Anarcho-pacifism – Anarchist Quotes

"The anti-sexualism of authoritarian societies and the people who run them does not spring from conviction (they themselves have sex), but from the vague perception that freedom here might lead to a liking for freedom elsewhere."

— Alex Comfort,
Anarcho-pacifist (1920 ‐ 2000)
British scientist and novelist, advocate of free love

"No feats of heroism are needed to achieve the greatest and most important changes in the existence of humanity."

— Leo Tolstoy,
anarcho-pacifist (1828 ‐ 1910)
Russian author, pacifist and social anarchist

"During humankind's long centuries societies have risen and fallen, all alike in this one fact which rules all history: the great are protected, the small are crushed."

— Octave Mirbeau,
Anarcho-syndicalist, Anarcho-pacifist (1848 ‐ 1917)
French novelist, playwright and anarchist

"Armies are necessary, before all things, for the defense of governments from their own oppressed and enslaved subjects."

— Leo Tolstoy,
anarcho-pacifist (1828 ‐ 1910)
Russian author, pacifist and social anarchist

"To take something from a person and keep it for oneself: that is robbery. To take something from one person and then turn it over to another in exchange for as much money as you can get: that is business."

— Octave Mirbeau,
Anarcho-syndicalist, Anarcho-pacifist (1848 ‐ 1917)
French novelist, playwright and anarchist

"We cannot pretend that we do not see the policeman who walks in front of the windows with a loaded revolver, defending us, while we eat our savory dinner or view a new performance, or those soldiers who will immediately go with their guns and loaded cartridges to where our property will be violated."

— Leo Tolstoy,
anarcho-pacifist (1828 ‐ 1910)
Russian author, pacifist and social anarchist

"Power has become invincible, and rests no longer on the higher national foundations of anointed right, election, or representation, but on violence alone."

— Leo Tolstoy,
anarcho-pacifist (1828 ‐ 1910)
Russian author, pacifist and social anarchist

"A commercial company enslaved a nation comprising two hundred millions. Tell this to a man free from superstition and he will fail to grasp what these words mean."

— Leo Tolstoy,
anarcho-pacifist (1828 ‐ 1910)
Russian author, pacifist and social anarchist

"Children, by nature, are keen, passionate and curious. What was referred to as laziness is often merely an awakening of sensitivity, a psychological inability to submit to certain absurd duties, and a natural result of the distorted, unbalanced education given to them. This laziness, which leads to an insuperable reluctance to learn, is, contrary to appearances, sometimes proof of intellectual superiority and a condemnation of the teacher."

— Octave Mirbeau,
Anarcho-syndicalist, Anarcho-pacifist (1848 ‐ 1917)
French novelist, playwright and anarchist

"Anarchy will be instituted only by there being more and more people who do not require the protection of governmental power and by there being more and more people who will be ashamed of applying this power."

— Leo Tolstoy,
anarcho-pacifist (1828 ‐ 1910)
Russian author, pacifist and social anarchist

"The greatest danger of bombs is in the explosion of stupidity that they provoke."

— Octave Mirbeau,
Anarcho-syndicalist, Anarcho-pacifist (1848 ‐ 1917)
French novelist, playwright and anarchist

"In our world everybody thinks of changing humanity, and nobody thinks of changing himself."

— Leo Tolstoy,
anarcho-pacifist (1828 ‐ 1910)
Russian author, pacifist and social anarchist

"Wheresoever it be, there will exist the power of certain men over others, and there will not be freedom, but there will be the oppression of one portion of mankind by another. Therefore power must be abolished."

— Leo Tolstoy,
anarcho-pacifist (1828 ‐ 1910)
Russian author, pacifist and social anarchist

"One thing only is needful: the knowledge of the simple and clear truth which finds place in every soul that is not stupefied by religious and scientific superstitions - the truth that for our life one law is valid - the law of love, which brings the highest happiness to every individual as well as to all mankind."

— Leo Tolstoy,
anarcho-pacifist (1828 ‐ 1910)
Russian author, pacifist and social anarchist

"To be good and lead a good life means to give to others more than one takes from them."

— Leo Tolstoy,
anarcho-pacifist (1828 ‐ 1910)
Russian author, pacifist and social anarchist

"In all history there is no war which was not hatched by the governments, the governments alone, independent of the interests of the people, to whom war is always pernicious even when successful."

— Leo Tolstoy,
anarcho-pacifist (1828 ‐ 1910)
Russian author, pacifist and social anarchist

"If power is to be abolished it must be abolished not by force but by men's consciousness of its uselessness and evil."

— Leo Tolstoy,
anarcho-pacifist (1828 ‐ 1910)
Russian author, pacifist and social anarchist

"As the uselessness and harmfulness of patriotism have become manifest, so also has increased the power of the government and ruling class to excite patriotism among the people."

— Leo Tolstoy,
anarcho-pacifist (1828 ‐ 1910)
Russian author, pacifist and social anarchist

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