Every believer is an anarchist at heart. True believers…

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

Anarchism, in my view, is an expression of the idea that the burden of proof is always on those who argue that authority and…

— Noam Chomsky

“We wanted to produce a newspaper which would put (1) class and (2) violence back at the top of the anarchist agenda. It would…

— Ian Bone

Anarchism is not a romantic fable but the hardheaded realization, based on five thousand years of experience, that we cannot entrust the management of…

— Edward Abbey

“To be an anarchist is to leave the beaten paths on which for hundreds of years generations of sheep have walked without reflection, break…

— John Merriman

The education we all receive from the State, at school and after, has so warped our minds that the very notion of freedom ends…

— Peter Kropotkin

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

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

You see something very important is happening. Personality is being eaten out, and with that the idealism that always motivated an anarchist movement -…

— Murray Bookchin

“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

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

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

— Amit Kalantri

When I talk about self-management, self-regulation, self-government, the word I emphasize is self, and my concern is with the reconstruction of the self. Marxists…

— Murray Bookchin