Absence Quote by Ernst Junger

The anarchist, as the born foe of authority, will be destroyed by it after damaging it more or less. The anarch, on the other…

— Ernst Junger

“While the popular understanding of anarchism is of a violent, anti-State movement, anarchism is a much more subtle and nuanced tradition then a simple…

— Anonymous

If I was an aspirant litterateur, I was also an aspirant anarchist. I have disliked Authority always, though sometimes seduced by its resplendence.

— Jan Morris

Anarchism, in my view, is an expression of the idea that the burden of proof is always on those who argue that authority and…

— Noam Chomsky

I'm not an anarchist any longer, because I've concluded that anarchism is an impractical ideal.

— Robert Anton Wilson

“I consider Anarchism the most beautiful and practical philosophy that has yet been thought of in its application to individual expression and the relation…

— Emma Goldman

The special trait making me an anarch is that I live in a world which I ‘ultimately’ do not take seriously. This increases my…

— Ernst Junger

If I rule out violent anarchism, there remains pacifist, anti-nationalist, anti-capitalist, moral, and anti-democratic anarchism (i.e., that which is hostile to the falsified democracy…

— Jacques Ellul

“Anarchism recognizes only the relative significance of ideas, institutions, and social forms. It is, therefore, not a fixed, self-enclosed social system, but rather a…

— Rudolf Rocker

Is anarchism desirable? Well, who does not seek freedom? What man, unless willing to declare himself in bondage, would care to call any control…

— Johann Most

Anarchism is opposed to states, armies, slavery, the wages system, the landlord system, prisons, monopoly capitalism, oligopoly capitalism, state capitalism, bureaucracy, meritocracy, theocracy, revolutionary…

— Donald Rooum

Sometimes it's easier for people who are in authority to be authoritarian, because people know where you stand.

— Meryl Streep