Industrial Workers Of The World Inspirational Quotes (11)

Being a pacifist to save your own life is normal, being a pacifist for the lives of others is true pacifism.

A Christian Anarchist does not depend on bullets or ballots to achieve his ideal he achieves that ideal daily by the One Man Revolution with which he faces a decadent, confused and dying world.

Force is the weapon of the weak.

Love without courage and wisdom is sentimentality, as with the ordinary church member. Courage without love and wisdom is foolhardiness, as with the ordinary soldier. Wisdom without love and courage is cowardice, as with the ordinary intellectual. But the one who has love, courage and wisdom moves the world.

A Christian anarchist has no business belonging to such a reactionary organization [the Catholic Church]. I do not believe in original sin, indulgences, the infallibility of the pope, or obedience to any church official if it is against my conscience. I am not interested in earning merit or in being saved by priestly incantation.

An anarchist is someone who doesn't need a cop to make him behave.

Oh judge! Your damn laws! The good people don't need them, and the bad people don't obey them.

An anarchist is someone who doesn't need a cop to make him behave. Anarchism is voluntary cooperation with the right of secession. The individual or the family or the small group as a unit instead of the State.

A pacifist between wars is like a vegetarian between meals.

We really can’t change the world. We really can’t change other people! The best we can do is to start a few thinking here and there. The best way to do this, if we are sincere, is to change ourselves!

I'm not trying to change the world. I'm trying to stop the world from changing me.