John Henry Mackay quotes

“I am an anarchist! Wherefore I will not rule and also ruled I will not be.”
-- John Henry Mackay

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“I want to make a summing up, brief and to the point, but thorough. I have never suppressed a word in my books out of regard for other people and their prejudices.”
-- John Henry Mackay

Source : John Henry Mackay (2001). “John Henry Mackay: Autobiographical Writings”, p.11, Xlibris Corporation

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“The beneficial effect of state intervention, especially in the form of legislation, is direct, immediate, and so to speak, visible, while its evil effects are gradual and indirect and lay out of sight ... Hence the majority of mankind must almost of necessity look with undue favor upon governmental intervention.”

“Many free countries have lost their liberty, and ours may lose hers; but, if she shall, be it my proudest plume, not that I was the last to desert, but that I never deserted her.”

“Now that I look back, I realize that a life predicated on being obedient is a very comfortable life indeed. Living in such a way reduces to a minimum one's own need to think.”

Source : "Why? New Eichmann Notes Try to Explain" by Roger Cohen, www.nytimes.com. August 13, 1999.

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

Source : Ammon Hennacy (2010). “The Book of Ammon”, p.34, Wipf and Stock Publishers

“The Anarchists never have claimed that liberty will bring perfection; they simply say that its results are vastly preferable to those that follow authority.”

Source : Benjamin Ricketson Tucker (1972). “Instead of a Book”

“When anarchy is declared, the first thing we do, let's kill all the anarchists.”

“I wish to say that we Anarchists have never changed our position. We are Anarchists as of old and still pursue the same ideals.”

“I am an anarchist, and according to anarchist principles nation states become obstacles to a true humanistic globalization.”

“If I was an aspirant litterateur, I was also an aspirant anarchist. I have disliked Authority always, though sometimes seduced by its resplendence.”

Source : 2003 A Writer's World: Travels1950-2000, prologue.

“The aims of anarchists and true communists are identical.”