Anarchist Quotes

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

I am an anarchist! Wherefore I will not rule and also ruled I will not be.

Women make natural anarchists and revolutionaries, because they've always been second-class citizens, kinda having had to claw their way up.

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

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

A consistent peace activist must be an anarchist.

Anarchists are simply unterrified Jeffersonian Democrats.

Every anarchist is a baffled dictator.

Jesus was an anarchist savior. That's what the Gospels tell us.

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

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

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

As an anarchist, I cannot reconcile myself to any government.

The Anarchists never have claimed that liberty will bring perfection; they simply say that its results are vastly preferable to those that follow authority.

I have been an Anarchist all my life.

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

The anarchist and the Christian have a common origin.

One must choose between God and Man, and all "radicals" and "progressives", from the mildest liberal to the most extreme anarchist, have in effect chosen Man.

I am an anarchist, like any other sensible person. ~ Merlyn

Christ - an anarchist who succeeded.

I would also say that, in practice, many more Americans are anarchists than would ever use that term.

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

The artist as an artist must be an anarchist

Christ...an anarchist who succeeded. That's all.

Women are natural anarchists...

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

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 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.

There's nothing wrong with being an anarchist.

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

The aims of anarchists and true communists are identical.

Clearly, I am not an anarchist. Philosophically, I might be, but I think in practical terms.

That government is best which governs not at all; and when men are prepared for it, that will be the kind of government which they will have.

I'm not an anarchist any longer, because I've concluded that anarchism is an impractical ideal.

The anarchists are not promising anything to anyone. The anarchists only want people to be conscious of their own situation and seize freedom for themselves.

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

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.

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

An anarchist is an uncomprimising liberal.

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 .

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

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

If anything I consider myself an anarchist.

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.

Charlie Hebdo mocked everyone. They mocked the left. They mocked the right. They mocked, above all, the extreme right, the extreme right of Le Pen's. If anything could identify their politics, they were kinds of anarchists.

Even galaxy-spanning anarchist utopias of stupefying full-spectrum civilisational power have turf wars within their unacknowledged militaries.

All Artists are Anarchists.

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

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

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