Anarchism Quotes

Anarchism has a broad back, like paper it endures anything,

— Rudolf Rocker

Direct action is the logical, consistent method of Anarchism.

— Emma Goldman

Revolution is but thought carried into action.

— Emma Goldman

Anarchism is "stateless socialism."

— Mikhail Bakunin

The best argument for anarchism is the twentieth century.

— Joseph Sobran

Anarchism is democracy taken seriously.

— Edward Abbey

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

— Ivan Illich

“we are, in any case, only one of the forces acting in society”

— Errico Malatesta

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

— Alexander Berkman

I actually think the common anarchist position is that people are fundamentally good, blah blah blah. I don't believe that.

— Cody Wilson

Anarchism is a theory of political science and is opposed to government in the political sense.

— Steven T. Byington

True # anarchism will be # capitalism , and true capitalism will be anarchism.

— Murray Rothbard

“This revolution will be noted. It will be successful and above all, it will be in words.”

— Moonshine Noire

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

— Murray Bookchin

I'm by no means convinced that capitalism and the development of technology has made anarchism easier.

— Murray Bookchin

We anarchists do not want to emancipate the people; we want the people to emancipate themselves.

— Errico Malatesta

An Anarchist is anyone who denies the necessity and legitimacy of government; the question of his methods of attacking it is foreign…

— Benjamin Tucker

Evolution is the root of atheism, of communism, nazism, behaviorism, racism, economic imperialism, militarism, libertinism, anarchism, and all manner of anti-Christian systems…

— Henry M. Morris

Peter Kropotkin described Anarchism as the extreme left wing of socialism - a view with which I completely agree. One of my…

— Murray Bookchin

Our principle is: to prevent all command over man by his fellowmen, to, make state, government, laws, or whatsoever form of compulsion…

— Johann Most

It is often said that Anarchists live in a world of dreams to come, and do not see the things which happen…

— Peter Kropotkin

Though I knew so far as Anarchism was concerned I was backing a lost cause, it didn't seem to matter as every…

— Albert Meltzer

Anarchism aims to strip labor of its deadening, dulling aspect, of its gloom and compulsion. It aims to make work an instrument…

— Emma Goldman

Lawlessness is lawlessness. Anarchy is anarchy is anarchy. Neither race nor color nor frustration is an excuse for either lawlessness or anarchy.

— Thurgood Marshall

“I am not SURE whether people have watched DID show from ZEE TV or not, Its big ambiguity whether they have really…

— Anup Joshi

There is absolute truth in anarchism and it is to be seen in its attitude to the sovereignty of the state and…

— Nikolai Berdyaev

“I love men too — not merely individuals, but every one. But I love them with the consciousness of egoism; I love…

— Max Stirner

“Work, then, institutionalizes homicide as a way of life. People think the Cambodians were crazy for exterminating themselves, but are we any…

— Bob Black

“Yeah, it's a bum rap, basically―it's like referring to Soviet-style bureaucracy as "socialism," or any other term of discourse that's been given…

— Noam Chomsky

The anarchists put the thing upside down. They declare that the proletarian revolution must begin by doing away with the political organization…

— Friedrich Engels

“Conversation between the two came easy, and within days they were sharing a bed and a cause. For both Berkman and Goldman,…

— James McGrath Morris

The Anarchists are right in everything; in the negation of the existing order, and in the assertion that, without authority, there could…

— Leo Tolstoy

“Well, it's true that the anarchist vision in just about all its varieties has looked forward to dismantling state power―and personally I…

— Noam Chomsky

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

— Andrej Grubačić

“Unlike religions that offered a better life after death, the idealist callings of anarchism espoused making heaven on earth by ridding humankind…

— James McGrath Morris

“The real enemy" is the totality of physical and mental constraints by which capital, or class society, or statism, or the society…

— Bob Black

“I consider Anarchism the most beautiful and practical philosophy that has yet been thought of in its application to individual expression and…

— Emma Goldman

“Anarchism alone stresses the importance of the individual, his possibilities and needs in a free society. Instead of telling him that he…

— Emma Goldman

“The typical Anarchist, then, may be defined as follows: A man perceptible by the spirit of revolt under one or more of…

— Emma Goldman

“Derived from the Greek word anarchos , "without authority," anarchism denies law and considers property to be tyranny. Anarchists believe that human…

— Siva Vaidhyanathan