Quotes About Anarchism

Anarchism is the only ideology that has ever changed society. The spirit of anarchism lies in freeing one from the chains of others. Anarchism may seem a little chaotic but in a system that doesn't want to change, we need to enforce change.

We anarchists do not want to emancipate the people; we want the people to emancipate themselves.

Whenever freedom is made into the absolute, the result is not freedom but anarchism. Freedom must be under law, or it is not freedom.

Liberalism is to freedom as anarchism is to anarchy.

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

Anarchism has but one infallible, unchangeable motto, 'Freedom.' Freedom to discover any truth, freedom to develop, to live naturally and fully.

I am an Anarchist not because I believe Anarchism is the final goal, but because there is no such thing as a final goal.

Very few philosophers have been anarchists. Nearly all of them admit that a State and a power are necessary. They do not wash their hands of it, and yet they do not consent to the myth. Or, when they do, they nonetheless give warning that it is a myth. This is the source of their uneasiness. It is not an anomaly or an aristocratic malady.

Very few philosophers have been anarchists

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

Anarchism is not only a stateless society but also a harmonized society that exposes man to the stimuli provided by both agrarian and urban life, to physical activity and mental activity, to unrepressed sensuality and self-directed spirituality, to communal solidarity and individual development, to regional uniqueness and worldwide brotherhood, to spontaneity and self-discipline, to the elimination of toil and the promotion of craftsmanship.

An anarchist society, far from being a remote ideal, has become a precondition for the practice of ecological principles.

Capitalism is the fullest expression of anarchism, and anarchism is the fullest expression of capitalism. Not only are they compatible, but you can't really have one without the other. True anarchism will be capitalism, and true capitalism will be anarchism

There are more conspirators in a democratic state than in a principality, and when they go unchecked, turn their gaze to anarchism.

Anarchism is an ideology which is too realistic not to comprehend the modern world and real events. The part taken by its practitioners in these events is based on a clear understanding of the goal to be attained and the means to be used to reach it...

That is what I have always understood to be the essence of anarchism: the conviction that the burden of proof has to be placed on authority, and that it should be dismantled if that burden cannot be met.