exercised, is not natural right, or justice. It is a compromise between anarchy and authority, and everything that is not completely just is injustice. ----+- Joseph Dejacque -+---- % To weaken authority and criticize its acts is not enough. A negation, in order to be absolute, needs to complete itself with an affirmation. That is why I affirm liberty, why I deduce its consequences. ----+- Joseph Dejacque -+---- % blag-fortune/people/leo-tolstoy000066400000000000000000000054071272462614700171650ustar00rootroot00000000000000A commercial company enslaved a nation comprising two hundred millions. Tell this to a man free from superstition and he will fail to grasp what these words mean. ----+- Leo Tolstoy -+---- % One thing only is needful: the knowledge of the simple and clear truth which finds place in every soul that is not stupefied by religious and scientific superstitions -- the truth that for our life one law is valid -- the law of love, which brings the highest happiness to every individual as well as to all mankind. ----+- Leo Tolstoy -+---- % No feats of heroism are needed to achieve the greatest and most important changes in the existence of humanity. ----+- Leo Tolstoy -+---- % Armies are necessary, before all things, for the defense of governments from their own oppressed and enslaved subjects. ----+- Leo Tolstoy -+---- % We cannot pretend that we do not see the armed policeman who marches up and down beneath our window to guarantee our security while we eat our luxurious dinner, or look at the new piece at the theater, or that we are unaware of the existence of the soldiers who will make their appearance with guns and cartridges directly our property is attacked. ----+- Leo Tolstoy -+---- % To be good and lead a good life means to give to others more than one takes from them. ----+- Leo Tolstoy -+---- % In all history there is no war which was not hatched by the governments, the governments alone, independent of the interests of the people, to whom war is always pernicious even when successful. ----+- Leo Tolstoy -+---- % As the uselessness and harmfulness of patriotism have become manifest, so also has increased the power of the government and ruling class to excite patriotism among the people. ----+- Leo Tolstoy -+---- % Anarchy will be instituted only by there being more and more people who do not require the protection of governmental power and by there being more and more people who will be ashamed of applying this power. ----+- Leo Tolstoy -+---- % In our world everybody thinks of changing humanity, and nobody thinks of changing himself. ----+- Leo Tolstoy -+---- % Wheresoever it be, there will exist the power of certain men over others, and there will not be freedom, but there will be the oppression of one portion of mankind by another. Therefore power must be abolished. ----+- Leo Tolstoy -+---- % If power is to be abolished it must be abolished not by force but by men's consciousness of its uselessness and evil. ----+- Leo Tolstoy -+---- % Power has become invincible, and rests no longer on the higher national foundations of anointed right, election, or representation, but on violence alone. ----+- Leo Tolstoy -+---- % blag-fortune/people/louise-michel000066400000000000000000000043321272462614700174260ustar00rootroot00000000000000No one who knew that the flag consisted of a bit of black stuff on the end of a broomstick would believe it, and no more do you, sir. I wished to show that the laborers were dying of hunger and in need of work. It is the flag of strikes and famines. ----+- Louise Michel -+---- % We love to have agents provocateurs in the party, because they always propose the most revolutionary motions. ----+- Louise Michel -+---- % Since it seems that every heart that beats for freedom has no right to anything but a little slug of lead, I demand my share. If you let me live, I shall never cease to cry for vengeance. ----+- Louise Michel -+---- % The revolution will be the flowering of humanity as love is the flowering of the heart. ----+- Louise Michel -+---- % Today, go blossom in the shadow of the dark and sad prisons. Go, bloom near the somber captive, and tell them truly that we love them. Tell them that through fleeting time, everything belongs to the future, that the livid conqueror can die more surely than the conquered. ----+- Louise Michel -+---- % Power is cursed, that is why I am an anarchist. ----+- Louise Michel -+---- % It is not a crumb of bread, but the harvest of the entire world that the human race needs, without exploiters and without exploited. ----+- Louise Michel -+---- % Without the rule of one, there would be light, there would be truth, there would be justice. The rule of one is a crime. ----+- Louise Michel -+---- % The task of teachers, those obscure soldiers of civilization, is to give to the people the intellectual means to revolt. ----+- Louise Michel -+---- % Each seeks his way, we seek ours and think the day that freedom and equality reign, mankind will be happy. ----+- Louise Michel -+---- % I repeat that I am a political prisoner. The prosecution, whatever the attorney general may say, is political and nothing else. ----+- Louise Michel -+---- % What I want is the revolution, which will cause poverty to disappear. I hail the revolution, which is inevitable, and I hope that it will come soon to bring liberty and equality to the suffering. ----+- Louise