In short, Anarchism means a condition or society where all…

Anarchism asserts the possibility of an organization without discipline, fear, or punishment, and without the pressure of poverty: a new social organism which will…

— Emma Goldman

Anarchism means voluntary co-operation instead of forced participation. It means harmony and order in place of interference and disorder.

— Alexander Berkman

Our principle is: to prevent all command over man by his fellowmen, to, make state, government, laws, or whatsoever form of compulsion existing, a…

— Johann Most

Anarchism does not mean bloodshed; it does not mean robbery, arson, etc. These monstrosities are, on the contrary, the characteristic features of capitalism. Anarchism…

— August Spies

Anarchism, to me, means not only the denial of authority, not only a new economy, but a revision of the principles of morality. It…

— Voltairine de Cleyre

Anarchism means all sort of things to different people but the traditional anarchists' movements assumed that there'd be a highly organized society, just one…

— Noam Chomsky

Anarchism means all sort of things to different people, but the traditional anarchists' movements assumed that there'd be a highly organized society, just one…

— Noam Chomsky

Market Anarchism is the doctrine that the legislative, adjudicative, and protective functions unjustly and inefficiently monopolised by the coercive State should be entirely turned…

— Roderick T. Long

“Anarchists did not try to carry out genocide against the Armenians in Turkey; they did not deliberately starve millions of Ukrainians; they did not…

— Robert Higgs

In debates between anarchists and statists, the burden of proof clearly should rest on those who place their trust in the state. Anarchy's mayhem…

— Robert Higgs

The Anarchists are simply unterrified Jeffersonian Democrats. They believe that 'the best government is that which governs least,' and that which governs least is…

— Benjamin Tucker

Anarchists are opposed to violence; everyone knows that. The main plank of anarchism is the removal of violence from human relations. It is life…

— Errico Malatesta

I see anarchism as the theoretical ideal to which we are all gradually evolving to a point where everybody can tell the truth to…

— Robert Anton Wilson

“An anarchist government somehow creates an impression in the hearts of citizens that no one cares.”

— Amit Kalantri

In morals as in politics anarchy is not for the weak.

— Mary McCarthy