Anarchist Quotes · Page 6

Clearly, I am not an anarchist. Philosophically, I might be, but I think in practical terms.

— James M. Buchanan

I'm not an anti-capitalist, or anarchist. I want capitalism to work.

— Ha-Joon Chang

Anarchists are simply unterrified Jeffersonian Democrats.

— Benjamin Tucker

The older I get, the more of an anarchist I become, and I don't mean in a punk rock way.

— Killer Mike

I'm not an anarchist any longer, because I've concluded that anarchism is an impractical ideal.

— Robert Anton Wilson

When anarchy is declared, the first thing we do, let's kill all the anarchists.

— Anonymous

[On an anarchist acquaintance:] Everything in appearance the most alarmist aunt could wish.

— Sylvia Townsend Warner

I'm not for no taxes. That would be an anarchist. I am for lower taxes.

— Grover Norquist

I much preferred the approach at the anarchist camp, with its shared tasks and collective responsibilities. Everyone played their part. There was…

— John Blair

We must shed the old stereotype of anarchists as bearded bomb throwers furtively stalking about city streets at night.

— Stephen Jay Gould

Women make natural anarchists and revolutionaries, because they've always been second-class citizens, kinda having had to claw their way up.

— Kim Gordon

I think I am slowly becoming an anarchist, that this is only another label for my privateness, and I think that you…

— Karel Capek

I think it's terribly important that networks of anarchists establish themselves with a view toward educating people.

— Murray Bookchin

I'm sorry that some self-styled anarchists have picked up on the word spirit and have turned me into a theological ecologist, a…

— Murray Bookchin

“Passing judgment on others for decisions that affect only themselves is absolutely noxious to any anarchist – not to mention it makes…

— Crimethinc

I'm an anarchist and I do think things such as Occupy Wall Street are about getting a little closer to the solution.

— Woody Harrelson

You see something very important is happening. Personality is being eaten out, and with that the idealism that always motivated an anarchist…

— Murray Bookchin

Anarchists are extreme libertarian socialists , "libertarian" meaning the demand for freedom from prohibition, and "socialist" meaning the demand for social equality…

— Donald Rooum

My aim is to be understood by everyone. I reject the 'depth' that people demand nowadays, into which you can never descend…

— George Grosz

“It is impossible for me to be an Anarchist, for I do not believe in the essential goodness of man. The world,…

— Edna St Vincent Millay

My early work is politically anarchist fiction, in that I was an anarchist for a long period of time. I'm not an…

— Robert Anton Wilson

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

... The Anarchists' [national] anthem is an international anthem that consists of 365 raspberries blown in very quick succession to the tune…

— Mike Harding

For the anarch, little is changed when he strips off a uniform that he wore partly as fool's motley, partly as camouflage.…

— Ernst Junger

“Our friend Tuesday," said the President in a deep voice at once of quietude and volume, "our friend Tuesday doesn't seem to…

— G.K. Chesterton

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

“Could he have been the fork in the road American never took, the singular point she jumped the wrong way from? Suppose…

— Thomas Pynchon

“If you personally advocate that I be caged if I don't pay for whatever "government" things YOU want, please don't pretend to…

— Larken Rose

In the Great War, there is no room for the faint-hearted, the cowardly. A criminal or an anarchist will be better conditioned…

— Miguel Serrano

“I became alive once more. At the dances I was one of the most untiring and gayest. One evening a cousin of…

— Emma Goldman

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

We are not utopians, we do not “dream” of dispensing at once with all administration, with all subordination. These anarchist dreams, based…

— Anonymous

“Each thing that obeys law [has] the glory and isolation of the anarchist.”

— G.K. Chesterton

“Judging by his outlandish attire, he's some sort of free-thinking anarchist.”

— Matt Groening

I never have been an anarchist, I've always had goals and always have acted out of love.

— Gloria Trevi

We believe that the Anarchists are real enemies of Marxism.

— Joseph Stalin

Anyone who is not an anarchist agrees with having a policeman at the corner of the street; but the danger at present…

— Anonymous

I'm not an anarchist any more. I still love the Sex Pistols, but I don't want to be a punk rocker all…

— Nicolas Cage

An anarchist does not want to rule others and does not want others to rule him. Nothing is so despicable as half-an-anarchist.

— Frank Van Dun

“So I ended up being an anarchist. I was the only anarchist I knew and thank god, because otherwise I would have…

— Roberto Bolaño