“Anarchism is the purity of rebellion. A pig who struggles wildly and rends the air with his cries while he is held to be slaughtered, and a baby who kicks and screams when, wanting warmth and his mother's breast, he is made to wait in the cold—these are two samples of natural rebellion. Natural rebellion always inspires either deep sympathy and identification with the rebelling creature, or a stiffening of the heart and an activation of aggressive-defensive mechanisms to silence an accusing truth. This truth is that each living being is an end in itself; that nothing gives a being the right to make another a mere instrument of his purposes.”
Source: Social Anarchism (1971), p. 1
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Giovanni Baldelli 8
Anarchist theorist 1914–1986Related quotes

“if we don’t rebel, if we’re not physically in an active rebellion, then it’s spiritual death.”

Source: Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson (1990), p. 101

As quoted in "Trump says it is 'foolish' to remove Confederate symbols" https://www.ft.com/content/e7496854-82a1-11e7-a4ce-15b2513cb3ff (17 August 2017), by Neil Munshi, FT.com
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Katniss Everdeen, p. 18
The Hunger Games trilogy, Catching Fire (2009)
“The tyrant puts down his own rebellion, everywhere.”
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Vectors: Aphorisms and Ten Second Essays (2001)
"Prof. Robertson Davies: Courteous Conservative".
Conversations with Robertson Davies (1989)

“The artist is one who has an innate rebellion against schemes.”
Original: L'artista è colui che ha un'innata ribellione contro gli schemi.
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