An anarchist society, far from being a remote ideal, has…

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

“An anarchist society is by definition a Free Society, but a Free Society is not necessarily Anarchist. It might fall short in several respects.…

— Albert Meltzer

Moreover, the practical recommendations deduced from ecological principles threaten the vested interests of commerce; it is hardly surprising that the financial and political power…

— Garrett Hardin

In my case I would emphasize anarcho-communalism, along with the ecological questions, the feminist questions, the anti-nuclear issues that exist, and along with the…

— Murray Bookchin

“Multiply examples, choose them where you will, consider the origin of all fortunes, large or small, whether arising out of commerce, finance, manufactures or…

— Pyotr Kropotkin

“No society can last in conditions of anarchy. This is self-evident and I am in full agreement. But my aim is not the establishment…

— Jacques Ellul

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

— Murray Rothbard

I learned that [Trotskyism] were no different from the Stalinists, and they expelled me, which is the typical Marxist-Leninist way of dealing with dissenters.…

— Murray Bookchin

My feeling is that anarchists have to think in terms of a specific. I think the dispersal of anarchists all over the place, particularly…

— Murray Bookchin

I don't think anarchism consists of sitting down and saying let's form a collective. I don't think it consists of saying we're all anarchists:…

— Murray Bookchin

Anarchists should get together who agree, and develop their gifts at a critical point, in a critical place, and form genuine affinity groups in…

— Murray Bookchin

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

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

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

I think it's terribly important that networks of anarchists establish themselves with a view toward educating people.

— Murray Bookchin