Top 201 Anarchist Quotes & Sayings

I guess I was always an outsider and some kind of anarchist.

There's nothing wrong with being an anarchist.

The dictionary definition of a Christian is one who follows Christ; kind, kindly, Christ-like. Anarchism is voluntary cooperation for good, with the right of secession. A Christian anarchist is therefore one who turns the other cheek, overturns the tables of the moneychangers, and does not need a cop to tell him how to behave. A Christian anarchist does not depend upon bullets or ballots to achieve his ideal; he achieves that ideal daily by the One-Man Revolution with which he faces a decadent, confused, and dying world.

I think any good actor is an anarchist. They have to be.

Christ...an anarchist who succeeded. That's all.

I am an anarchist, and according to anarchist principles nation states become obstacles to a true humanistic globalization.

Jesus was an anarchist savior. That's what the Gospels tell us.

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.

Clearly, I am not an anarchist. Philosophically, I might be, but I think in practical terms.

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

An anarchist is someone who doesn't need a cop to make him behave.

In the anarchist milieu, communism, individualism, collectivism, mutualism and all the intermediate and eclectic programmes are simply the ways considered best for achieving freedom and solidarity in economic life; the ways believed to correspond more closely with justice and freedom for the distribution of the means of production and the products of labour among men. Bakunin was an anarchist, and he was a collectivist, an outspoken enemy of communism because he saw in it the negation of freedom and, therefore, of human dignity.

I want three words: Woman, Atheist, Anarchist. That's me.

I'm not a complete libertarian. There is a proper role in some areas of the government to have rules and regulations - I'm not an anarchist.

As a teenager I was more of an anarchist, but now I want people to thrive and be harmonious.

I have been an Anarchist all my life.

I'm not an anarchist any longer, because I've concluded that anarchism is an impractical ideal.

It's an old anarchist dream that people can take care of their own lives.

The last book I read was Noam Chomsky on anarchism; maybe I will become an anarchist.

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

I'm not an anti-capitalist, or anarchist. I want capitalism to work.

Confronted with the choice, the American people would choose the policeman's truncheon over the anarchist's bomb.

An anarchist does not want to rule others and does not want others to rule him. Nothing is so despicable as half-an-anarchist.

The 'Bolton News' is the best place for online comments. They say I'm an absolute idiot and a communist anarchist. I was never an anarchist; I was a communist!

The idea of direct action against the evil that you want to overcome is a kind of common denominator for anarchist ideas and anarchist movements. I think one of the most important principles of anarchism is that you cannot separate means and ends. Anarchism requires means and ends to be in line with one another. I think this is in fact one of the distinguishing characteristics of anarchism.

Violence, contrary to popular belief, is not part of the anarchist philosophy. It has repeatedly been pointed out by anarchist thinkers that the revolution can neither be won, nor the anarchist society established and maintained, by armed violence.

Creativity comes by breaking the rules, by saying that you're in love with the anarchist.

It's the age of reason for the anarchist.

I'm an anarchist. I have it tattooed on my stomach.

I thought of myself as kind of an anarchist all my whole adult life, from the days when I was 15 or 16.

An anarchist is an uncomprimising liberal.

Every anarchist is a baffled dictator.

Everyone's a mixed bag. I'm a utopian social anarchist, but I'm also a pragmatist.

It's good to be an anarchist and just love yourself.

The anarchist and the Christian have a common origin.

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

As an anarchist, I cannot reconcile myself to any government.

If you really want to have an anarchist experience, make a movie with a studio.

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

In the U.S the right is very wide. From Neo con's to almost Anarchist

I die, as I have lived, a free spirit, an Anarchist, owing no allegiance to rulers, heavenly or earthly.

I'm an anarchist and I do think things such as Occupy Wall Street are about getting a little closer to the solution.

The crypto currency community hasn't decided whether they want to be anarchist rebels or to replace the establishment.

I am NOT an anarchist. Never have been, never will be. Just because Crimethinc put out two of my poetry books, I am labeled everywhere as an anarchist poet. I am a poet, yes. Not an anarchist. I have no formulated political philosophy other than a general feeling of disgust for the majority of the human race.

The anarchist painter is not the one who will create anarchist pictures, but the one who will fight with all his individuality against official conventions.

'Pump Up the Volume' was a film and character that I really responded to. That was a movie about a guy trying to take down the establishment using a ham radio. I feel 'Mr. Robot' has a similar value. This show is about taking down a global empire. I was an anarchist then. I'm getting to be an anarchist again.

What is an anarchist? One who, choosing, accepts the responsibility of choice.

I am an anarchist, like any other sensible person. ~ Merlyn

My father was a painter and an anarchist, always getting in trouble for his performance art.

Christ - an anarchist who succeeded.

You couldn't put me in a social group setting. I'm probably a terrible anarchist deep down.

Charlie Hebdo were the licensed anarchist clowns of the society.

A consistent peace activist must be an anarchist.

I'm not an anarchist. I'm not saying, "Burn it to the ground."

The love of liberty and the sense of human dignity are the basic elements of the Anarchist creed.

My early work is politically anarchist fiction, in that I was an anarchist for a long period of time. I'm not an anarchist any longer, because I've concluded that anarchism is an impractical ideal. Nowadays, I regard myself as a libertarian.

Comedy is the ultimate anarchist.

In the opinion of the anarchist, the sum total of human ills is expressed in one word-authority.

If anything I consider myself an anarchist.

The older I get, the more of an anarchist I become, and I don't mean in a punk rock way.