Anarchist Quotes - Page 9

• I'm not an anarchist any more. I still love the Sex Pistols, but I don't want to be a punk rocker all the time, but I do want to carry on exploring new forms of acting.

  Nicolas Cage

  Sex, Acting, Want

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• Comedy is the ultimate anarchist.

  Tim Allen

  Comedy, Ultimate

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Socialists find me too far left; Trotskyites not far enough; ecologists say I am too happy eating foie gras, defending nuclear energy and GM plants; feminists find I am not enough of a woman; anarchists a petit-bourgeois who has sold out because I believe in universal suffrage.

  Michel Onfray

  Believe, Feminist, Energy

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• The hope of internet anarchists was that repressive governments would have only two options: accept the internet with its limitless possibilities of spreading information, or restrict internet access to the ruling elite and turn your back on the 21st century, as North Korea has done.

  Peter Singer

  Government, Korea, Internet Access

  "The unknown promise of internet freedom" by Peter Singer, www.theguardian.com. April 4, 2010.

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• The modern day anarchists known as the Tea Party, they believe in no government.

  Harry Reid

  Party, Believe, Government

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• In the sixties, during the Vietnam war, when anarchists and pacifists and socialists, Democrats and Republicans, decent-hearted Americans, all recoiled with horror at the bloodbath, we came together.

  Pete Seeger

  War, Together, Vietnam

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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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• 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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• The principle that the majority have a right to rule the minority, practically resolves all government into a mere contest between two bodies of men, as to which of them shall be masters, and which of them slaves; a contest, that-however bloody-can, in the nature of things, never be finally closed, so long as man refuses to be a slave.

  Lysander Spooner

  Men, Two, Long

  Lysander Spooner (1867). “No Treason: No. 1-”, p.9

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• Despite the popular idea of anarchists as violent men, Anarchism is the one non-violent social philosophy.… The function of the Anarchist is two-fold. By daily courage in non-cooperation with the tyrannical forces of the State and the Church, he helps to tear down present society; the Anarchist by daily cooperation with his fellows in overcoming evil with good-will and solidarity builds toward the anarchistic commonwealth which is formed by voluntary action with the right of secession.

  Ammon Hennacy

  Philosophy, Men, Two

  Ammon Hennacy (2010). “The Book of Ammon”, p.199, Wipf and Stock Publishers

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• I have been an Anarchist all my life.

  Buenaventura Durruti

  Has Beens

  "Durruti is Dead, Yet Living". Essay by Emma Goldman, 1936.

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• They [anarchists] spring from a single seed, no matter the flowering of their ideas. The seed is liberty. And that is all it is. It is not a socialist seed. It is not a capitalist seed. It is not a mystical seed. It is not a determinist seed. It is simply a statement. We can be free. After that it’s all choice and chance.

  Karl Hess

  Spring, Ideas, Choices

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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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• Tap the energy of the anarchist and he will be the one to push your company ahead.

  Anita Roddick

  Energy, Company

  Anita Roddick (1994). “Body and soul: profits with principles, the amazing success story of Anita Roddick & the Body Shop”, Three Rivers Press

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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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• The influence of being in New York, made me realize a lot of the ethical and political ideas I want to push or promote are best articulated within an anarchist program.

  Simon Critchley

  New York, Ideas, Political

  "Demand Everything! An Interview With Philosopher Simon Critchley". Interview with Anders Gullestad, www.truth-out.org. May 15, 2010.

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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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• Degenerates are not always criminals, prostitutes, anarchists and pronounced lunatics; they are often authors and artists

  Max Nordau

  Artist, Criminals, Degenerates

  Max Simon Nordau (1895). “Degeneration”, London, Heinemann

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• At first glance, an alliance of anarchists and government might appear to be somewhat paradoxical. But the formal convergence in Oakland makes explicit the movement's aims: They're anarchists for statism, wild free-spirited youth demanding more and more total government control of every aspect of life - just so long as it respects the fundamental human right to sloth.

  Mark Steyn

  Oakland, Government, Long

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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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