Top 100 Quotes About Anarchist
#1. It is a fact that the bitterest contradictions and the deadliest conflicts of the world are carried on in every individual breast capable of feeling and passion. [An anarchist]
Joseph Conrad
#2. 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
#3. If anything I consider myself an anarchist,
Al Lewis
#4. Because the state necessarily commits aggression, the consistent libertarian, in opposing aggression, is also an anarchist.
Stephan Kinsella
#5. If you took the most ardent revolutionary, vested him in absolute power, within a year he would be worse than the Tsar himself.
Mikhail Bakunin
#6. Of all parties I now see only one party- The Anarchist- which respects human life, and loudly insists upon the abolition of capital punishment, prison torture and punishment of man by man altogether.
Peter Kropotkin
#7. Charlie Hebdo were the licensed anarchist clowns of the society.
Scott Simon
#8. On March 4, 1981, Burlington elected him mayor - by a margin of ten votes out of more than 9,600 cast.15 ("Ten anarchist votes!" Murray would say. "And I know who they were!")
Janet Biehl
#10. Do you think I would want to live under a government that you ran or set up? It's all very nice to say you're an anarchist, but you only want anarchy for yourself. For the rest of us, you want to make sure we do what you say, think how you think, and remember you're the boss.
Jane Smiley
#11. 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
#12. An anarchist does not want to rule others and does not want others to rule him. Nothing is so despicable as half-an-anarchist.
Frank Van Dun
#13. Here was world of simplicity and certainty no acidhead, no revolutionary anarchist would ever find, a world based on the one and zero of life and death. Minimal, beautiful. The patterns of life and deaths ...
Thomas Pynchon
#14. [On an anarchist acquaintance:] Everything in appearance the most alarmist aunt could wish.
Sylvia Townsend Warner
#15. I die, as I have lived, a free spirit, an Anarchist, owing no allegiance to rulers, heavenly or earthly.
Voltairine De Cleyre
#16. 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
#17. An anarchist is someone who rejects the curious notion that crimes become virtues as they grow in size.
Jakub Bozydar Wisniewski
#18. I'm enough of an anarchist aesthetically, when it comes to art - I want people to be reading my stuff voluntarily. They should be doing it because they want to.
Nell Zink
#19. Judging by his outlandish attire, he's some sort of free-thinking anarchist.
Matt Groening
#20. The fat Russian agent was cornering all the foreign refugees in turn and explaining plausibly that this whole affair was an Anarchist plot. I watched him with some interest, for it was the first time that I had seen a person whose profession was telling lies - unless one counts journalists.
George Orwell
#21. 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
#22. Educate the Russian or the American or the Englishman or the Irishman or Frenchman or any real northern European except German, and you get the Anarchist, that is to say the man who dreams of order without organisation - of something beyond organisation ...
H.G.Wells
#23. I don't drink to make others look better, I just drink to make myself feel prettier.
Brooke Bida
#24. She's some kind of Socialist-anarchist-anarcho-syndicalist-Communist. Unless you're one of them you can't tell exactly what any of them are.
E.L. Doctorow
#26. My father was a painter and an anarchist, always getting in trouble for his performance art.
Sadie Frost
#28. An anarchist is like an undercover agent who plays the game of Reason in order to undercut the authority of Reason (Truth, Honesty, Justice and so on).
Paul Karl Feyerabend
#29. Christ ... an anarchist who succeeded. That's all.
Andre Malraux
#30. I am saddened by the modern system of advertising. Whatever evidence it offers of enterprise, ingenuity, impudence, and resource in certain individuals, it proves to my mind the wide prevalence of that form of mental degradation which is called gullibility. [An anarchist]
Joseph Conrad
#31. I am an anarchist, and according to anarchist principles nation states become obstacles to a true humanistic globalization.
Howard Zinn
#32. People who can't imagine order without imposition always end up favoring power over liberty.
Jeffrey Tucker
#33. It seems to me we are now, since 1789, going through the same sort of process of regeneration the Roman world went through between 300 and 500. It is only to be hoped all civilization will not again be destroyed by the anarchists.
Harry Graf Kessler
#34. Confronted with the choice, the American people would choose the policeman's truncheon over the anarchist's bomb.
Spiro T. Agnew
#35. I am not anarchist. I have nothing against government or law enforcement in general. It is solely for the reason that this govt has legalized the murder of children that I have no allegiance to nor do I recognize the legitimacy of this particular government in Washington.
