Let us designate anarchism1 anarchism as you define it…

I know one thing: that you can do a lot of things but if you don't educate people into conscious anarchism it gets frittered…

— Murray Bookchin

We must therefore turn to history for enlightenment; here we find that none of the proclaimed anarchist groups correspond to the libertarian position, that…

— Murray Rothbard

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

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

— Alexander Berkman

“They knew that their anarchism was the product of a very high civilization, of a complex diversified culture, of a stable economy and a…

— Ursula K. Le Guin

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

And now, what has Anarchism to say to all this, this bankruptcy of republicanism, this modern empire that has grown up on the ruins…

— Voltairine de Cleyre

Anarchism as a political philosophy seeks to dissolve all forms of authority and power, and if possible, wishes their complete abolition.

— Peter Marshall

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

— Amit Kalantri

“Does it follow that I reject all authority? Perish the thought. In the matter of boots, I defer to the authority of the bootmaker;…

— Mikhail Bakunin

“Do not all theists insist that there can be no morality, no justice, honesty or fidelity without the belief in a Divine Power? Based…

— Emma Goldman

Anarchism is a definite intellectual current in the life of our times, whose adherents advocate the abolition of economic monopolies and of all political…

— Rudolf Rocker

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

— Mary McCarthy

“I became an anarchist very early on. Anarchism, in my mind, meant taking democracy seriously and organizing prefiguratively- that is, in a way that…

— Andrej Grubačić