I'm not an anarchist any longer, because I've concluded that anarchism is an impractical ideal. — Robert Anton Wilson Copy Share Image
Whenever freedom is made into the absolute, the result is not freedom but anarchism. Freedom must be under law, or it is… — R.J. Rushdoony Copy Share Image
It's an old anarchist dream that people can take care of their own lives. — Todd Gitlin Copy Share Image
“Anarchism is necessarily anti-capitalist in that it “opposes the exploitation of man by man.” — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Anarchism misunderstands the real nature of man. It would be practicable only in a world of angels and saints — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
I wish to say that we Anarchists have never changed our position. We are Anarchists as of old and still pursue the… — Federica Montseny Copy Share Image
Poor human nature, what horrible crimes have been committed in thy name! — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
Anarchism, then, really stands for the liberation of the human mind from the dominion of religion. — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
Anarchists try to identify power structures. They urge those exercising power to justify themselves. This justification does not succeed most of the… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
“Anarchists have a 'bad name' in the media, not because they can point to one indiscriminate massacre by anarchists--there have been none--but… — Stuart Christie Copy Share Image
The anarchists are not promising anything to anyone. The anarchists only want people to be conscious of their own situation and seize… — Maria Nikiforova Copy Share Image
I've developed my anarchism, my critique of Marxism, which has been the most advanced bourgeois ideology I know of, into a community… — Murray Bookchin Copy Share Image
“Common to all Anarchists is the desire to free society of all political and social coercive institutions which stand in the way… — Rudolf Rocker Copy Share Image
If you look at a lot of traditional societies, they're all organized along what we might call anarchist guidelines, but it's not… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
That government is best which governs not at all; and when men are prepared for it, that will be the kind of… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The anarchic is the true divine state of man in the end as in the beginning; but in between it would lead… — Sri Aurobindo Copy Share Image
We must therefore turn to history for enlightenment; here we find that none of the proclaimed anarchist groups correspond to the libertarian… — Murray Rothbard Copy Share Image
We have been civilized for a thousand millennia. We have histories of hundreds of those millennia. We have tried everything. Anarchism, in… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
In the anarchist milieu, communism, individualism, collectivism, mutualism and all the intermediate and eclectic programmes are simply the ways considered best for… — Errico Malatesta Copy Share Image
“At all events, in a society, all of whose members are free, and equal in the true sense of the words, there… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
My feeling is that anarchists have to think in terms of a specific. I think the dispersal of anarchists all over the… — Murray Bookchin Copy Share Image
The nearer we come to the full military suppression of the bourgeoisie, the more dangerous becomes to us the high flood of… — Vladimir Lenin Copy Share Image
“Destruction and violence! How is the ordinary man to know that the most violent element in society is ignorance; that its power… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
“We have killed “duty” so that our ardent desire for free brotherhood acquires heroic valor in life. We have killed “pity” because… — Renzo Novatore Copy Share Image
“Derived from the Greek word anarchos , "without authority," anarchism denies law and considers property to be tyranny. Anarchists believe that human… — Siva Vaidhyanathan Copy Share Image
“Having been brought up in a serf-owner's family, I entered active life, like all young men of my time, with a great… — Pyotr Kropotkin Copy Share Image
“Does it follow that I reject all authority? Perish the thought. In the matter of boots, I defer to the authority of… — Mikhail Bakunin Copy Share Image
“Do not all theists insist that there can be no morality, no justice, honesty or fidelity without the belief in a Divine… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
“To be GOVERNED is to be watched, inspected, spied upon, directed, law-driven, numbered, regulated, enrolled, indoctrinated, preached at, controlled, checked, estimated, valued,… — Pierre-Joseph Proudhon Copy Share Image
“To call the population of strangers in the midst of which we live "society" is such a usurpation that even the sociologists… — The Invisible Committee Copy Share Image
“The principles of liberalism can have a real existence only in conjunction with a police system. Anarchism is an attempt to cleanse… — Leon Trotsky Copy Share Image
“Anarchism recognizes only the relative significance of ideas, institutions, and social forms. It is, therefore, not a fixed, self-enclosed social system, but… — Rudolf Rocker Copy Share Image
“Conspiracy theories tend to depend on conspirators who are unduly evil with genocide or world domination as a motive,” — Oscar Auliq-Ice Copy Share Image
“If your political theory requires humanity to "evolve", then you do not have a theory… you have a dream.” — A.E. Samaan Copy Share Image
“We have conquered everything, and everything has slipped out of our grasp.” — Victor Serge Copy Share Image
In the sense that anarchy equals freedom, yes. Anarchy means freedom, but it also means chaos. — Rei Kawakubo Copy Share Image
“All the propagandist like FIFA, ICC, Olympics are hypnotizing you to be radical patriotic in the name of sports.” — Anup Joshi Copy Share Image
“With subjectivism in philosophy, anarchism in politics goes hand in hand. http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Bertrand... ” — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Anarchism and anthropology go well together because anthropologists know that a society without a state is possible because so many exist. — David Graeber Copy Share Image
I believe that there has to be an ideal and I favour an ethical anarchism which can be cohered into an ideal. — Murray Bookchin Copy Share Image
