“If all the men and women in the countryside had their daily bread assured, and their daily needs already satisfied, who would… — Pyotr Kropotkin Copy Share Image
The two principles referred to are Authority and Liberty, and the names of the two schools of Socialistic thought which fully and… — Benjamin Tucker Copy Share Image
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… — Murray Bookchin Copy Share Image
That is what I have always understood to be the essence of anarchism: the conviction that the burden of proof has to… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The most important thing [anarchists] can do is educate themselves, develop a propaganda machinery in the form of books and periodicals, a… — Murray Bookchin Copy Share Image
Anarchism is not a romantic fable but the hardheaded realization, based on five thousand years of experience, that we cannot entrust the… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
Anarchism means all sort of things to different people, but the traditional anarchists' movements assumed that there'd be a highly organized society,… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
I have been criticized for pointing out that anarchism is likely to flourish more easily, at least in the western world, and… — Murray Bookchin Copy Share Image
“Initially I had been attracted to punk and anarchism because I saw them as a means to make a positive change, where… — Laura Jane Grace Copy Share Image
As soon as one identifies, challenges and overcomes illegitimate power, he or she is an anarchist. Most people are anarchists. What they… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
“Think of the power we could have if all the energy and effort in the world – or maybe even just your… — Crimethinc Copy Share Image
“The biggest crime in the human history is the formulation of wicked states, which has been rooted to such an extent that… — Anup Joshi Copy Share Image
The emotions of the ignorant man are continuously kept at a pitch by the most blood-curdling stories about Anarchism. Not a thing… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
In the early period of Left struggles, in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century, there were many different trajectories for the… — Vijay Prashad Copy Share Image
“This combination of parody and seriousness reflects the contradictions of an era in which we find ourselves confronted with both the urgent… — Situationist International (English Section Copy Share Image
“This broad tendency in human development seeks to identify structures of hierarchy, authority and domination that constrain human development, and then subject… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
“Direct action meant that the goal of any and all of these activities was to provide ways for people to get in… — Martha Ackelsberg Copy Share Image
“Libertarian opponents of anarchy are attacking a straw man. Their arguments are usually utilitarian in nature and amount to "but anarchy won’t… — N. Stephan Kinsella Copy Share Image
“Does it follow that I reject all authority? Perish the thought. In the matter of boots, I defer to the authority of… — Mikhail Bakunin Copy Share Image
“Having been brought up in a serf-owner's family, I entered active life, like all young men of my time, with a great… — Pyotr Kropotkin Copy Share Image
“Do not all theists insist that there can be no morality, no justice, honesty or fidelity without the belief in a Divine… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
“To call the population of strangers in the midst of which we live "society" is such a usurpation that even the sociologists… — The Invisible Committee Copy Share Image
“To be GOVERNED is to be watched, inspected, spied upon, directed, law-driven, numbered, regulated, enrolled, indoctrinated, preached at, controlled, checked, estimated, valued,… — Pierre-Joseph Proudhon Copy Share Image
Anarchy would be a world that nobody felt responsible for, that nobody felt any sort of love for. When there's real intelligence… — Ed Kowalczyk Copy Share Image
Every believer is an anarchist at heart. True believers would rather see governments topple and history rewritten than scuff the cover of… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
I define anarchist society as one where there is no legal possibility for coercive aggression against the person or property of any… — Murray Rothbard Copy Share Image
The idea of direct action against the evil that you want to overcome is a kind of common denominator for anarchist ideas… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
If I rule out violent anarchism, there remains pacifist, anti-nationalist, anti-capitalist, moral, and anti-democratic anarchism (i.e., that which is hostile to the… — Jacques Ellul Copy Share Image
Despite the popular idea of anarchists as violent men, Anarchism is the one non-violent social philosophy.… The function of the Anarchist is… — Ammon Hennacy Copy Share Image
The education we all receive from the State, at school and after, has so warped our minds that the very notion of… — Peter Kropotkin Copy Share Image
“The continued appeal of anarchism can probably be attributed to its enduring affinity with both the rational and emotional impulses lying deep… — Peter Marshall Copy Share Image
I would not want to be in the same movement with an anarcho-syndicalist, however much I may respect and like that person.… — Murray Bookchin Copy Share Image
The dictionary definition of a Christian is one who follows Christ; kind, kindly, Christ-like. Anarchism is voluntary cooperation for good, with the… — Ammon Hennacy Copy Share Image
“The duty of the individual is to accept no rule, to be the initiator of his own acts, to be responsible. Only… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
Transcendentalism is, we might say, an early form of anarchism. The Transcendentalists also did not call themselves anarchists, but there are anarchist… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
The two principles referred to are Authority and Liberty, and the names of the two schools of Socialistic thought which fully and… — Benjamin Tucker Copy Share Image
I say: liberate yourself as far as you can, and you have done your part; for it is not given to every… — Max Stirner Copy Share Image
“Anarchism, more than any other social theory, values human life above things. All Anarchists agree with Tolstoy in this fundamental truth: if… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
“For over a century and a half, anarchists have been arguing that coercive, hierarchical organization (as embodied in government and corporations) is… — Chaz Bufe Copy Share Image
Intolerance of oppression, the desire to be free and develop one personality to its full limits, is not enough to make one… — Errico Malatesta Copy Share Image
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