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Top 25 Voltairine de Cleyre Quotes (2025 Update)

Voltairine de Cleyre Quote: “I die, as I have lived, a free spirit, an Anarchist, owing no allegiance to rulers, heavenly or earthly.”

1. “I die, as I have lived, a free spirit, an Anarchist, owing no allegiance to rulers, heavenly or earthly.”

— Voltairine de Cleyre

Voltairine de Cleyre Quote: “Make no laws whatever concerning speech, and speech will be free; so soon as you make a declaration on paper that speech shall be free, you will have a hundred lawyers proving that “freedom does not mean abuse, nor liberty license,” and they will define freedom out of existence.”

2. “Make no laws whatever concerning speech, and speech will be free; so soon as you make a declaration on paper that speech shall be free, you will have a hundred lawyers proving that “freedom does not mean abuse, nor liberty license,” and they will define freedom out of existence.”

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Voltairine de Cleyre Quote: “There is no peace now, and there will never be peace, so long as one rules over another.”

3. “There is no peace now, and there will never be peace, so long as one rules over another.”

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Voltairine de Cleyre Quote: “There is one common struggle against those who have appropriated the earth, the money, and the machines.”

4. “There is one common struggle against those who have appropriated the earth, the money, and the machines.”

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Voltairine de Cleyre Quote: “Anarchism, to me, means not only the denial of authority, not only a new economy, but a revision of the principles of morality. It means the development of the individual as well as the assertion of the individual. It means self-responsibility, and not leader worship.”

5. “Anarchism, to me, means not only the denial of authority, not only a new economy, but a revision of the principles of morality. It means the development of the individual as well as the assertion of the individual. It means self-responsibility, and not leader worship.”

— Voltairine de Cleyre

Voltairine de Cleyre Quote: “The paramount question of the day is not political, is not religious, but is economic. The crying-out demand of today is for a circle of principles that shall forever make it impossible for one man to control another by controlling the means of his existence.”

6. “The paramount question of the day is not political, is not religious, but is economic. The crying-out demand of today is for a circle of principles that shall forever make it impossible for one man to control another by controlling the means of his existence.”

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Voltairine de Cleyre Quote: “The question of souls is old – we demand our bodies, now. We are tired of promises, god is deaf, and his church is our worst enemy.”

7. “The question of souls is old – we demand our bodies, now. We are tired of promises, god is deaf, and his church is our worst enemy.”

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Voltairine de Cleyre Quote: “Government is as unreal, as intangible, as unapproachable as God. Try it, if you don’t believe it. Seek through the legislative halls of America and find, if you can, the Government. In the end you will be doomed to confer with the agent, as before.”

8. “Government is as unreal, as intangible, as unapproachable as God. Try it, if you don’t believe it. Seek through the legislative halls of America and find, if you can, the Government. In the end you will be doomed to confer with the agent, as before.”

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Voltairine de Cleyre Quote: “What I say is, that the real non-resistants can believe in direct action only, never in political action. For the basis of all political action is coercion; even when the State does good things, it finally rests on a club, a gun, or a prison, for its power to carry them through.”

9. “What I say is, that the real non-resistants can believe in direct action only, never in political action. For the basis of all political action is coercion; even when the State does good things, it finally rests on a club, a gun, or a prison, for its power to carry them through.”

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Voltairine de Cleyre Quote: “I never expect men to give us liberty. No, women, we are not worth it until we take it.”

10. “I never expect men to give us liberty. No, women, we are not worth it until we take it.”

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Voltairine de Cleyre Quote: “You will never get right until you start right.”

11. “You will never get right until you start right.”

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Voltairine de Cleyre Quote: “I think it can be shown that the law makes ten criminals where it restrains one.”

12. “I think it can be shown that the law makes ten criminals where it restrains one.”

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Voltairine de Cleyre Quote: “A right, in the abstract, is a fact ; it is not a thing to be given, established, or conferred; it is. Of the exercise of a right power may deprive me; of the right itself, never.”

13. “A right, in the abstract, is a fact ; it is not a thing to be given, established, or conferred; it is. Of the exercise of a right power may deprive me; of the right itself, never.”

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Voltairine de Cleyre Quote: “A man won’t steal, ordinarily, unless that which he steals is something he cannot as easily get without stealing; in liberty the cost of stealing would involve greater difficulties than producing, and consequently he would not be apt to steal.”

