Anarchy Quotes

415 Anarchy quotes by 271 unique authors

The main question ... is not what motive inspired the law, but what it will be possible for men of bad motive to do with… — Benjamin Tucker
Governments and the military purport to protect the public from enemies, and if there were no enemies they would have to invent some, for the… — Laurance Labadie
Anarchism is the only philosophy which brings to man the consciousness of himself; which maintains that God, the State, and society are non-existent, that their… — Emma Goldman
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
"All government in essence," says Emerson, "is tyranny." It matters not whether it is government by divine right or majority rule. In every instance its… — Emma Goldman
ANARCHISM:The philosophy of a new social order based on liberty unrestricted by man-made law; the theory that all forms of government rest on violence, and… — Emma Goldman
A practical scheme, says Oscar Wilde, is either one already in existence, or a scheme that could be carried out under the existing conditions; but… — Emma Goldman
Even were the workers able to have their own representatives, for which our good Socialist politicians are clamoring, what chances are there for their honesty… — Emma Goldman
It was play rather than work which enabled man to evolve his higher faculties - everything we mean by the word 'culture'. — Herbert Read
John Burroughs has stated that experimental study of animals in captivity is absolutely useless. Their character, their habits, their appetites undergo a complete transformation when… — Emma Goldman
Liberty is the solution of all social and economic questions. — Jo Labadie
Perhaps it is this theory of all work and no play that has made the Marxist such a very dull boy. — Herbert Read
Real wealth consists in things of utility and beauty, in things that help to create strong, beautiful bodies and surroundings inspiring to live in. — Emma Goldman
The emotions of the ignorant man are continuously kept at a pitch by the most blood-curdling stories about Anarchism. Not a thing too outrageous to… — Emma Goldman
The "health, education, and welfare" section of government is another boondoggle. First we manufacture indigent and superfluous people by legal monopolies in land, money and… — Laurance Labadie
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
There is no freedom that I would grant to any man that I would refuse to woman, and there is no freedom that I would… — Benjamin Tucker
The State is said by some to be a necessary evil; it must be made unnecessary. — Benjamin Tucker
The student of Liberty must constantly endeavor to disassociate his imagination from sanguinary dramas of assassination and revolt. — Benjamin Tucker
They do not want to know that centralization is not only the death-knell of liberty, but also of health and beauty, of art and science,… — Emma Goldman
If the individual has a right to govern himself, all external government is tyranny. Hence the necessity of abolishing the State. — Benjamin Tucker
Aggression is simply another name for government. Aggression, invasion, government, are interconvertible terms. The essence of government is control, or the attempt to control. He… — Benjamin Tucker
He who attempts to control another is a governor, an aggressor, an invader; and the nature of such invasion is not changed, whether it is… — Benjamin Tucker
This, then, is the Anarchistic definition of government: the subjection of the non-invasive individual to an external will... — Benjamin Tucker
Anarchism does not repudiate the right of ownership, but it has a conception thereof sufficiently different from [others'] to include the possibility of an end… — Benjamin Tucker

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