Anarchist Quotes
Anarchist Quotes

Authors List
Authors List


"Do I want to propose my own system? Not at all! I am an advocate of all systems."
Max Nettlau,
Prolific historian (1865 ‐ 1944)
Historian and prolific writer on anarchism
"Freedom must be so extensive that it includes the right not to be free."
Max Nettlau,
Prolific historian (1865 ‐ 1944)
Historian and prolific writer on anarchism
"Federalism is above all the negation of the nation and the state."
James Guillaume,
Historian and Activist (1844 ‐ 1916)
Swiss anarchist and historian
"Federalism is socialist, and for it solidarity is inseparable from liberty."
James Guillaume,
Historian and Activist (1844 ‐ 1916)
Swiss anarchist and historian
"We are the slaves of slaves. We are exploited more ruthlessly than men."
Lucy Parsons,
Anarcho-communist (1853 ‐ 1942)
Influential American labor organizer and radical socialist
"Prisons are universities of crime, maintained by the state."
Peter Kropotkin,
Anarcho-communist (1842 ‐ 1921)
Russian anarchist and philosopher
"Impossibility never prevented anything from happening."
Errico Malatesta,
anarcho-communist (1853 ‐ 1932)
Influential Italian anarchist theorist
"People have only as much liberty as they have the intelligence to want and the courage to take."
Emma Goldman,
anarcho-feminist (1869 ‐ 1940)
Influential anarchist, political activist, writer.
"Give us what belongs to us in peace, and if you don't give it to us in peace, we will take it by force."
Emma Goldman,
anarcho-feminist (1869 ‐ 1940)
Influential anarchist, political activist, writer.
"Hate does not produce love, and by hate one cannot remake the world."
Errico Malatesta,
anarcho-communist (1853 ‐ 1932)
Influential Italian anarchist theorist
"If I can't dance to it, it's not my revolution."
Emma Goldman,
anarcho-feminist (1869 ‐ 1940)
Influential anarchist, political activist, writer.
"Whoever calls himself revolutionary and speaks of dictatorship is only an imbecile or a traitor."
Joseph Dejacque,
Anarcho-Communist (1821 ‐ 1864)
French early anarchocommunist, poet and essayist
"Direct action is the logical, consistent method of anarchism."
Emma Goldman,
anarcho-feminist (1869 ‐ 1940)
Influential anarchist, political activist, writer.
"Revolutionary methods must be in tune with revolutionary aims."
Emma Goldman,
anarcho-feminist (1869 ‐ 1940)
Influential anarchist, political activist, writer.
"Someone has said that it requires less mental effort to condemn than to think."
Emma Goldman,
anarcho-feminist (1869 ‐ 1940)
Influential anarchist, political activist, writer.
"The state idea means something quite different from the idea of government."
Peter Kropotkin,
Anarcho-communist (1842 ‐ 1921)
Russian anarchist and philosopher
"Idlers do not make history: they suffer it!"
Peter Kropotkin,
Anarcho-communist (1842 ‐ 1921)
Russian anarchist and philosopher
"It cannot be sufficiently emphasized that revolution is in vain unless inspired by its ultimate ideal."
Emma Goldman,
anarcho-feminist (1869 ‐ 1940)
Influential anarchist, political activist, writer.
"Anarchism is not mysticism; it is not a discourse on beauty; it is not a cry of despair."
Peter Arshinov,
anarcho-communist (1887 ‐ 1937)
Russian anarchist, memoirist, and metalworker
"As man grows refined, he comes also to live not only for himself and in himself."
Jean Grave,
Anarcho-communist (1854 ‐ 1939)
Influential French anarcho-communist writer
"Power is cursed, that is why I am an anarchist."
Louise Michel,
Anarcho-communist, Feminist (1830 ‐ 1905)
French anarchist and feminist revolutionary
"I do not believe in God, because I believe in man."
Emma Goldman,
anarcho-feminist (1869 ‐ 1940)
Influential anarchist, political activist, writer.
