Anarchist Quotes

If anything I consider myself an anarchist.

— Al Lewis

All Artists are Anarchists.

— George Bernard Shaw

Women make natural anarchists and revolutionaries .

— Kim Gordon

Christ - an anarchist who succeeded.

— Axel Munthe

It's the age of reason for the anarchist.

— Bob Seger

I'm an anarchist. I have it tattooed on my stomach.

— Machine Gun Kelly

It's good to be an anarchist and just love yourself.

— Lauren Jauregui

The artist as an artist must be an anarchist

— Kurt Eisner

The love of liberty and the sense of human dignity are the basic elements of the Anarchist creed.

— Federica Montseny

Anarchists have always gone against the grain, and that's been a place of hope.

— Bell Hooks

We started off trying to set up a small anarchist community, but people wouldn't obey the rules.

— Alan Bennett

Dead anarchists make martyrs, you know, and keep living for centuries. But absent ones can be forgotten.

— Ursula K. Le Guin

Charlie Hebdo were the licensed anarchist clowns of the society.

— Scott Simon

Fortunately, no country was ever more suited for anarchist agitation than present-day America.

— Johann Most

Never will the Anarchists in Spain be made to suffer as they have been and are in Russia.

— Federica Montseny

“These punk anarchist peoples de most honest an’ authentic peoples in de whole world!”

— Jonathan Shaw

I'm not a complete libertarian. There is a proper role in some areas of the government to have rules and regulations -…

— Jack Abramoff

I want to remind the viewers that people like Nancy Pelosi and Barack Obama endorsed the Occupy Wall Street movement which is…

— Katie Pavlich

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

— Benjamin Tucker

All good men are anarchists. All cultured, kindly men; all gentlemen; all just men are anarchists. Jesus was an anarchist.

— Elbert Hubbard

I don't encourage socialists or anarchists to accept falsehoods, in particular, to see revolutionary potential where there is none.

— Noam Chomsky

Rather, like the anarchists of the last century, he didn't care if he was killed or not. They just wanted to be…

— John Sherman Cooper

As for the employees, the payment in stock options revives, somewhat ironically, the old anarchist ideology of self-management of the company, as…

— Manuel Castells

The minimum that most minimalists want leaves in place just the institutions who protect their interests. That's libertarians for you - anarchists…

— Kim Stanley Robinson

Basically, to sum up: We're a generation of anarchists, and we just haven't gotten our hands on the means of production yet…

— Mark Pesce

“For the Anarchist, freedom is not an abstract philosophical concept, but the vital concrete possibility for every human being to bring to…

— Rudolf Rocker

When I was in school, they say everybody can do art. And I was, like, a little bit obstinate - not an…

— Peter Stormare

Socialists find me too far left; Trotskyites not far enough; ecologists say I am too happy eating foie gras, defending nuclear energy…

— Michel Onfray

There is no governor anywhere. You are all absolutely free. There is no restraint that cannot be escaped. If anybody could go…

— Robert Anton Wilson

Violence, contrary to popular belief, is not part of the anarchist philosophy. It has repeatedly been pointed out by anarchist thinkers that…

— Vernon Richards

There are some libertarians who are really anarchists, but others are more concerned about the distant relationship between themselves and power. They…

— Zephyr Teachout

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

— Peter Kropotkin

“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

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

— Friedrich Engels

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

— Leo Tolstoy

“One day you will be called upon to break a big law in the name of justice and rationality. Everything will depend…

— James C. Scott

“The history of the thing might amuse you," he said. "When first I became one of the New Anarchists I tried all…

— G. K. Chesterton

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

— Emma Goldman

“Multiply examples, choose them where you will, consider the origin of all fortunes, large or small, whether arising out of commerce, finance,…

— Pyotr Kropotkin