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“Anarchism has but one infallible, unchangeable motto, ‘Freedom.’ Freedom to discover any truth, freedom to develop, to live naturally and fully.”
- Lucy Parsons

“Anarchism, really stands for the liberation of the human mind from the dominion of religion; the liberation of the human body from the dominion of property; liberation from the shackles and restraint of government.”
- Emma Goldman

"Monsters are real, and ghosts are real too. They live inside us, and sometimes, they win."
- Stephen King

"The two most powerful warriors are patience and time."
- Leo Tolstoy

"True life is lived when tiny changes occur."
- Leo Tolstoy

"We must not only cease our present desire for the growth of the state, but we must desire its decrease, its weakening."
- Leo Tolstoy

"War is so unjust and ugly that all who wage it must try to stifle the voice of conscience within themselves."
- Leo Tolstoy

"Before we can forgive one another, we have to understand one another."
- Emma Goldman

"If voting changed anything, they'd make it illegal."
- Emma Goldman

"No real social change has ever been brought about without a revolution... revolution is but thought carried into action."
- Emma Goldman

"When we can't dream any longer we die."
- Emma Goldman

"The history of progress is written in the blood of men and women who have dared to espouse an unpopular cause, as, for instance, the black man's right to his body, or woman's right to her soul."
- Emma Goldman

"We must not listen to those who urge us to think human thoughts since we are human, and mortal thoughts since we are mortal; rather, we should as far as possible immortalize ourselves and do all we can to live by the finest elements in us - for if in bulk it is small, in power and worth is far greater than anything else"
- Aristotle

"It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets."
- Voltaire

"He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would suffice."
- Albert Einstein

"War does not determine who is right - only who is left."
- Bertrand Russell

"I have no country to fight for; my country is the earth, and I am a citizen of the world."
- Eugene V. Debs

"To realize that new world we must prefer the values of freedom and equality above all other values - above personal wealth, technical power and nationalism."
- Herbert Read

"Wisdom outweighs any wealth."
- Sophocles

"From the errors of others, a wise man corrects his own."
- Publilius Syrus

"Mastering others is strength. Mastering yourself is true power."
- Lao Tzu

"Pity? It was pity that stayed Bilbo's hand. Many that live deserve death. Some that die deserve life. Can you give it to them, Frodo? Do not be too eager to deal out death in judgment. Even the very wise cannot see all ends. My heart tells me that Gollum has some part to play yet, for good or ill before this is over. The pity of Bilbo may rule the fate of many. "
- Gandalf, The Lord of the Rings - The Fellowship of the Ring

"So do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given to us. There are other forces at work in this world Frodo, besides the will of evil. Bilbo was meant to find the Ring. In which case, you were also meant to have it. And that is an encouraging thought. "
- Gandalf, The Lord of the Rings - The Fellowship of the Ring