Anarchism Quote by Robert Higgs

It is not honest inquiry that makes anarchy; but it is error, insincerity, half belief and untruth that make it.

— Thomas Carlyle

That is what I have always understood to be the essence of anarchism: the conviction that the burden of proof has to be placed…

— Noam Chomsky

“Anarchists did not try to carry out genocide against the Armenians in Turkey; they did not deliberately starve millions of Ukrainians; they did not…

— Robert Higgs

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

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

— Michael Schwab

“Anarchy is merely the illusion of liberty.”

— Stephan Attia

“To be an anarchist only means that you believe that aggression is not justified, and that states necessarily employ aggression. And, therefore, that states,…

— Anonymous

Anarchists believe that we can govern ourselves in the absence of coercive and centralized authority; the underlying premise about human nature (to use an…

— Rebecca Solnit

Anarchy is the sure consequence of tyranny; for no power that is not limited by laws can ever be protected by them.

— John Milton

“No society can last in conditions of anarchy. This is self-evident and I am in full agreement. But my aim is not the establishment…

— Jacques Ellul

“I believe that all other political states are in fact variations or outgrowths of a basic state of anarchy; after all, when you mention…

— Alan Moore

Anarchy is the stepping stone to absolute power.

— Napoleon Bonaparte