Anarchism Quotes

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People have only as much liberty as they have the intelligence to want and the courage to take.

If you would know who controls you see who you may not criticise.

Capitalism is the fullest expression of anarchism and anarchism is the fullest expression of capitalism.

You cannot buy the revolution. You cannot make the revolution. You can only be the revolution. It is in your spirit, or it is nowhere.

Today's terrorism is not the product of a traditional history of anarchism, nihilism, or fanaticism. It is instead the contemporary partner of globalization.

I am an Anarchist not because I believe Anarchism is the final goal, but because there is no such thing as a final goal.

I am not going to claim that modern anarchism has any direct relation to Roman jurisprudence; but I do claim that it has its basis in the laws of nature rather than in the state of nature.

Not whether we accomplish anarchism today, tomorrow, or within ten centuries, but that we walk towards anarchism today, tomorrow, and always.

In anarchy there is no automatic harmony .

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

Ask for work. If they don't give you work, ask for bread. If they do not give you work or bread, then take bread.

Evolution is the root of atheism, of communism, nazism, behaviorism, racism, economic imperialism, militarism, libertinism, anarchism, and all manner of anti-Christian systems of belief and practice.

Anarchism is founded on the observation that since few men are wise enough to rule themselves, even fewer are wise enough to rule others.

It was in the black mirror of anarchism that surrealism first recognised itself.

If you took the most ardent revolutionary, vested him in absolute power, within a year he would be worse than the Tsar himself.

School has become the world religion of a modernized proletariat, and makes futile promises of salvation to the poor of the technological age.

Jesus was an anarchist savior. That's what the Gospels tell us.

Anarchism means voluntary co-operation instead of forced participation. It means harmony and order in place of interference and disorder.

Every society has the criminals it deserves.

Do you want to make it impossible for anyone to oppress his fellow-man? Then make sure that no one shall possess power.

Whenever freedom is made into the absolute, the result is not freedom but anarchism. Freedom must be under law, or it is not freedom.

Authority, when first detecting chaos at its heels, will entertain the vilest schemes to save its orderly facade.

Anarchism, then, really stands for the liberation of the human mind from the dominion of religion.

I believe that in time we will have reached the point where we will deserve to be free of government.

Science is essentially an anarchic enterprise: theoretical anarchism is more humanitarian and more likely to encourage progress than its law-and-order alternatives.

As an anarchist, I cannot reconcile myself to any government.

Is anarchism desirable? Well, who does not seek freedom? What man, unless willing to declare himself in bondage, would care to call any control agreeable? Think about it!

In short, Anarchism means a condition or society where all men and women are free, and where all enjoy equally the benefits of an ordered and sensible life.

Private enterprise manages better all that to which it is equal. Anarchism declares that private enterprise, whether individual or cooperative, is equal to all the undertakings of society.

Anarchism and anthropology go well together because anthropologists know that a society without a state is possible because so many exist.

Anarchism is "stateless socialism."

Anarchism's lone objective is to reach a point at which the belligerence of some humans against humanity, in whatever form, comes to a halt.

The contention that a standing army and navy is the best security of peace is about as logical as the claim that the most peaceful citizen is he who goes about heavily armed.

I firmly believe people have the power to make decisions locally and cooperatively. Anarchism is how that is put into practice.

Anarchism as a political philosophy seeks to dissolve all forms of authority and power, and if possible, wishes their complete abolition.

Anarchism is democracy taken seriously.

Give us what belongs to us in peace, and if you don't give it to us in peace, we will take it by force.

There is no greater evil than anarchy.

Anarchism has a broad back, like paper it endures anything.

One must commit acts of the highest treason only when dressed in the most resplendent finery.

Love is it's own protection.

Our masters have not heard the people's voice for generations and it is much, much louder than they care to remember.

Anarchism is the great liberator of man from the phantoms that have held him captive; it is the arbiter and pacifier of the two forces for individual and social harmony.

Direct action is the logical, consistent method of Anarchism.

Capitalistic Anarchism ? Oh, yes, if you choose to call it so. Names are indifferent to me; I am not afraid of bugaboos. Let it be so, then, capitalistic Anarchism.

Your pretty empire took so long to build, now, with a snap of history's fingers, down it goes.

I'm not an anarchist any longer, because I've concluded that anarchism is an impractical ideal.

The best argument for anarchism is the twentieth century.

As to the American tradition of non-meddling, Anarchism asks that it be carried down to the individual himself.

For, just as it has been said that there is no half-way house between Rome and Reason, so it may be said that there is no half-way house between State Socialism and Anarchism.