Michel -+---- % blag-fortune/people/lucy-parsons000066400000000000000000000043531272462614700173310ustar00rootroot00000000000000Anarchists know that a long period of education must precede any great fundamental change in society, hence they do not believe in vote begging, nor political campaigns, but rather in the development of self-thinking individuals. ----+- Lucy Parsons -+---- % Governments never lead; they follow progress. When the prison, stake or scaffold can no longer silence the voice of the protesting minority, progress moves on a step, but not until then. ----+- Lucy Parsons -+---- % The philosophy of anarchism is included in the word "Liberty"; yet it is comprehensive enough to include all things else that are conducive to progress. ----+- Lucy Parsons -+---- % Most anarchists believe the coming change can only come through a revolution, because the possessing class will not allow a peaceful change to take place; still we are willing to work for peace at any price, except at the price of liberty. ----+- Lucy Parsons -+---- % We cannot help but believe that were every law, every title deed, every court, and every police officer or soldier abolished tomorrow with one sweep, we would be better off than now. ----+- Lucy Parsons -+---- % Anarchism is the usher of science -- the master of ceremonies to all forms of truth. It would remove all barriers between the human being and natural development. ----+- Lucy Parsons -+---- % To my mind, the struggle for liberty is too great and the few steps we have gained have been won at too great a sacrifice, for the great mass of the people of this 20th century to consent to turn over to any political party the management of our social and industrial affairs. ----+- Lucy Parsons -+---- % Let every dirty, lousy tramp arm himself with a revolver or a knife, and lay in wait on the steps of the palaces of the rich and stab or shoot the owners as they come out. Let us kill them without mercy, and let it be a war of extermination. ----+- Lucy Parsons -+---- % Each of you hungry tramps who read these lines, avail yourselves of those little methods of warfare which science has placed in the hands of the poor man, and you will become a power in this or any other land. Learn the use of explosives! ----+- Lucy Parsons -+---- % blag-fortune/people/marius-jacob000066400000000000000000000021601272462614700172400ustar00rootroot00000000000000Theft is the restitution, the regaining of possession. Instead of being cloistered in a factory, like in a penal colony; instead of begging for what I had a right to, I preferred to rebel and fight my enemy face to face by making war on the rich, by attacking their goods. ----+- Marius Jacob -+---- % Very young, the virus of justice was inoculated to me and it earned me many a trouble. ----+- Marius Jacob -+---- % In order to destroy an effect you must first destroy the cause. If there is theft it is only because there is abundance on one hand and famine on the other; because everything only belongs to some. The struggle will only disappear when men will put their joys and suffering in common, their labors and their riches, when all will belong to everyone. ----+- Marius Jacob -+---- % Those who produce everything have nothing, and those who produce nothing have everything. Such a state of affairs can only produce antagonism between the laboring class and the owning, i.e., do-nothing, class. The fight breaks out and hatred delivers its blows. ----+- Marius Jacob -+---- % blag-fortune/people/max-nettlau000066400000000000000000000025451272462614700171320ustar00rootroot00000000000000Freedom must be so extensive that it includes the right not to be free. ----+- Max Nettlau -+---- % Do I want to propose my own system? Not at all! I am an advocate of all systems. ----+- Max Nettlau -+---- % Indeed, in many cases, maliciousness and stupidity will put many obstacles in the road of the new idea. That is the reason why hard struggles must be fought for unconditional mutual tolerance, until it is finally achieved. Only from then on will everything proceed automatically, science will bloom and advance, because the necessary foundation for every progress, namely experimental freedom and free research have been achieved. ----+- Max Nettlau -+---- % While governments are subjected to the principle of free experimentation, to free competition, they will improve and perfect themselves on their own. No more aloofness, up in the clouds, which only hides their emptiness. Success for them will entirely depend upon them doing it better and cheaper than the others do. ----+- Max Nettlau -+---- % For a long time I have been fascinated by the thought how wonderful it would be if at last, in public opinion on the succession of political and social institutions, the fateful term "one after another" would be replaced through the very simple and self-evident "simultaneously." ----+- Max Nettlau -+---- % blag-fortune/people/max-stirner000066400000000000000000000120251272462614700171360ustar00rootroot00000000000000Whoever will be free must make himself free. Freedom is no fairy gift to fall into a man's lap. ----+- Max Stirner -+---- % What is freedom? To have the will to be responsible for one's self. ----+- Max Stirner -+---- % The state calls its own violence law, but that of the individual, crime. ----+- Max Stirner -+---- % Do truth, freedom, humanity, justice, desire