All good men are anarchists. All cultured, kindly men; all…

Jesus was an anarchist savior. That's what the Gospels tell us.

— Ivan Illich

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

I don't feel the individualist anarchists, particularly in the American tradition, including the Transcendental tradition of New England, in any way deserve the derogatory…

— Murray Bookchin

During the first two months of the war it was the Anarchists more than anyone else who had saved the situation, and much later…

— George Orwell

The aims of anarchists and true communists are identical.

— Johann Most

Actually, my first article, it wasn't about the anarchists; it was about the fall of Barcelona and the spread of fascism over Europe, which…

— Noam Chomsky

Dead anarchists make martyrs, you know, and keep living for centuries. But absent ones can be forgotten.

— Ursula K. Le Guin

People are first and foremost Republicans, first and foremost Anarchists, first and foremost a man or woman, and that is a mistake. It hurts…

— Peter Krause

You've got that eternal idiotic idea that if anarchy came it would come from the poor. Why should it? The poor have been rebels,…

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

The most important thing [anarchists] can do is educate themselves, develop a propaganda machinery in the form of books and periodicals, a literature, engage…

— 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

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

The modern day anarchists known as the Tea Party, they believe in no government.

— Harry Reid

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