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Johann Joseph "Hans" Most (February 5, 1846 in Augsburg, Bavaria – March 17, 1906 in Cincinnati, Ohio) was a German-American anarchist politician, newspaper editor, and orator. He is credited with popularizing the concept of "Propaganda of the deed". His grandson was Boston Celtics radio play-by-play man Johnny Most.

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If we hope and even assume that the social question will be answered through communism, and not in this or that country but in the world, any thought of centralization must be a monstrosity.

Answered, Assuming, Country, Question, World

We need do no more than repeat: only under communism does the individual become himself and lead his own life.

Communism, Doe, Individual, Needs, Repeat, Under

Our principle is: to prevent all command over man by his fellowmen, to, make state, government, laws, or whatsoever form of compulsion existing, a thing of the past, to establish full freedom for all. Anarchism means first and foremost freedom from all government.

Anarchism, Foremost, Full, Mean, Men, Past

He who negates present society, and seeks social conditions based on the sharing of property, is a revolutionary whether he calls himself an anarchist or a communist.

Anarchist, Communist, Negates, Revolutionary

Above all, what socialist, without flushing with shame, maintains he is not a revolutionary? We say: none!.

Flushing, Maintains, Revolutionary, Shame

Fortunately, no country was ever more suited for anarchist agitation than present-day America.

Agitation, America, Anarchist, Country, Fortunately

As set forth by theologians, the idea of 'God' is an argument that assumes its own conclusions, and proves nothing.

Agnostic, Assumes, Assuming, God, Ideas, Set

Among all mental diseases that have been systematically inoculated into the human cranium, the religious pest is the most abominable.

Disease, Human, Pest, Pests, Religious

Is anarchism desirable? Well, who does not seek freedom? What man, unless willing to declare himself in bondage, would care to call any control agreeable? Think about it!

Anarchism, Bondage, Doe, Man, Men, Thinking

'God' - as revealed in his book of edicts and narratives is practically an idiot. He has nothing to say that any sensible person should want to listen to.

Book, Edicts, Narrative, Person, Sensible, Want

Is anarchism possible? The failure of attempts to attain freedom does not mean the cause is lost.

Causes, Doe, Failure, Lost, Mean

The existing system will be quickest and most radically overthrown by the annihilation of its exponents. Therefore, massacres of the enemies of the people must be set in motion.

Enemy, Existing, Genocide, Motion, People, Radically

It is the lash of hunger which compels the poor man to submit. In order to live he must sell - 'voluntarily' sell - himself every day and hour to the 'beast of property. '

Hour, Hunger, Men, Order, Property

Anarchists are socialists because they want the improvement of society, and they are communists because they are convinced that such a transformation of society can only result from the establishment of a commonwealth of property.

Anarchists, Improvement, Result, Transformation, Want

The aims of anarchists and true communists are identical.

Aim, Aims, Anarchist, Anarchists, Communist, True

Anarchists prepare for social revolution and use every means - speech, writing, or deed, whichever is more to the point; to accelerate revolutionary development.

Mean, Point, Social, Use, Writing

Whoever looks at America will see: the ship is powered by stupidity, corruption, or prejudice.

America, Powered, Prejudice, See, Stupid, Stupidity

If on the one side we do not harbor the illusion that the entire proletariat must be enlightened before it can be called into battle, so on the other we do not doubt that as much enlightenment as possible must be produced with oral and printed agitation.

Battle, Doubt, Enlightenment, Harbor, Produced, Side

The god of the Christians, as we have seen, is the god who makes promises only to break them; who sends them pestilence and disease in order to heal them; a god who demoralizes mankind in order to improve it. A god who created man after his own image, and still the origin of evil in man is not accredited to him.

Christian, Image, Men, Order, Pestilence