If voting changed anything, they'd make it illegal.
In the opinion of the anarchist, the sum total of human ills is expressed in one word-authority.
To revolt is a natural tendency of life. Even a worm turns against the foot that crushes it. In general, the vitality and relative dignity of an animal can be measured by the intensity of its instinct to revolt.
From my point of view the killing of another, except in defense of human life, is archistic, authoritarian, and therefore, no Anarchist can commit such deeds. It is the very opposite of what Anarchism stands for.
Confronted with a choice, the American people would choose the policeman's truncheon over the anarchist's bomb.
it is the liberty that is the mother, not the daughter, of order.
I don't believe in politics. I'm an anarchist, I guess you could say. I think people could be just fine looking after themselves.
I am an anarchist in politics and an impressionist in art as well as a symbolist in literature. Not that I understand what these terms mean, but I take them to be all merely synonyms of pessimist.
My sympathies are, of course, with the Government side, especially the Anarchists ; for Anarchism seems to me more likely to lead to desirable social change than highly centralized, dictatorial Communism .
I am an Anarchist not because I believe Anarchism is the final goal, but because there is no such thing as a final goal.
By no means. I have just given you my serious and well-considered profession of faith. Although a firm friend of order, I am (in the full force of the term) an anarchist. Listen to me.
Fortunately, no country was ever more suited for anarchist agitation than present-day America.
Government is best which governs least
I am truly free only when all human beings, men and women, are equally free. The freedom of other men, far from negating or limiting my freedom, is, on the contrary, its necessary premise and confirmation.
As a teenager I was more of an anarchist, but now I want people to thrive and be harmonious.
As to whether Marcos is gay: Marcos is gay in San Francisco, black in South Africa, an Asian in Europe, a Chicano in San Ysidro, an anarchist in Spain, a Palestinian in Israel, a Mayan Indian in the streets of San Cristobal, a Jew in Germany, a Gypsy in Poland, a Mohawk in Quebec, a pacifist in Bosnia, a single woman on the Metro at 10pm, a peasant without land, a gang member in the slums, an unemployed worker, an unhappy student and, of course, a Zapatista in the mountains.
We started off trying to set up a small anarchist community, but people wouldn't obey the rules.
When anarchy is declared, the first thing we do, let's kill all the anarchists.
People sometimes inquire what form of government is most suitable for an artist to live under. To this question there is only one answer. The form of government that is most suitable to the artist is no government at all.
Jesus was an anarchist savior. That's what the Gospels tell us.
A Christian Anarchist does not depend on bullets or ballots to achieve his ideal; he achieves that ideal daily by the One Man Revolution with which he faces a decadent, confused and dying world.
I'm not an anarchist any longer, because I've concluded that anarchism is an impractical ideal.
We must therefore turn to history for enlightenment; here we find that none of the proclaimed anarchist groups correspond to the libertarian position, that even the best of them have unrealistic and socialistic elements in their doctrines. Furthermore, we find that all of the current anarchists are irrational collectivists, and therefore at opposite poles from our position. We must therefore conclude that we are not anarchists, and that those who call us anarchists are not on firm etymological ground, and are being completely unhistorical.
Never will the Anarchists in Spain be made to suffer as they have been and are in Russia.
I wish to say that we Anarchists have never changed our position. We are Anarchists as of old and still pursue the same ideals.
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