Anarchism Quote by Pierre-Joseph Proudhon

Anarchy, the absence of a master, of a sovereign.

— Pierre-Joseph Proudhon

Anarchy is... a form of government or constitution in which public and private consciousness, formed through the development of science and law, is alone…

— Pierre-Joseph Proudhon

Anarchy is a state of society where the only government is reason.

— Michael Schwab

The notion of anarchy ...means that once industrial functions have taken over from political functions, then business transactions and exchange alone produce the social…

— Pierre-Joseph Proudhon

Anarchy, when it works to destroy authority in all its aspects, when it demands the abrogation of laws and the abolition of the mechanism…

— Peter Kropotkin

The roots of the word 'anarchy' are 'an archos,' 'no leaders,' which is not really about the kind of chaos that most people imagine…

— Alan Moore

They that are discontented under monarchy, call it tyranny; and they that are displeased with aristocracy, call it oligarchy: so also, they which find…

— Thomas Hobbes

Every man, and every body of men on earth, possesses the right of self-government. They receive it with their being from the hand of…

— Thomas Jefferson

Anarchy would be a world that nobody felt responsible for, that nobody felt any sort of love for. When there's real intelligence happening, when…

— Ed Kowalczyk

Anarchy is a word that comes from the Greek, and signifies, strictly speaking, "without government": the state of a people without any constituted authority.…

— Errico Malatesta

Today many politicians suggest that where the federal government does not act, there must be anarchy. That view is odd, blinkering out the work…

— Amity Shlaes

Anarchy is no guarantee that some people won't kill, injure, kidnap, defraud, or steal from others. Government is a guarantee that some will.

— Gustave de Molinari