Quotes About Anarchism

Sosyalizmin ve komünizmin hedefi emekçiyi yükseltmek deÄŸil, burjuvay? indirmektir. Emekçi ise ayn? noktada, hatta söylediÄŸim gibi, daha kötü noktada kal?r. Burjuvan?n yitirdiÄŸi ÅŸeyden yararlanan asla emekçi deÄŸildir. AnarÅŸizm ise tersine bir sevgi rejimidir, sevilen insanlara bask? uygulamaya çal???lmaz.

Libertarians (like anarchists and Marxists) generally believe that human nature is good, though damaged by certain social institutions. Conservatives, on the contrary, hold that in Adam's fall we sinned all: human nature, though compounded of both good and evil, is irremediably flawed; so the perfection of society is impossible, all human beings being imperfect.

Anarchists are socialists because they want the improvement of society, and they are communists because they are convinced that such a transformation of society can only result from the establishment of a commonwealth of property.

Is anarchism possible? The failure of attempts to attain freedom does not mean the cause is lost.

Anarchism? You bet your sweet betsy. The only cure for the ills of democracy is more democracy. Much more.

Anarchism is founded on the observation that since few men are wise enough to rule themselves, even fewer are wise enough to rule others.

Anarchism is democracy taken seriously.

Anarchism is not a romantic fable but the hardheaded realization, based on five thousand years of experience, that we cannot entrust the management of our lives to kings, priests, politicians, generals, and county commissioners.

Don't forget Kropotkin!

Unlike the recorded teachings of Jesus, however, anarchist ideology embraced the considered use of violence. Lucy Parsons avowed that had she been at Haymarket Square when the police arrived, had she seen their behavior and heard what transpired, she would have "flung the bomb [her]self.

Therefore, if God existed, only in one way could he serve human liberty - by ceasing to exist.

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.

Let those men who still have these misguided ideas, let those men who still have these hallucinations, realize that by anarchism, by dastardly crimes, they cannot bring about good government; let them realize that these methods have not succeeded in any country of the world and are not likely to succeed in India.

Common to all Anarchists is the desire to free society of all political and social coercive institutions which stand in the way of development of a free humanity.

Anarchism has in common with Liberalism the idea that the happiness and prosperity of the individual must be the standard of all social matters.

I'm by no means convinced that capitalism and the development of technology has made anarchism easier.

Sus compatriotas son refractarios a demasiadas cosas. Ni el fascismo ni el comunismo calan de verdad en ellos; he visto allí más oportunistas que gente con ideas firmes... Sólo el anarquismo encaja con su carácter, y eso los hace imprevisibles y peligrosos.

The last book I read was Noam Chomsky on anarchism; maybe I will become an anarchist.

Anarchists try to identify power structures. They urge those exercising power to justify themselves. This justification does not succeed most of the time.

Any person advocating Communism, Socialism, or Anarchism, advocating refusal to enlist in case of war, or advocating alliance with Russia in any war whatsoever, shall be subject to trial for high treason, with a minimum penalty of twenty years at hard labor in prison, and a maximum of death on the gallows, or other form of execution which the judges may find convenient.

and no less than fifty-nine disloyal Red students have received their just deserts by being beaten up so severely that never again will they raise in this free country the bloodstained banner of anarchism!

Anarchism is "stateless socialism."

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.

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.