Quotes

"The most absurd apology for authority and law is that they serve to diminish crime. Aside from the fact that the State is itself the greatest criminal, breaking every written and natural law, stealing in the form of taxes, killing in the form of war and capital punishment, it has come to an absolute standstill in coping with crime. It has failed utterly to destroy or even minimize the horrible scourge of its own creation." - Emma Goldman

"I am an anarchist! Wherefore I will not rule, and also ruled I will not be!" - John Henry Mackay

"At the risk at seeming ridiculous let me say that the true revolutionary is guided by a great feeling of love" - Che Guevara

"The law is an adroit mixture of customs that are beneficial to society, and could be followed even if no law existed, and others that are of advantage to a ruling minority, but harmful to the masses of men, and can be enforced on them only by terror" - Peter Kropotkin

"I am convinced there is only one way to eliminate these grave evils, namely through the estabelishment of a socialist economy, accompanied by an educational system which would be oriented towards social goals" - Albert Einstein

"It's easier to fool people than to convince them that they have been fooled" - Mark Twain

"They talk about the failure of socialism, but where is the success of capitalism in africa, asia, and latin america?" - Fidel Castro

"I am not a liberator. Liberators do not exist. The people liberate themselves" - Che Guevara

"The real purpose of socialism is precisely to overcome and advance beyond the predatory phase of human development" - Albert Einstein

"How is it my fault that my heart sits to the left and that my blood is red?" - Che Guevara

"I am convinced socialism is the only answer and I urse all comrades to ttake this struggle to a victorious conclusion. Only this will free us from the chains of bigotry and exploitation" - Malala Yousafzai

"The American people will never knowingly adopt socialism. But, under the name of 'liberalism,' they will adopt every fragment of the socialist program, until one day america will be a socialist nation, without knowing how it happened" - Norman Thomas

"When facism comes to america it will be wrapped in the flag and carrying a cross" - Sinclair Lewis

"Under no pretext should arms and ammunition be surrendered; any attempt to disarm the workers must be frustrated, by force if necessary" _ Karl Marx

"Competition is the law of the jungle, but cooperation is the law of civilization" - Peter Kropotkin

"While revolutionaries as individuals can be murdered, you cannot kill ideas' - Thomas Sankara

"To Joseph Stalin: Stop sending people to kill me! We've already captured five of them, one of them with a bomb and another with a rifle...if you don't stop sending killers, I'll send a very fast working one to Moscow and I certainly wont have to send another" - Josip Broz Tito

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

"“Be strong. Overflow with emotional and intellectual energy, and you will spread your intelligence, your love, your energy of action broadcast among others! This is what all moral teaching comes to.” - Peter Kropotkin

"Don’t compete! — competition is always injurious to the species, and you have plenty of resources to avoid it" - Peter Kropotkin

"All is for all! If the man and the woman bear their fair share of work, they have a righ tto their fair share of all that is produced by all, and that share is enough to secure them well-being. No more of such vague formulas as "The right to work" or "To each the whole result of his labour." What we proclaim is the right to wellbeing: well-being for all!" - Peter Kropotkin

"When we ask for the abolition of the state and its organs we are always told that we dream of a society composed of men better than they are in reality. But no; a thousand times, no. All we ask is that men should not be made WORSE than they are by such institutions" - Peter Kropotkin

"People go to church for the same reasons they go to a tavern: to stupefy themselves, to forget their misery, to imagine themselves, for a few minutes anyway, free and happy" - Mikhail Bakunin

"Liberty without socialism is privilege & injustice. Socialism without liberty is slavery and brutality" - Mikhail Bakunin

"Ask for work. If they dont give you work, ask for bread. If they do not give you work or bread, then take bread" - Emma Goldman

"If voting changed anything, they'd make it illegal" - Emma Goldman

"Never be deceived that the rich will permit you to vote away their wealth" - Lucy Parsons

"I am an anarchist not because I believe anarchism is the final goal, but because there is no such thing as a final goal" - Rudolf Rocker

“Comrades, there is no true social revolution without the liberation of women. May my eyes never see and my feet never take me to a society where half the people are held in silence. I hear the roar of women’s silence. I sense the rumble of their storm and feel the fury of their revolt.”  - Thomas Sankara

Love conquers all difficulties, surmounts all obstacles, and effects what to any other power would be impossible - William Godwin

Condemn me if you choose — I do that myself, — but condemn me, and not the path which I am following, and which I point out to those who ask me where, in my opinion, the path is. - Leo Tolstoy

The wise man is satisfied with nothing - William Godwin

“The reason why we have two ears and only one mouth is that we may listen the more and talk the less.” - Zeno of Citium

No evil is honorable; but death is honorable; therefore death is not evil. - Zeno of Citium

The best exponent of anarchist philosophy in ancient Greece was Zeno (342-267 or 270 B.C.), from Crete, the founder of the Stoic philosophy, who distinctly opposed his conception of a free community without government to the state-Utopia of Plato. He repudiated the omnipotence of the State, its intervention and regimentation, and proclaimed the sovereignty of the moral law of the individual — remarking already that, while the necessary instinct of self-preservation leads man to egotism, nature has supplied a corrective to it by providing man with another instinct — that of sociability. When men are reasonable enough to follow their natural instincts, they will unite across the frontiers and constitute the Cosmos. They will have no need of law-courts or police, will have no temples and no public worship, and use no money — free gifts taking the place of the exchanges. Unfortunately, the writings of Zeno have not reached us and are only known through fragmentary quotations. However, the fact that his very wording is similar to the wording now in use, shows how deeply is laid the tendency of human nature of which he was the mouthpiece. - Peter Kropotkin

"The purpose of life is happiness, which is achieved by virtue, living according to the dictates of reason, ethical and philosophical training, self reflection, careful judgement and inner calm" - Zeno of Citium

If you cannot trust the people with freedom, how can you trust them with power? - Bruce Fenton

as for politics, im an anarchist. i hate governments and rules and fetters. cant stand caged animals. people must be free - charlie chaplin

If you are hungry i will offer food. if you are thirsty i will offer water. if you are cold i will offer warmth. if you are in need ask and i will give. if you are in trouble ask and i will help. i do not need these things in the hopes of being rewarded. i do not do these things out of fear of punishment. i do these things because i know them to be right. i set my own standards and i alone enforce them. i am an anarchist

an anarchist is someone who does not need a cop to make him behave. anarchism is voluntary cooperation with the right of secession. the individual or the family or the small group as a unit instead of the state - ammon hennacy

anarchism does not mean bloodshed; it does not mean robbery, arson, etc... these monstrosities are on the contrary the characteristic features of capitalism - naom chomsky

The truth is that the State is a conspiracy designed not only to exploit, but above all to corrupt its citizens … Henceforth, I shall never serve any government anywhere. - Leo Tolstoy