No one is more qualified than you are to decide how you live; no one should be able to vote on what you do with your time and your potential unless you invite them to. Crimethinc,

Are not laws dangerous which inhibit the passions? Compare the centuries of anarchy with those of the strongest legalism in any country you like and you will see that it is only when the laws are silent that the greatest actions appear. Marquis de Sade

What is a debt, anyway? A debt is just the perversion of a promise. It is a promise corrupted by both math and violence. - David Graeber

Whereas we anarchists desire the extinction of the state through the social revolution and the constitution of an autonomist federal order, the Leninists desire the destruction of the bourgeois state and moreover the conquest of the state by the "proletariat." - Camillo Berneri

Certainly, it is already no longer possible, in my view, to call oneself an anarchist without adding a qualifying adjective to distinguish oneself from lifestyle anarchists. - Murray Bookchin

The state calls its own violence law, but that of the individual, crime. Max Stirner

"Communist society"; in the sense of a society organized exclusively on that single principle - could never exist. But all social systems, even economic systems like capitalism, have always been built on top of a bedrock of actually-existing communism. - David Graeber

What if we, as a queer and trans social justice movement, focused on achieving access to many of marriage's forbidden fruits for all people, not just citizen couples, gay, straight, or otherwise? - Ryan Conrad

You cannot buy the revolution. You cannot make the revolution. You can only be the revolution. It is in your spirit, or it is nowhere. Ursula K. Le Guin

All the results of the mistakes of governments are quite admirable. - Oscar Wilde

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

The anarchist conclusion is that every kind of human activity should begin from what from what is local and immediate, should link in a network with no centre and no directing agency, hiving off new cells as the original grows. Colin Ward

Those who produce everything have nothing, and those who produce nothing have everything. Such a state of affairs can only produce antagonism between the laboring class and the owning, i.e., do-nothing, class. The fight breaks out and hatred delivers its blows. - Marius Jacob

The sworn enemy of your emancipation is the state: it is best embodied by the union of these five stereotypes: the property-owner, the soldier, the judge, the priest and the one who serves them all, the intellectual. - Nestor Makhno

Your pretty empire took so long to build, now, with a snap of history's fingers, down it goes. Alan Moore

If the United States was conquered by the Russians, Ronald Reagan, George Bush, Elliott Abrams and the rest of them would probably be working for the invaders, sending people off to concentration camps. They're the right personality types. - Noam Chomsky

Advocates of capitalism are very apt to appeal to the sacred principles of liberty, which are embodied in one maxim: The fortunate must not be restrained in the exercise of tyranny over the unfortunate. - Bertrand Russell

Of the exercise of a right power may deprive me; of the right itself, never. - Voltairine de Cleyre

Be strong. Overflow with emotional and intellectual energy, and you will spread your intelligence, your love, your energy of action broadcast among others! This is what all moral teaching comes to. Peter Kropotkin

Catholics and other Christians are against abortions and they're against homosexuals. Well who has less abortions than homosexuals? - George Carlin

It is not another state that men aim at, but their union, uniting, this ever-fluid uniting of everything standing. - Max Stirner

Power operates only destructively, bent always on forcing every manifestation of life into the straitjacket of its laws. Its intellectual form of expression is dead dogma, its physical form brute force. Rudolf Rocker

This perversion of the ethical values soon crystallized into the all-dominating slogan of the Communist Party: THE END JUSTIFIES ALL MEANS. - Emma Goldman

Just as you cannot see, at pleasure, with your ears and you cannot, at will, hear with your eyes so too you cannot make the state act in the interests of the working people. As an organ in the social body, its purpose is for the repression of self-determination. Rudolf Rocker

The coming Revolution could render no greater service to humanity than by making the wage system, in all its forms, an impossibility, and by rendering Communism, which is the negation of wage-slavery, the only possible solution. Peter Kropotkin

Freedom means more than the right to change masters. - Bob Black

As far as the problem of the state goes, the lesson of the Russian revolution is written on the wall for all to see. - Daniel Guerin

The situation is like this: they hired our parents to destroy this world, and now they'd like to put us to work rebuilding it, and -- to add insult to injury -- at a profit. The Invisible Committee

Private capitalism, condemned by history, only survives today thanks to the arms race on the one hand, and the comparative failure of state communism on the other. - Daniel Guerin

The urge for social justice can only develop properly and be effective when it grows out of man's sense of personal freedom and is based on that. In other words Socialism will be free or it will not be at all. Rudolf Rocker

Aggression is simply another name for government. - Benjamin Tucker

That patriotism which tends toward unity without regard to liberty is an evil patriotism. - Mikhail Bakunin

One should always be a little improbable. - Oscar Wilde

The Roman Empire was a state in the real sense of the word. To this day it remains the legist's ideal. - Peter Kropotkin

It is obvious that in calling on anarchists to organise on the basis of a definite program, we are not taking away as such the right of anarchists of other tendencies to organise as they think fit. - Peter Arshinov

In Russia the so-called dictatorship of the proletariat has not led to Socialism, but to the domination of a new bureaucracy over the proletariat and the whole people. Rudolf Rocker

Prisons are universities of crime, maintained by the state. Peter Kropotkin

Where crime exists, force must exist to repress it. Who denies it? Certainly not liberty; certainly not the anarchists. - Benjamin Tucker

The only revolution is to improve yourself, hoping that others follow. Then the world will improve. - Georges Brassens

During humankind's long centuries societies have risen and fallen, all alike in this one fact which rules all history: the great are protected, the small are crushed. - Octave Mirbeau

Never does a State aim to bring in the free activity of individuals, but always that which is bound to the purpose of the State. Max Stirner

We don't have faith; we have absolutely no confidence in our success. - Albert Libertad

The law is an adroit mixture of customs that are beneficial to society, and could be followed even if no law existed, and others that are of advantage to a ruling minority, but harmful to the masses of men, and can be enforced on them only by terror. - Peter Kropotkin

The police represent the authority of the state, the willingness of the state to use violence to assert their will. Vermin Supreme

One who is constantly striving to force everything into a mechanical order at last becomes a machine himself and loses all human feeling. Rudolf Rocker

Shit jobs tend to be blue collar and pay by the hour, whereas bullshit jobs tend to be white collar and salaried. David Graeber

We must tear down the pyramids, the tumuli, the tombs. We must bring the wheelbarrows into the cemeteries so as to rid humanity of what they call respect for the dead, but which is the cult of carrion. - Albert Libertad

The state is not something which can be destroyed by a revolution, but is a condition, a certain relationship between human beings, a mode of human behaviour; we destroy it by contracting other relationships, by behaving differently. Colin Ward

No great idea in its beginning can ever be within the law. How can it be within the law? The law is stationary. The law is fixed. The law is a chariot wheel which binds us all regardless of conditions or place or time. Emma Goldman

Somebody once declared that the only two political theories that are completely consistent are anarchy and totalitarianism. Anarchy fully embraces the concept of self, totalitarianism fully rejects that concept. Darrell Anderson