anything else than that you grow enthusiastic and serve them? ----+- Max Stirner -+---- % The divine is God's concern; the human, man's. My concern is neither the divine nor the human, not the true, good, just, free, etc., but solely what is mine. ----+- Max Stirner -+---- % The only thing I am not entitled to is what I do not do with a free cheer, that is, that I do not entitle myself to. ----+- Max Stirner -+---- % Every state is a despotism. ----+- Max Stirner -+---- % Freedom can only be the whole of freedom; a piece of freedom is not freedom. ----+- Max Stirner -+---- % The poor are to blame for there being rich men. ----+- Max Stirner -+---- % He who has might has right... is this wisdom so hard to attain? ----+- Max Stirner -+---- % The Revolution aimed at new arrangements; insurrection leads us no longer to let ourselves be arranged, but to arrange ourselves. ----+- Max Stirner -+---- % What you have the power to be you have the right to be. ----+- Max Stirner -+---- % The state always has the sole purpose to limit, tame, subordinate, the individual -- to make him subject to some generality or other. ----+- Max Stirner -+---- % God and mankind have concerned themselves for nothing, for nothing but themselves. Let me then likewise concern myself for myself, who am equally with God the nothing of all others, who am my all, who am the only one. ----+- Max Stirner -+---- % To be looked upon as a mere part, part of society, the individual cannot bear -- because he is more; his uniqueness puts from it this limited conception. ----+- Max Stirner -+---- % Society, from which we have everything, is a new master, a new spook, a new "supreme being," which "takes us into its service and allegiance!" ----+- Max Stirner -+---- % It is not another state that men aim at, but their union, uniting, this ever-fluid uniting of everything standing. ----+- Max Stirner -+---- % The state behaves as the same ruler that the Church was. The latter rests on godliness, the former on morality. ----+- Max Stirner -+---- % Why, liberty of the press is only permission of the press, and the state never will or can voluntarily permit me to grind it to nothingness by the press. ----+- Max Stirner -+---- % The "equality of right" is a phantom just because right is nothing more and nothing less than admission, a matter of grace. ----+- Max Stirner -+---- % I am unique. My flesh is not their flesh, my mind is not their mind. ----+- Max Stirner -+---- % That the communist sees in you the man, the brother, is only the Sunday side of communism... If you were a "lazy-bones," he would not indeed fail to recognize the man in you, but would endeavour to cleanse him as a "lazy man" from laziness and to convert you to the faith that labor is man's "destiny and calling." ----+- Max Stirner -+---- % The republic is nothing whatever but absolute monarchy; for it makes no difference whether the monarch is called prince or people, both being a "majesty." ----+- Max Stirner -+---- % In a republic, all are lords, that is, all despotize one over another. ----+- Max Stirner -+---- % Liberate yourself as far as you can, and you have done your part; for it is not given to every one to break through all limits, or, more expressively: not to every one is that a limit which is a limit for the rest... he who overturns one of his limits may have shown others the way and the means. ----+- Max Stirner -+---- % Protestantism has actually put a man in the position of a country governed by secret police. The spy and eavesdropper, "conscience," watches over every motion of the mind, and all thought and action is for it a "matter of conscience," that is, police business. ----+- Max Stirner -+---- % Before the sacred, people lose all sense of power and all confidence; they occupy a powerless and humble attitude toward it. And yet no thing is sacred of itself, but by my declaring it sacred, by my declaration, my judgment, my bending the knee; in short, by my conscience. ----+- Max Stirner -+---- % The men of the future will yet fight their way to many a liberty that we do not even miss. ----+- Max Stirner -+---- % Man, your head is haunted; you have wheels in your head! You imagine great things, and depict to yourself a whole world of gods that has an existence for you, a spirit-realm to which you suppose yourself to be called, an ideal that beckons to you. You have a fixed idea! ----+- Max Stirner -+---- % blag-fortune/people/mikhail-bakunin000066400000000000000000000177531272462614700177450ustar00rootroot00000000000000Freedom, the realization of freedom: who can deny that this is what today heads the agenda of history? ----+- Mikhail Bakunin -+---- % We must not only act politically, but in our politics act religiously, religiously in the sense of freedom, of which the one true expression is justice and love. ----+- Mikhail Bakunin -+---- % The passion for destruction is a creative passion, too. ----+- Mikhail Bakunin -+---- % Justice, equality, fraternity, prosperity of men... if God exists, all these things are condemned to non-existence. ----+- Mikhail Bakunin -+---- % A person is strong only when he stands upon his own truth, when he speaks and acts from his deepest convictions. ----+- Mikhail Bakunin -+---- % Unity is the great goal toward which humanity moves irresistibly. ----+- Mikhail Bakunin -+---- % That patriotism which tends toward unity without