Very young, the virus of justice was inoculated to me and it earned me many a trouble. - Marius Jacob

The divine is God's concern; the human, man's. My concern is neither the divine nor the human, not the true, good, just, free, etc., but solely what is mine. - Max Stirner

I have as much authority as the Pope, I just don't have as many people who believe it. - George Carlin

[President of the court]: This hand that we today see covered in blood. [Emile]: My hands are covered in blood, like your red robe is! - Emile Henry

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

Perfectibility is one of the most unequivocal characteristics of the human species. - William Godwin

The reaction always begins where one tries to bring life to a certain norm. That is why yesterday's revolutionaries so often become today's reactionaries. - Rudolf Rocker

I believe that in time we will have reached the point where we will deserve to be free of government. Jorge Luis Borges

They will die of hunger at the proprietor's door, on the edge of that property which was their birthright; and the proprietor, watching them die, will exclaim, "So perish idlers and vagrants!" - Pierre-Joseph Proudhon

Political rights do not exist because they have been legally set down on a piece of paper, but only when they have become the ingrown habit of a people, and when any attempt to impair them will meet with the violent resistance of the populace. - Rudolf Rocker

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

We tried many times before to speed on the social revolution in Spain; attempted to stir up the feelings of the people and to raise the banner of Libertarian Communism. Federica Montseny

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

I can't see coherent political structures in the traditional sense lasting beyond the next twenty years, I don't think that would be possible. - Alan Moore

Might is a fine thing, and useful for many purposes; for one goes further with a handful of might than with a bagful of right. Max Stirner

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

My personal view of the anarch-capitalists is that it's an oxymoron. Vermin Supreme

People have only as much liberty as they have the intelligence to want and the courage to take. Emma Goldman

In that pitiless war which we have declared on the bourgeoisie, we ask for no pity. We give death, and we know how to endure it. - Emile Henry

The revolution will be the flowering of humanity as love is the flowering of the heart. - Louise Michel

Justice, equality, fraternity, prosperity of men... if God exists, all these things are condemned to non-existence. - Mikhail Bakunin

Governments oppress mankind in two ways, either directly, by brute force, that is physical violence, or indirectly, by depriving them of the means of subsistence and thus reducing them to helplessness at discretion. Errico Malatesta

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

War is a quarrel between two thieves too cowardly to fight their own battle; therefore they take boys from one village and another village; stick them into uniforms, equip them with guns, and let them loose like wild beasts against each other. Emma Goldman

Whoever says "proletarian State" says "State Capitalism" whoever says "dictatorship of the Proletariat" says "Dictatorship of the Communist Party;" whoever says "strong government" says "Tsarist oligarchy of politicians." - Camillo Berneri

The aims of anarchists and true communists are identical. Johann Most

It makes a lot of sense, if you accept capitalist system, to try to accumulate property, not just because you want material welfare, but because that guarantees your freedom. - Noam Chomsky

Thirty years of crisis, mass unemployment, and flagging growth, and they still want us to believe in the economy. . . . We have to see that the economy is itself the crisis. The Invisible Committee

The point of public relations slogans like "Support Our Troops" is that they don't mean anything. - Noam Chomsky

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

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

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

The habit of direct action is, perhaps, identical with the habit of being free, prepared to live responsibly in a free society. - David Wieck

Terrorism is tempting with its tremendous possibilities. It offers a mechanical solution, as it were, in hopeless situations. - Alexander Berkman

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

Capitalism is the same everywhere. In order to survive and prosper it needs a permanent situation of partial scarcity: it needs it to maintain its prices and to create hungry masses to work under any conditions. Errico Malatesta

All things are Nothing to Me Max Stirner

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

The spirit which animates Emma Goldman is the only one which will emancipate the slave from his slavery, the tyrant from his tyranny - the spirit which is willing to dare and suffer. - Voltairine de Cleyre

The social order of Spain ought to be overthrown; must be overthrown, will be overthrown; and Ferrer was doing a mighty work in that direction. The men who killed him knew and understood it well. - Voltairine de Cleyre

The Revolution aimed at new arrangements; insurrection leads us no longer to let ourselves be arranged, but to arrange ourselves. - Max Stirner

Efficiency' has come to mean vesting more and more power to managers, supervisors, and presumed 'efficiency experts,' so that actual producers have almost zero autonomy. David Graeber

We had never understood the meaning of these words, so common and yet so sacred: Justice, equity, liberty. - Pierre-Joseph Proudhon

The poor are to blame for there being rich men. - Max Stirner

The most complete freedom for the individual, his right to full satisfaction of all his needs, are absolutely legitimate claims, and there was no need to go out to dig up Nietszche and Stirner to give them some consecration. - Jean Grave

Since the birth of the state, the world of politics has always been and continues to be the stage for unlimited rascality and brigandage. - Mikhail Bakunin

The mutual-aid tendency in man has so remote an origin, and is so deeply interwoven with all the past evolution of the human race, that is has been maintained by mankind up to the present time, notwithstanding all vicissitudes of history. Peter Kropotkin

Laws: We know what they are, and what they are worth! - Pierre-Joseph Proudhon

That government is best which governs not at all; and when men are prepared for it, that will be the kind of government which they will have. - Henry David Thoreau

I can feel free only in the presence of and in relationship with other men. - Mikhail Bakunin