French anarchist (1813-1869)
There always appears, on the ruins of tyranny, a man taller than the others, a man that everyone sees, that everyone listens to and this one is the master of rubble.
ANSELME BELLEGARRIGUE
Au fait! Au fait! Interprétation de l'idée démocratique
I am told that it is for my good that I am governed; however, as I give my money to be governed, it follows that it is for my good that I give my money, which is possible; but which nevertheless deserves to be checked.
ANSELME BELLEGARRIGUE
Au fait! Au fait! Interprétation de l'idée démocratique
The organization of society is the slavery of individuals, and its disorganization brings freedom.
ANSELME BELLEGARRIGUE
Au fait! Au fait! Interprétation de l'idée démocratique
All these men who say that the people must govern themselves, really govern the people.
ANSELME BELLEGARRIGUE
Au fait! Au fait! Interprétation de l'idée démocratique
I deny everything and affirm naught but myself: because the sole truth of which I have material and moral proof and tangible, comprehensible and intelligible evidence, the only real, startling, non-arbitrary truth not susceptible to interpretation, is myself. I am. There I have a positive fact. Everything else is abstraction and, in mathematics, would be designated as "x", and unknown quantity; and I need not trouble myself with it.
ANSELME BELLEGARRIGUE
Anarchist Manifesto
I still find it strange, incomprehensible, unnatural, inhuman, to devote oneself to the happiness of people whom one does not do not know; and I declare that I do not have the honor of being known to the men who govern me.
ANSELME BELLEGARRIGUE
Au fait! Au fait! Interprétation de l'idée démocratique
Yes, anarchy is order, government is civil war.
ANSELME BELLEGARRIGUE
Anarchist Manifesto
The Republic is to parties what the tree is to parasites; the parties are the vermin of the nations, and it is important not to forget that it is with the various pretensions of these political religionaires that we must march by jerks of revolutions in insurrections, and insurrections in state of siege, to lead periodically to the burial of the dead, and to the payment of revolutionary bills which are the bonuses granted by the imbecility of all to the audacity of a few.
ANSELME BELLEGARRIGUE
Au fait! Au fait! Interprétation de l'idée démocratique
It is necessary, either that the government devours the country, or that the country absorbs the government.
ANSELME BELLEGARRIGUE
Au fait! Au fait! Interprétation de l'idée démocratique
When you ask the government for freedom, the stupidity of your petition is instant proof to the latter that you have no grasp of your rights.
ANSELME BELLEGARRIGUE
Anarchist Manifesto
So, like today, the government machine kept, as it does, the same cogs, and I can only change the hand that turns the crank.
ANSELME BELLEGARRIGUE
Au fait! Au fait! Interprétation de l'idée démocratique
Who says anarchy, says negation of government;
Who says negation of government, says affirmation of the people;
Who says affirmation of the people, says individual liberty;
Who says individual liberty, says sovereignty of each;
Who says sovereignty of each, says equality;
Who says equality, says solidarity or fraternity;
Who says fraternity, says social order.
ANSELME BELLEGARRIGUE
Anarchist Manifesto
This is revolution. This is the calm, wise, rational transformation of the traditional principle! Here we have the democratic supremacy of individual over State, of interest over idea. No upset, no commotion can occur in this majestic clearing of history's cloud cover; the sun of liberty shines, with no storms in sight and, enjoying his share of the generous rays, everyone operates in the clear light of day and busies himself in discovering the place in society for which his aptitudes or intelligence equip him.
ANSELME BELLEGARRIGUE
Anarchist Manifesto
I recognize that at the same time that I am a victim, I am also a fool. But my stupidity is due to my isolation, and that's why I say to my fellow citizens: Let's raise our heads; we only trust ourselves; let us say: let there be freedom, and freedom will be!
ANSELME BELLEGARRIGUE
Au fait! Au fait! Interprétation de l'idée démocratique
There is only one republic to which I belong, of which we are citizens, we, honest people, who do not aspire, but who pay for the irreverent national domesticity. The Republic is us, it is the real France, the exploitable and exploited material; the priest of all these frenzied republics, of all those parties that have the property of others for dreams and laziness for idols.
ANSELME BELLEGARRIGUE
Au fait! Au fait! Interprétation de l'idée démocratique
Up to now you have believed in the existence of tyrants. Well, you were mistaken. There are only slaves. Where none obeys, none commands.
ANSELME BELLEGARRIGUE
Anarchist Manifesto
Let me govern myself, and I cannot fail in my instinct which is to seek my good.
ANSELME BELLEGARRIGUE
Au fait! Au fait! Interprétation de l'idée démocratique
Suppose that half of the registered electorate abstains. Things take a serious turn for the voters and for the government established by them. Without question, the political skepticism of fully one half of the body of society will cause a crisis in the unchallenged convictions of the other half. And if we consider that such skepticism will be the product of a calculated, well-founded, considered indifference, and that it will be the fruit of intellect or liberty ... you can readily appreciate the defeat that such a state of affairs will inflict upon governmentalism.
ANSELME BELLEGARRIGUE
Anarchist Manifesto