logo

Quotes About Anarchist

It is a fact that the bitterest contradictions and the deadliest conflicts of the world are carried on in every individual breast capable of feeling and passion. [An anarchist]
~ Joseph Conrad
I am saddened by the modern system of advertising. Whatever evidence it offers of enterprise, ingenuity, impudence, and resource in certain individuals, it proves to my mind the wide prevalence of that form of mental degradation which is called gullibility. [An anarchist]
~ Joseph Conrad
The anarchist painter is not the one who will create anarchist pictures, but the one who will fight with all his individuality against official conventions.
~ Paul Signac
A consistent peace activist must be an anarchist.
~ Roderick T. Long
The whole point of view of the anarchist is that everything must start from the bottom up, from man. It seems to me so human a philosophy.
~ Dorothy Day
I'm the kind of anarchist whose chief objection to the State is that it kills so many people. Government is the epitome of the deathist philosophy I reject.
~ Robert Anton Wilson
I am an anarchist in politics and an impressionist in art as well as a symbolist in literature. Not that I understand what these terms mean, but I take them to be all merely synonyms of pessimist.
~ Henry Adams
I am a Tory anarchist. I should like everyone to go about doing just as he pleased - short of altering any of the things to which I have grown accustomed.
~ Max Beerbohm
I'm an anarchist. I'm implacably opposed to heirarchical systems of power and control. I also mistrust crowds, as they often operate according to their lowest common denominator. In terms of evolutionary psychology, the crowd is very close to a herd of stampeding wildebeest.
~ Will Self
Christ - an anarchist who succeeded.
~ Axel Munthe
I'm not a complete libertarian. There is a proper role in some areas of the government to have rules and regulations - I'm not an anarchist.
~ Jack Abramoff
An anarchist is like an undercover agent who plays the game of Reason in order to undercut the authority of Reason (Truth, Honesty, Justice and so on).
~ Paul Feyerabend
She's some kind of Socialist-anarchist-anarcho-syndicalist-Communist. Unless you're one of them you can't tell exactly what any of them are.
~ E.L. Doctorow
Hacía apenas un mes que habían robado en el Louvre el famoso cuadro de Leonardo da Vinci. Habían detenido a Apollinaire, un escritor considerado anarquista, y después a un amigo suyo, un joven pintor desconocido, un tal Picasso. Seguían siendo sospechosos, pero hasta el momento no habían encontrado pruebas de su culpabilidad. Tampoco habían detectado ni rastro del cuadro.
~ Edward Rutherfurd
Ray Brinkman, who spent two decades in the trenches protecting patents, cheers each time the police subdue an anarchist. But Ray Brinkman, whom God stopped with a little backhand flick, is smashing glass.
~ Richard Powers
1872 the anarchist leader Mikhail Bakunin warned Karl Marx that Communists in power would be as oppressive as the aristocracy they replaced. After what has happened in Russia, can you honestly say Bakunin was wrong?
~ Ken Follett
Our taste for books came from Antonin, an old second-hand bookseller, an anarchist, whose shop was on Cours Julien. We'd cut classes to go see him. He'd tell us stories of adventures and pirates. The Caribbean. The Red Sea. The South Seas... Sometimes he'd stop, grab a book, and read us a passage. As if to prove that what he was telling us was true. Then he'd give it to us as a present.
~ Jean-Claude Izzo
The next day's Tribune took the issue further in an editorial. Its all-capitals headline read "HENRY FORD IS AN ANARCHIST," and went on for nine paragraphs and 502 biting words. Ford was variously described as "deluded," "an ignorant idealist," and "an anarchistic enemy of the nation which protects him in his wealth.
~ Jeff Guinn
I've seen, not surprisingly, no action taken against those people, but here I am, an anarchist website, not even close to what that is, not even close to what else you can find on the Internet.
~ Sherman Austin
I'm an anarchist. I'm implacably opposed to heirarchical systems of power and control. I also mistrust crowds, as they often operate according to their lowest common denominator. In terms of evolutionary psychology, the crowd is very close to a herd of stampeding wildebeest.
~ Will Self
A rational anarchist believes that concepts such as 'state' and 'society' and 'government' have no existence save as physically exemplified in the acts of self-responsible individuals.
~ Robert A. Heinlein
I die, as I have lived, a free spirit, an Anarchist, owing no allegiance to rulers, heavenly or earthly.
~ Voltairine de Cleyre
Él es el artista; yo, la anarquista.
~ Jeffrey Moore
Not only my arrest but the others smack of the Haymarket. The police are very much in disrepute all over the country, and they wish to do something to clear themselves. They are trying to make it an anarchist plot. If they wish to make up a case, they may succeed.
~ Emma Goldman