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We need long train journeys on which we have no wireless signal
— Alain De Botton
As to the American tradition of non-meddling, Anarchism asks that it be carried down to the individual himself.
— Voltairine De Cleyre
A standing army is a standing menace to liberty.
— Voltairine De Cleyre
I die, as I have lived, a free spirit, an Anarchist, owing no allegiance to rulers, heavenly or earthly.
— Voltairine De Cleyre
As long as the working-people fold hands and pray the gods in Washington to give them work, so long they will not get it.
— Voltairine De Cleyre
Some people have children. I have books. Much more interesting and they never ask me for money.
— J. Lincoln Fenn
The question of souls is old - we demand our bodies, now. We are tired of promises, god is deaf, and his church is our worst enemy.
— Voltairine De Cleyre
There is no peace now, and there will never be peace, so long as one rules over another.
— Voltairine De Cleyre
Every year 3.1 million Indian children die before the age of 5, mostly from diseases of poverty like diarrhea.
— Nicholas D. Kristof
I think it can be shown that the law makes ten criminals where it restrains one.
— Voltairine De Cleyre
when you find out who your not allowed to criticize, then you will realize who is in control".
— Voltairine De Cleyre
Is it not enough that 'things are cruel and blind'? Must we also be cruel and blind?
— Voltairine De Cleyre
[T]o remain in a continually exalted moral condition is not human nature.
— Voltairine De Cleyre
There is one common struggle against those who have appropriated the earth, the money, and the machines.
— Voltairine De Cleyre
I never expect men to give us liberty. No, women, we are not worth it until we take it.
— Voltairine De Cleyre
Don't let's ask for the moon! We have the stars!
— Olive Higgins Prouty
There is no society for the prevention of cruelty to women.
— Voltairine De Cleyre