Anarchist Quotes
Anarchist Quotes

Authors List
Authors List


"We won the revolution, what we lost was the war."
Abel Paz,
Anarchist Activist (1921 ‐ 2009)
Spanish anarcho-syndicalist and historian.
"We need no messiah and no sterile conception of a god menacing us with hell and purgatory."
Frederica Montseny,
Feminist Anarchist (1905 ‐ 1994)
Anarchist, novelist, and Minister of Health
"Never will the anarchists in Spain be made to suffer as they have been and are in Russia."
Frederica Montseny,
Feminist Anarchist (1905 ‐ 1994)
Anarchist, novelist, and Minister of Health
"Let us not lose time asking an imaginary god for what only human effort can obtain for us."
Abel Paz,
Anarchist Activist (1921 ‐ 2009)
Spanish anarcho-syndicalist and historian.
"Let us not lose time asking others to give us what we can obtain ourselves."
Abel Paz,
Anarchist Activist (1921 ‐ 2009)
Spanish anarcho-syndicalist and historian.
"Stability means we run it. There are countries that are very stable. Cuba is stable, but that's not called stability."
Noam Chomsky,
Anarcho-Syndicalist
Linguist, philosopher, cognitive scientist, historian, social critic, and political activist.
"We're supposed to worship Adam Smith but you're not supposed to read him. That's too dangerous. He's a dangerous radical."
Noam Chomsky,
Anarcho-Syndicalist
Linguist, philosopher, cognitive scientist, historian, social critic, and political activist.
"As soon as one identifies, challenges and overcomes illegitimate power, he or she is an anarchist. Most people are anarchists."
Noam Chomsky,
Anarcho-Syndicalist
Linguist, philosopher, cognitive scientist, historian, social critic, and political activist.
"Non-violent resistance activities cannot succeed against an enemy that is able freely to use violence."
Noam Chomsky,
Anarcho-Syndicalist
Linguist, philosopher, cognitive scientist, historian, social critic, and political activist.
"Go to any elite university and you are usually speaking to very disciplined people, people who have been selected for obedience."
Noam Chomsky,
Anarcho-Syndicalist
Linguist, philosopher, cognitive scientist, historian, social critic, and political activist.
"If we don't believe in free expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all."
Noam Chomsky,
Anarcho-Syndicalist
Linguist, philosopher, cognitive scientist, historian, social critic, and political activist.
"I consider it immoral to be a supporter of a power system."
Noam Chomsky,
Anarcho-Syndicalist
Linguist, philosopher, cognitive scientist, historian, social critic, and political activist.
"In certain intellectual circles in France, the very basis for discussion - minimal respect for facts and logic - has been virtually abandoned."
Noam Chomsky,
Anarcho-Syndicalist
Linguist, philosopher, cognitive scientist, historian, social critic, and political activist.
"Where the state lacks means of coercion, it is important to control what people think."
Noam Chomsky,
Anarcho-Syndicalist
Linguist, philosopher, cognitive scientist, historian, social critic, and political activist.
"If the Nuremberg laws were applied, then every post-war American president would have been hanged."
Noam Chomsky,
Anarcho-Syndicalist
Linguist, philosopher, cognitive scientist, historian, social critic, and political activist.
"It is the fundamental duty of the citizen to resist and to restrain the violence of the state."
Noam Chomsky,
Anarcho-Syndicalist
Linguist, philosopher, cognitive scientist, historian, social critic, and political activist.
"Propaganda is to a democracy what the bludgeon is to a totalitarian state."
Noam Chomsky,
Anarcho-Syndicalist
Linguist, philosopher, cognitive scientist, historian, social critic, and political activist.
"Libertarian socialism is properly to be regarded as the inheritor of the liberal ideals of the Enlightenment."
Noam Chomsky,
Anarcho-Syndicalist
Linguist, philosopher, cognitive scientist, historian, social critic, and political activist.
"Capitalism is a system in which the central institutions of society are in principle under autocratic control."
Noam Chomsky,
Anarcho-Syndicalist
Linguist, philosopher, cognitive scientist, historian, social critic, and political activist.
"Wanton killing of innocent civilians is terrorism, not a "war against terrorism.""
Noam Chomsky,
Anarcho-Syndicalist
Linguist, philosopher, cognitive scientist, historian, social critic, and political activist.
"The sign of a truly totalitarian culture is that important truths simply lack cognitive meaning."
Noam Chomsky,
Anarcho-Syndicalist
Linguist, philosopher, cognitive scientist, historian, social critic, and political activist.
"States are violent to the extent that they have the power to act in the interests of those with domestic power."
Noam Chomsky,
Anarcho-Syndicalist
Linguist, philosopher, cognitive scientist, historian, social critic, and political activist.
"Naturally, any conqueror is going to play one group against another."
Noam Chomsky,
Anarcho-Syndicalist
Linguist, philosopher, cognitive scientist, historian, social critic, and political activist.
"The point of public relations slogans like "Support Our Troops" is that they don't mean anything."
Noam Chomsky,
Anarcho-Syndicalist
Linguist, philosopher, cognitive scientist, historian, social critic, and political activist.
"Unfortunately, you can't vote the rascals out, because you never voted them in, in the first place."
Noam Chomsky,
Anarcho-Syndicalist
Linguist, philosopher, cognitive scientist, historian, social critic, and political activist.
"A corporate elite of managers and owners governs the economy and the political system."
Noam Chomsky,
Anarcho-Syndicalist
Linguist, philosopher, cognitive scientist, historian, social critic, and political activist.
"Dictatorship, the most extreme form of tyranny, can never lead to social liberation."
Rudolf Rocker,
anarcho-syndicalist (1873 ‐ 1958)
Influential anarchist writer and speaker