Anarchist famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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In the opinion of the anarchist, the sum total of human ills is expressed in one word-authority.
-- Albert Meltzer -
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 -
An anarchist is someone who doesn't need a cop to make him behave.
-- Ammon Hennacy -
Christ...an anarchist who succeeded. That's all.
-- Andre Malraux -
Anarchists are simply unterrified Jeffersonian Democrats.
-- Benjamin Tucker -
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 -
I have been an Anarchist all my life,
-- Buenaventura Durruti -
When anarchy is declared, the first thing we do, let's kill all the anarchists.
-- Craig Reucassel -
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 -
If I had understood the situation a bit better I should probably have joined the Anarchists.
-- George Orwell -
I never have been an anarchist, I've always had goals and always have acted out of love.
-- Gloria Trevi -
I am an anarchist, and according to anarchist principles nation states become obstacles to a true humanistic globalization.
-- Howard Zinn -
Jesus was an anarchist savior. That's what the Gospels tell us.
-- Ivan Illich -
If I was an aspirant litterateur, I was also an aspirant anarchist. I have disliked Authority always, though sometimes seduced by its resplendence.
-- Jan Morris -
There's nothing wrong with being an anarchist.
-- Jerry Brown -
The aims of anarchists and true communists are identical.
-- Johann Most -
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 -
I am an anarchist! Wherefore I will not rule and also ruled I will not be.
-- John Henry Mackay -
I'm not an anarchist. I believe in government.
-- Keith Olbermann -
Women make natural anarchists and revolutionaries .
-- Kim Gordon -
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 -
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 -
I thought of myself as kind of an anarchist all my whole adult life, from the days when I was 15 or 16.
-- Mark Leyner -
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 -
An anarchist society, far from being a remote ideal, has become a precondition for the practice of ecological principles.
-- Murray Bookchin -
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 -
The anarchist painter is not the one who will create anarchist pictures, but the one who will fight with all his individuality against official conventions.
-- Paul Signac -
As an anarchist, I cannot reconcile myself to any government.
-- Peter Kropotkin -
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.
-- Robert Higgs -
My father was a painter and an anarchist, always getting in trouble for his performance art.
-- Sadie Frost -
I think any good actor is an anarchist. They have to be.
-- Sam Rockwell -
Because the state necessarily commits aggression, the consistent libertarian, in opposing aggression, is also an anarchist.
-- Stephan Kinsella -
[On an anarchist acquaintance:] Everything in appearance the most alarmist aunt could wish.
-- Sylvia Townsend Warner -
I am an anarchist, like any other sensible person. ~ Merlyn
-- T. H. White -
In the U.S the right is very wide. From Neo con's to almost Anarchist
-- Tom Metzger -
What is an anarchist? One who, choosing, accepts the responsibility of choice.
-- Ursula K. Le Guin -
Millie Beggs, by the time she was forty-five, had become an emotional anarchist.
-- Zelda Fitzgerald -
Clearly, I am not an anarchist. Philosophically, I might be, but I think in practical terms.
-- James M. Buchanan -
A consistent peace activist must be an anarchist.
-- Roderick T. Long -
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