regard to liberty is an evil patriotism. ----+- Mikhail Bakunin -+---- % Liberty without socialism is privilege and injustice; socialism without liberty is slavery and brutality. ----+- Mikhail Bakunin -+---- % Political freedom without economic equality is a pretense, a fraud, a lie; and the workers want no lying. ----+- Mikhail Bakunin -+---- % I am a fanatic lover of liberty, considering it as the unique condition under which intelligence, dignity and human happiness can develop and grow. ----+- Mikhail Bakunin -+---- % To revolt is a natural tendency of life. Even a worm turns against the foot that crushes it. ----+- Mikhail Bakunin -+---- % In general, the vitality and relative dignity of an animal can be measured by the intensity of its instinct to revolt. ----+- Mikhail Bakunin -+---- % If there is a state, there must be domination of one class by another and, as a result, slavery. ----+- Mikhail Bakunin -+---- % The state without slavery is unthinkable -- and this is why we are the enemies of the state. ----+- Mikhail Bakunin -+---- % When the people are being beaten with a stick, they are not much happier if it is called "the People's Stick." ----+- Mikhail Bakunin -+---- % Even the most wretched individual of our present society could not exist and develop without the cumulative social efforts of countless generations. ----+- Mikhail Bakunin -+---- % The individual, his freedom and reason, are the products of society, and not vice versa: society is not the product of individuals comprising it; and the higher, the more fully the individual is developed, the greater his freedom. ----+- Mikhail Bakunin -+---- % No theory, no ready-made system, no book that has ever been written will save the world. I cleave to no system. I am a true seeker. ----+- Mikhail Bakunin -+---- % By striving to do the impossible, man has always achieved what is possible. ----+- Mikhail Bakunin -+---- % The peoples' revolution will arrange its revolutionary organisation from the bottom up and from the periphery to the centre, in keeping with the principle of liberty. ----+- Mikhail Bakunin -+---- % Man becomes conscious of himself and his humanity only in society and only by the collective action of the whole society. ----+- Mikhail Bakunin -+---- % The liberty of every individual is only the reflection of his own humanity, or his human right through the conscience of all free men, his brothers and his equals. ----+- Mikhail Bakunin -+---- % I can feel free only in the presence of and in relationship with other men. ----+- Mikhail Bakunin -+---- % I am not myself free or human until or unless I recognize the freedom and humanity of all my fellowmen. ----+- Mikhail Bakunin -+---- % Only in respecting their human character do I respect my own. ----+- Mikhail Bakunin -+---- % I am truly free only when all human beings, men and women, are equally free. ----+- Mikhail Bakunin -+---- % The freedom of other men, far from negating or limiting my freedom, is, on the contrary, its necessary premise and confirmation. ----+- Mikhail Bakunin -+---- % As long as we have a master in heaven, we will be slaves on earth. ----+- Mikhail Bakunin -+---- % The state, therefore, is the most flagrant, the most cynical, and the most complete negation of humanity. ----+- Mikhail Bakunin -+---- % This flagrant negation of humanity which constitutes the very essence of the state is, from the standpoint of the state, its supreme duty and its greatest virtue. ----+- Mikhail Bakunin -+---- % Since the birth of the state, the world of politics has always been and continues to be the stage for unlimited rascality and brigandage. ----+- Mikhail Bakunin -+---- % There is no horror, no cruelty, sacrilege, or perjury, no imposture, no infamous transaction, no cynical robbery, no bold plunder or shabby betrayal that has not been or is not daily being perpetrated by the representatives of the states, under no other pretext than those elastic words, so convenient and yet so terrible: "for reasons of state." ----+- Mikhail Bakunin -+---- % We are firmly convinced that the most imperfect republic is a thousand times better than the most enlightened monarchy. ----+- Mikhail Bakunin -+---- % In a republic, there are at least brief periods when the people, while continually exploited, is not oppressed; in the monarchies, oppression is constant. ----+- Mikhail Bakunin -+---- % While we prefer the republic, we must recognise and proclaim that whatever the form of government may be, so long as human society continues to be divided into different classes as a result of the hereditary inequality of occupations, of wealth, of education, and of rights, there will always be a class-restricted government and the inevitable exploitation of the majorities by the minorities. ----+- Mikhail Bakunin -+---- % The state is nothing but this domination and this exploitation, well regulated and systematised. ----+- Mikhail Bakunin -+---- % The liberty of man consists solely in this: that he obeys natural laws because he has himself recognized them as such, and not because they have been externally imposed upon him by any extrinsic will whatever, divine or human, collective or individual. ----+- Mikhail Bakunin -+---- % Does it follow that I reject all authority? Far from me such a thought. In the matter of boots, I refer to the authority of the bootmaker; concerning houses, canals, or