Anarchists Quotes
63 Anarchists quotes by 44 unique authors
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This excessive licence, which the anarchists think is the only true freedom, provides the stock, as it were, from which a tyrant grows.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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Many people say that government is necessary because some men cannot be trusted to look after themselves, but anarchists say that government is harmful because…
— Unknown Author
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Gentlemen, the time is coming when there will be two great classes, Socialists, and Anarchists. The Anarchists want the government to be nothing, and the…
— William Graham Sumner
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Jacobins, I have a truth to tell you. You do not know your most deadly enemies; they are the constitutional priests. It is they who…
— Jean-Paul Marat
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We must institute a coup d'etat, a third revolution, which must beat down anarchy. Dissolve the Paris Commune and destroy its sections! Dissolve the clubs,…
— Jacques Pierre Brissot
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We love the indomitable bellicose patriotism that sets you apart; we love the national pride that guides your muscularly courageous race; we love the potent…
— Filippo Tommaso Marinetti
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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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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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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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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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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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We will not be derailed by criminal anarchists who legitimately claim a religious cause.
— John F. Kerry
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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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During the first two months of the war it was the Anarchists more than anyone else who had saved the situation, and much later than…
— George Orwell
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If I had understood the situation a bit better I should probably have joined the Anarchists.
— George Orwell
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