Anarchism Quotes

The principles of liberalism can have a real existence only in conjunction with a police system. Ana...

The boycott of parliamentary institutions on the part of anarchists and semianarchists is dictated b...

If the jury have no right to judge of the justice of a law of the government, they plainly can do no...

And yet we have what purports, or professes, or is claimed, to be a contract—the Constitution—made e...

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

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

Modern industrial civilisation has developed within a certain system of convenient myths. The drivin...

That is what I have always understood to be the essence of anarchism: the conviction that the burden...

Most schooling is training for stupidity and conformity, and that's institutional, but occasionally ...

These ideas grew out of the Enlightenment; their roots are in Rousseau’s Discourse on Inequality, Hu...

Crowned heads, wealth and privilege may well tremble should ever again the Black and Red unite!"-aft...

Doing the forbidden is a normal function of growth.

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

To be GOVERNED is to be watched, inspected, spied upon, directed, law-driven, numbered, regulated, e...

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

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

Meanwhile, two other great currents in political thought, had a decisive significance on the develop...

Political rights do not originate in parliaments; they are, rather, forced upon parliaments from wit...

The duty of the individual is to accept no rule, to be the initiator of his own acts, to be responsi...

You cannot buy the revolution. You cannot make the revolution. You can only be the revolution. It is...

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

We have conquered everything, and everything has slipped out of our grasp.

If this is the price to be paid for an idea, then let us pay. There is no need of being troubled abo...

The right of self-determination of the peoples includes the right to a state of their own. However, ...

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

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

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

To change the world by bullets or ballots was a useless procedure. If the workers ever did get a maj...

In Labor movements generally, success through violence can hardly be expected except in circumstance...

The real enemy" is the totality of physical and mental constraints by which capital, or class societ...

You are what you do. If you do boring, stupid monotonous work, chances are you'll end up boring, stu...

Work, then, institutionalizes homicide as a way of life. People think the Cambodians were crazy for ...

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

Normally, when you challenge the conventional wisdom—that the current economic and political system ...

The theory of exodus proposes that the most effective way of opposing capitalism and the liberal sta...

Take one famous example: arguments about property destruction after Seattle. Most of these, I think,...

Visible alternatives shatter the sense of inevitability, that the system must, necessarily, be patch...

Failure to recognize the historical specificity of the bourgeois conception of rights and duties lea...

One of the problems with all of this is that not all narratives are equal. Imagine, to take a silly ...

It is impossible for me to be an Anarchist, for I do not believe in the essential goodness of man. T...

Anarchism is not a romantic fable but the hardheaded realization, based on five thousand years of ex...

Anarchism is democracy taken seriously.

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

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

Not only my arrest but the others smack of the Haymarket. The police are very much in disrepute all ...

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

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

I did not believe that a Cause which stood for a beautiful ideal, for anarchism, for release and fre...

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

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

A thorough investigation would prove that nine crimes out of ten could be traced, directly or indire...

But what about human nature? Can it be changed? And if not, will it endure under Anarchism?Poor huma...

The contention that a standing army and navy is the best security of peace is about as logical as th...

Love is it's own protection.

I have often been asked why I maintained such a non-compromising antagonism to government and in wha...

I consider Anarchism the most beautiful and practical philosophy that has yet been thought of in its...

Every society has the criminals it deserves.

Do not all theists insist that there can be no morality, no justice, honesty or fidelity without the...

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

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

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

School has become the world religion of a modernized proletariat, and makes futile promises of salva...

My evanescent anarchistic tendencies are purely classical. I use the word anarchist in the sense in ...

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