"Anarchism, in my view, is an expression of……" — Noam Chomsky
"Anarchism, in my view, is an expression of the idea that the burden of proof is always on those who argue that authority and domination are necessary. They have to demonstrate, with powerful argument, that that conclusion is correct. If they cannot, then the institutions they defend should be considered illegitimate. How one should react to illegitimate authority depends on circumstances and conditions: there are no formulas."
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588 Quotes by Noam Chomsky
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If we don't believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all.
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Everybody's worried about stopping terrorism. Well, there's a really easy way: stop participating in it.
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Any dictator would admire the uniformity and obedience of the U.S. media.
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If you don't like what someone has to say, argue with them.
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If the Nuremberg laws were applied, then every post-war American president would have been hanged.
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The Bible is one of the most genocidal books in history.
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If there was an observer on Mars, they would probably be amazed that we have survived this long.
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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
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Anarchism's lone objective is to reach a point at which the belligerence of some humans against humanity, in whatever form,…
— Gustav Landauer
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Market Anarchism is the doctrine that the legislative, adjudicative, and protective functions unjustly and inefficiently monopolised by the coercive State…
— Roderick T. Long
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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
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We have been civilized for a thousand millennia. We have histories of hundreds of those millennia. We have tried everything.…
— Ursula K. Le Guin
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Anarchism is a game at which the police can beat you.
— George Bernard Shaw
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It was in the black mirror of anarchism that surrealism first recognised itself.
— Andre Breton
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If you say that you reject violence when it exceeds the limits imposed by the needs of defense, they accuse…
— Errico Malatesta
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Anarchists are opposed to violence; everyone knows that. The main plank of anarchism is the removal of violence from human…
— Errico Malatesta
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Not whether we accomplish anarchism today, tomorrow, or within ten centuries, but that we walk towards anarchism today, tomorrow, and…
— Errico Malatesta
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Anarchism is the abolition of exploitation and oppression of man by man, that is, the abolition of private property and…
— Errico Malatesta
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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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