Quotes about Anarchism

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People have only as much liberty as they have the intelligence to want and the courage to take. — Emma Goldman
You are what you do. If you do boring, stupid monotonous work, chances are you'll end up boring, stupid and monotonous. — Bob Black, The Abolition of Work & Other Essays
The real enemy" is the totality of physical and mental constraints by which capital, or class society, or statism, or th — Bob Black, The Abolition of Work & Other Essays
And yet we have what purports, or professes, or is claimed, to be a contract—the Constitution—made eighty years ago, by — Lysander Spooner, No Treason: The Constitution of No Authority
For over a century and a half, anarchists have been arguing that coercive, hierarchical organization (as embodied in gov — Chaz Bufe, Anarchism: What It Is & What It Isn't
Anarchism is not chaos; Anarchism is not rejection of organization. This is another popular misconception, repeated ad n — Chaz Bufe, Anarchism: What It Is & What It Isn't
To most anarchists, the advocacy of freedom on Earth while bowing to a heavenly tyrant (no matter how imaginary) seems a — Chaz Bufe, Anarchism: What It Is & What It Isn't
Anarchism is founded on the observation that since few men are wise enough to rule themselves, even fewer are wise enoug — Edward Abbey
L'homme qui n'a pas été anarchiste à seize ans est un imbécile. Mais c'en est un autre, s'il l'est encore à quarante. — Georges Clémenceau
School has become the world religion of a modernized proletariat, and makes futile promises of salvation to the poor of — Ivan Illich, Deschooling Society
Most schooling is training for stupidity and conformity, and that's institutional, but occasionally you get a spark, som — Noam Chomsky
It is better to enlighten men’s minds than to teach them to be obstinate in their prejudices. — Pierre-Joseph Proudhon, What Is Property?
Science is essentially an anarchic enterprise: theoretical anarchism is more humanitarian and more likely to encourage p — Paul Karl Feyerabend, Against Method: Outline of an Anarchistic Theory of Knowledge
If Adam and Eve were not hunter-gatherers, then they were certainly gatherers. But, then, consumer desire, or self-embit — Tom Hodgkinson, The Freedom Manifesto
In modern states, the citizen is politically impotent. A citizen, it is true, may complain, make suggestions, or cause d — Mark Mirabello, Handbook for Rebels and Outlaws
Regarding the need to pray, the anarch is again no different from anyone else. But he does not like to attach himself. H — Ernst Jünger, Eumeswil
For the anarch, little has changed; flags have meaning for him, but not sense. I have seen them in the air and on the gr — Ernst Jünger, Eumeswil
The anarch differs from the anarchist in that he has a very pronounced sense of the rules. Insofar as and to the extent — Ernst Jünger, Eumeswil
Doing the forbidden is a normal function of growth. — Paul Goodman, Growing Up Absurd
If your political theory requires humanity to "evolve", then you do not have a theory.... you have a dream. — A.E. Samaan