We must shed the old stereotype of anarchists as bearded bomb throwers furtively stalking about city streets at night. — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
Anarchism...stands for direct action, the open defiance of, and resistance to, all laws and restrictions, economic, social, and moral. — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
An anarchist society, far from being a remote ideal, has become a precondition for the practice of ecological principles. — Murray Bookchin Copy Share Image
I think it's terribly important that networks of anarchists establish themselves with a view toward educating people. — Murray Bookchin Copy Share Image
Q: What's an anarchist? A: Someone who was kicked out of the communist party. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“If your political theory requires humanity to "evolve", then you do not have a theory.” — A.E. Samaan Copy Share Image
ANARCHY, or the government of each man by himself or as the English say, self -government. — Pierre-Joseph Proudhon Copy Share Image
An anarchist does not want to rule others and does not want others to rule him. Nothing is so despicable as half-an-anarchist. — Frank Van Dun Copy Share Image
Peter Kropotkin was surely on the left. He was one of the founders of what is now called 'sociobiology' or 'evolutionary psychology'… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
“Believing in a conspiracy theory is one strategy people use to regain a sense of control, even if the conspiracy theory is… — Oscar Auliq-Ice Junior Copy Share Image
I am not going to claim that modern anarchism has any direct relation to Roman jurisprudence; but I do claim that it… — Herbert Read Copy Share Image
“Anarchism has in common with Liberalism the idea that the happiness and prosperity of the individual must be the standard of all… — Rudolf Rocker Copy Share Image
All anarchists believe in worker's control, in the sense of individuals deciding what work they do, how they work, and who they… — Donald Rooum Copy Share Image
Science is essentially an anarchic enterprise: theoretical anarchism is more humanitarian and more likely to encourage progress than its law-and-order alternatives. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Anarchism rouses man to rebellion against this black monster. Break your mental fetters, says Anarchism to man, for not until you think… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
“The truth, indeed, is out—but the ears to hear it and the minds to learn from it seem to have been atrophied… — Murray Bookchin Copy Share Image
Socialism and Communism both demand a degree of joint effort and administration which would beget more regulation than is wholly consistent with… — Voltairine de Cleyre Copy Share Image
You see, one strand...of anarchism believed that you needed to use essentially homeopathic doses of terror by assassinating people, et cetera, the… — Vijay Prashad Copy Share Image
The realizations of anarchist ideas and practices are like sociopolitical ecosystems. Local versions resemble each other, but they are endlessly adaptive and… — Scott Crow Copy Share Image
“Anarchism, then, really stands for the liberation of the human mind from the dominion of religion; the liberation of the human body… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
Anarchism means all sort of things to different people but the traditional anarchists' movements assumed that there'd be a highly organized society,… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
“THE WORLD IS APPROACHING TOWARDS ANARCHY" : The second law of thermodynamics concludes that the entropy of universe is increasing with time… — Anup Joshi Copy Share Image
The term anarchism has become associated with two phenomena with which real anarchist don't want to associate themselves with. One is violence,… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
I want freedom, the right to self-expression, everybody's right to beautiful, radiant things.' Anarchism meant that to me, and I would live… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
“As I explain in 'What It Means to be an Anarcho-Capitalist', to be an anarchist simply means you oppose aggression, and you… — N. Stephan Kinsella Copy Share Image
“The anarch differs from the anarchist in that he has a very pronounced sense of the rules. Insofar as and to the… — Ernst Jünger Copy Share Image
“An anarchist society is by definition a Free Society, but a Free Society is not necessarily Anarchist. It might fall short in… — Albert Meltzer Copy Share Image
“As one of the leading French anarchist thinkers and friend of Bakunin, Élisée Reclus, put it: “The external form of society must… — Bernard Schweizer Copy Share Image
“A revolution on a world scale will take a very long time. But it is also possible to recognize that it is… — David Graeber Copy Share Image
“For the anarch, little has changed; flags have meaning for him, but not sense. I have seen them in the air and… — Ernst Jünger Copy Share Image
“Meanwhile, two other great currents in political thought, had a decisive significance on the development of socialist ideas: Liberalism, which had powerfully… — Rudolf Rocker Copy Share Image
“Well, you have said that you were quite certain I was not a serious anarchist. Does this place strike you as being… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
