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 MalatestaWe follow ideas and not men, and rebel against this habit of embodying a principle in a man.
Errico MalatestaWe anarchists do not want to emancipate the people; we want the people to emancipate themselves.
Errico MalatestaThe only limit to the oppression of government is the power with which the people show themselves capable of opposing it.
Errico Malatesta