Eric Rudolph
#36. By anarchist spirit I mean that deeply human sentiment, which aims at the good of all, freedom and justice for all, solidarity and love among the people; which is not an exclusive characteristic only of self-declared anarchists, but inspires all people who have a generous heart and an open mind.
Errico Malatesta
#38. I much preferred the approach at the anarchist camp, with its shared tasks and collective responsibilities. Everyone played their part. There was no division between workers and consumers.
John Blair
#40. For the anarchist, freedom is not an abstract philosophical concept, but the vital concrete possibility of every human being to bring to full development all the powers, capacities and talents with which nature has endowed them, and turn them to social account.
Rudolf Rocker
#41. I'm the kind of anarchist whose chief objection to the State is that it kills so many people. Government is the epitome of the deathist philosophy I reject.
Robert Anton Wilson
#42. I've seen, not surprisingly, no action taken against those people, but here I am, an anarchist website, not even close to what that is, not even close to what else you can find on the Internet.
Sherman Austin
#43. Every believer is an anarchist at heart. True believers would rather see governments topple and history rewritten than scuff the cover of their faith.
Jeanette Winterson
#44. The ordinary man is an anarchist. He wants to do as he likes. He may want his neighbour to be governed, but he himself doesn't want to be governed. He is mortally afraid of government officials and policemen.
George Bernard Shaw
#45. During the first two months of the war it was the Anarchists more than anyone else who had saved the situation, and much later than this the Anarchist militia, in spite of their indiscipline, were notoriously the best fighters among the purely Spanish forces.
George Orwell
#47. An anarchist society, far from being a remote ideal, has become a precondition for the practice of ecological principles.
Murray Bookchin
#48. 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
#49. The crypto currency community hasn't decided whether they want to be anarchist rebels or to replace the establishment.
Adi Shamir
#50. Violence, contrary to popular belief, is not part of the anarchist philosophy. It has repeatedly been pointed out by anarchist thinkers that the revolution can neither be won, nor the anarchist society established and maintained, by armed violence.
Vernon Richards
#51. Bruno was a musician with the temperament of an anarchist and the breath of a bartender's dishrag. He gave the lie to bookselling as a genteel occupation.
Sheridan Hay
#52. I am talking about the responsibility of the poet, who is irresponsible by definition, an anarchist enamored of a solar order and never of the new order or whatever slogan makes five or six hundred million men march in step in a parody of order.
Julio Cortazar
#54. Plantie is a very strong Protestant, that is to say, he's against all churches, especially the Protestant: and he thinks a lot of Buddha, Karma and Confucius. He is also a bit of an anarchist and three or four years ago he took up Einstein and vitamins.
Joyce Cary
#55. It sets its face rightfully against the doctrines of the Anarchist and the Communist, who seek to solve the social problems not by patient endeavor, but by brutal destruction.
Henry Cabot Lodge
#56. All anarchists believe in worker's control, in the sense of individuals deciding what work whey do, how they work, and who they work with. This follows logically from the anarchist belief that nobody should be subject to a boss.
Donald Rooum
#58. As a teenager I was more of an anarchist, but now I want people to thrive and be harmonious.
Nicolas Cage
#59. Not only my arrest but the others smack of the Haymarket. The police are very much in disrepute all over the country, and they wish to do something to clear themselves. They are trying to make it an anarchist plot. If they wish to make up a case, they may succeed.
Emma Goldman
#60. No, I'm not an 'anarchist.'
Fuck your political ideology.
B. Diehl
#61. 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.
Benjamin Tucker
#62. A consistent anarchist must oppose private ownership of the means of production, and the wage-slavery which is a component of this system, as incompatible with the principle that labor must be freely undertaken and under the control of the producer.
Noam Chomsky
#63. If I had understood the situation a bit better I should probably have joined the Anarchists.
George Orwell
#65. 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
#66. It's an old anarchist dream that people can take care of their own lives.
Todd Gitlin
#67. I am an anarchist! Wherefore I will not rule and also ruled I will not be.
John Henry Mackay
#68. I don't believe in politics. I'm an anarchist, I guess you could say. I think people could be just fine looking after themselves.
