Anarchism Quote by Maxine Peake

“So I ended up being an anarchist. I was the only anarchist I knew and thank god, because otherwise I would have stopped being…

— Roberto Bolaño

He who negates present society, and seeks social conditions based on the sharing of property, is a revolutionary whether he calls himself an anarchist…

— Johann Most

It sets its face rightfully against the doctrines of the Anarchist and the Communist, who seek to solve the social problems not by patient…

— Henry Cabot Lodge

Anarchism is not a romantic fable but the hardheaded realization, based on five thousand years of experience, that we cannot entrust the management of…

— Edward Abbey

“To be an anarchist is to leave the beaten paths on which for hundreds of years generations of sheep have walked without reflection, break…

— John Merriman

The education we all receive from the State, at school and after, has so warped our minds that the very notion of freedom ends…

— Peter Kropotkin

The most important thing [anarchists] can do is educate themselves, develop a propaganda machinery in the form of books and periodicals, a literature, engage…

— Murray Bookchin

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…

— Robert Higgs

You see something very important is happening. Personality is being eaten out, and with that the idealism that always motivated an anarchist movement -…

— Murray Bookchin

“I became an anarchist very early on. Anarchism, in my mind, meant taking democracy seriously and organizing prefiguratively- that is, in a way that…

— Andrej Grubačić

We must therefore turn to history for enlightenment; here we find that none of the proclaimed anarchist groups correspond to the libertarian position, that…

— Murray Rothbard

The Anarchists are simply unterrified Jeffersonian Democrats. They believe that 'the best government is that which governs least,' and that which governs least is…

— Benjamin Tucker