John Henry Mackay

“My philosophy is the philosophy of the Ego. And it is the philosophy of the Ego because I am an Egoist.”

“I am an Anarchist! Wherefore I will not rule and also will not be ruled.”

“Only in freedom can man grow to his full stature.”

“The greatest of all illusions is the illusion of the State.”

“The true artist is an anarchist.”

“Anarchism is the great liberator of man from the phantoms that have held him captive.”

“Freedom, in the last analysis, is nothing else than the possibility of living as we wish to live.”

“By the State, I mean the institution of dominion, of violence and oppression.”

“The highest aim of the Anarchist is to develop his own individuality.”

“Love is free. It knows no other law.”

“The state is the organized authority of violence.”

“The free man is the man who is master of his own life.”

“Let us be Anarchists, not in word, but in deed.”

“What is Anarchism? It is the doctrine that the happiness of the individual is the object and aim of all human endeavor.”