“Anarchism does not demand the changing of the labels on the layers, it doesn't want different people on top, it wants us… — Colin Ward Copy Share Image
There is one central characteristic of anarchism on the matter of means, and that central principle is a principle of direct action… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
Market Anarchism is the doctrine that the legislative, adjudicative, and protective functions unjustly and inefficiently monopolised by the coercive State should be… — Roderick T. Long Copy Share Image
“The situation is like this: they hired our parents to destroy this world, and now they'd like to put us to work… — The Invisible Committee Copy Share Image
Anarchists know that a long period of education must precede any great fundamental change in society, hence they do not believe in… — Lucy Parsons Copy Share Image
Jesus , in some respects, was an anarchist, for he had no idea of civil government . That government seems to him… — Ernest Renan Copy Share Image
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… — Murray Bookchin Copy Share Image
“Anarchism has but one infallible, unchangeable motto, "Freedom." Freedom to discover any truth, freedom to develop, to live naturally and fully." —… — Lucy Parsons Copy Share Image
The term anarchism has become associated with two phenomena with which real anarchist don't want to associate themselves with. One is violence,… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
I want freedom, the right to self-expression, everybody's right to beautiful, radiant things.' Anarchism meant that to me, and I would live… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
Freedom is the very essence of life, the impelling force in all intellectual and social development, the creator of every new outlook… — Rudolf Rocker Copy Share Image
In my case I would emphasize anarcho-communalism, along with the ecological questions, the feminist questions, the anti-nuclear issues that exist, and along… — Murray Bookchin Copy Share Image
“The state is the guarantor, but not the creator, of social relationships. It represents and unifies capital, it is neither capital’s motor… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“But the question is, historically, part of the group that you're a part of - whether it's racial, gender, religious, whatever -… — Jacob Applebaum Copy Share Image
Let those men who still have these misguided ideas, let those men who still have these hallucinations, realize that by anarchism, by… — Muhammad Ali Jinnah Copy Share Image
Anarchism is opposed to states, armies, slavery, the wages system, the landlord system, prisons, monopoly capitalism, oligopoly capitalism, state capitalism, bureaucracy, meritocracy,… — Donald Rooum Copy Share Image
“If this is the price to be paid for an idea, then let us pay. There is no need of being troubled… — Voltairine de Cleyre Copy Share Image
“Anarchism recognizes only the relative significance of ideas, institutions, and social forms. It is, therefore, not a fixed, self-enclosed social system, but… — Rudolf Rocker Copy Share Image
“Normal kids are turned into Borribles very slowly, almost without being aware of it; but one day they wake up and there… — Michael De Larrabeiti Copy Share Image
“The political superstition is still holding sway over the hearts and minds of the masses, but the true lovers of liberty will… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
“...only the one who knows and practices the iconoclastic fury of destruction can possess the joy born of freedom, of that unique… — Renzo Novatore Copy Share Image
Anarchists generally make use if the word "State" to mean all the collection of institutions, political, legislative, judicial, military, financial, etc., by… — Errico Malatesta Copy Share Image
Anarchism is the abolition of exploitation and oppression of man by man, that is, the abolition of private property and government; Anarchism… — Errico Malatesta Copy Share Image
“The social system of capital separates most people from the conditions of existence. This compels the vast majority to accept the mediations… — Wolfi Landstreicher Individualism and Communism Copy Share Image
The notion of anarchy ...means that once industrial functions have taken over from political functions, then business transactions and exchange alone produce… — Pierre-Joseph Proudhon Copy Share Image
“It should be added that, in general, it is the character of every metaphysical and theological argument to seek to explain one… — Michael Bakunin Copy Share Image
If we once and for so long lived in balance with nature and each other, we should be able to do so… — John Zerzan Copy Share Image
The Anarchists answer that the abolition of the State will leave in existence a defensive association, resting no longer on a compulsory… — Benjamin Tucker Copy Share Image
From my point of view the killing of another, except in defense of human life, is archistic, authoritarian, and therefore, no Anarchist… — Jo Labadie Copy Share Image
“We wanted to produce a newspaper which would put (1) class and (2) violence back at the top of the anarchist agenda.… — Ian Bone Copy Share Image
The anarchist philosophy is that the new social order is to be built up by groupings of men together in communities -… — Dorothy Day Copy Share Image
An anarchist is someone who doesn't need a cop to make him behave. Anarchism is voluntary cooperation with the right of secession.… — Ammon Hennacy Copy Share Image
“We deny the snobbish English assumption that the uneducated are the dangerous criminals. We remember the Roman Emperors. We remember the great… — G. K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
There are self-styled "anarcho-capitalists" (not to be confused with anarchists of any persuasion), who want the state abolished as a regulator of… — Donald Rooum Copy Share Image
“Far from checking the spread of immorality, repression has always extended and deepended it. Thus it is futile to oppose it by… — Daniel Guérin Copy Share Image
The fundamental question of political philosophy, one that precedes questions about how the state should be organized, is whether there should be… — Robert Nozick Copy Share Image
“Not only my arrest but the others smack of the Haymarket. The police are very much in disrepute all over the country,… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
ANARCHISM:The philosophy of a new social order based on liberty unrestricted by man-made law; the theory that all forms of government rest… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
I get asked quite often if I'm an anarchist. If they want to put a label on me, that's fine. What is… — Derrick Jensen Copy Share Image
Not whether we accomplish anarchism today, tomorrow, or within ten centuries, but that we walk towards anarchism today, tomorrow, and always. — Errico Malatesta Copy Share Image
