Anarchy Quotes

I didn't know I was a slave until I found out I couldn't do the things I wanted.

To make a contented slave, you must make a thoughtless one. It is necessary to darken his moral and ...

State is the name of the coldest of all cold monsters. Coldly it lies; and this lie slips from its m...

Anarchists are mouthpieces of a declining stratum of society; when they work themselves into a state...

Everything the State says is a lie, and everything it has it has stolen.

When plunder becomes a way of life for a group of men in a society, over the course of time they cre...

The profit of the one is the profit of the other.

There are two principles between which there can be no compromise—liberty and coercion.

Experience teaches effectually, but brutally. It makes us acquainted with all the effects of an acti...

The law is guilty of the evils it is supposed to punish.

The law has placed the collective force at the disposal of the unscrupulous who wish, without risk, ...

The most urgent necessity is, not that the State should teach, but that it should allow education. A...

Electricity is really just organized lightning

Monopoly is a market, or part of a market, reserved to the exclusive possession of one or more selle...

Liberty should be understood as freedom from the government, specifically, freedom from the initiati...

A concept is a brick. It can be used to build a courthouse of reason. Or it can be thrown through th...

Just as war is the natural consequence of monopoly, peace is the natural consequence of liberty.

War has been the necessary and inevitable consequence of the establishment of a monopoly on security...

The demagogue is one who preaches doctrines he knows to be untrue to men he knows to be idiots.

The greater the bureaucratization of public life, the greater will be the attraction of violence. In...

No, the state is anything but the result of a contract! No one with even just an ounce of common sen...

Conflict is not unavoidable. However, it is nonsensical to consider the institution of a state as a ...

A government is a compulsory territorial monopolist of ultimate decision-making (jurisdiction) and, ...

In a covenant...among proprietor and community tenants for the purpose of protecting their private p...

First, with the establishment of a state and territorially defined state borders, “immigration” take...

There can be no socialism without a state, and as long as there is a state there is socialism. The s...

Experience cannot beat logic, and interpretations of observational evidence which are not in line wi...

So what? Why should an a priori proof of the libertarian property theory make any difference? Why no...

Jelly beans! Millions and billions of purples and yellows and greens and licorice and grape and rasp...

The free market punishes irresponsibility. Government rewards it.

Government programs didn’t arise because the people demanded them or because the free market was una...

Anarchists have taken over (the GOP).

The word in your mouth is anarchy.

The worst thing in this world, next to anarchy, is government.

They have provided a system which for terse comprehensiveness surpasses Justinian's Pandects and the...

Anarchy is law and freedom without force.Despotism is law and force without freedom.Barbarism force ...

There can be no greater stretch of arbitrary power than to seize children from their parents, teach ...

At least I had frost on my nose, boots on my feet, and protest in my mouth.

The essential difference between rich societies and poor societies does not stem from any greater ef...

It is curious to note that when for reasons of conscience, people refuse to kill, they are often exe...

The bird that would soar above the level plain of tradition and prejudice must have strong wings.

There are times when the law jeopardizes those who obey it.

The more laws and restrictions there are,The poorer people become....The more rules and regulations,...

A culture without property, or in which creators can't get paid, is anarchy, not freedom.

In a world like this one, only the random makes sense.

If we don't make earnest moves toward real solutions, then each day we move one day closer to revolu...

Every socialist is a disguised dictator.

The desire for an increase of wealth can be satisfied through exchange, which is the only method pos...

Society has arisen out of the works of peace; the essence of society is peacemaking. Peace and not w...

Rhetorical bombast, music and song resound, banners wave, flowers and colors serve as symbols, and t...

The worship of the state is the worship of force. There is no more dangerous menace to civilization ...

What ranks above all else for economic and political reconstruction is a radical change of ideologie...

There is not the slightest analogy between playing games and the conduct of business within a market...

Freedom is indivisible. As soon as one starts to restrict it, one enters upon a decline on which it ...

He who is unfit to serve his fellow citizens wants to rule them.

Socialism is an alternative to capitalism as potassium cyanide is an alternative to water.

Every step which leads from capitalism toward planning is necessarily a step nearer to absolutism an...

If there be such a principle as justice, or natural law, it is the principle, or law, that tells us ...

If taxation without consent is not robbery, then any band of robbers have only to declare themselves...

The only idea they have ever manifested as to what is a government of consent, is this--that it is o...

If any man's money can be taken by a so-called government, without his own personal consent, all his...

The fact is that the government, like a highwayman, says to a man: Your money, or your life...The go...

No man can rightfully be required to join, or support, an association whose protection he does not d...

And yet we have what purports, or professes, or is claimed, to be a contract—the Constitution—made e...

The men of the future will yet fight their way to many a liberty that we do not even miss.

Anarchy is the only slight glimmer of hope.

Do you want to make it impossible for anyone to oppress his fellow-man? Then make sure that no one s...

We revolutionary anarchists are the enemies of all forms of State and State organisations ... wethin...

I think that the Internet is going to be one of the major forces for reducing the role of government...

The anarchy that threatens a degrading society is not its punishment, but its remedy.

That is what I have always understood to be the essence of anarchism: the conviction that the burden...

... if we adopt the principle of universality: if an action is right (or wrong) for others, it is ri...

I beseech you, in the bowels of Christ, think it possible you may be mistaken.

Democracy without respect for individual rights sucks. It's just ganging up against the weird kid, a...

The man Of virtuous soul commands not, nor obeys:Power, like a desolating pestilence,Pollutes whate'...

When politics and home life have become one and the same, when economic problems have been solved in...

The purchaser draws boundaries, fences himself in, and says, “This is mine; each one by himself, eac...

There is no chance and anarchy in the universe. All is system and gradation. Every god is there sitt...

Individuals have rights and there are things no person or group may do to them (without violating th...

Consider the following sequence of cases, which we shall call the Tale of the Slave, and imagine it ...

Collins and Morales represent a segment of society which, if attacked with the weapons society sanct...

democracy is a see-saw between complete chaos and tolerable confusion

A libertarian is somebody who believes, of course, in personal liberty. And liberty is a personal th...

The idea that the government has services or goods that they can pass on is a complete farce. Govern...

It must be remembered that a vast majority of mankind’s history has been spent living under the rule...

When we give government the power to make medical decisions for us, we in essence accept that the st...

Government should never be able to do anything you can't do. If you can't steal from your neighbor, ...

No state, no government exists. What does in fact exist is a man, or a few men, in power over many m...

It is precisely democracy which is destroying the American political structure, American law, and th...

Political rights do not originate in parliaments; they are, rather, forced upon parliaments from wit...

What is important is to spread confusion, not eliminate it.

Librarians hoard the wisdom of humanity. They are the keepers of all knowledge, the guardians at the...

One of the few things my father says when he's had a few that I agree with is that kids don't have m...

On the opening day of law school at Yale, I always counsel my first-year students never to support a...

William: "I'm sure we can all pull together, sir."Vetinari: "Oh, I do hope not. Pulling together is ...

What is ominous is the ease with which some people go from saying that they don't like something to ...

Price controls almost invariably produce black markets, where prices are not only higher than the le...

Anarchy is like custard cooking over a flame; it has to be constantly stirred or it sticks and gets ...

What is an anarchist? One who, choosing, accepts the responsibility of choice

What is an anarchist? One who, choosing, accepts the responsibility of choice.