Best 85 quotes in «anarchist quotes» category

An anarchist society, far from being a remote ideal, has become a precondition for the practice of ecological principles.

An Anarchist is anyone who denies the necessity and legitimacy of government; the question of his methods of attacking it is foreign to the definition.

An anarchist is someone who doesn't need a cop to make him behave. Anarchism is voluntary cooperation with the right of secession. The individual or the family or the small group as a unit instead of the State.

Above all we should not forget, that government is an evil, an usurpation upon the private judgment and individual conscience of mankind.

A consistent peace activist must be an anarchist.

All anarchists believe in worker's control, in the sense of individuals deciding what work they do, how they work, and who they work with. This follows logically from the anarchist belief that nobody should be subject to a boss.

All governments are in equal measure good and evil. The best ideal is anarchy.

Anarchists are socialists because they want the improvement of society, and they are communists because they are convinced that such a transformation of society can only result from the establishment of a commonwealth of property.

Anarchists have always gone against the grain, and that's been a place of hope.

An anarchist is an uncomprimising liberal.

An anarchist is someone who doesn't need a cop to make him behave.

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

Anarchists have taken over (the GOP).

I don't encourage socialists or anarchists to accept falsehoods, in particular, to see revolutionary potential where there is none.

As a teenager I was more of an anarchist, but now I want people to thrive and be harmonious.

As for the employees, the payment in stock options revives, somewhat ironically, the old anarchist ideology of self-management of the company, as they are co-owners, co-producers, and co-managers of the firm.

Because the state necessarily commits aggression, the consistent libertarian, in opposing aggression, is also an anarchist.

By no means. I have just given you my serious and well-considered profession of faith. Although a firm friend of order, I am (in the full force of the term) an anarchist. Listen to me.

Charlie Hebdo were the licensed anarchist clowns of the society.

Creativity comes by breaking the rules, by saying that you're in love with the anarchist.

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

Degenerates are not always criminals, prostitutes, anarchists and pronounced lunatics; they are often authors and artists

Every anarchist is a baffled dictator.

I also eschew the identity of "puppeteer" it is a concept that blurs the boundaries of discrete objects and persons. I do think Anarchist Nihilist Puppet Show is my day job.

I am an anarchist, and according to anarchist principles nation states become obstacles to a true humanistic globalization.

I define anarchist society as one where there is no legal possibility for coercive aggression against the person or property of any individual.

Christ - an anarchist who succeeded.

He who negates present society, and seeks social conditions based on the sharing of property, is a revolutionary whether he calls himself an anarchist or a communist.

I am a Tory anarchist. I should like everyone to go about doing just as he pleased - short of altering any of the things to which I have grown accustomed.

I don't think anarchism consists of sitting down and saying let's form a collective. I don't think it consists of saying we're all anarchists: you're an anarcho-syndicalist; you're an anarcho-communist; you're an anarcho-individualist.

If the individual has a right to govern himself, all external government is tyranny. Hence the necessity of abolishing the State.

If I had understood the situation a bit better I should probably have joined the Anarchists.

I'm not an anarchist. I believe in government.

I'm an anarchist. I'm implacably opposed to heirarchical systems of power and control. I also mistrust crowds, as they often operate according to their lowest common denominator. In terms of evolutionary psychology, the crowd is very close to a herd of stampeding wildebeest.

I heartily accept the motto, "That government is best which governs least"; and I should like to see it acted up to more rapidly and systematically.

In debates between anarchists and statists, the burden of proof clearly should rest on those who place their trust in the state. Anarchy's mayhem is wholly conjectural; the state's mayhem is undeniably, factually horrendous.

I never have been an anarchist, I've always had goals and always have acted out of love.

In the U.S the right is very wide. From Neo con's to almost Anarchist

In the opinion of the anarchist, the sum total of human ills is expressed in one word-authority.

I think any good actor is an anarchist. They have to be.

It's an old anarchist dream that people can take care of their own lives.

I think I am slowly becoming an anarchist, that this is only another label for my privateness, and I think that you will understand this in the sense of being against collectivity.

It's the age of reason for the anarchist.

I would agree that much with people who accept private property - that conscription is an unpardonable transgression, whether it be "corrupt" or not. The Spanish anarchists opposed conscription during the civil war in Spain as a gross expropriation of property, the most precious property that we have, our own physical beings themselves.

I wish to say that we Anarchists have never changed our position. We are Anarchists as of old and still pursue the same ideals.

Millie Beggs, by the time she was forty-five, had become an emotional anarchist.

My father was a painter and an anarchist, always getting in trouble for his performance art.

M. Mabeuf’s political opinion was a passionate fondness for plants, and a still greater one for books. He had, like everybody else, his termination in ist, without which nobody could have lived in those times, but he was neither a royalist, nor a Bonapartist, nor a chartist, nor an Orleanist, nor an anarchist; he was an old-bookist.

My feeling is that anarchists have to think in terms of a specific. I think the dispersal of anarchists all over the place, particularly very gifted ones who can turn out periodicals and do very effective public work, and their tendency to just pick up and take off is a liability.

No animal has more liberty than the cat, but it buries the mess it makes. The cat is the best anarchist.