"Anarchism is democracy taken seriously." — Edward Abbey

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• Anarchism is founded on the observation that since few men are wise enough to rule themselves, even fewer are wise… — Edward Abbey
• Anarchism's lone objective is to reach a point at which the belligerence of some humans against humanity, in whatever form,… — Gustav Landauer
• Market Anarchism is the doctrine that the legislative, adjudicative, and protective functions unjustly and inefficiently monopolised by the coercive State… — Roderick T. Long
• Odonianism is anarchism. Not the bomb-in-the-pocket stuff, which is terrorism, whatever name it tries to dignify itself with, not the… — Ursula K. Le Guin
• We have been civilized for a thousand millennia. We have histories of hundreds of those millennia. We have tried everything.… — Ursula K. Le Guin
• Anarchism is a game at which the police can beat you. — George Bernard Shaw
• It was in the black mirror of anarchism that surrealism first recognised itself. — Andre Breton
• If you say that you reject violence when it exceeds the limits imposed by the needs of defense, they accuse… — Errico Malatesta
• Anarchists are opposed to violence; everyone knows that. The main plank of anarchism is the removal of violence from human… — Errico Malatesta
• Not whether we accomplish anarchism today, tomorrow, or within ten centuries, but that we walk towards anarchism today, tomorrow, and… — Errico Malatesta
• Anarchism is the abolition of exploitation and oppression of man by man, that is, the abolition of private property and… — Errico Malatesta
• Anarchism misunderstands the real nature of man. It would be practicable only in a world of angels and saints — Ludwig von Mises

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