railroads, I consult that of the architect or engineer. ----+- Mikhail Bakunin -+---- % If God really existed, it would be necessary to abolish him. ----+- Mikhail Bakunin -+---- % As long as we have a master in heaven, we will be slaves on earth. ----+- Mikhail Bakunin -+---- % The second element of freedom is negative. It is the revolt of the individual against all divine, collective, and individual authority. ----+- Mikhail Bakunin -+---- % I hate communism because it is the negation of liberty and because for me humanity is unthinkable without liberty. I am not a communist, because communism concentrates and swallows up in itself for the benefit of the state all the forces of society, because it inevitably leads to the concentration of property in the hands of the state. ----+- Mikhail Bakunin -+---- % Is it not plain that all these governments are systematic poisoners, interested stupefies of the masses? ----+- Mikhail Bakunin -+---- % The oppression of one is the oppression of all, and we cannot violate the liberty of one being without violating the freedom of all of us. ----+- Mikhail Bakunin -+---- % He who desires to worship God must harbor no childish illusions about the matter, but bravely renounce his liberty and humanity. ----+- Mikhail Bakunin -+---- % Anarchism is "stateless socialism." ----+- Mikhail Bakunin -+---- % blag-fortune/people/miscellaneous000066400000000000000000000113551272462614700175350ustar00rootroot00000000000000At the same time, of course, Marxism arose -- Rosa Luxembourg, Leninism, anarchism -- and art became political. ----+- Douglas Sirk -+---- % The great appear great because we are on our knees: Let us rise. ----+- James Larkin -+---- % Victory is for them, not for us. We have not made profit out of our country's misfortune. Victory does not bring us luck. ----+- Ba Jin -+---- % Lock up your libraries if you like; but there is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind. ----+- Virginia Woolf -+---- % The more corrupt the state, the more numerous the laws. ----+- Tacitus -+---- % In our so very civilized society it is necessary for me to live the life of a savage. I must be free, even of governments. ----+- Gustave Courbet -+---- % It is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong. ----+- Voltaire -+---- % I desire neither to rule nor to be ruled. ----+- Otanes -+---- % Whoever denies authority and fights against it is an anarchist. ----+- Sebastien Faure -+---- % Anarchy is order; government is civil war. ----+- Anselme Bellagarrigue -+---- % Up to now you have believed in the existence of tyrants. Well, you were mistaken. There are only slaves. Where none obeys, none commands. ----+- Anselme Bellagarrigue -+---- % If you wish to remain men, do not be soldiers; if you cannot stand humiliations do not don the uniform. If, however, you have already committed the imprudence of clothing yourselves therewith, and some day you find yourselves in the situation of being unable to control your indignation, then neither insult nor strike your superiors; LET DAYLIGHT THROUGH THEM! You will pay no more for it. ----+- Jean Grave -+---- % Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely. ----+- Lord Acton -+---- % No nation keeps its word. A nation is a big, blind worm, following what? Fate perhaps. A nation has no honour, it has no word to keep. ----+- Carl Jung -+---- % Women have no government. Men have organized a government, and they maintain it to the utter exclusion of women. ----+- Victoria Woodhull -+---- % Never do anything against conscience even if the state demands it. ----+- Albert Einstein -+---- % An unjust law is no law at all. ----+- Augustine of Hippo -+---- % From each according to his ability, to each according to his need. ----+- Louis Blanc -+---- % The world does not need governing; in fact it should not be governed. ----+- Zhuangzi -+---- % Order results spontaneously when things are let alone. ----+- Zhuangzi -+---- % Write on my gravestone: "Infidel, Traitor" -- infidel to every church that compromises with wrong; traitor to every government that oppresses the people. ----+- Wendell Phillips -+---- % I am not a political man and I have no political convictions. I am an individual and a believer in liberty. That is all the politics I have. ----+- Charlie Chaplin -+---- % I hate governments and rules and fetters. Can't stand caged animals. People must be free. ----+- Charlie Chaplin -+---- % Anarchism is an ethic, it's a way of behaving. ----+- Henri Cartier-Bresson -+---- % In a world that is buckling under the weight of profit making, that is overrun by the destructive sirens of Techno-science and the power hunger of globalisation -- that new brand of slavery -- beyond all that, friendship exists, love exists. ----+- Henri Cartier-Bresson -+---- % Free election of masters does not abolish the masters or the slaves. ----+- Herbert Marcuse -+---- % Contemporary industrial society is now characterised more than ever by the need for stupefying work where it is no longer a real necessity. ----+- Herbert Marcuse -+---- % A philosopher is dead when he is no longer read. Some, then, know the strange fortune of death while still alive. ----+- Michel Onfray -+---- % Who cares about the victim if the gesture is beautiful? ----+- Laurent Tailhade -+---- % Can one live without working? We can only live without working. ----+- Raoul Vaneigem -+---- % Who wants a world in which the guarantee that we shall not die of starvation entails the risk of dying of boredom? ----+- Raoul Vaneigem -+---- % There is no such thing as a good usage or a bad usage of the freedom of speech, only an insufficient usage. ----+- Raoul Vaneigem -+---- % Faith can move mountains but let them happily fall down on the heads of other people. ----+- Boris Vian -+---- % Remove the conditional and you destroy God. ----+- Boris Vian -+---- % blag-fortune/people/murray-bookchin000066400000000000000000000010711272462614700177750ustar00rootroot00000000000000The great majority of people have to work in order to earn a livelihood, and a sizable proportion of them are productive workers. A huge number of workers are unproductive as well. They operate entirely with the circumstances and framework created by the capitalist system, such as shuffling invoices, contracts, credit slips, insurance policies, and so forth. Probably nine out of ten "workers" wouldn't have any work to do in a rational society -- one that would not require insurance or any other commercial transactions. ----+- Murray Bookchin -+---- % blag-fortune/people/octave-mirbeau000066400000000000000000000020551272462614700175720ustar00rootroot00000000000000During humankind's long centuries societies have risen and fallen, all alike in this one fact which rules all history: the great are protected, the small are crushed. ----+- Octave Mirbeau -+---- % The greatest danger of bombs is in the explosion of stupidity that they provoke. ----+- Octave Mirbeau -+---- % Children, by nature, are keen, passionate and curious. What was referred to as laziness is often merely an awakening of sensitivity, a psychological inability to submit to certain absurd duties, and a natural result of the distorted, unbalanced education given to them. This laziness, which leads to an insuperable reluctance to learn, is, contrary to appearances, sometimes proof of intellectual superiority and a condemnation of the teacher. ----+- Octave Mirbeau -+---- % To take something from a person and keep it for oneself: that is robbery. To take something from one person and then turn it over to another in exchange for as much money as you can get: that is business. ----+- Octave Mirbeau -+---- % blag-fortune/people/peter-arshinov000066400000000000000000000002741272462614700176360ustar00rootroot00000000000000Proletarians of the world, look into the depths of your own beings, seek out the truth and realise it yourselves: you will find it nowhere else. ----+- Peter Arshinov -+---- % blag-fortune/people/peter-kropotkin000066400000000000000000000123321272462614700200230ustar00rootroot00000000000000America is just the country that shows how all the written guarantees in the world for freedom are no protection against tyranny and oppression of the worst kind. ----+- Peter Kropotkin -+---- % The peoples of the world are becoming profoundly dissatisfied and are not appeased by the promise of the social democrats to patch up the state into a new engine of oppression. ----+- Peter Kropotkin -+---- % The means of production being the collective work of humanity, the product should be the collective property of the race. ----+- Peter Kropotkin -+---- % Individual appropriation is neither just nor serviceable. All belongs to all. ----+- Peter Kropotkin -+---- % 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. ----+- Peter Kropotkin -+---- % Sociability is as much a law of nature as mutual struggle. ----+- Peter Kropotkin -+---- % Those animals which acquire habits of mutual aid are undoubtedly the fittest. ----+- Peter Kropotkin -+---- % The law is an adroit mixture of customs that are beneficial to society, and could be followed even if no law existed, and others that are of advantage to a ruling minority, but harmful to the masses of men, and can be enforced on them only by terror. ----+- Peter Kropotkin -+---- % The word 'state' is identical with the word 'war.' ----+- Peter Kropotkin -+---- % A structure based on centuries of history cannot be destroyed with a few kilos of explosives. ----+- Peter Kropotkin -+---- % Freedoms are not given, they are taken. ----+- Peter Kropotkin -+---- % The law has no claim to human respect. It has no civilizing mission; its only purpose is to protect exploitation. ----+- Peter Kropotkin -+---- % When we have but the will to do it, that very moment will Justice be done: that very instant the tyrants of the Earth shall bite the dust. ----+- Peter Kropotkin -+---- % There are periods in the life of human society when revolution becomes an imperative necessity, when it proclaims itself as inevitable. ----+- Peter Kropotkin -+---- % Courage, devotion, the spirit of sacrifice, are as contagious as cowardice, submission, and panic. ----+- Peter Kropotkin -+---- % One courageous act has sufficed to upset in a few days the entire governmental machinery, to make the colossus tremble. ----+- Peter Kropotkin -+---- % In existing states a fresh law is looked upon as a remedy for evil. ----+- Peter Kropotkin -+---- % Instead of inanely repeating the old formula, "Respect the law," we say, "Despise law and all its Attributes!" ----+- Peter Kropotkin -+---- % In place of the cowardly phrase, "Obey the law," our cry is "Revolt against all laws!" ----+- Peter Kropotkin -+---- % The individual is quite a world of federations, a whole universe in