Anarchy Quotes

Anarchy is the only slight glimmer of hope.

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

We revolutionary anarchists are the enemies of all forms of State and State organisations ... wethin...

I think that the Internet is going to be one of the major forces for reducing the role of government...

The anarchy that threatens a degrading society is not its punishment, but its remedy.

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

... if we adopt the principle of universality: if an action is right (or wrong) for others, it is ri...

I beseech you, in the bowels of Christ, think it possible you may be mistaken.

Democracy without respect for individual rights sucks. It's just ganging up against the weird kid, a...

The man Of virtuous soul commands not, nor obeys:Power, like a desolating pestilence,Pollutes whate'...

When politics and home life have become one and the same, when economic problems have been solved in...

The purchaser draws boundaries, fences himself in, and says, “This is mine; each one by himself, eac...

There is no chance and anarchy in the universe. All is system and gradation. Every god is there sitt...

Individuals have rights and there are things no person or group may do to them (without violating th...

Consider the following sequence of cases, which we shall call the Tale of the Slave, and imagine it ...

Collins and Morales represent a segment of society which, if attacked with the weapons society sanct...

democracy is a see-saw between complete chaos and tolerable confusion

A libertarian is somebody who believes, of course, in personal liberty. And liberty is a personal th...

The idea that the government has services or goods that they can pass on is a complete farce. Govern...

It must be remembered that a vast majority of mankind’s history has been spent living under the rule...

When we give government the power to make medical decisions for us, we in essence accept that the st...

Government should never be able to do anything you can't do. If you can't steal from your neighbor, ...

No state, no government exists. What does in fact exist is a man, or a few men, in power over many m...

It is precisely democracy which is destroying the American political structure, American law, and th...

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

What is important is to spread confusion, not eliminate it.

Librarians hoard the wisdom of humanity. They are the keepers of all knowledge, the guardians at the...

One of the few things my father says when he's had a few that I agree with is that kids don't have m...

On the opening day of law school at Yale, I always counsel my first-year students never to support a...

William: "I'm sure we can all pull together, sir."Vetinari: "Oh, I do hope not. Pulling together is ...

What is ominous is the ease with which some people go from saying that they don't like something to ...

Price controls almost invariably produce black markets, where prices are not only higher than the le...

Anarchy is like custard cooking over a flame; it has to be constantly stirred or it sticks and gets ...

What is an anarchist? One who, choosing, accepts the responsibility of choice

What is an anarchist? One who, choosing, accepts the responsibility of choice.

A promise is a direction taken, a self-limitation of choice. As Odo pointed out, if no direction is ...

We have nothing but our freedom. We have nothing to give you but your own freedom. We have no law bu...

An Odonian undertook monogamy just as he might undertake a joint enterprise in production, a ballet ...

Dead anarchists make martyrs, you know, and keep living for centuries. But absent ones can be forgot...

It is our suffering that brings us together. It is not love. Love does not obey the mind, and turns ...

To make a thief, make an owner; to create crime, create laws.

Go into the London Stock Exchange – a more respectable place than many a court – and you will see re...

I die, as I have lived, a free spirit, an Anarchist, owing no allegiance to rulers, heavenly or eart...

Says the Cardinal: "Freethought leads to Atheism, to the destruction of social and civil order, and ...

I wouldn't live in a colony like that, myself, for a thousand dollars an hour. I wouldn't want it ne...

It is absurd to expect the inclinations and wishes of two human beings to coincide, through any long...

Strange that men, from age to age, should consent to hold their lives at the breath of another, mere...

The intelligence suffers today automatically in consequence of the attack on all authority, advantag...

We started off trying to set up a small anarchist community, but people wouldn't obey the rules.

Rome sees some bloke from the London School of Economics on the telly while he’s flicking through th...

There, did you think to kill me? There's no flesh or blood within this cloak to kill. There's only a...

It is only when we have renounced our preoccupation with "I," "me," "mine," that we can truly posses...

Human beings are born with different capacities. If they are free, they are not equal. And if they a...

Those then, who resist a confirmation of public order, are the true Artificers of monarchy—not that ...

Those then, who resist a confirmation of public order, are the true Artificers of monarchy—not that ...

It's not an endlessly expanding list of rights — the 'right' to education, the 'right' to health car...

All those who seek to destroy the liberties of a democratic nation ought to know that war is the sur...

No one is safe from nature's savagery,not even the innocent. Only beauty is consistent. Gabrielle en...

Do not consider Collectivists as "sincere but deluded idealists". The proposal to enslave some men f...

Collectivism means the subjugation of the individual to a group—whether to a race, class or state do...

Socialism may be established by force, as in the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics—or by vote, as ...

Every dictator is a mystic, and every mystic is a potential dictator. A mystic craves obedience from...

All laws which can be violated without doing any one any injury are laughed at. Nay, so far are they...

[Our] struggle for liberation has significance only if it takes place within a feminist movement tha...

Entrepreneurial capitalism takes more people out of poverty than aid.

Money is not an invention of the state. It is not the product of a legislative act. Even the sanctio...

Beginning with Santa Claus as a cognitive exercise, a child is encouraged to share the same idea of ...

The most dangerous diminutions of freedom come from those who are convinced of their moral rectitude...

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

Laughter is an anarchic blasphemy. Tyrants are wise to fear it.

A primary purpose of the police is to enforce the delusions of those with lots of green paper.

Y'know, there's a very interesting state of Anarchy up there. Everything's cracking up. That lot of ...

Nationalism does nothing but teach you to hate people you never met, and to take pride in accomplish...

Anarchism is democracy taken seriously.

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

The political superstition is still holding sway over the hearts and minds of the masses, but the tr...

Before we can forgive one another, we have to understand one another.

If I can't dance to it, it's not my revolution.

So long as tyranny exists, in whatever form, man's deepest aspiration must resist it as inevitably a...

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

The philosophy of Atheism represents a concept of life without any metaphysical Beyond or Divine Reg...

No great idea in its beginning can ever be within the law. How can it be within the law? The law is ...

The sick in soul insist that it is humanity that is sick, and they are the surgeons to operate on it...

The Internet is the first thing that humanity has built that humanity doesn't understand, the larges...

The freedom we want, for ourselves and for others, is not an absolute metaphysical, abstract freedom...

Don't give over all of your critical faculties to people in power, no matter how admirable those peo...

I didn't know I was a slave until I found out I couldn't do the things I wanted.

To make a contented slave, you must make a thoughtless one. It is necessary to darken his moral and ...

State is the name of the coldest of all cold monsters. Coldly it lies; and this lie slips from its m...

Anarchists are mouthpieces of a declining stratum of society; when they work themselves into a state...

Everything the State says is a lie, and everything it has it has stolen.

When plunder becomes a way of life for a group of men in a society, over the course of time they cre...

The profit of the one is the profit of the other.

There are two principles between which there can be no compromise—liberty and coercion.

Experience teaches effectually, but brutally. It makes us acquainted with all the effects of an acti...

The law is guilty of the evils it is supposed to punish.

The law has placed the collective force at the disposal of the unscrupulous who wish, without risk, ...

The most urgent necessity is, not that the State should teach, but that it should allow education. A...

Electricity is really just organized lightning

Monopoly is a market, or part of a market, reserved to the exclusive possession of one or more selle...