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Top 15 Alexander Berkman Quotes (2025 Update)

Alexander Berkman Quote: “Man’s inhumanity to man is not the last word. The truth lies deeper. It is economic slavery, the savage struggle for a crumb, that has converted mankind into wolves and sheep.”

1. “Man’s inhumanity to man is not the last word. The truth lies deeper. It is economic slavery, the savage struggle for a crumb, that has converted mankind into wolves and sheep.”

— Alexander Berkman

Alexander Berkman Quote: “The cure for evil and disorder is more liberty, not suppression.”

2. “The cure for evil and disorder is more liberty, not suppression.”

— Alexander Berkman

Alexander Berkman Quote: “Anarchism means voluntary co-operation instead of forced participation. It means harmony and order in place of interference and disorder.”

3. “Anarchism means voluntary co-operation instead of forced participation. It means harmony and order in place of interference and disorder.”

— Alexander Berkman

Alexander Berkman Quote: “Inhumanity is the keynote of stupidity in power.”

4. “Inhumanity is the keynote of stupidity in power.”

— Alexander Berkman

Alexander Berkman Quote: “When the highwayman holds his gun to your head, you turn your valuables over to him. You ‘consent’ alright, but you do so because you cannot help yourself, because you are compelled by his gun. Are you not compelled to work for an employer? Your need compels you, just as the highwayman’s gun.”

5. “When the highwayman holds his gun to your head, you turn your valuables over to him. You ‘consent’ alright, but you do so because you cannot help yourself, because you are compelled by his gun. Are you not compelled to work for an employer? Your need compels you, just as the highwayman’s gun.”

— Alexander Berkman

Alexander Berkman Quote: “In short, Anarchism means a condition or society where all men and women are free, and where all enjoy equally the benefits of an ordered and sensible life.”

6. “In short, Anarchism means a condition or society where all men and women are free, and where all enjoy equally the benefits of an ordered and sensible life.”

— Alexander Berkman

7. “You don’t question the right of the government to kill, to confiscate and imprison. If a private person should be guilty of the things the government is doing all the time, you’d brand him a murderer, thief and scoundrel. But as long as the violence committed is “lawful,” you approve of it and submit to it. So it is not really violence that you object to, but to people using violence “unlawfully.”

— Alexander Berkman

Alexander Berkman Quote: “What is this thing we call government? Is it anything but organized violence? The law orders you to obey, and if you don’t obey, it will compel you by force – all governments, all law and authority finally rest on force and violence, on punishment or fear of punishment.”

8. “What is this thing we call government? Is it anything but organized violence? The law orders you to obey, and if you don’t obey, it will compel you by force – all governments, all law and authority finally rest on force and violence, on punishment or fear of punishment.”

— Alexander Berkman

Alexander Berkman Quote: “It is the system, rather than individuals, that is the source of pollution and degradation. My prison-house environment is but another manifestation of the Midas-hand, whose cursed touch turns everything to the brutal service of Mammon.”

9. “It is the system, rather than individuals, that is the source of pollution and degradation. My prison-house environment is but another manifestation of the Midas-hand, whose cursed touch turns everything to the brutal service of Mammon.”

— Alexander Berkman

Alexander Berkman Quote: “Socialism, like Christianity destroyed itself to gain power.”

10. “Socialism, like Christianity destroyed itself to gain power.”

— Alexander Berkman

Alexander Berkman Quote: “War means blind obedience, unthinking stupidity, brutish callousness, wanton destruction, and irresponsible murder.”

11. “War means blind obedience, unthinking stupidity, brutish callousness, wanton destruction, and irresponsible murder.”

— Alexander Berkman

Alexander Berkman Quote: “Certainly the worker has nothing to lose by a change from government and capitalism to a condition of no government, of anarchy.”

12. “Certainly the worker has nothing to lose by a change from government and capitalism to a condition of no government, of anarchy.”

— Alexander Berkman

Alexander Berkman Quote: “Any one who tells you that Anarchists don’t believe in organization is talking nonsense. Organization is everything, and everything is organization.”

13. “Any one who tells you that Anarchists don’t believe in organization is talking nonsense. Organization is everything, and everything is organization.”

— Alexander Berkman

Alexander Berkman Quote: “Think it over and see if it is not the law itself, the government which really creates crime by compelling people to live in conditions that make them bad. See how law and government uphold and protect the biggest crime of all, the mother of all crimes, the capitalistic wage system, and then proceeds to punish the poor criminal.”

14. “Think it over and see if it is not the law itself, the government which really creates crime by compelling people to live in conditions that make them bad. See how law and government uphold and protect the biggest crime of all, the mother of all crimes, the capitalistic wage system, and then proceeds to punish the poor criminal.”

— Alexander Berkman

Alexander Berkman Quote: “War paralyzes your courage and deadens the spirit of true manhood.”

15. “War paralyzes your courage and deadens the spirit of true manhood.”

— Alexander Berkman

Alexander Berkman Quote: “What is a fanatic but a man whose faith is impregnable to doubt? It is the faith that moves mountains, the faith that accomplishes. Revolutions are not made by Hamlets. The traditional “great” man, the “big personality” of current conception, may give to the world new thoughts, noble vision, inspiration. But the man that “sees every side” cannot lead, cannot control. He is too conscious of the fallibility of all theories, even of thought itself, to be a fighter in any cause.”

16. “What is a fanatic but a man whose faith is impregnable to doubt? It is the faith that moves mountains, the faith that accomplishes. Revolutions are not made by Hamlets. The traditional “great” man, the “big personality” of current conception, may give to the world new thoughts, noble vision, inspiration. But the man that “sees every side” cannot lead, cannot control. He is too conscious of the fallibility of all theories, even of thought itself, to be a fighter in any cause.”

— Alexander Berkman

Alexander Berkman Quote: “In an absolutism, the autocrat is visible and tangible. The real despotism of republican institutions is far deeper, more insidious, because it rests on the popular delusion of self-government and independence. That is the subtle source of democratic tyranny, and, as such, it cannot be reached with a bullet.”

17. “In an absolutism, the autocrat is visible and tangible. The real despotism of republican institutions is far deeper, more insidious, because it rests on the popular delusion of self-government and independence. That is the subtle source of democratic tyranny, and, as such, it cannot be reached with a bullet.”

— Alexander Berkman

Alexander Berkman Quote: “These days even mere attempts to improve capitalism are often called ‘Socialism,’ while in reality they are only reforms.”

18. “These days even mere attempts to improve capitalism are often called ‘Socialism,’ while in reality they are only reforms.”

— Alexander Berkman

Alexander Berkman Quote: “In the name of patriotism you are ordered to stop being decent and honest, to cease being yourself, to suspend your own judgment, and give up your life; to become a will-less cog in a murderous machine, blindly obeying the order to kill, pillage, and destroy; to give up your father and mother, wife and child, and all that you love, and proceed to slaughter your fellow-men who never did you any harm – who are just as unfortunate and deluded victims of their masters as you are of yours.”

19. “In the name of patriotism you are ordered to stop being decent and honest, to cease being yourself, to suspend your own judgment, and give up your life; to become a will-less cog in a murderous machine, blindly obeying the order to kill, pillage, and destroy; to give up your father and mother, wife and child, and all that you love, and proceed to slaughter your fellow-men who never did you any harm – who are just as unfortunate and deluded victims of their masters as you are of yours.”

— Alexander Berkman

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