1.
If the individual has a right to govern himself, all external government is tyranny. Hence the necessity of abolishing the State.
Benjamin Tucker
2.
I am an anarchist! Wherefore I will not rule and also ruled I will not be.
John Henry Mackay
3.
Women make natural anarchists and revolutionaries, because they've always been second-class citizens, kinda having had to claw their way up.
Kim Gordon
4.
An anarchist society, far from being a remote ideal, has become a precondition for the practice of ecological principles.
Murray Bookchin
5.
I think any good actor is an anarchist. They have to be.
Sam Rockwell
7.
Anarchists are simply unterrified Jeffersonian Democrats.
Benjamin Tucker
9.
Jesus was an anarchist savior. That's what the Gospels tell us.
Ivan Illich
10.
I define anarchist society as one where there is no legal possibility for coercive aggression against the person or property of any individual.
Murray Rothbard
11.
An anarchist is someone who doesn't need a cop to make him behave.
Ammon Hennacy
12.
Creativity comes by breaking the rules, by saying that you're in love with the anarchist.
Anita Roddick
13.
As an anarchist, I cannot reconcile myself to any government.
Peter Kropotkin
14.
The Anarchists never have claimed that liberty will bring perfection; they simply say that its results are vastly preferable to those that follow authority.
Benjamin Tucker
16.
If I had understood the situation a bit better I should probably have joined the Anarchists.
George Orwell
17.
I am an anarchist, like any other sensible person. ~ Merlyn
T. H. White
19.
I would also say that, in practice, many more Americans are anarchists than would ever use that term.
Bell Hooks
20.
What is an anarchist? One who, choosing, accepts the responsibility of choice.
Ursula K. Le Guin
22.
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.
George Orwell
23.
The artist as an artist must be an anarchist
Kurt Eisner
24.
Christ...an anarchist who succeeded. That's all.
Andre Malraux
26.
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.
Henry David Thoreau
27.
There's nothing wrong with being an anarchist.
Jerry Brown
28.
In the U.S the right is very wide. From Neo con's to almost Anarchist
Tom Metzger
29.
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.
Johann Most
30.
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.
Henry David Thoreau
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I'm not an anarchist any longer, because I've concluded that anarchism is an impractical ideal.
Robert Anton Wilson
32.
I wish to say that we Anarchists have never changed our position. We are Anarchists as of old and still pursue the same ideals.
Federica Montseny
33.
The aims of anarchists and true communists are identical.
Johann Most
34.
Clearly, I am not an anarchist. Philosophically, I might be, but I think in practical terms.
James M. Buchanan
35.
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.
Max Beerbohm
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In the opinion of the anarchist, the sum total of human ills is expressed in one word-authority.
Albert Meltzer
37.
My father was a painter and an anarchist, always getting in trouble for his performance art.
Sadie Frost
39.
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 .
Aldous Huxley
40.
Millie Beggs, by the time she was forty-five, had become an emotional anarchist.
Zelda Fitzgerald
41.
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.
Maria Nikiforova
42.
I am an anarchist, and according to anarchist principles nation states become obstacles to a true humanistic globalization.
Howard Zinn
43.
Even galaxy-spanning anarchist utopias of stupefying full-spectrum civilisational power have turf wars within their unacknowledged militaries.
Iain Banks
44.
If anything I consider myself an anarchist.
Al Lewis
45.
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.
Manuel Castells
46.
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.
Scott Simon
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Tap the energy of the anarchist and he will be the one to push your company ahead.
Anita Roddick
48.
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.
Kalan Sherrard
49.
I'm not an anarchist. I'm not saying, "Burn it to the ground."
Edward Snowden
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Charlie Hebdo were the licensed anarchist clowns of the society.
Scott Simon