“People will think you brilliant only if you tell them what they know. To avoid being thought brilliant, avoid knowing what they… — Laura Riding Copy Share Image
“In my opinion the immediate goal of even committed anarchists should be to defend some state institutions, while helping to pry them… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Anarchism is surprisingly effective in solving actual problems largely because anarchists have thought a lot about solving actual problems on a micro… — David Graeber Copy Share Image
I heartily accept the motto, "That government is best which governs least"; and I should like to see it acted up to… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Part of the heart of anarchy is, dare to go against the grain of the conventional ways of thinking about our realities.… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
The anarchist conclusion is that every kind of human activity should begin from what from what is local and immediate, should link… — Colin Ward Copy Share Image
If anarchists are idealists, they may simply be likened to someone who finds himself swimming in a cesspool and, rather than paddling… — Robert Higgs Copy Share Image
Private enterprise manages better all that to which it is equal. Anarchism declares that private enterprise, whether individual or cooperative, is equal… — Voltairine de Cleyre Copy Share Image
Socialism and Communism both demand a degree of joint effort and administration which would beget more regulation than is wholly consistent with… — Voltairine de Cleyre Copy Share Image
You see, one strand...of anarchism believed that you needed to use essentially homeopathic doses of terror by assassinating people, et cetera, the… — Vijay Prashad Copy Share Image
The realizations of anarchist ideas and practices are like sociopolitical ecosystems. Local versions resemble each other, but they are endlessly adaptive and… — Scott Crow Copy Share Image
“Anarchism, then, really stands for the liberation of the human mind from the dominion of religion; the liberation of the human body… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
“THE WORLD IS APPROACHING TOWARDS ANARCHY" : The second law of thermodynamics concludes that the entropy of universe is increasing with time… — Anup Joshi Copy Share Image
I've been criticized by many anarchists as believing that anarchism is impossible without affluence. On the contrary, I think affluence is very… — Murray Bookchin Copy Share Image
A different conception of society, very different from that which now prevails, is in process of formation. Under the name of Anarchy,… — Peter Kropotkin Copy Share Image
“Anarchists are mouthpieces of a declining stratum of society; when they work themselves into a state of righteous indignation demanding 'rights', 'justice',… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“I became alive once more. At the dances I was one of the most untiring and gayest. One evening a cousin of… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
“Freedom, or individual liberty, was a basic premise of the Spanish anarchist tradition. "Individual sovereignty" is a prime tenet of most anarchist… — Martha Ackelsberg Copy Share Image
“We must realistically accept that revolution is a social war, not because we like war, but because we recognize that the status… — Peter Gelderloos Copy Share Image
“Regarding the need to pray, the anarch is again no different from anyone else. But he does not like to attach himself.… — Ernst Jünger Copy Share Image
Anarchism is a definite intellectual current in the life of our times, whose adherents advocate the abolition of economic monopolies and of… — Rudolf Rocker Copy Share Image
“One of the problems with all of this is that not all narratives are equal. Imagine, to take a silly example, that… — Derrick Jensen Copy Share Image
I believe that the biblical teaching is clear. It always contests political power. It incites to "counterpower," to "positive" criticism, to an… — Jacques Ellul Copy Share Image
“The principles of liberalism can have a real existence only in conjunction with a police system. Anarchism is an attempt to cleanse… — Leon Trotsky Copy Share Image
This brings us to Anarchism, which may be described as the doctrine that all the affairs of men should be managed by… — Benjamin Tucker Copy Share Image
Capitalism is the fullest expression of anarchism, and anarchism is the fullest expression of capitalism. Not only are they compatible, but you… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Anarchism does not mean bloodshed; it does not mean robbery, arson, etc. These monstrosities are, on the contrary, the characteristic features of… — August Spies Copy Share Image
“It is not a scientific proposition to determine that some cultures lack political power because they show nothing similar to what is… — Pierre Clastres Copy Share Image
Anarchism is the great liberator of man from the phantoms that have held him captive; it is the arbiter and pacifier of… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
We don't live in a capitalist totality. Capitalism couldn't survive as a totality anyway. We live in this complex system and we… — David Graeber Copy Share Image
“Conspiracy theories are ways for someone to understand what is going on in the world and try to restore some sense of… — Oscar Auliq-Ice Junior Copy Share Image
In short, Anarchism means a condition or society where all men and women are free, and where all enjoy equally the benefits… — Alexander Berkman Copy Share Image
Anarchism is the only philosophy which brings to man the consciousness of himself; which maintains that God, the State, and society are… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
Modern Anarcho-Syndicalism is a direct continuation of those social aspirations which took shape in the bosom of the First International and which… — Rudolf Rocker Copy Share Image
That's what I'm trying to get over: the idea that anarchism offers a description of equitable relations that go way back rather… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
An anarchist is like an undercover agent who plays the game of Reason in order to undercut the authority of Reason (Truth,… — Paul Feyerabend Copy Share Image
Anarchy is... a form of government or constitution in which public and private consciousness, formed through the development of science and law,… — Pierre-Joseph Proudhon Copy Share Image
By no means. I have just given you my serious and well-considered profession of faith. Although a firm friend of order, I… — Pierre-Joseph Proudhon Copy Share Image
Anarchism stands for the liberation of the human mind from the dominion of religion and liberation of the human body from the… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
“There is a saying, if any stranger enquire of the first met of Maan, were it even a child, “Who is here… — Charles Montagu Doughty Copy Share Image
