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Feeling that one has some leverage upon something, even by proxy or association, makes one a great deal more interested in it.
— CrimethInc.
As to the American tradition of non-meddling, Anarchism asks that it be carried down to the individual himself.
— Voltairine De Cleyre
Love is it's own protection.
— Emma Goldman
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.
— Charles M. Doughty
Into every tidy scheme for arranging the pattern of human life, it is necessary to inject a certain dose of anarchism.
— Bertrand Russell
Economy: As an adjective, cheap; As a noun, that which compels us to render ourselves as such.
— CrimethInc.
In Labor movements generally, success through violence can hardly be expected except in circumstances where success without violence is attainable.
— Bertrand Russell
It's easier to ponder the future than it is to do something about the present.
— Curious George Brigade
Nothing is yours. It is to use. It is to share. If you will not share it, you cannot use it.
— Ursula K. Le Guin
Our masters have not heard the people's voice for generations and it is much, much louder than they care to remember.
— Alan Moore
Anarchism is a game at which the police can beat you.
— George Bernard Shaw
Basically, if you're not a utopianist, you're a schmuck.
— Jonathan Feldman
Anarchism and anthropology go well together because anthropologists know that a society without a state is possible because so many exist.
— David Graeber
Within a diverse swarm of individuals and small groups, resistance can be anywhere and anything; everywhere and all the time.
— Curious George Brigade
Never confuse efficiency with effectiveness.
— Curious George Brigade
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[M]an has as much liberty as he is willing to take.
— Emma Goldman
Anarchism is a theory of political science and is opposed to government in the political sense.
— Steven T. Byington
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.
— Emma Goldman
An anarchist is someone who rejects the curious notion that crimes become virtues as they grow in size.
— Jakub Bozydar Wisniewski
Anarchism as a political philosophy seeks to dissolve all forms of authority and power, and if possible, wishes their complete abolition.
— Peter Marshall
Evil does not exist in guerrilla warfare but only in the unorganized and undisciplined activities that are anarchism,
— Mao Zedong
Authority, when first detecting chaos at its heels, will entertain the vilest schemes to save its orderly facade.
— Alan Moore
We don't need unity in theory, we need solidarity in practice.
— Curious George Brigade
Anarchism is democracy taken seriously.
— Edward Abbey
It is better to enlighten men's minds than to teach them to be obstinate in their prejudices.
— Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
Anarchism is stateless socialism.
— Mikhail Bakunin
Every society has the criminals it deserves.
— Emma Goldman
Every state protects the privileges of the powerful.
— Colin Ward
We are, in any case, only one of the forces acting in society
— Errico Malatesta
Anarchism? You bet your sweet betsy. The only cure for the ills of democracy is more democracy. Much more.
— Edward Abbey
At the same time, of course, Marxism arose - Rosa Luxembourg, Leninism, anarchism - and art became political.
— Douglas Sirk
Instead of worship or ignorance of the past, we must make our own tools, our own stories, and our own legends.
— Curious George Brigade
What if we opened ourselves to the gift?
— Cindy Milstein
Independent radical women often live lonely lives if they expect equality.
— Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
I'm not an anarchist any longer, because I've concluded that anarchism is an impractical ideal.
— Robert Anton Wilson
I know of no better name than Anarchism.
— Herbert Read
One must commit acts of the highest treason only when dressed in the most resplendent finery.
— Grant Morrison
If crimes are committed they must be seen as a disease, and punishment as treatment rather than as social vengeance.
— Daniel Guerin
With subjectivism in philosophy, anarchism in politics goes hand in hand.
— Bertrand Russell
If anarchy is chaos, and chaos is war, why wasn't a single war started by anarchists?
— Jakub Bozydar Wisniewski
Whenever freedom is made into the absolute, the result is not freedom but anarchism. Freedom must be under law, or it is not freedom.
— R.J. Rushdoony
Anarchism is the revolutionary idea that no one is more qualified than you are to decide what your life will be.
— CrimethInc.
If your political theory requires humanity to "evolve", then you do not have a theory.
— A.E. Samaan
I believe that in time we will have reached the point where we will deserve to be free of government.
— Jorge Luis Borges
Not whether we accomplish anarchism today, tomorrow, or within ten centuries, but that we walk towards anarchism today, tomorrow, and always.
— Errico Malatesta
In anarchy there is no automatic harmony .
— Kenneth Waltz
Would you have wished more, or fewer, anarchists around in the Thousand Year Reich or any of the other fantasies of hierarchy?
— Christopher Hitchens
In the United States, people don't revolt in order to obtain freedom, but continue denying it to others.
— CrimethInc.
It is through separation that you will win: no representatives, and no candidates!
— Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
When desertion is not an option, sabotage is a must.
— Curious George Brigade
Daydreaming subverts the world.
— Raoul Vaneigem
People have only as much liberty as they have the intelligence to want and the courage to take.
— Emma Goldman
The individual cannot bargain with the State. The State recognizes no coinage but power: and it issues the coins itself.
— Ursula K. Le Guin
Victory will not go to those who can inflict the most suffering, but to those who can survive the most.
— CrimethInc.
Behind every unquestionable belief is a system of control.
— Graeme Rodaughan
We need a dream-world in order to discover the features of the real world we think we inhabit.
— Paul Karl Feyerabend
Anarchism misunderstands the real nature of man. It would be practicable only in a world of angels and saints
— Ludwig Von Mises
This revolution will be noted. It will be successful and above all, it will be in words.
— Moonshine Noire
Anarchism or freedom is the aim, while the state and dictatorship is the means, and so, in order to free the masses, they have first to be enslaved.
— Mikhail Bakunin
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.
— Peter Arshinov
Do you want to make it impossible for anyone to oppress his fellow-man? Then make sure that no one shall possess power.
— Mikhail Bakunin
One does not suffer nearly so much from one's inadequacies as from one's unused abilities.
— CrimethInc.
I am an Anarchist not because I believe Anarchism is the final goal, but because there is no such thing as a final goal.
— Rudolf Rocker
The best argument for anarchism is the twentieth century.
— Joseph Sobran
Anarchism has a broad back, like paper it endures anything,
— Rudolf Rocker
Liberalism is to freedom as anarchism is to anarchy.
— Ernst Junger
Is anarchism possible? The failure of attempts to attain freedom does not mean the cause is lost.
— Johann Most
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.
— Emma Goldman
Anarchy is a state of society where the only government is reason.
— Michael Schwab
Tomorrow will use you the way you use today.
— CrimethInc.
Control and violence that is best reflected in the state, are evil in themselves. In this knowledge lies the great truth of anarchism.
— Nikolai A. Berdyaev
Anarchism means voluntary co-operation instead of forced participation. It means harmony and order in place of interference and disorder.
— Alexander Berkman
A libertarian is someone who graduated from thinking that there are problems with the state to realizing that the state is the problem.
— Jakub Bozydar Wisniewski
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.
— Gustav Landauer
Can true function arise from basic dysfunction?
— Ursula K. Le Guin
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.
— Ursula K. Le Guin
Every command slaps liberty in the face.
— Mikhail Bakunin
If you took the most ardent revolutionary, vested him in absolute power, within a year he would be worse than the Tsar himself.
— Mikhail Bakunin
It should be added that, in general, it is the character of every metaphysical and theological argument to seek to explain one absurdity by another.
— Mikhail Bakunin
At one time in the world there were woods that no one owned
— Cormac McCarthy
Your pretty empire took so long to build, now, with a snap of history's fingers, down it goes.
— Alan Moore
As an anarchist, I cannot reconcile myself to any government.
— Peter Kropotkin