In short, Anarchism means a condition or society where all men and women are free, and where all enjoy equally the benefits… — Alexander Berkman Copy Share Image
Anarchism is the only philosophy which brings to man the consciousness of himself; which maintains that God, the State, and society are… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
We don't live in a capitalist totality. Capitalism couldn't survive as a totality anyway. We live in this complex system and we… — David Graeber Copy Share Image
An anarchist is like an undercover agent who plays the game of Reason in order to undercut the authority of Reason (Truth,… — Paul Feyerabend Copy Share Image
Anarchy is... a form of government or constitution in which public and private consciousness, formed through the development of science and law,… — Pierre-Joseph Proudhon Copy Share Image
By no means. I have just given you my serious and well-considered profession of faith. Although a firm friend of order, I… — Pierre-Joseph Proudhon Copy Share Image
Anarchism stands for the liberation of the human mind from the dominion of religion and liberation of the human body from the… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
Modern Anarcho-Syndicalism is a direct continuation of those social aspirations which took shape in the bosom of the First International and which… — Rudolf Rocker Copy Share Image
The boycott of parliamentary institutions on the part of anarchists and semianarchists is dictated by a desire not to submit their weakness… — Leon Trotsky Copy Share Image
Anarchism is for liberty, and neither for nor against anything else. Anarchy is the mother of co-operation, yes, just as liberty is… — Benjamin Tucker Copy Share Image
I learned that [Trotskyism] were no different from the Stalinists, and they expelled me, which is the typical Marxist-Leninist way of dealing… — Murray Bookchin Copy Share Image
Anarchism asserts the possibility of an organization without discipline, fear, or punishment, and without the pressure of poverty: a new social organism… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
Socialism is the preparation for that higher Anarchism; painfully, laboriously we mean to destroy false ideas of property and self, eliminate unjust… — H. G. Wells Copy Share Image
No doubt that anarchist ideas are frightening to those in power. People in power can tolerate liberal ideas. They can tolerate ideas… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
We should try to become better people, ethically speaking, reflect upon ourselves and our very limited existences and develop a sense of… — Murray Bookchin Copy Share Image
Anarchists know that a long period of education must precede any great fundamental change in society, hence they do not believe in… — Lucy Parsons Copy Share Image
“Freedom, or individual liberty, was a basic premise of the Spanish anarchist tradition. "Individual sovereignty" is a prime tenet of most anarchist… — Martha Ackelsberg Copy Share Image
“Regarding the need to pray, the anarch is again no different from anyone else. But he does not like to attach himself.… — Ernst Jünger Copy Share Image
“We must realistically accept that revolution is a social war, not because we like war, but because we recognize that the status… — Peter Gelderloos Copy Share Image
“One of the problems with all of this is that not all narratives are equal. Imagine, to take a silly example, that… — Derrick Jensen Copy Share Image
I believe that the biblical teaching is clear. It always contests political power. It incites to "counterpower," to "positive" criticism, to an… — Jacques Ellul Copy Share Image
“Now you who so fear the word an-arche, remember! the whole combat of the seventeenth century, of which you are justly proud,… — Emma Goldwater Copy Share Image
“A rejection of the prevailing state of affairs accounts, I think, for the explosive growth of intuitive anarchism among young people today.… — Murray Bookchin Copy Share Image
“Anarcho-syndicalists, also known as “anarchists” or “libertarian syndicalists”, believe that power corrupts and that economic, social and political privilege flows from the… — Nicholas Whitlam Copy Share Image
That's what I'm trying to get over: the idea that anarchism offers a description of equitable relations that go way back rather… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
“The situation is like this: they hired our parents to destroy this world, and now they'd like to put us to work… — The Invisible Committee Copy Share Image
Anarchists know that a long period of education must precede any great fundamental change in society, hence they do not believe in… — Lucy Parsons Copy Share Image
Jesus , in some respects, was an anarchist, for he had no idea of civil government . That government seems to him… — Ernest Renan Copy Share Image
“There is a saying, if any stranger enquire of the first met of Maan, were it even a child, “Who is here… — Charles Montagu Doughty Copy Share Image
“Anarchism does not demand the changing of the labels on the layers, it doesn't want different people on top, it wants us… — Colin Ward Copy Share Image
There is one central characteristic of anarchism on the matter of means, and that central principle is a principle of direct action… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
Market Anarchism is the doctrine that the legislative, adjudicative, and protective functions unjustly and inefficiently monopolised by the coercive State should be… — Roderick T. Long Copy Share Image
“Anarchism has but one infallible, unchangeable motto, "Freedom." Freedom to discover any truth, freedom to develop, to live naturally and fully." —… — Lucy Parsons Copy Share Image
The notion of anarchy ...means that once industrial functions have taken over from political functions, then business transactions and exchange alone produce… — Pierre-Joseph Proudhon Copy Share Image
“It should be added that, in general, it is the character of every metaphysical and theological argument to seek to explain one… — Michael Bakunin Copy Share Image
I don't think anarchism consists of sitting down and saying let's form a collective. I don't think it consists of saying we're… — Murray Bookchin Copy Share Image
“People will think you brilliant only if you tell them what they know. To avoid being thought brilliant, avoid knowing what they… — Laura Riding Copy Share Image
“In my opinion the immediate goal of even committed anarchists should be to defend some state institutions, while helping to pry them… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Let us designate anarchism1 anarchism as you define it. Let us desiginate anarchism2 anarchism as I and the American Heritage College Dictionary… — Bryan Caplan Copy Share Image
I heartily accept the motto, "That government is best which governs least"; and I should like to see it acted up to… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
![“I learned that [Trotskyism] were no different from the Stalinists, and they expelled me, which is the typical Marxist-Leninist way of dealing with dissenters. From that point on, I migrated by the 1950s into anarchism, increasingly emphasizing decentralization. Also, I made the all-important step…” quote by Murray Bookchin](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/60b/murray-bookchin-2587_anarchism_i-learned-that-trotskyism-were-no-differ_1094904.png)
