“All the gang of those who rule us Hope our quarrels never stop Helping them to split and fool us So they can remain on top.” HelpingGovernmentFoolOppressionSplitsGangQuarrels Book:Poems, 1913-1956 Source: Poems, 1913-1956
“Dignity, in private men and in governments, has been little else than a stately and stiff perseverance in oppression; and spirit, as it is called, little else than the foam of hard-mouthed insolence.” MenLittlesHas BeensHardGovernmentSpiritDignityPerseveranceOppressionFoamInsolence Book:Imaginary Conversations of Literary Men and Statesmen Source: Imaginary Conversations of Literary Men and Statesmen
“This is what the government is, has always been, the creator and defender of privilege; the organization of oppression and revenge. To hope that it can ever become anything else is the vainest of delusions. They tell you that Anarchy, the dream of social order without government, is a wild fancy. The wildest dream that ever entered the heart of man is the dream that mankind can ever help itself through an appeal to law, or to come to any order that will not result in slavery wherein there is any excuse for government.” MenHeartHelpingDreamGovernmentLawOrderSocialResultsMankindOrganizationSlaveryPrivilegeCreatorExcuseRevengeOppressionAppealsFancyDelusionAnarchyDefendersSocial OrderWildest Dreams Author:Voltairine de Cleyre
“An avant-garde man is like an enemy inside a city he is bent on destroying, against which he rebels; for like any system of government, an established form of expression is also a form of oppression. The avant-garde man is the opponent of an existing system.” MenGovernmentFormCitiesEnemyExpressionOppressionOpponentsDestroyingRebelBentAvant GardeSystems Of Government Author:Eugene Ionesco
“But whether the resistance against government tyrants is non-violent or physically violent, the effort to overthrow state oppression qualifies as true patriotism.” StatesGovernmentEffortViolentResistanceOppressionTyrantsNon ViolentTrue Patriotism Author:Ron Paul