Very few philosophers have been anarchists

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

The Anarchists are right in everything; in the negation of the existing order, and in the assertion that, without authority, there could not be…

— Leo Tolstoy

I define anarchist society as one where there is no legal possibility for coercive aggression against the person or property of any individual. Anarchists…

— Murray Rothbard

Anarchism is surprisingly effective in solving actual problems largely because anarchists have thought a lot about solving actual problems on a micro level in…

— David Graeber

“Anarchists are mouthpieces of a declining stratum of society; when they work themselves into a state of righteous indignation demanding 'rights', 'justice', 'equal rights',…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

My sympathies are, of course, with the Government side, especially the Anarchists ; for Anarchism seems to me more likely to lead to desirable…

— Aldous Huxley

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

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

“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

Anarchists believe we can run our lives without the government.

— Vermin Supreme

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

Anarchism as the name for an ideal total social form is a really complicated question. I have never found satisfying answers from anarchists about…

— Cynthia Kauffman