Anarchy Quotes

Beginning with Santa Claus as a cognitive exercise, a child is encouraged to share the same idea of ...

The most dangerous diminutions of freedom come from those who are convinced of their moral rectitude...

Take one famous example: arguments about property destruction after Seattle. Most of these, I think,...

Laughter is an anarchic blasphemy. Tyrants are wise to fear it.

A primary purpose of the police is to enforce the delusions of those with lots of green paper.

Y'know, there's a very interesting state of Anarchy up there. Everything's cracking up. That lot of ...

Nationalism does nothing but teach you to hate people you never met, and to take pride in accomplish...

Anarchism is democracy taken seriously.

Not only my arrest but the others smack of the Haymarket. The police are very much in disrepute all ...

The political superstition is still holding sway over the hearts and minds of the masses, but the tr...

Before we can forgive one another, we have to understand one another.

If I can't dance to it, it's not my revolution.

So long as tyranny exists, in whatever form, man's deepest aspiration must resist it as inevitably a...

I did not believe that a Cause which stood for a beautiful ideal, for anarchism, for release and fre...

The philosophy of Atheism represents a concept of life without any metaphysical Beyond or Divine Reg...

No great idea in its beginning can ever be within the law. How can it be within the law? The law is ...

The sick in soul insist that it is humanity that is sick, and they are the surgeons to operate on it...

The Internet is the first thing that humanity has built that humanity doesn't understand, the larges...

The freedom we want, for ourselves and for others, is not an absolute metaphysical, abstract freedom...

Don't give over all of your critical faculties to people in power, no matter how admirable those peo...

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 ...