I think it's terribly important that networks of anarchists establish themselves with a view toward educating people. — Murray Bookchin Copy Share Image
I am concerned that people who admire [Ayn] Rand are not often critical enough of the extent to which she has abridged… — Murray Bookchin Copy Share Image
My main interests right now are to publish, to write, to explicate various views which I hope have an impact on thinking… — Murray Bookchin Copy Share Image
I know one thing: that you can do a lot of things but if you don't educate people into conscious anarchism it… — Murray Bookchin Copy Share Image
My feeling is that whatever people elect to do, insofar as they don't deny the rights of others, every effort should be… — Murray Bookchin Copy Share Image
My concern is to develop a North American type of anarchism that comes out of the American tradition, or that at least… — Murray Bookchin Copy Share Image
After reading The Great Transformation by Karl Polanyi, I realized that capitalism did not naturally grow as [Karl] Marx would imply by… — Murray Bookchin Copy Share Image
I think that people who believe in limited government would benefit greatly by studying the logic in government itself and the role… — Murray Bookchin Copy Share Image
I have no quarrel with libertarians who advance the concept of capitalism . I believe that people will decide for themselves what… — Murray Bookchin Copy Share Image
I feel that if people investigate the emergence of government, of State power - if they examine the logic of State power… — Murray Bookchin Copy Share Image
There are people, of course, who profess to be libertarian Marxists. I believe they mean very well, and I even write in… — Murray Bookchin Copy Share Image
New York has a tremendous number of people but the quality of its politics is unspeakable. By contrast, in a smaller township,… — Murray Bookchin Copy Share Image
I find it perfectly consistent for libertarians to operate on the municipal or county level, where they are close to the people… — Murray Bookchin Copy Share Image
I went through the communist children's movement at the age of nine, in 1930, and into the Young Communist League in 1936.… — Murray Bookchin Copy Share Image
Here's what I do believe very strongly: that once capitalism comes into existence, once it creates this mythology of a stingy nature,… — Murray Bookchin Copy Share Image
I say this ironically, not because I favor the State, but because people are not in the state of mind right now… — Murray Bookchin Copy Share Image
In some instances even certain social services that normally were supplied, or pre-empted by the state. Take the United States, the [Ronald]… — Murray Bookchin Copy Share Image
Capitalism has created a situation called scarcity. And that scarcity is not natural, it's socially induced. Along with that sense of scarcity,… — Murray Bookchin Copy Share Image
Power to the people' can only be put into practice when the power exercised by social elites is dissolved into the people.… — Murray Bookchin Copy Share Image
I'm talking of the idea, basically very widespread in America, that the less government the better, which is obviously being used to… — Murray Bookchin Copy Share Image
People who resist authority, who defend the rights of the individual, who try in a period of increasing totalitarianism and centralization to… — Murray Bookchin Copy Share Image
We should try to become better people, ethically speaking, reflect upon ourselves and our very limited existences and develop a sense of… — Murray Bookchin Copy Share Image
Wherever people defend the rights of the individual, I stand with them above all, over and beyond any wishes relating to how… — Murray Bookchin Copy Share Image
If the State does not enjoy a monopoly of violence, which then gives it the power to order people's lives and to… — Murray Bookchin Copy Share Image
I would like to see a critical mass of very gifted anarchists come together in an appropriate place in order to do… — Murray Bookchin Copy Share Image
The State is a professional apparatus that sets itself apart from the people and apart from the institutions that the people themselves… — Murray Bookchin Copy Share Image
I would agree that much with people who accept private property - that conscription is an unpardonable transgression, whether it be "corrupt"… — Murray Bookchin Copy Share Image
I believe that the American people should defend themselves if any attempt is made to take over the government by coup d'etat,… — Murray Bookchin Copy Share Image
I am puzzled by people today who, after moralizing about the need for cooperation and goodwill and love-thy-neighbor-as-thyself, suddenly invoke the most… — Murray Bookchin Copy Share Image
We have to give people the freedom to choose lifestyles and material satisfactions that suit their needs, and we have to redefine… — Murray Bookchin Copy Share Image
I know one thing: that you can do a lot of things but if you don't educate people into conscious anarchism it gets frittered… — Murray Bookchin Copy Share Image
I regard individuality as the most precious trait we have, because without it there is no creativity, there is no consciousness, there is no… — Murray Bookchin Copy Share Image
In the 60s there were a lot of things which were anarchistic. May-June '68 was riddled by anarchistic sentiments, dreams and ideals, but insofar… — Murray Bookchin Copy Share Image
Capitalism has created a situation called scarcity. And that scarcity is not natural, it's socially induced. Along with that sense of scarcity, or feeling… — Murray Bookchin Copy Share Image
You see something very important is happening. Personality is being eaten out, and with that the idealism that always motivated an anarchist movement -… — Murray Bookchin Copy Share Image
“[The] term 'libertarian' itself, to be sure, raises a problem, notably, the specious identification of an anti-authoritarian ideology with a straggling movement for 'pure… — Murray Bookchin Copy Share Image
Wherever people defend the rights of the individual, I stand with them above all, over and beyond any wishes relating to how an economy… — Murray Bookchin Copy Share Image
I'm convinced more than ever that capitalism, with its technological development, has not been an advance toward freedom but has been an enormous setback… — Murray Bookchin Copy Share Image
“The phrase "consumer society" complements the description of the present social order as an "industrial society." Needs are tailored by the mass media to… — Murray Bookchin Copy Share Image
“[W]ithout changing the most molecular relationships in society — notably, those between men and women, adults and children, whites and other ethnic groups, heterosexuals… — Murray Bookchin 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 literature, engage… — Murray Bookchin Copy Share Image
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![“[The] term 'libertarian' itself, to be sure, raises a problem, notably, the specious identification of an anti-authoritarian ideology with a straggling movement for 'pure capitalism' and 'free trade.' This movement never created the word: it appropriated it from the anarchist movement of the…” quote by Murray Bookchin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/d1e/murray-bookchin-2587_free-trade_the-term-libertarian-itself-to-be-sure-r_144681.jpg)
![“[W]ithout changing the most molecular relationships in society — notably, those between men and women, adults and children, whites and other ethnic groups, heterosexuals and gays (the list, in fact, is considerable) — society will be riddled by domination even in a socialistic ‘classless’ and…” quote by Murray Bookchin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/5e4/murray-bookchin-2587_children_w-ithout-changing-the-most-molecular-rel_189100.jpg)
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