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Anarchist Quotes

1.
If the individual has a right to govern himself, all external government is tyranny. Hence the necessity of abolishing the State.
Benjamin Tucker

Authors on Anarchist Quotes: Murray Bookchin Ursula K. Le Guin Benjamin Tucker Noam Chomsky Anita Roddick Henry David Thoreau Bell Hooks Johann Most George Orwell Scott Simon Kim Gordon Robert Anton Wilson Al Lewis Edward Snowden Murray Rothbard Keith Olbermann Sadie Frost Jan Morris Zelda Fitzgerald Andre Malraux James M. Buchanan Stephan Kinsella Bob Seger Emile Faguet George Bernard Shaw Sam Rockwell Jerry Brown Federica Montseny Roderick T. Long Buenaventura Durruti Howard Zinn Maria Nikiforova Tom Metzger
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

6.
A consistent peace activist must be an anarchist.
Roderick T. Long

7.
Anarchists are simply unterrified Jeffersonian Democrats.
Benjamin Tucker

8.
Every anarchist is a baffled dictator.
Benito Mussolini

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

15.
I have been an Anarchist all my life.
Buenaventura Durruti

16.
If I had understood the situation a bit better I should probably have joined the Anarchists.
George Orwell

17.
The anarchist and the Christian have a common origin.
Friedrich Nietzsche

18.
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

19.
I am an anarchist, like any other sensible person. ~ Merlyn
T. H. White

20.
Christ - an anarchist who succeeded.
Axel Munthe

21.
I would also say that, in practice, many more Americans are anarchists than would ever use that term.
Bell Hooks

22.
What is an anarchist? One who, choosing, accepts the responsibility of choice.
Ursula K. Le Guin

23.
The artist as an artist must be an anarchist
Kurt Eisner

24.
Christ...an anarchist who succeeded. That's all.
Andre Malraux

25.
Women are natural anarchists...
Kim Gordon

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.
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

31.
The aims of anarchists and true communists are identical.
Johann Most

32.
Clearly, I am not an anarchist. Philosophically, I might be, but I think in practical terms.
James M. Buchanan

33.
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

34.
I'm not an anarchist any longer, because I've concluded that anarchism is an impractical ideal.
Robert Anton Wilson

35.
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

36.
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

37.
In the opinion of the anarchist, the sum total of human ills is expressed in one word-authority.
Albert Meltzer

38.
My father was a painter and an anarchist, always getting in trouble for his performance art.
Sadie Frost

39.
An anarchist is an uncomprimising liberal.
Emile Faguet

40.
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

41.
Millie Beggs, by the time she was forty-five, had become an emotional anarchist.
Zelda Fitzgerald

42.
I am an anarchist, and according to anarchist principles nation states become obstacles to a true humanistic globalization.
Howard Zinn

43.
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

44.
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

45.
Even galaxy-spanning anarchist utopias of stupefying full-spectrum civilisational power have turf wars within their unacknowledged militaries.
Iain Banks

46.
If anything I consider myself an anarchist.
Al Lewis

47.
Anarchists have always gone against the grain, and that's been a place of hope.
Bell Hooks

48.
Dead anarchists make martyrs, you know, and keep living for centuries. But absent ones can be forgotten.
Ursula K. Le Guin

49.
I don't encourage socialists or anarchists to accept falsehoods, in particular, to see revolutionary potential where there is none.
Noam Chomsky

50.
When I die Bookchinism comes to an end, and all the allusions to it both among Marxists and anarchists.
Murray Bookchin