Anarchist Quotes · Page 4

I was an anarchist punk, and I think, in many ways, I still am.

— Gavin McInnes

All governments are in equal measure good and evil. The best ideal is anarchy.

— Leo Tolstoy

I believe that anarchists should agree to disagree but not to fight with each other.

— Murray Bookchin

I am an anarchist, like any other sensible person. ~ Merlyn

— Anonymous

If I had understood the situation a bit better I should probably have joined the Anarchists.

— George Orwell

Q: What's an anarchist? A: Someone who was kicked out of the communist party.

— Anonymous

I die, as I have lived, a free spirit, an Anarchist, owing no allegiance to rulers, heavenly or earthly.

— Voltairine de Cleyre

As a teenager I was more of an anarchist, but now I want people to thrive and be harmonious.

— Nicolas Cage

The communists were mainly responsible for the destruction of the Spanish anarchists. Not just in Catalonia - the communist armies mainly destroyed…

— Noam Chomsky

Above all we should not forget, that government is an evil, an usurpation upon the private judgment and individual conscience of mankind.

— William Godwin

I am an Anarchist not because I believe Anarchism is the final goal, but because there is no such thing as a…

— Rudolf Rocker

Degenerates are not always criminals, prostitutes, anarchists and pronounced lunatics; they are often authors and artists

— Max Nordau

The 'Bolton News' is the best place for online comments. They say I'm an absolute idiot and a communist anarchist. I was…

— Maxine Peake

My sympathies are, of course, with the Government side, especially the Anarchists ; for Anarchism seems to me more likely to lead…

— Aldous Huxley

The plundering of the human spirit by the market place is paralleled by the plundering of the earth by capital.

— Murray Bookchin

I am a Tory anarchist. I should like everyone to go about doing just as he pleased - short of altering any…

— Max Beerbohm

“Something in his face deeply moved me. It was the face of a man who would commit murder and throw away his…

— George Orwell

“To be an anarchist only means that you believe that aggression is not justified, and that states necessarily employ aggression. And, therefore,…

— Anonymous

Among the fundamental likeness between the Revolutionary Republicans and the Anarchists is the recognition that the little must precede the great; that…

— Voltairine de Cleyre

Anarchism, to me, means not only the denial of authority, not only a new economy, but a revision of the principles of…

— Voltairine de Cleyre

“The heart is the anarchist of the mind. The naughty child that never grows up. The hopeless romantic. The dreamer. The optimist.…

— Katie Ray

All artists are anarchists in some way - some more extreme than others, but it's something that I think artists are supposed…

— Robert Zemeckis

“I’m a citizen of the world, aren’t I?  I deserve to eat, don’t I? Who has the right to draw an arbitrary…

— Cap'n Fatty Goodlander

I am NOT an anarchist. Never have been, never will be. Just because Crimethinc put out two of my poetry books, I…

— Raegan Butcher

“Referring to the American government, the greatest American Anarchist, David Thoreau, said: "Government, what is it but a tradition, though a recent…

— Emma Goldman

“It is not a problem of the market form but of markets deformed - deformed by the long shadow of historical injustices…

— Gary Chartier

Rebellion against technology and civilization is real rebellion, a real attack on the values of the existing system. But the green anarchists,…

— Theodore Kaczynski

A different conception of society, very different from that which now prevails, is in process of formation. Under the name of Anarchy,…

— Peter Kropotkin

No more painters, no more scribblers, no more musicians, no more sculptors, no more religions, no more royalists, no more radicals, no…

— Louis Aragon

I am an anarchist in my personal life. I try to live my life in a way that I don't need cops…

— Jello Biafra

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

“The anarch differs from the anarchist in that he has a very pronounced sense of the rules. Insofar as and to the…

— Ernst Jünger

Millie Beggs, by the time she was forty-five, had become an emotional anarchist.

— Zelda Fitzgerald

I would also say that, in practice, many more Americans are anarchists than would ever use that term.

— Bell Hooks

“The product of scientific achievements should be for sale. The scientist should not.”

— A.E. Samaan

I am an anarchist! Wherefore I will not rule and also ruled I will not be.

— John Henry Mackay

All comedians are, in a way, anarchists. Our job is to make fun of the existing world.

— Bob Newhart

“If your political theory requires humanity to "evolve", then you do not have a theory… you have a dream.”

— A.E. Samaan

“He was an anarchist, though he never got into any trouble about it, except with his wife.”

— Kurt Vonnegut

You couldn't put me in a social group setting. I'm probably a terrible anarchist deep down.

— Maya Lin