Anarchist Quotes - Page 10

• There are some libertarians who are really anarchists, but others are more concerned about the distant relationship between themselves and power. They mistakenly think they want to get rid of government when instead they might just want to have greater access to power.

  Zephyr Teachout

  Thinking, Government, Want

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• My face on every coin engraved, the anarchists are all enslaved. My flag is forever waved, by the grateful people I have saved.

  Don McLean

  Grateful, People, Forever

  Don McLean (2008). “The Legendary Songs of Don McLean (Songbook)”, p.82, Hal Leonard Corporation

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• Actually, my first article, it wasn't about the anarchists; it was about the fall of Barcelona and the spread of fascism over Europe, which was frightening. But a couple of years later I became interested in the anarchist movement.

  Noam Chomsky

  Couple, Fall, Years

  Source: thehumanist.com

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• I'm not an anarchist. I believe in government.

  Keith Olbermann

  Believe, Government, I Believe

  "Bill Moyers talks with MSNBC host Keith Olbermann". "Bill Moyers Journal", www.pbs.org. December 14, 2007.

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• The anarchist is dressed all in black. In the dark you can only see his eyes. It dates from the 1930's. Porky Pig is a little boy. The children told me that he has a nephew now, Cicero. Do you remember, during the war, when Porky worked in a defense plant? He and Bugs Bunny. That was a good one too.

  Thomas Pynchon

  Children, War, Eye

  Thomas Pynchon (2012). “The Crying of Lot 49”, p.43, Penguin

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• The minimum that most minimalists want leaves in place just the institutions who protect their interests. That's libertarians for you - anarchists who want police protection from their slaves.

  Kim Stanley Robinson

  Police, Want, Libertarian

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• I feel sure that the police are helping us more than I could do in ten years. They are making more anarchists than the most prominent people connected with the anarchist cause could make in ten years. If they will only continue I shall be very grateful; they will save me lots of work.

  Emma Goldman

  Grateful, Years, People

  "Arrest in Chicago of Emma Goldman, Preacher of Anarchy". "The San Francisco call" Newspaper, September 11, 1901.

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• We must shed the old stereotype of anarchists as bearded bomb throwers furtively stalking about city streets at night.

  Stephen Jay Gould

  Night, Cities, Bombs

  Stephen Jay Gould (1991). “Bully for Brontosaurus: Reflections in Natural History”, W W Norton & Company Incorporated

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• The poor man who takes property by force is called a thief, but the creditor who can by legislation make a debtor pay a dollar twice as large as he borrowed is lauded as the friend of a sound currency. The man who wants the people to destroy the Government is an anarchist, but the man who wants the Government to destroy the people is a patriot.

  William Jennings Bryan

  Men, People, Sound

  William Jennings Bryan (1896). “The First Battle: A Story of the Campaign of 1896”

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• I think I am slowly becoming an anarchist, that this is only another label for my privateness, and I think that you will understand this in the sense of being against collectivity.

  Karel Capek

  Thinking, Labels, Becoming

  Karel Capek's statement to S. K. Neumann, as quoted in Ivan Klima "Karel Capek: Life and Work", 2002.

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• There's nothing wrong with being an anarchist.

  Jerry Brown

  Address to the International Transpersonal Association Conference in Santa Clara, California, June 10, 1995.

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• When I talk about self-management, self-regulation, self-government, the word I emphasize is self, and my concern is with the reconstruction of the self. Marxists and even many, I think, overly enthusiastic anarchists have neglected that self.

  Murray Bookchin

  Thinking, Government, Self

  Interview with Jeff Riggenbach, reason.com. October 1979.

