Anarchism Quotes

We don't live in a capitalist totality. Capitalism couldn't survive as a totality anyway. We live in this complex system and we already live communism and anarchism in a million forms everyday.

I know of no better name than Anarchism.

True #‎ anarchism will be #‎ capitalism , and true capitalism will be anarchism.

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

If crimes are committed they must be seen as a disease, and punishment as treatment rather than as social vengeance.

Let us designate anarchism1 anarchism as you define it. Let us desiginate anarchism2 anarchism as I and the American Heritage College Dictionary define it.

One of the problems with dealing with anarchism is that there are many people whose ideas are anarchist, but who do not necessarily call themselves anarchists.

Anarchism misunderstands the real nature of man. It would be practicable only in a world of angels and saints

My anarchism is frankly anarcho-communalism, and it's eco-anarchism as well. And it's not oriented toward the proletariat.

Anarchism is a theory of political science and is opposed to government in the political sense.

The individual cannot bargain with the State. The State recognizes no coinage but power: and it issues the coins itself.

At one time in the world there were woods that no one owned

Anarchism? You bet your sweet betsy. The only cure for the ills of democracy is more democracy. Much more.

Into every tidy scheme for arranging the pattern of human life, it is necessary to inject a certain dose of anarchism.

Anarchism...stands for direct action, the open defiance of, and resistance to, all laws and restrictions, economic, social, and moral.

Anarchism is a game at which the police can beat you.

I'm by no means convinced that capitalism and the development of technology has made anarchism easier.

I believe that there has to be an ideal and I favour an ethical anarchism which can be cohered into an ideal.

I know one thing: that you can do a lot of things but if you don't educate people into conscious anarchism it gets frittered away.

That's what I'm trying to get over: the idea that anarchism offers a description of equitable relations that go way back rather than a hypothesis of what the future should look like.

In Labor movements generally, success through violence can hardly be expected except in circumstances where success without violence is attainable.

Anarchy is law and freedom without force.Despotism is law and force without freedom.Barbarism force without freedom and law.Republicanism is force with freedom and law.

To most anarchists, the advocacy of freedom on Earth while bowing to a heavenly tyrant (no matter how imaginary) seems an insupportable contradiction.

L'homme qui n'a pas été anarchiste à seize ans est un imbécile. Mais c'en est un autre, s'il l'est encore à quarante.

It is better to enlighten men’s minds than to teach them to be obstinate in their prejudices.

Doing the forbidden is a normal function of growth.

If your political theory requires humanity to "evolve", then you do not have a theory.... you have a dream.

If your political theory requires humanity to "evolve", then you do not have a theory.

This revolution will be noted. It will be successful and above all, it will be in words.

Proletarians of the world, look into the depths of your own beings, seek out the truth and realise it yourselves: you will find it nowhere else.

Far from checking the spread of immorality, repression has always extended and deepended it. Thus it is futile to oppose it by rigorous legislation which trespasses on individual liberty.

If anarchy is chaos, and chaos is war, why wasn't a single war started by anarchists?

An anarchist government somehow creates an impression in the hearts of citizens that no one cares.

Independent radical women often live lonely lives if they expect equality.

Everything subtracted from the present is added to the future with interest.

It's easier to ponder the future than it is to do something about the present.

There is a saying, if any stranger enquire of the first met of Maan, were it even a child, “Who is here the sheykh?” he would answer him “I am he.

Only those prepared to go too far will learn how far they can go.

Victory will not go to those who can inflict the most suffering, but to those who can survive the most.

Instead of worship or ignorance of the past, we must make our own tools, our own stories, and our own legends.

Historical definition of a country's borders... "...here's where my murder geography ends and your murder geography begins, at least until I get more murderers to expand my murder-fest.

As man seeks justice in equality, so society seeks order in anarchy

Patriotism is the product of successful systematic indoctrination.

[M]an has as much liberty as he is willing to take.

Every command slaps liberty in the face.

A libertarian is someone who graduated from thinking that there are problems with the state to realizing that the state is the problem.

A thorough investigation would prove that nine crimes out of ten could be traced, directly or indirectly, to our economic and social iniquities, to our system of remorseless exploitation and robbery.

An anarchist is someone who rejects the curious notion that crimes become virtues as they grow in size.

No genuine revolutionary challenge to either the State or Capitalism in the United States can fail to ignore racism's importance in maintaining the current system.

The rejection of mass organizations as the be-all, end-all of organizing is vital for the creation and rediscovery of possibilities for empowerment and effective anarchistic work.