Anarchism? You bet your sweet betsy. The only cure for the ills of democracy is more democracy. Much more. — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
“Anarchism is the revolutionary idea that no one is more qualified than you are to decide what your life will be.” — Crimethinc Copy Share Image
Ask for work. If they don't give you work, ask for bread. If they do not give you work or bread, then… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
As to the American tradition of non-meddling, Anarchism asks that it be carried down to the individual himself. — Voltairine de Cleyre Copy Share Image
Anarchism is founded on the observation that since few men are wise enough to rule themselves, even fewer are wise enough to… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
Anarchism...stands for direct action, the open defiance of, and resistance to, all laws and restrictions, economic, social, and moral. — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
An anarchist society, far from being a remote ideal, has become a precondition for the practice of ecological principles. — Murray Bookchin Copy Share Image
We must shed the old stereotype of anarchists as bearded bomb throwers furtively stalking about city streets at night. — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
Capitalistic Anarchism ? Oh, yes, if you choose to call it so. Names are indifferent to me; I am not afraid of… — Voltairine de Cleyre Copy Share Image
Anarchists try to identify power structures. They urge those exercising power to justify themselves. This justification does not succeed most of the… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
“Common to all Anarchists is the desire to free society of all political and social coercive institutions which stand in the way… — Rudolf Rocker Copy Share Image
That government is best which governs not at all; and when men are prepared for it, that will be the kind of… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
If you look at a lot of traditional societies, they're all organized along what we might call anarchist guidelines, but it's not… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
The anarchists are not promising anything to anyone. The anarchists only want people to be conscious of their own situation and seize… — Maria Nikiforova Copy Share Image
“Anarchists have a 'bad name' in the media, not because they can point to one indiscriminate massacre by anarchists--there have been none--but… — Stuart Christie Copy Share Image
I've developed my anarchism, my critique of Marxism, which has been the most advanced bourgeois ideology I know of, into a community… — Murray Bookchin Copy Share Image
“Vast organisations produce a sense of impotence in the individual, leading to a decay of effort. The danger can be averted if… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
ANARCHISM (from the Gr. , and , contrary to authority), the name given to a principle or theory of life and conduct… — Peter Kropotkin Copy Share Image
“Anarchism is necessarily anti-capitalist in that it “opposes the exploitation of man by man.” But anarchism also opposes “the dominion of man… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
“While the popular understanding of anarchism is of a violent, anti-State movement, anarchism is a much more subtle and nuanced tradition then… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“At all events, in a society, all of whose members are free, and equal in the true sense of the words, there… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
My feeling is that anarchists have to think in terms of a specific. I think the dispersal of anarchists all over the… — Murray Bookchin Copy Share Image
We must therefore turn to history for enlightenment; here we find that none of the proclaimed anarchist groups correspond to the libertarian… — Murray Rothbard Copy Share Image
We have been civilized for a thousand millennia. We have histories of hundreds of those millennia. We have tried everything. Anarchism, in… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“Just because the educational work of the Anarcho-Syndicalists is directed toward the development of independent thought and action, they are outspoken opponents… — Rudolf Rocker Copy Share Image
“A revolution on a world scale will take a very long time. But it is also possible to recognize that it is… — David Graeber Copy Share Image
“For the anarch, little has changed; flags have meaning for him, but not sense. I have seen them in the air and… — Ernst Jünger Copy Share Image
“As one of the leading French anarchist thinkers and friend of Bakunin, Élisée Reclus, put it: “The external form of society must… — Bernard Schweizer Copy Share Image
“Well, you have said that you were quite certain I was not a serious anarchist. Does this place strike you as being… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“Meanwhile, two other great currents in political thought, had a decisive significance on the development of socialist ideas: Liberalism, which had powerfully… — Rudolf Rocker Copy Share Image
“I have often been asked why I maintained such a non-compromising antagonism to government and in what way I have found myself… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
“But what about human nature? Can it be changed? And if not, will it endure under Anarchism? Poor human nature, what horrible… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