himself. ----+- Peter Kropotkin -+---- % A different conception of society, very different from that which now prevails, is in process of formation. ----+- Peter Kropotkin -+---- % What economists call over-production is but a production that is above the purchasing power of the worker, who is reduced to poverty by capital and state. ----+- Peter Kropotkin -+---- % Idlers do not make history: they suffer it! ----+- Peter Kropotkin -+---- % Governmental communism, like theocratic communism, is repugnant to the worker. ----+- Peter Kropotkin -+---- % It is above all over the question of the state that socialists are divided. ----+- Peter Kropotkin -+---- % The state idea means something quite different from the idea of government. ----+- Peter Kropotkin -+---- % The Roman Empire was a state in the real sense of the word. To this day it remains the legist's ideal. ----+- Peter Kropotkin -+---- % It is a sad sight to see those who believe themselves to be revolutionaries unleashing their hatred on the anarchist. ----+- Peter Kropotkin -+---- % It is especially in the domain of ethics that the dominating importance of the mutual aid principle appears in full. ----+- Peter Kropotkin -+---- % It is often said that anarchists live in a world of dreams to come, and do not see the things which happen today. We do see them only too well, and in their true colors, and that is what makes us carry the hatchet into the forest of prejudice that besets us. ----+- Peter Kropotkin -+---- % Have not prisons -- which kill all will and force of character in man, which enclose within their walls more vices than are met with on any other spot of the globe -- always been universities of crime? Is not the court of a tribunal a school of ferocity? ----+- Peter Kropotkin -+---- % America is just the country that shows how all the written guarantees in the world for freedom are no protection against tyranny and oppression of the worst kind. There the politician has come to be looked upon as the very scum of society. ----+- Peter Kropotkin -+---- % blag-fortune/people/pierre-joseph-proudhon000066400000000000000000000066671272462614700213140ustar00rootroot00000000000000To be governed is to be watched over, inspected, spied on, directed, legislated at, regulated, docketed, indoctrinated, preached at, controlled, assessed, weighed, censored, ordered about, by men who have neither the right, nor the knowledge, nor the virtue. ----+- Pierre-Joseph Proudhon -+---- % All my political ideas boil down to this formula: political federation or decentralization. ----+- Pierre-Joseph Proudhon -+---- % I stand ready to negotiate, but I want no part of laws: I acknowledge none. ----+- Pierre-Joseph Proudhon -+---- % Laws: We know what they are, and what they are worth! ----+- Pierre-Joseph Proudhon -+---- % All parties without exception, when they seek for power, are varieties of absolutism. ----+- Pierre-Joseph Proudhon -+---- % What is property? It is robbery! ----+- Pierre-Joseph Proudhon -+---- % Philosophy will not change the course of events: destiny will fulfill itself regardless of prophecy. Besides, must not justice be done and our education be finished? ----+- Pierre-Joseph Proudhon -+---- % We had never understood the meaning of these words, so common and yet so sacred: Justice, equity, liberty. ----+- Pierre-Joseph Proudhon -+---- % Yes: all men believe and repeat that equality of conditions is identical with equality of rights; that property and robbery are synonymous terms; that every social advantage accorded, or rather usurped, in the name of superior talent or service, is iniquity and extortion. All men in their hearts, I say, bear witness to these truths; they need only to be made to understand it. ----+- Pierre-Joseph Proudhon -+---- % They will die of hunger at the proprietor's door, on the edge of that property which was their birthright; and the proprietor, watching them die, will exclaim, "So perish idlers and vagrants!" ----+- Pierre-Joseph Proudhon -+---- % Property is impossible. ----+- Pierre-Joseph Proudhon -+---- % The proprietor, producing neither by his own labor nor by his implement, and receiving products in exchange for nothing, is either a parasite or a thief. ----+- Pierre-Joseph Proudhon -+---- % Communism is inequality, but not as property is. Property is the exploitation of the weak by the strong. Communism is the exploitation of the strong by the weak. ----+- Pierre-Joseph Proudhon -+---- % As man seeks justice in equality, so society seeks order in anarchy. ----+- Pierre-Joseph Proudhon -+---- % Fear of the people is the defect of all those who belong to authority. The people, as concerns power, is the enemy. ----+- Pierre-Joseph Proudhon -+---- % Liberty is not daughter of order but mother of order. ----+- Pierre-Joseph Proudhon -+---- % Although a firm friend of order, I am (in the full force of the term) an anarchist. ----+- Pierre-Joseph Proudhon -+---- % Whosoever lays a hand on me in order to govern me is a usurper and a tyrant; I declare him my enemy. ----+- Pierre-Joseph Proudhon -+---- % The government of man by man (under whatever name it be disguised) is oppression. ----+- Pierre-Joseph Proudhon -+---- % What do I, a proletarian, care for the tranquility and security of the rich? I care as little for public order as for the proprietor's safety. I ask to live a laborer; otherwise I will die a