Choices Quote by Ayn Rand

Despite the popular idea of anarchists as violent men, Anarchism is the one non-violent social philosophy.… The function of the Anarchist is two-fold. By…

— Ammon Hennacy

Symbolic violence is violence wielded with tacit complicity between its victims and its agents, insofar as both remain unconscious of submitting to or wielding…

— Pierre Bourdieu

Voluntaryism is the idea that all human interactions should be free of coercion, based on individual self-ownership. This is in contrast to socialism, which…

— Roger Ver

“With their concern for personal autonomy and individual freedom, anarchists more than any other socialists are aware of the inhumanity of both physical punishment…

— Peter Marshall

I define anarchist society as one where there is no legal possibility for coercive aggression against the person or property of any individual.

— Murray Rothbard

The violence inherent in our systems and structures of power is a part of who we are - our thoughts, sensibilities, imaginations, language. We…

— Lawrence Joseph

“The Anarcho-Syndicalists know that wars are only waged in the interest of the ruling classes; they believe, therefore, that any means is justifiable that…

— Rudolf Rocker

Nonviolence is something very powerful, and the power behind it is not weapons, but the support of the people.

— Arun Manilal Gandhi

“Anarcho-syndicalists, also known as “anarchists” or “libertarian syndicalists”, believe that power corrupts and that economic, social and political privilege flows from the power of…

— Nicholas Whitlam

The political superstition is still holding sway over the hearts and minds of the masses, but the true lovers of liberty will have no…

— Emma Goldman

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

— Vernon Richards

“As one of the leading French anarchist thinkers and friend of Bakunin, Élisée Reclus, put it: “The external form of society must alter in…

— Bernard Schweizer