Ammon Hennacy

Too many of us dissipate our energy by being 'for all good causes,' attending meetings and passing resolutions, organizing and presenting petitions…

— Ammon Hennacy

Being a pacifist to save your own life is normal, being a pacifist for the lives of others is true pacifism.

— Ammon Hennacy

“I wasn't disturbing the peace, I was disturbing the war”

— Ammon Hennacy

Force is the weapon of the weak.

— Ammon Hennacy

Love without courage and wisdom is sentimentality, as with the ordinary church member. Courage without love and wisdom is foolhardiness, as with…

— Ammon Hennacy

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

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

A Christian Anarchist does not depend on bullets or ballots to achieve his ideal; he achieves that ideal daily by the One…

— Ammon Hennacy

A pacifist between wars is like a vegetarian between meals.

— Ammon Hennacy

We really can’t change the world. We really can’t change other people! The best we can do is to start a few…

— Ammon Hennacy

An anarchist is someone who doesn't need a cop to make him behave.

— Ammon Hennacy

I'm not trying to change the world. I'm trying to stop the world from changing me.

— Ammon Hennacy

A Christian anarchist has no business belonging to such a reactionary organization [the Catholic Church]. I do not believe in original sin,…

— Ammon Hennacy

“Oh judge! Your damn laws! The good people don't need them, and the bad people don't obey them.”

— Ammon Hennacy

An anarchist is someone who doesn't need a cop to make him behave. Anarchism is voluntary cooperation with the right of secession.…

— Ammon Hennacy