Anarchist Quote by Jacques Pierre Brissot

“Have these gentlemen ever seen a revolution? A revolution is certainly the most authoritarian thing there is; it is an act whereby one part…

— Vladimir Lenin

We are not utopians, we do not “dream” of dispensing at once with all administration, with all subordination. These anarchist dreams, based upon incomprehension…

— Anonymous

“Well, you have said that you were quite certain I was not a serious anarchist. Does this place strike you as being serious?" "It…

— G.K. Chesterton

“[On the eve of the French Revolution:] It is impossible to imagine a more disorderly Assembly. They neither reason, examine, nor discuss. They clap…

— Gouverneur Morris

“In countries of more advanced civilisation and of a more insurrectionary spirit, the public, accustomed to expect everything to be done for them by…

— John Stuart Mill

“Ever since 1792 the Revolutionary and counter-Revolutionary poles of French public life exemplified and reinforced the two-fold division of the country: for and against…

— Tony Judt

After the revolution you have the problem of keeping things going, of sorting out all the different views. It's quite natural that revolutionaries should…

— John Lennon

I think that in order to make revolution, you need to make reforms, but you should make these reforms with revolution in mind.

— Boots Riley

“Socialists, communists, fascists all believe in an ever stronger government. Anarchists think just the opposite. They want to eliminate central government entirely so that…

— Marc Aronson

The anarchists put the thing upside down. They declare that the proletarian revolution must begin by doing away with the political organization of the…

— Friedrich Engels

Anarchists should get together who agree, and develop their gifts at a critical point, in a critical place, and form genuine affinity groups in…

— Murray Bookchin

Pick a movement, pick a revolution and join it.

— Jack Dorsey