Anarchist Quotes @anarchistquotes@todon.nl
5x per day a random quote from a broad spectrum of anarchist and anarchist-friendly people.
Idlers do not make history: they suffer it!
-- Peter Kropotkin
Drawn at first to socialism, I was not slow in separating myself from that party. I have too much love of freedom, too much respect for individual initiative, too much repugnance for military organization, to assume a number in the ordered army of the fourth estate.
-- Emile Henry
The peoples of the world are becoming profoundly dissatisfied and are not appeased by the promise of the social democrats to patch up the state into a new engine of oppression.
-- Peter Kropotkin
I have certain rules I live by. My first rule: I don't believe anything the government tells me.
-- George Carlin
Freedom must be so extensive that it includes the right not to be free.
-- Max Nettlau
There are differences in the parties -- I don't think they're great differences, but they're real, and small differences in a system of great power can have enormous consequences.
-- Noam Chomsky
There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root.
-- Henry David Thoreau
Voting strongly resembles the capitalist economic system that always accompanies democracy.
-- Moxie Marlinspike
Sexually progressive cultures gave us mathematics, literature, philosophy, civilization and the rest, while sexually restrictive cultures gave us the Dark Ages and the Holocaust.
-- Alan Moore
Anarchism, to me, means not only the denial of authority, not only a new economy, but a revision of the principles of morality. It means the development of the individual as well as the assertion of the individual. It means self-responsibility, and not leader worship.
-- Voltairine de Cleyre
The ecological principle of unity in diversity grades into a richly mediated social principle; hence my use of the term social ecology.
-- Murray Bookchin
Revolution is indeed a violent process.
-- Emma Goldman
Fear of the people is the defect of all those who belong to authority. The people, as concerns power, is the enemy.
-- Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
The proprietor, producing neither by his own labor nor by his implement, and receiving products in exchange for nothing, is either a parasite or a thief.
-- Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
You who are resigned, look: I spit on your idols. I spit on God, the Fatherland, I spit on Christ, I spit on the flag, I spit on capital and the golden calf; I spit on laws and Codes, on the symbols of religion; they are baubles, I could care less about them, I laugh at them...
-- Albert Libertad
The anarchist believes that the government is the limit of liberty. He hopes, by destroying government, to expand liberty. The true limit is not government, but society. Government is a social product like another. We don't destroy a tree by cutting one of its branches.
-- Han Ryner
After all, it means thirteen dollars per month, three meals a day, and a place to sleep. Yet even necessity is not sufficiently strong a factor to bring into the army an element of character and manhood.
-- Emma Goldman
The sign of a truly totalitarian culture is that important truths simply lack cognitive meaning.
-- Noam Chomsky
Terrorism is tempting with its tremendous possibilities. It offers a mechanical solution, as it were, in hopeless situations.
-- Alexander Berkman
Anarchy -- the sovereignty of the individual over his own actions -- is the goal for which we strive. Communism is one of those incidents that come afterwards.
-- Joseph Labadie
