Anarchist Quotes

...what does it mean for a Pagan to be apolitical? It can only mean that you will allow mountains be blown apart for coal, forests to be clear-cut, rivers to be poisoned, and the Earth to be overheated until it becomes unlivable. Christopher Scott Thompson

Prisons are universities of crime, maintained by the state. Peter Kropotkin

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The aim is not therefore to liberate some 'essential self' by throwing off the burden of government and the State, but to develop the self in creative and voluntary relations with others. Peter Marshall

The Anarcho-Syndicalists know that wars are only waged in the interest of the ruling classes; they believe, therefore, that any means is justifiable that can prevent the organised murder of peoples. Rudolf Rocker

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Basically, revolutionaries never go far enough, and if they're not going to go far enough, they should stop upsetting people. Or killing them, for that matter. - Bob Black

It is economic slavery, the savage struggle for a crumb, that has converted mankind into wolves and sheep. - Alexander Berkman

Hate does not produce love; we will not renew the world by hate. - Errico Malatesta

The state calls its own violence law, but that of the individual, crime. Max Stirner

We have become a civilization based on work—not even “productive work” but work as an end and meaning in itself. David Graeber

Of the exercise of a right power may deprive me; of the right itself, never. - Voltairine de Cleyre

Well, mutual aid is a very critical and important thing. For a while, I was saying libertarians have no souls, but I promised them I wouldn't if they hammered home the importance of mutual aid. Vermin Supreme

We’re not depressed; we’re on strike. For those who refuse to manage themselves, “depression” is not a state but a passage, a bowing out, a sidestep towards a political disaffiliation. The Invisible Committee

All the results of the mistakes of governments are quite admirable. - Oscar Wilde

The struggle is so great that the triumph over fascism alone is worth the sacrifice of our lives. Federica Montseny

Fascism becomes less and less possible. We have to accept that we are moving towards some sort of anarchy. - Alan Moore

The only revolution is to improve yourself, hoping that others follow. Then the world will improve. - Georges Brassens

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This flagrant negation of humanity which constitutes the very essence of the state is, from the standpoint of the state, its supreme duty and its greatest virtue. - Mikhail Bakunin

The worst crime of any type of state is just that it always tries to force the rich diversity of social life into definite forms and adjust it to one particular form, which allows for no wider outlook and regards the previously exciting status as finished. - Rudolf Rocker

Ableism and heteronormativity are both oppressive ideologies and cultural constructs that hinder the full potential of realizing the scope of human sexuality and modes of being in the world. - Liat Ben-moshe

The anarchists, on behalf of the proletariat, therefore consider it necessary to show the proletariat that it will have to win a gigantic battle before it realizes its goals. Johann Most

As moderate as they were, as sensible as they proved themselves to be, the founders of the Circle turned out to be too advanced in the judgment of the guardians of moral order. - Fernand Pelloutier

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My power is my property. My power gives me property. My power am I l myself, and through it am I my property. Max Stirner

A person is strong only when he stands upon his own truth, when he speaks and acts from his deepest convictions. - Mikhail Bakunin

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In Spain, we should have enough intelligence, enough sense of individual and collective responsibility to do for ourselves that which would be imposed upon us by a dictatorship. Federica Montseny

Anarchism's lone objective is to reach a point at which the belligerence of some humans against humanity, in whatever form, comes to a halt. Gustav Landauer

Whoever will be free must make himself free. Freedom is no fairy gift to fall into a man's lap. - Max Stirner

The most complete freedom for the individual, his right to full satisfaction of all his needs, are absolutely legitimate claims, and there was no need to go out to dig up Nietszche and Stirner to give them some consecration. - Jean Grave