“When representatives of these governments assemble under the false presumption of alleviating conditions which they themselves created through their laws, we can say that this is the peak of brazen and heartless boldness.”
Category: Marie Louise Berneri
“But nowadays human suffering does not count unless it is related in secret documents.”
“Have those who now extol Chiang Kai-Shek as a great democrat looked at his record? Have they forgotten that his merciless slaughter of the revolutionary Chinese workers had earned for him the title of ‘Butcher of the Chinese Revolution’?”
“Both the means of production and consumption goods must be expropriated and put at the disposal of the whole community.”
“The very fact of fighting an election is on the contrary a counter-revolutionary activity.”
“The masses don’t want crumbs from the loaded tables of the rich, but what is their natural right. They should take it whenever they have an opportunity.”
“She died as she lived, an honest, upright woman, worthy of the highest and finest traditions of Anarchism.”
“America will have to eliminate its competitors and that is a job the boys will be sure to get. That of conquering new markets for American capitalists, of preserving the American empire with a strong army and navy.”
“But when a country arms itself to the teeth, conscripts its men, organises its production according to war needs. it is folly to hope that war will not follow.”
