Best Anarchist Lines
168 Anarchist quotes by 122 unique authors
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Anarchists are simply unterrified Jeffersonian Democrats.
— Benjamin Tucker
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Perhaps my children will one day pledge their loyalty to the Republican Party. Or perhaps they'll dismiss my liberalism as mild pap, and become anarchists.…
— Ayelet Waldman
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I'm not an anarchist any longer, because I've concluded that anarchism is an impractical ideal.
— Robert Anton Wilson
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Even galaxy-spanning anarchist utopias of stupefying full-spectrum civilisational power have turf wars within their unacknowledged militaries.
— Iain Banks
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What is an anarchist? One who, choosing, accepts the responsibility of choice.
— Ursula K. Le Guin
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I die, as I have lived, a free spirit, an Anarchist, owing no allegiance to rulers, heavenly or earthly.
— Voltairine de Cleyre
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M. Mabeuf’s political opinion was a passionate fondness for plants, and a still greater one for books. He had, like everybody else, his termination in…
— Victor Hugo
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Anarchism, to me, means not only the denial of authority, not only a new economy, but a revision of the principles of morality. It means…
— Voltairine de Cleyre
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We anarchists do not want to emancipate the people; we want the people to emancipate themselves.
— Errico Malatesta
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She leaned down and looked at his lifeless face and Leisel kissed her best friend, Rudy Steiner, soft and true on his lips. He tasted…
— Markus Zusak
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The central question is, is this guy right? Or is he mad? What do you, the reader, think about this? Which struck me as a…
— Alan Moore
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I came in contact with every known Indian anarchist in London. Their bravery impressed me, but I felt that their zeal was misguided. I felt…
— Mahatma Gandhi
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The artist, and particularly the poet, is always an anarchist in the best sense of the word. He must heed only the call that arises…
— Federico Garcia Lorca
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I am an anarchist, like any other sensible person. ~ Merlyn
— T.H. White
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As a general rule of biology, migratory species are less 'aggressive' than sedentary ones. There is one obvious reason why this should be so. The…
— Bruce Chatwin
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The talk of pale, burning-eyed students, anarchists and utopians all, over tea and cigarettes in a locked room long past midnight, is next morning translated,…
— Christopher Isherwood
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There is a theory going around that the U.S.A. was and still is a gigantic Masonic plot under the ultimate control of the group known…
— Thomas Pynchon
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GENTLE READER: You, sir, are an anarchist, and Miss Manners is frightened to have anything to do with you. It is true that questioning the…
— Judith Martin
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Anarchism is not a romantic fable but the hardheaded realization, based on five thousand years of experience, that we cannot entrust the management of our…
— Edward Abbey
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An anarchist is someone who doesn't need a cop to make him behave.
— Ammon Hennacy
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The ordinary man is an anarchist. He wants to do as he likes. He may want his neighbour to be governed, but he himself doesn't…
— George Bernard Shaw
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Dead anarchists make martyrs, you know, and keep living for centuries. But absent ones can be forgotten.
— Ursula K. Le Guin
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No animal has more liberty than the cat, but it buries the mess it makes. The cat is the best anarchist.
— Ernest Hemingway
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When he found that the administrators were upset, he laughed. “Do they expect students not to be anarchists?” he said. “What else can the young…
— Ursula K. Le Guin
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When you have been just told that the girl you love is definitely betrothed to another, you begin to understand how Anarchists must feel when…
— P.G. Wodehouse
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