Best 85 quotes in «anarchist quotes» category

To Pierre," said Mr. Buckmaster, "the Communists are of the Right. The far Right. He refers to them as 'those goddamned Bourbons.' Pierre is an anarchist. That's why he's so happy in his shoplifting--he feels it helps undermine the state.

The product of scientific achievements should be for sale. The scientist should not.

Tolstoy to Gandhi to Martin Luther King to Me and You

Vous avez cru jusqu'à ce jour qu'il y avait des tyrans ! Eh bien vous vous êtes trompés, il n'y a que des esclaves : là où nul n'obéit, personne ne commande.

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

When it (Self-management in revolutionary Spain) was not sabotaged by its enemies or hindered by the war, agricultural self-management was an unquestionable success. The land was united into one holding and cultivated over great expanses according to a general plan and the directives of agronomists. Small landowners integrated their plots with those of the community. Socialization demonstrated its superiority both over large absentee landholdings, which left a part of the land unplanted, and over smallholdings, cultivated with the use of rudimentary techniques, inadequate seeding, and without fertilizer. Production increased by 30—50 percent. The amount of cultivated land increased, working methods were improved, and human, animal, and mechanical energy used more rationally. Farming was diversified, irrigation developed, the countryside partially reforested, nurseries opened, pigsties constructed, rural technical schools created, Pilot farms set up, livestock selected and increased, and auxiliary industries set in motion, etc.

What, I ask, has the fixed and solid nature of the earth to do with the right of appropriation? (...) But the creator of the land does not sell it: he gives it; and, in giving it, he is no respecter of persons. Why, then, are some of his children regarded as legitimate, while others are treated as bastards? If the equality of shares was an original right, why is the inequality of conditions a posthumous right?

A consistent peace activist must be an anarchist.

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

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

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.

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.

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).

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

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.

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.

Christ - an anarchist who succeeded.

Every anarchist is a baffled dictator.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

My sympathies are, of course, with the Government side, especially the Anarchists ; for Anarchism seems to me more likely to lead to desirable social change than highly centralized, dictatorial Communism .

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

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

It's the age of reason for the anarchist.