Best Anarchist Sayings
168 Anarchist quotes by 122 unique authors
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A Christian Anarchist does not depend on bullets or ballots to achieve his ideal; he achieves that ideal daily by the One Man Revolution with…
— Ammon Hennacy
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The love of liberty and the sense of human dignity are the basic elements of the Anarchist creed.
— Federica Montseny
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I have been an Anarchist all my life,
— Buenaventura Durruti
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They [anarchists] spring from a single seed, no matter the flowering of their ideas. The seed is liberty. And that is all it is. It…
— Karl Hess
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I am NOT an anarchist. Never have been, never will be. Just because Crimethinc put out two of my poetry books, I am labeled everywhere…
— Raegan Butcher
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The writer is a spiritual anarchist, as in the depth of his soul every man is. He is discontented with everything and everybody. The writer…
— William Saroyan
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If anarchists are idealists, they may simply be likened to someone who finds himself swimming in a cesspool and, rather than paddling about looking for…
— Robert Higgs
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He who negates present society, and seeks social conditions based on the sharing of property, is a revolutionary whether he calls himself an anarchist or…
— Johann Most
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I am not anarchist. I have nothing against government or law enforcement in general. It is solely for the reason that this govt has legalized…
— Eric Rudolph
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In debates between anarchists and statists, the burden of proof clearly should rest on those who place their trust in the state. Anarchy's mayhem is…
— Robert Higgs
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As to whether Marcos is gay: Marcos is gay in San Francisco, black in South Africa, an Asian in Europe, a Chicano in San Ysidro,…
— Subcomandante Marcos
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In the Great War, there is no room for the faint-hearted, the cowardly. A criminal or an anarchist will be better conditioned than a bourgeois,…
— Miguel Serrano
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In a world where inequality of ability is inevitable, anarchists do not sanction any attempt to produce equality by artificial or authoritarian means. The only…
— Laurance Labadie
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As soon as one identifies, challenges and overcomes illegitimate power, he or she is an anarchist. Most people are anarchists. What they call themselves doesn’t…
— Noam Chomsky
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As for politics, I’m an anarchist. I hate governments and rules and fetters. Can’t stand caged animals. People must be free.
— Charlie Chaplin
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My aim is to be understood by everyone. I reject the 'depth' that people demand nowadays, into which you can never descend without a diving…
— George Grosz
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We will not be derailed by criminal anarchists who legitimately claim a religious cause.
— John F. Kerry
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As long as parents and teachers in general shall fall under the established rule, it is clear that politics and modes of government will educate…
— William Godwin
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Is anarchism desirable? Well, who does not seek freedom? What man, unless willing to declare himself in bondage, would care to call any control agreeable?…
— Johann Most
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In the opinion of the anarchist, the sum total of human ills is expressed in one word-authority.
— Albert Meltzer
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Anarchism, in my view, is an expression of the idea that the burden of proof is always on those who argue that authority and domination…
— Noam Chomsky
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All governments are in equal measure good and evil. The best ideal is anarchy.
— Leo Tolstoy
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Anarchists prepare for social revolution and use every means - speech, writing, or deed, whichever is more to the point; to accelerate revolutionary development.
— Johann Most
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Anarchy, when it works to destroy authority in all its aspects, when it demands the abrogation of laws and the abolition of the mechanism that…
— Peter Kropotkin
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Anarchy: It is NOT bombs, disorder or chaos. It is NOT robbery and murder. It is NOT a war of each against all. It is…
— Alexander Berkman
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