“The duty of the individual is to accept no rule, to be the initiator of his own acts, to be responsible. Only… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
Transcendentalism is, we might say, an early form of anarchism. The Transcendentalists also did not call themselves anarchists, but there are anarchist… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
Intolerance of oppression, the desire to be free and develop one personality to its full limits, is not enough to make one… — Errico Malatesta Copy Share Image
I say: liberate yourself as far as you can, and you have done your part; for it is not given to every… — Max Stirner Copy Share Image
“Anarchism, more than any other social theory, values human life above things. All Anarchists agree with Tolstoy in this fundamental truth: if… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
“For over a century and a half, anarchists have been arguing that coercive, hierarchical organization (as embodied in government and corporations) is… — Chaz Bufe Copy Share Image
“With their concern for personal autonomy and individual freedom, anarchists more than any other socialists are aware of the inhumanity of both… — Peter Marshall Copy Share Image
Whatever its future success as a historical movement, anarchism will remain a fundamental part of human experience, for the drive for freedom… — Peter Marshall Copy Share Image
Impotence therefore faces both those who believe in what amounts to a pure, stateless, market capitalism, a sort of international bourgeois anarchism,… — Eric Hobsbawm Copy Share Image
The three most ancient opinions concerning God are Anarchia, Polyarchia, and Monarchia. The first two are the sport of the children of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“To be an anarchist is to leave the beaten paths on which for hundreds of years generations of sheep have walked without… — John Merriman Copy Share Image
“The state is the guarantor, but not the creator, of social relationships. It represents and unifies capital, it is neither capital’s motor… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“But the question is, historically, part of the group that you're a part of - whether it's racial, gender, religious, whatever -… — Jacob Applebaum Copy Share Image
Let those men who still have these misguided ideas, let those men who still have these hallucinations, realize that by anarchism, by… — Muhammad Ali Jinnah Copy Share Image
Anarchism is opposed to states, armies, slavery, the wages system, the landlord system, prisons, monopoly capitalism, oligopoly capitalism, state capitalism, bureaucracy, meritocracy,… — Donald Rooum Copy Share Image
As soon as one identifies, challenges and overcomes illegitimate power, he or she is an anarchist. Most people are anarchists. What they… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
“The biggest crime in the human history is the formulation of wicked states, which has been rooted to such an extent that… — Anup Joshi Copy Share Image
“Think of the power we could have if all the energy and effort in the world – or maybe even just your… — Crimethinc Copy Share Image
The emotions of the ignorant man are continuously kept at a pitch by the most blood-curdling stories about Anarchism. Not a thing… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
“Initially I had been attracted to punk and anarchism because I saw them as a means to make a positive change, where… — Laura Jane Grace Copy Share Image
I define anarchist society as one where there is no legal possibility for coercive aggression against the person or property of any… — Murray Rothbard Copy Share Image
“This broad tendency in human development seeks to identify structures of hierarchy, authority and domination that constrain human development, and then subject… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
“This combination of parody and seriousness reflects the contradictions of an era in which we find ourselves confronted with both the urgent… — Situationist International (English Section Copy Share Image
In the early period of Left struggles, in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century, there were many different trajectories for the… — Vijay Prashad Copy Share Image
If I rule out violent anarchism, there remains pacifist, anti-nationalist, anti-capitalist, moral, and anti-democratic anarchism (i.e., that which is hostile to the… — Jacques Ellul Copy Share Image
Despite the popular idea of anarchists as violent men, Anarchism is the one non-violent social philosophy.… The function of the Anarchist is… — Ammon Hennacy Copy Share Image
The education we all receive from the State, at school and after, has so warped our minds that the very notion of… — Peter Kropotkin Copy Share Image
The idea of direct action against the evil that you want to overcome is a kind of common denominator for anarchist ideas… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image