Anarchist Quotes (RSS Feed)

After all, it means thirteen dollars per month, three meals a day, and a place to sleep. Yet even necessity is not sufficiently strong a factor to bring into the army an element of character and manhood. -- Emma Goldman https://todon.eu/tags/anarchism https://todon.eu/tags/quote https://todon.eu/tags/bot https://todon.eu/@anarchistquotes/116245817481916833

The police are making more anarchists than I could do in ten years. -- Emma Goldmanhttps://todon.eu/tags/anarchism https://todon.eu/@anarchistquotes/116224112970401547

Capitalism and communism felt like they were always going to be around, but it turns out they were just two ways of ordering an industrial society. If you were looking for more fundamental human political poles, you'd take anarchy and fascism, for my money. -- Alan Moorehttps://todon.eu/tags/anarchism https://todon.eu/@anarchistquotes/116223168264087164

So long as the people do not care to exercise their freedom, those who wish to tyrannize will do so; for tyrants are active and ardent, and will devote themselves in the name of any number of gods, religious and otherwise, to put shackles upon sleeping men. -- Voltairine de Cleyrehttps://todon.eu/tags/anarchism https://todon.eu/@anarchistquotes/116221988572341783

Just as I'm opposed to political fascism, I'm opposed to economic fascism. I think that until major institutions of society are under the popular control of participants and communities, it's pointless to talk about democracy. -- Noam Chomskyhttps://todon.eu/tags/anarchism https://todon.eu/@anarchistquotes/116220813145455310

Never do anything against conscience even if the state demands it. -- Albert Einsteinhttps://todon.eu/tags/anarchism https://todon.eu/@anarchistquotes/116219395455340066

When private property is abolished there will be no necessity for crime, no demand for it; it will cease to exist. -- Oscar Wildehttps://todon.eu/tags/anarchism https://todon.eu/@anarchistquotes/116217506977147975

No nation keeps its word. A nation is a big, blind worm, following what? Fate perhaps. A nation has no honor, it has no word to keep. -- Carl Junghttps://todon.eu/tags/anarchism https://todon.eu/@anarchistquotes/116216330542198145

The most improper job of any man is bossing other men. Not one in a million is fit for it, and least of all those who seek the opportunity. -- J. R. R. Tolkienhttps://todon.eu/tags/anarchism https://todon.eu/@anarchistquotes/116215146646051338

Is anarchism desirable? Well, who does not seek freedom? What man, unless willing to declare himself in bondage, would care to call any control agreeable? Think about it! -- Johann Mosthttps://todon.eu/tags/anarchism https://todon.eu/@anarchistquotes/116213731061125189

By striving to do the impossible, man has always achieved what is possible. -- Mikhail Bakuninhttps://todon.eu/tags/anarchism https://todon.eu/@anarchistquotes/116211847804037783

I am not a robber but one who has been robbed, someone who brings justice, who says that everything belongs to everyone, and that it is this clear logic of the anarchist idea, which makes your legs tremble. -- Clement Duvalhttps://todon.eu/tags/anarchism https://todon.eu/@anarchistquotes/116210663996865366

The oppression of one is the oppression of all, and we cannot violate the liberty of one being without violating the freedom of all of us. -- Mikhail Bakuninhttps://todon.eu/tags/anarchism https://todon.eu/@anarchistquotes/116209488524265955

In the face of dogmas, of despots, of the sentimental, of charlatans and regimenters, humanity's future belongs to reason. -- Andre Lorulothttps://todon.eu/tags/anarchism https://todon.eu/@anarchistquotes/116206181333197277

The State is said by some to be a "necessary evil"; it must be made unnecessary. -- Benjamin Tuckerhttps://todon.eu/tags/anarchism https://todon.eu/@anarchistquotes/116205001672649786

Durruti had learned endless things during the months of civil war, but the main lesson that he received was a full confirmation of the working class's capacity to govern itself and the damage done by the committees' bureaucratic leaderism. -- Abel Pazhttps://todon.eu/tags/anarchism https://todon.eu/@anarchistquotes/116203823044361677

Overcoming the problem of voluntary servitude, which has proved such a hindrance to radical political projects in the past, implies this sort of ethical questioning of the self, an interrogation of one's subjective involvement and complicity with power. -- Saul Newmanhttps://todon.eu/tags/anarchism https://todon.eu/@anarchistquotes/116202407481377992

The Left (including the Black nationalist movement) really is in a backward stage. Rather than building on the legacy of the 1960's protests, we are instead losing ground and taking reactionary positions. -- Lorenzo Kom'boa Ervinhttps://todon.eu/tags/anarchism https://todon.eu/@anarchistquotes/116200519007453706

Unfortunately, a preoccupation with technical size, scale, and even artistry deflects our attention away from the most significant problems of technics -- notably, its ties with the ideals and social structures of freedom. -- Murray Bookchinhttps://todon.eu/tags/anarchism https://todon.eu/@anarchistquotes/116198160715668922

Durruti had learned endless things during the months of civil war, but the main lesson that he received was a full confirmation of the working class's capacity to govern itself and the damage done by the committees' bureaucratic leaderism. -- Abel Pazhttps://todon.eu/tags/anarchism https://todon.eu/@anarchistquotes/116194856696437053