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• There is a reason for the affected profession of " anarchist sympathies" among Tories and grandees, and of " libertarian principles" by Hobbesian yahoos of the right. Among the former, one sees the upholding of the view that a gentleman's business and property are his own, and none of the government's. Among the latter, a distaste for democracy, for taxation, and for the need to consult others about the planet.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Government, Views, Gentleman

  Christopher Hitchens (2014). “For the Sake of Argument: Essays and Minority Reports”, p.250, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• The Anarchists' uncompromising rejection of the State, the subject of Marxian sneers for its "absolutist" and "Utopian" character, makes much better sense in the present era than the Marxist relativist and historical approach. The pacifists also seem to be more realistic than the Marxist both in their understanding of modern war and also in their attempts to do something about it.

  Dwight Macdonald

  War, Character, Rejection

  Dwight Macdonald (194?). “Root is man: progressivism vrs. radicalism”

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• I don't think anarchism consists of sitting down and saying let's form a collective. I don't think it consists of saying we're all anarchists: you're an anarcho-syndicalist; you're an anarcho-communist; you're an anarcho-individualist.

  Murray Bookchin

  Thinking, Sitting Down, Down And

  Source: robertgraham.wordpress.com

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• All anarchists believe in worker's control, in the sense of individuals deciding what work they do, how they work, and who they work with. This follows logically from the anarchist belief that nobody should be subject to a boss.

  Donald Rooum

  Believe, Boss, Belief

  "What Is Anarchism?: An Introduction". Book by Donald Rooum, 1992.

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• Millie Beggs, by the time she was forty-five, had become an emotional anarchist.

  Zelda Fitzgerald

  Emotional, Feelings, Forty

  Zelda Fitzgerald (2013). “Save Me the Waltz: A Novel”, p.15, Simon and Schuster

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• Every believer is an anarchist at heart. True believers would rather see governments topple and history rewritten than scuff the cover of their faith.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Faith, Heart, Government

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• [On an anarchist acquaintance:] Everything in appearance the most alarmist aunt could wish.

  Sylvia Townsend Warner

  Aunt, Wish, Appearance

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• For the anarch, little is changed when he strips off a uniform that he wore partly as fool's motley, partly as camouflage. It covers his spiritual freedom, which he will objectivate during such transitions. This distinguishes him from the anarchist, who, objectively unfree, starts raging until he is thrust into a more rigorous straitjacket.

  Ernst Junger

  Spiritual, Transition, Camouflage

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• Identifying as a Pagan, feminist, Witch, and anarchist is possibly a way to alarm great segments of the general public, but at least it keeps me from sinking into a boring and respectable middle age.

  Starhawk

  Feminist, Age, Identity

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• The realizations of anarchist ideas and practices are like sociopolitical ecosystems. Local versions resemble each other, but they are endlessly adaptive and everywhere different to meet their needs in their environments. Anarchism can be adapted to meet the culture, economics, ecology, and politics of various people or communities. That's the beauty of it.

  Scott Crow

  Practice, Ecosystems, Ideas

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• Basically, to sum up: We're a generation of anarchists, and we just haven't gotten our hands on the means of production yet so we can fetter the wheels. We haven't been handed the controls yet except to the Internet, which is why it looks like it does.

  Mark Pesce

  Mean, Hands, Wheels

  "An Afternoon with Mark Pesce: The Uncut Version". Interview with Gregory Pleshaw, en.wikiquote.org.

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• Anarchism is a definite intellectual current in the life of our times, whose adherents advocate the abolition of economic monopolies and of all political and social coercive institutions within society. In place of the present capitalistic economic order Anarchists would have a free association of all productive forces based upon co-operative labour, which would have as its sole purpose the satisfying of the necessary requirements of every member of society, and would no longer have in view the special interest of privileged minorities within the social union.

  Rudolf Rocker

  Views, Order, Political

  Rudolf Rocker (2004). “Anarcho-Syndicalism: Theory and Practice”, p.1, AK Press

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• I never have been an anarchist, I've always had goals and always have acted out of love.

  Gloria Trevi

  Goal, Has Beens

  "Mexican Pop Diva Rebuilds Career" by Istra Pacheco, www.foxnews.com. December 22, 2006.

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