Woody Harrelson
#69. Everyone knew that girls who admitted to liking girls stopped being whatever they were before and became a cross between a lumberjack and a punk-goth-anarchist.
- Adena Galinksy, USA (p. 38)
Robyn Ochs
#70. 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.
Poyntz Tyler
#71. I am an Anarchist not because I believe Anarchism is the final goal, but because there is no such thing as a final goal.
Rudolf Rocker
#72. Art should be for sale. The artist should not.
A.E. Samaan
#73. I love Tike Alicar, The Anarchist. But I love Edie Sawyer, U-Go Girl, too. I was a little in love with her.
Peter Milligan
#74. I think my degrees in Theology and Psychology qualified me for nothing, but probably prepared me for everything.
Brooke Bida
#75. I'm not an anarchist any longer, because I've concluded that anarchism is an impractical ideal.
Robert Anton Wilson
#76. Philosophically, Communism and Anarchism are poles apart. Practically - i.e. in the form of society aimed at - the difference is mainly one of emphasis, but it is quite irreconcilable. The Communist's emphasis is always on centralism and efficiency, the Anarchist's on liberty and equality.
George Orwell
#77. I feel sure that the police are helping us more than I could do in ten years. They are making more anarchists than the most prominent people connected with the anarchist cause could make in ten years. If they will only continue I shall be very grateful; they will save me lots of work.
Emma Goldman
#78. If I could come out in this book and advocate complete revolution and the violent overthrow of the United States of America, without being thrown in jail, I would not have written The Anarchist Cookbook, and there would be no need for it.
William Powell
#79. Millie Beggs, by the time she was forty-five, had become an emotional anarchist.
Zelda Fitzgerald
#80. One of the problems with dealing with anarchism is that there are many people whose ideas are anarchist, but who do not necessarily call themselves anarchists.
Howard Zinn
#81. Even galaxy-spanning anarchist utopias of stupefying full-spectrum civilisational power have turf wars within their unacknowledged militaries.
Iain Banks
#82. On the one hand, I'm a kind of crazy anarchist-sympathizer with a hippie background, so this sounds pretty good to me. Make something for the love of it! But the reality is so much more complicated.
Astra Taylor
#83. You couldn't put me in a social group setting. I'm probably a terrible anarchist deep down.
Maya Lin
#84. He was an anarchist, though he never got into any trouble about it, except with his wife.
Kurt Vonnegut
#85. He tasted dusty and sweet. He tasted like regret in the shadows of trees and in the glow of the anarchist's suit collection.
Markus Zusak
#86. 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
#87. Like regret in the shadow of trees and in the glow of an anarchist's suit collection
Markus Zusak
#88. Above all do not ask that justice be just: It is just, because it is justice. The idea of a just justice could have originated only in the brain of an anarchist.
Honore De Balzac
#89. As if music could be crushed like a condemned building or a stubborn anarchist. But it could not. It always rose and returned, vital, immense, fortified by new instruments, new shapes, new musicians crazy enough to give their lives to it like underground, unsanctioned priests.
Carolina De Robertis
#90. 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
#91. Anarchists are simply unterrified Jeffersonian Democrats.
Benjamin Tucker
#92. The product of scientific achievements should be for sale. The scientist should not.
A.E. Samaan
#93. So I ended up being an anarchist. I was the only anarchist I knew and thank god, because otherwise I would have stopped being an anarchist. Unanimity pisses me off immensely.
Roberto Bolano
#94. All good men are anarchists. All cultured, kindly men; all gentlemen; all just men are anarchists. Jesus was an anarchist.
Elbert Hubbard
#95. The two great movements of our century
towards Liberty of the individual and social co-operation of the whole community
are summed up in Anarchist-Communism.
Peter Kropotkin
#96. 1872 the anarchist leader Mikhail Bakunin warned Karl Marx that Communists in power would be as oppressive as the aristocracy they replaced. After what has happened in Russia, can you honestly say Bakunin was wrong?
Ken Follett
#97. What is an anarchist? One who, choosing, accepts the responsibility of choice.
Ursula K. Le Guin
#98. Clothing that placed them somewhere along the hippy/anarchist/punk rock/funked-out artist continuum.
Cheryl Strayed
#99. 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
#100. I'm not an anarchist any more. I still love the Sex Pistols, but I don't want to be a punk rocker all the time, but I do want to carry on exploring new forms of acting.
Nicolas Cage
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