Anarchist Quotes

Every anarchist is a baffled dictator. (Benito Mussolini)
Geoff: We started off trying to set up a small anarchist community, but people wouldn't obey the rules. View quote
Alan Bennett
The love of liberty and the sense of human dignity are the basic elements of the Anarchist creed. View quote
Federica Montseny
It's an old anarchist dream that people can take care of their own lives. View quote
Todd Gitlin
I came in contact with every known Indian anarchist in London. Their bravery impressed me, but I felt that their zeal was misguided. I felt that violence was no remedy for India's ills, and that her civilisation required the use of a different and higher weapon for self-protection. View quote
Mahatma Gandhi
There's nothing wrong with being an anarchist. View quote
Jerry Brown
What is an anarchist? One who, choosing, accepts the responsibility of choice. View quote
Ursula K. Le Guin
The poor man who takes property by force is called a thief, but the creditor who can by legislation make a debtor pay a dollar twice as large as he borrowed is lauded as the friend of a sound currency. The man who wants the people to destroy the Government is an anarchist, but the man who wants the Government to destroy the people is a patriot. View quote
William Jennings Bryan
I am an Anarchist not because I believe Anarchism is the final goal, but because there is no such thing as a final goal. View quote
Rudolf Rocker
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... View quote
Errico Malatesta
No animal has more liberty than the cat, but it buries the mess it makes. The cat is the best anarchist. (Ernest Hemingway)
I define anarchist society as one where there is no legal possibility for coercive aggression against the person or property of any individual. View quote
Murray Rothbard
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. View quote
Manuel Castells
Even galaxy-spanning anarchist utopias of stupefying full-spectrum civilisational power have turf wars within their unacknowledged militaries. View quote
Iain Banks
An anarchist society, far from being a remote ideal, has become a precondition for the practice of ecological principles. View quote
Murray Bookchin
I am a Tory Anarchist. I should like every one to go about doing just as he pleased - short of altering any of the things to which I have grown accustomed. View quote
Max Beerbohm
There is a reason for the affected profession of "anarchist sympathies" among Tories and grandees, and of "libertarian principles" by Hobbesian yahoos of the right. Among the former, one sees the upholding of the view that a gentleman's business and property are his own, and none of the government's. Among the latter, a distaste for democracy, for taxation, and for the need to consult others about the planet. View quote
Christopher Hitchens
As to whether Marcos is gay: Marcos is gay in San Francisco, black in South Africa, an Asian in Europe, a Chicano in San Ysidro, an anarchist in Spain, a Palestinian in Israel, a Mayan Indian in the streets of San Cristobal,... a Jew in Germany, a Gypsy in Poland, a Kurd in Turkey, a Mohawk in Quebec, a pacifist in Bosnia, a single woman on the Metro at 10pm, a peasant without land, a gang member in the slums, an unemployed worker, an unhappy student and, of course, a Zapatista in the mountains. View quote
Subcomandante Marcos
Jesus was an anarchist savior. That's what the Gospels tell us. View quote
Ivan Illich
Gentlemen, the time is coming when there will be two great classes, Socialists, and Anarchists. The Anarchists want the government to be nothing, and the Socialists want government to be everything. There can be no greater contrast. Well, the time will come when there will be only these two great parties, the Anarchists representing the laissez faire doctrine and the Socialists representing the extreme view on the other side, and when that time comes I am an Anarchist. View quote
William Graham Sumner
In order to fully realise our aspirations, we must create in the masses of the people the sense of sacrifice and responsibility that has been the characteristic of the anarchist movement throughout its historic development in Spain. (Federica Montseny)
I want three words: Woman, Atheist, Anarchist. That's me. View quote
Madalyn Murray O'Hair
You couldn't put me in a social group setting. I'm probably a terrible anarchist deep down. View quote
Maya Lin
At the very least, one would imagine being an openly anarchist professor would mean challenging the way universities are run-and I don't mean by demanding an anarchist studies department, either-and that, of course, is going to get one in far more trouble than anything one could ever write. View quote
David Graeber
In truth the anarchists who assume the name have done nothing to challenge the state, not with windy unread jargon-filled writings, but with the contagious example of another way to relate to other people. Anarchists as they conduct the anarchism business are the best refutation of anarchist pretensions. View quote
Bob Black