Philosophy will not change the course of events: destiny will fulfill itself regardless of prophecy. Besides, must not justice be done and our education be finished? - Pierre-Joseph Proudhon

Consumer debt is the lifeblood of our economy. All modern nation states are built on deficit spending. Debt has come to be the central issue of international politics. But nobody seems to know exactly what it is, or how to think about it. - David Graeber

We need genuine democracy, the definition of which is "the people shall rule." - Alan Moore

All laws are wicked, all judgments are unfair, all judges are wrong, all prisoners are innocent. - Albert Libertad

The view which sees in every capitalist only a profit machine may very well meet the demands of propaganda, but it is conceived much too narrowly and does not correspond to reality. - Rudolf Rocker

Of course it's extremely easy to say, "The heck with it. I'm just going to adapt myself to the structures of power and authority and do the best I can within them." Sure, you can do that. But that's not acting like a decent person. - Noam Chomsky

"Soviet" power is a power no better and no worse than any other. - Nestor Makhno

There are even moments when the authority of the socialists and communists is worse than the bourgeois, for they tear down their own ideas and trample on them. - Nestor Makhno

All things are for all men, since all men have need of them, since all men have worked in the measure of their strength to produce them, and since it is not possible to evaluate every one's part in the production of the world's wealth. - Peter Kropotkin

One can lose one's illusions about everything and about everyone, but not about what one affirms with one's moral conscience. - Camillo Berneri

The liberal government of Spain could have rendered the fascist elements powerless long ago. Instead it compromised and dallied. - Buenaventura Durruti

A fist full of might goes farther than a bag full of rights. - Max Stirner

The individual is quite a world of federations, a whole universe in himself. - Peter Kropotkin

To be good and lead a good life means to give to others more than one takes from them. - Leo Tolstoy

The task of teachers, those obscure soldiers of civilization, is to give to the people the intellectual means to revolt. - Louise Michel

Liberty enters the field of journalism to speak for herself because she finds no one willing to speak for her. - Benjamin Tucker

No one wants a boss, to be a boss, to work under a boss. The people you like working with are the people you respect as individuals. - Alan Moore

Hate does not produce love, and by hate one cannot remake the world. Errico Malatesta

Our standard account of monetary history is precisely backwards. We did not begin with barter, discover money, and then eventually develop credit systems. It happened precisely the other way around. - David Graeber

There is no such thing as harmless power. - Nestor Makhno

Basically, if you're not a utopianist, you're a schmuck. Jonathan Feldman

As the uselessness and harmfulness of patriotism have become manifest, so also has increased the power of the government and ruling class to excite patriotism among the people. - Leo Tolstoy

He who has might has right... is this wisdom so hard to attain? - Max Stirner

He who negates present society, and seeks social conditions based on the sharing of property, is a revolutionary whether he calls himself an anarchist or a communist. Johann Most

The infliction of cruelty with a good conscience is a delight to moralists. That is why they invented Hell. - Bertrand Russell

While judging me judge all the unfortunate who poverty, combined with natural pride, made criminals, and who wealth or ease would have made honest men. An intelligent society would have made of them men like any other! - Ravachol

The individualist anarchist critiques to free themselves and others. - Emile Armand

In our world everybody thinks of changing humanity, and nobody thinks of changing himself. - Leo Tolstoy

Under a system of permanent revelry, we will witness the Golden Age of the dilettante which will put the Renaissance to shame. There won't be any more jobs, just things to do and people to do them. - Bob Black

Revolution is an inalienable right of mankind. Freedom is an imperishable birth right of all Bhagat Singh

Without doubt, conventional right, contract and law, even universally and directly exercised, is not natural right, or justice. It is a compromise between anarchy and authority, and everything that is not completely just is injustice. - Joseph Dejacque

Only the shallow know themselves. - Oscar Wilde

It's one thing to say, "Another world is possible." It's another to experience it, however momentarily. - David Graeber

The lunacy of the Soviet regime must be eliminated and replaced by the vital principles of the exploited workers, on a basis of solidarity, freedom and equal voice for each and every person. - Nestor Makhno

The Anarcho-Syndicalists know that wars are only waged in the interest of the ruling classes; they believe, therefore, that any means is justifiable that can prevent the organised murder of peoples. Rudolf Rocker

Every time we take a step we're surrounded by the ideological birds of prey who feed on our possibilities, fill themselves with concepts of our desires and reenslave us with beautiful combinations of words which seem to depict the world we failed to realize. Fredy Perlman

Authority, when first detecting chaos at its heels, will entertain the vilest schemes to save its orderly facade. Alan Moore

We can use queer theory to conceptualize new relationship forms and social relations that resist patriarchy and other oppressions by creating a distinctly queer-anarchist form of social relation. Susan Song

So that is why anarchists keep coming back to the question of what anarchism is. Because anarchism is not a political movement. Or rather it is, but only in a minor aspect. - Alfredo Bonanno

Anarchism is "stateless socialism." - Mikhail Bakunin

Sometimes the poor are praised for being thrifty. But to recommend thrift to the poor is both grotesque and insulting. It is like advising a man who is starving to eat less. - Oscar Wilde

What you have the power to be you have the right to be. - Max Stirner

He who refuses to submit is at once labelled "queer," "different," and decried as a disturbing element in the comfortable stagnancy of modern life. - Emma Goldman

Do not quarrel or deal in personalities. Listen to opposing arguments after you have presented your own. Learn how to remain silent and reflect. Do not try to get the better in an argument at the expense of your own sincerity. - Elisee Reclus

People seem good while they are oppressed, but they only wish to become oppressors in their turn: life is nothing but a competition to be the criminal rather than the victim. - Bertrand Russell

The history of anarchism is a history of unparalleled defeat and martyrdom, yet anarchists venerate their victimized forebears with a morbid devotion which occasions suspicion that the anarchists, like everybody else, think that the only good anarchist is a dead one. - Bob Black

When holy scripture speaks of following Jesus, it proclaims that people are free from all human rules. Dietrich Bonhoeffer

True, we have no conscription; that is, men are not usually forced to enlist in the army, but we have developed a far more exacting and rigid force - necessity. - Emma Goldman

The struggle is so great that the triumph over fascism alone is worth the sacrifice of our lives. Federica Montseny

What I want is the revolution, which will cause poverty to disappear. I hail the revolution, which is inevitable, and I hope that it will come soon to bring liberty and equality to the suffering. - Louise Michel