warrior. ----+- Pierre-Joseph Proudhon -+---- % blag-fortune/people/ravachol000066400000000000000000000031421272462614700164640ustar00rootroot00000000000000In creating the articles of the Criminal Code, the legislators forgot that they didn't attack the causes, but only the effects, and so they don't in any way destroy crime. In truth, the causes continuing to exist, the effects will necessarily flow from them. There will always be criminals, for today you destroy one, but tomorrow ten will be born. ----+- Ravachol -+---- % It is society that makes criminals and you, jury members, instead of striking you should use your intelligence and your strength to transform society. In one fell swoop you'll suppress all crime. And your work, in attacking causes, will be greater and more fruitful than your justice, which belittles itself in punishing its effects. ----+- Ravachol -+---- % While judging me judge all the unfortunate who poverty, combined with natural pride, made criminals, and who wealth or ease would have made honest men. An intelligent society would have made of them men like any other! ----+- Ravachol -+---- % Anarchy is the obliteration of property. ----+- Ravachol -+---- % Masters aren't necessary, these people whose idleness is maintained by our labor; everyone must make himself useful to society, by which I mean work according to his ability and his aptitude. ----+- Ravachol -+---- % Today the anarchists are numerous enough to overthrow the current state of things, and if that hasn't yet happened, it's because we must complete the education of the followers, give birth in them to the energy and the firm will to assist in the realization of their projects. ----+- Ravachol -+---- % blag-fortune/people/richard-stallman000066400000000000000000000034441272462614700201170ustar00rootroot00000000000000Arrangements to make people pay for using a program, including licensing of copies, always incur a tremendous cost to society through the cumbersome mechanisms necessary to figure out how much (that is, which programs) a person must pay for. And only a police state can force everyone to obey them. ----+- Richard Stallman -+---- % Copying all or parts of a program is as natural to a programmer as breathing, and as productive. It ought to be as free. ----+- Richard Stallman -+---- % Extracting money from users of a program by restricting their use of it is destructive because the restrictions reduce the amount and the ways that the program can be used. This reduces the amount of wealth that humanity derives from the program. ----+- Richard Stallman -+---- % Writing non-free software is not an ethically legitimate activity, so if people who do this run into trouble, that's good! All businesses based on non-free software ought to fail, and the sooner the better. ----+- Richard Stallman -+---- % Value your freedom or you will lose it, teaches history. "Don't bother us with politics," respond those who don't want to learn. ----+- Richard Stallman -+---- % People said I should accept the world. Bullshit! I don't accept the world. ----+- Richard Stallman -+---- % To have the choice between proprietary software packages, is being able to choose your master. Freedom means not having a master. ----+- Richard Stallman -+---- % Standing up to an evil system is exhilarating, and now I have a taste for it. ----+- Richard Stallman -+---- % While corporations dominate society and write the laws, each advance in technology is an opening for them to further restrict its users. ----+- Richard Stallman -+---- % blag-fortune/people/william-godwin000066400000000000000000000017601272462614700176140ustar00rootroot00000000000000Perfectibility is one of the most unequivocal characteristics of the human species. ----+- William Godwin -+---- % If there be such a thing as truth, it must infallibly be struck out by the collision of mind with mind. ----+- William Godwin -+---- % Whenever government assumes to deliver us from the trouble of thinking for ourselves, the only consequences it produces are those of torpor and imbecility. ----+- William Godwin -+---- % The proper method for hastening the decay of error is not by brute force, or by regulation which is one of the classes of force, to endeavour to reduce men to intellectual uniformity; but on the contrary by teaching every man to think for himself. ----+- William Godwin -+---- % The true object of education is not to render the pupil the mere copy of his preceptor, it is rather to be rejoiced in, than lamented, that various reading should lead him into new trains of thinking. ----+- William Godwin -+---- % blag-fortune/rb-star.png000066400000000000000000000045321272462614700155420ustar00rootroot00000000000000PNG  IHDRddpTbKGD pHYs  tIMEwIDATx}lU?ZG.ZW(/VdE)/]2V \8#N]f6b1@MÌalLL1]Hf )KQZ\{Z9w79yNޛ>=\zP)^@2..#sZ MAY` 8HHT⬖υ\82 ϥ4K[8  e %UhqHZwá2 $2Gw> $ ۠LkZ6I0T R? ,ev@JxX`) 18 H }yna/>L0,@,b(e#Ygs z̀x-]Z A Xu0riR W@,6< 7靁U285W-0]iXB} #u}^I@2S2 O2\ P'⡹vt> ̄@LX Č~.C&bB0w,S-?W Ǎϵ§bN@4A=B1 Dauľ8j8J]Un*Wf-L+d9,\Vzn6{F ^ՠcCUlU(i5 FPScfi}7f6A2' :uڦkuu{W#a[HFa[;LyD`0$~p#p(r 9,p_o[z37]c ~h @o@^tw?q\q8RSwFsferZQv TOE}Glw֕(è9D zGQs3p0B [Mi]T.-U˧~9ţ@fuĈ(*|jvm'DR06 cFw~5̫>xy'Z zڍU+ x`Ke QF GwE=\vqS3CFU8 K\T6ieBC-@ڜhb; %`o. v DСotaOVW L0ւ Ojo6kjY`\{auzYC|x(CV(io-׶L[sVU? $D]!^.k / #rUZBm𠙝MsGɺjƅ9 u kAyKK]8Rq%1@ ,0 HC[c쳶e \]N/a 7_Q\T$aޞ%Il;AF2ѥ, = WDjν # v8FtH-gQ߀C-`u8<Յ-V? gّy+?S> p֢d㣾rW߀r=Y8XԸťb**ᘚlӕցd:g-غ 8zØq