Anarchism Quotes

Anarchism is the great liberator of man from the phantoms that have held him captive; it is the arbiter and pacifier of the two forces for individual and social harmony.
Emma Goldman

Great, Him, Two

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

Men, Wise, Enough

I am not going to claim that modern anarchism has any direct relation to Roman jurisprudence; but I do claim that it has its basis in the laws of nature rather than in the state of nature.
Herbert Read

Nature, Rather, State

Direct action is the logical, consistent method of Anarchism.
Emma Goldman

Action, Logical, Direct

I'm not an anarchist any longer, because I've concluded that anarchism is an impractical ideal.
Robert Anton Wilson

Longer, Ideal, Anarchist

I know of no better name than Anarchism.
Herbert Read

This brings us to Anarchism, which may be described as the doctrine that all the affairs of men should be managed by individuals or voluntary associations, and that the State should be abolished.
Benjamin Tucker

Men, May, State

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

Freedom, Failure, Lost

At the same time, of course, Marxism arose - Rosa Luxembourg, Leninism, anarchism - and art became political.
Douglas Sirk

Time, Art, Political

For, just as it has been said that there is no half-way house between Rome and Reason, so it may be said that there is no half-way house between State Socialism and Anarchism.
Benjamin Tucker

May, Said, Between

The two principles referred to are Authority and Liberty, and the names of the two schools of Socialistic thought which fully and unreservedly represent one or the other of them are, respectively, State Socialism and Anarchism.
Benjamin Tucker

Thought, Two, Liberty

Is anarchism desirable? Well, who does not seek freedom? What man, unless willing to declare himself in bondage, would care to call any control agreeable? Think about it!
Johann Most

Freedom, Care, Control

If all our comrades of Europe, America and other countries, who do not understand what we are doing to Spanish Anarchism, would come to Spain, we could then see how they would react.
Frederica Montseny

Understand, America, Europe

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