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By no means. I have just given you my serious and well-considered profession of faith. Although a firm friend of order, I am (in the… — Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
And by anarchist spirit I mean that deeply human sentiment, which aims at the good of all, freedom and justice for all, solidarity and love… — Errico Malatesta
Anarchists are opposed to violence; everyone knows that. The main plank of anarchism is the removal of violence from human relations. It is life based… — Errico Malatesta
Intolerance of oppression, the desire to be free and develop one personality to its full limits, is not enough to make one an anarchist. That… — Errico Malatesta
All these young millionaires were anarchists, of course: when a man possesses everything it is the supreme luxury for him to deny society: for in… — Romain Rolland
The anarchist, as the born foe of authority, will be destroyed by it after damaging it more or less. The anarch, on the other hand,… — Ernst Junger
The anarchist painter is not the one who will create anarchist pictures, but the one who will fight with all his individuality against official conventions. — Paul Signac
The Anarchists are simply unterrified Jeffersonian Democrats. They believe that 'the best government is that which governs least,' and that which governs least is no… — Benjamin Tucker
From my point of view the killing of another, except in defense of human life, is archistic, authoritarian, and therefore, no Anarchist can commit such… — Jo Labadie
An Anarchist is anyone who denies the necessity and legitimacy of government; the question of his methods of attacking it is foreign to the definition. — Benjamin Tucker
There are some troubles from which mankind can never escape .... have never claimed that liberty will bring perfection; they simply say that its results… — Benjamin Tucker
To be an anarchist only means that you believe that aggression is not justified, and that states necessarily employ aggression. And, therefore, that states, and… — Stephan Kinsella
Because the state necessarily commits aggression, the consistent libertarian, in opposing aggression, is also an anarchist. — Stephan Kinsella
I define anarchist society as one where there is no legal possibility for coercive aggression against the person or property of any individual. Anarchists oppose… — Murray Rothbard
Anyone who is not an anarchist agrees with having a policeman at the corner of the street; but the danger at present is that of… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
Anarchists know that a long period of education must precede any great fundamental change in society, hence they do not believe in vote begging, nor… — Lucy Parsons
The Anarchists never have claimed that liberty will bring perfection; they simply say that its results are vastly preferable to those that follow authority. — Benjamin Tucker
The Anarchists answer that the abolition of the State will leave in existence a defensive association, resting no longer on a compulsory but on a… — Benjamin Tucker
In the matter of the maintenance and rearing of children the Anarchists would neither institute the communistic nursery which the State Socialists favor nor keep… — Benjamin Tucker
An anarchist society, far from being a remote ideal, has become a precondition for the practice of ecological principles. — Murray Bookchin
For the anarchist, freedom is not an abstract philosophical concept, but the vital concrete possibility of every human being to bring to full development all… — Rudolf Rocker
I am an Anarchist not because I believe Anarchism is the final goal, but because there is no such thing as a final goal. — Rudolf Rocker
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 dictionary definition of a Christian is one who follows Christ; kind, kindly, Christ-like. Anarchism is voluntary cooperation for good, with the right of secession.… — 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 two-fold. By daily… — Ammon Hennacy

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