14. “A man won’t steal, ordinarily, unless that which he steals is something he cannot as easily get without stealing; in liberty the cost of stealing would involve greater difficulties than producing, and consequently he would not be apt to steal.”

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Voltairine de Cleyre Quote: “No one can hate petitions worse than I, and no one has less faith in them than I. But for my champion I am willing to try any means that invades no other’s right, even though I have little hope in it.”

15. “No one can hate petitions worse than I, and no one has less faith in them than I. But for my champion I am willing to try any means that invades no other’s right, even though I have little hope in it.”

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Voltairine de Cleyre Quote: “Nearly all the laws which were originally framed with the intention of benefiting the workers, have either turned into weapons in their enemies’ hands, or become dead letters, unless the workers through their organizations have directly enforced the observance. So that in the end, it is direct action that has to be relied on anyway.”

16. “Nearly all the laws which were originally framed with the intention of benefiting the workers, have either turned into weapons in their enemies’ hands, or become dead letters, unless the workers through their organizations have directly enforced the observance. So that in the end, it is direct action that has to be relied on anyway.”

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Voltairine de Cleyre Quote: “Would you be always young? Then be an Anarchist, and live with the faith of hope, though you be old.”

17. “Would you be always young? Then be an Anarchist, and live with the faith of hope, though you be old.”

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Voltairine de Cleyre Quote: “As to the American tradition of non-meddling, Anarchism asks that it be carried down to the individual himself.”

18. “As to the American tradition of non-meddling, Anarchism asks that it be carried down to the individual himself.”

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Voltairine de Cleyre Quote: “No matter: Man always hopes; Life always hopes. When a definite object cannot be outlined, the indomitable spirit of hope still impels the living mass to move toward something – something that shall somehow be better. What.”

19. “No matter: Man always hopes; Life always hopes. When a definite object cannot be outlined, the indomitable spirit of hope still impels the living mass to move toward something – something that shall somehow be better. What.”

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Voltairine de Cleyre Quote: “A standing army is a standing menace to liberty.”

20. “A standing army is a standing menace to liberty.”

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Voltairine de Cleyre Quote: “Each choose that method which expresses your selfhood best, and condemn no other man because he expresses his Self otherwise.”

21. “Each choose that method which expresses your selfhood best, and condemn no other man because he expresses his Self otherwise.”

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Voltairine de Cleyre Quote: “Private enterprise manages better all that to which it is equal. Anarchism declares that private enterprise, whether individual or cooperative, is equal to all the undertakings of society.”

22. “Private enterprise manages better all that to which it is equal. Anarchism declares that private enterprise, whether individual or cooperative, is equal to all the undertakings of society.”

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Voltairine de Cleyre Quote: “As long as the working-people fold hands and pray the gods in Washington to give them work, so long they will not get it.”

23. “As long as the working-people fold hands and pray the gods in Washington to give them work, so long they will not get it.”

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Voltairine de Cleyre Quote: “There is no society for the prevention of cruelty to women.”

24. “There is no society for the prevention of cruelty to women.”

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Voltairine de Cleyre Quote: “We in America never knew the village commune. White Civilization struck our shores in a broad tide-sheet and swept over the country inclusively; among us was never seen the little commune growing up from a state of barbarism independently, out of primary industries, and maintaining itself within itself. There was no gradual change from the mode of life of the native people to our own; there was a wiping out and a complete transplantation of the latest form of European civilization.”

25. “We in America never knew the village commune. White Civilization struck our shores in a broad tide-sheet and swept over the country inclusively; among us was never seen the little commune growing up from a state of barbarism independently, out of primary industries, and maintaining itself within itself. There was no gradual change from the mode of life of the native people to our own; there was a wiping out and a complete transplantation of the latest form of European civilization.”

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Voltairine de Cleyre Quote: “The idea of the little commune, therefore, comes instinctively to the Anarchists of Europe, – particularly the continental ones; with them it is merely the conscious development of a submerged instinct. With Americans it is an importation. I.”

26. “The idea of the little commune, therefore, comes instinctively to the Anarchists of Europe, – particularly the continental ones; with them it is merely the conscious development of a submerged instinct. With Americans it is an importation. I.”

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Voltairine de Cleyre Quote: “Good-natured satirists often remark that “the best way to cure an Anarchist is to give him a fortune.” Substituting “corrupt” for “cure,” I would subscribe to this;.”

27. “Good-natured satirists often remark that “the best way to cure an Anarchist is to give him a fortune.” Substituting “corrupt” for “cure,” I would subscribe to this;.”

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