"Conceit, arrogance and egotism are the essentials of patriotism."
Emma Goldman,
anarcho-feminist (1869 ‐ 1940)
Influential anarchist, political activist, writer.
"Governmental communism, like theocratic communism, is repugnant to the worker."
Peter Kropotkin,
Anarcho-communist (1842 ‐ 1921)
Russian anarchist and philosopher
"If we do not do the impossible, we shall be faced with the unthinkable."
Murray Bookchin,
Anarcho-Communist (1921 ‐ 2006)
Philosopher, social theorist, author
"The inherent tendency of the state is to concentrate, to narrow, and monopolize all social activities."
Emma Goldman,
anarcho-feminist (1869 ‐ 1940)
Influential anarchist, political activist, writer.
"The strongest bulwark of authority is uniformity; the least divergence from it is the greatest crime."
Emma Goldman,
anarcho-feminist (1869 ‐ 1940)
Influential anarchist, political activist, writer.
"No, there is no need to fear life without government; we long for it with all of our hearts."
Ricardo Flores Magon,
Anarcho-communist (1874 ‐ 1922)
Mexican anarchist and revolutionary journalist
"There is no hope even that woman, with her right to vote, will ever purify politics."
Emma Goldman,
anarcho-feminist (1869 ‐ 1940)
Influential anarchist, political activist, writer.
"Freedoms are not given, they are taken."
Peter Kropotkin,
Anarcho-communist (1842 ‐ 1921)
Russian anarchist and philosopher
"Sociability is as much a law of nature as mutual struggle."
Peter Kropotkin,
Anarcho-communist (1842 ‐ 1921)
Russian anarchist and philosopher
"What a strange development of patriotism that turns a thinking being into a loyal machine!"
Emma Goldman,
anarcho-feminist (1869 ‐ 1940)
Influential anarchist, political activist, writer.
"It is above all over the question of the state that socialists are divided."
Peter Kropotkin,
Anarcho-communist (1842 ‐ 1921)
Russian anarchist and philosopher
"It is the duty of us poor people to work and struggle to break the chains that make us slaves."
Ricardo Flores Magon,
Anarcho-communist (1874 ‐ 1922)
Mexican anarchist and revolutionary journalist
"In existing states a fresh law is looked upon as a remedy for evil."
Peter Kropotkin,
Anarcho-communist (1842 ‐ 1921)
Russian anarchist and philosopher
"The individual is quite a world of federations, a whole universe in himself."
Peter Kropotkin,
Anarcho-communist (1842 ‐ 1921)
Russian anarchist and philosopher
"The word "state" is identical with the word "war.""
Peter Kropotkin,
Anarcho-communist (1842 ‐ 1921)
Russian anarchist and philosopher
"What is a utopia? A dream unrealized, but not unrealizable."
Joseph Dejacque,
Anarcho-Communist (1821 ‐ 1864)
French early anarchocommunist, poet and essayist
"Crime is naught but misdirected energy."
Emma Goldman,
anarcho-feminist (1869 ‐ 1940)
Influential anarchist, political activist, writer.
"Individual appropriation is neither just nor serviceable. All belongs to all."
Peter Kropotkin,
Anarcho-communist (1842 ‐ 1921)
Russian anarchist and philosopher
"Each seeks his way, we seek ours and think the day that freedom and equality reign, mankind will be happy."
Louise Michel,
Anarcho-communist, Feminist (1830 ‐ 1905)
French anarchist and feminist revolutionary
"The most violent element in society is ignorance."
Emma Goldman,
anarcho-feminist (1869 ‐ 1940)
Influential anarchist, political activist, writer.
"The emancipation of woman is nothing else than the emancipation of humanity - both sexes."
Joseph Dejacque,
Anarcho-Communist (1821 ‐ 1864)
French early anarchocommunist, poet and essayist
"Those animals which acquire habits of mutual aid are undoubtedly the fittest."
Peter Kropotkin,
Anarcho-communist (1842 ‐ 1921)
Russian anarchist and philosopher