Anarchist Quotes - Page 7

• There are self-styled "anarcho-capitalists" (not to be confused with anarchists of any persuasion), who want the state abolished as a regulator of capitalism, and government handed over to capitalists.

  Donald Rooum

  Confused, Government, Self

  Donald Rooum (2016). “What is Anarchism?: An Introduction”, p.19, PM Press

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• Anarchists are extreme libertarian socialists , "libertarian" meaning the demand for freedom from prohibition, and "socialist" meaning the demand for social equality . ...Complete freedom implies equality, since if there are rich and poor, the poor cannot be permitted to take liberties with riches. Complete equality implies freedom, since those who suffer restrictions cannot be the equals of those who impose them.

  Donald Rooum

  Suffering, Liberty, Demand

  Donald Rooum (2016). “What is Anarchism?: An Introduction”, p.25, PM Press

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• As soon as one identifies, challenges and overcomes illegitimate power, he or she is an anarchist. Most people are anarchists. What they call themselves doesn’t matter to me. The world is full of suffering, distress, violence and catastrophes. Students must decide: does something concern you or not? I say: look around, analyze the problems, ask yourself what you can do and set out on the work!

  Noam Chomsky

  People, Challenges, Suffering

  "Students should become anarchists". ZEIT Campus Interview translated by IndyBay, www.indybay.org. June 14, 2011.

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• The artist, and particularly the poet, is always an anarchist in the best sense of the word. He must heed only the call that arises within him from three strong voices: the voice of death, with all its foreboding, the voice of love and the voice of art.

  Federico Garcia Lorca

  Art, Strong, Voice

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• Charlie Hebdo were the licensed anarchist clowns of the society.

  Scott Simon

  Charlie Hebdo, Clown, Charlie

  Source: www.npr.org

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• Early in my career I was divided because I had the real self underneath: the lawbreaker, the anarchist, the person who swims against the tide, the outsider, the loner, all of that guy. He was my private self, and I had this other side that wanted to be liked in order to do all those things I dreamed of as a little boy. I didn't realize that those things didn't go together until later. And I'm quite sure that my use of acid and peyote helped me accept what was really going on inside of me instead of what I had imposed on myself.

  George Carlin

  Real, Boys, Self

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• Because the state necessarily commits aggression, the consistent libertarian, in opposing aggression, is also an anarchist.

  Stephan Kinsella

  Libertarian, Anarchy, States

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• One of the problems with dealing with anarchism is that there are many people whose ideas are anarchist, but who do not necessarily call themselves anarchists.

  Howard Zinn

  Ideas, People, Problem

  "Rebels Against Tyranny". Interview with Ziga Vodovnik, www.counterpunch.org. May 12, 2008.

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• Christ - an anarchist who succeeded.

  Axel Munthe

  God, Christ

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• 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.

  Howard Zinn

  Mean, Thinking, Direct Action

  "Rebels Against Tyranny". Interview with Ziga Vodovnik, www.counterpunch.org. May 12, 2008.

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• An anarchist is like an undercover agent who plays the game of Reason in order to undercut the authority of Reason (Truth, Honesty, Justice and so on).

  Paul Feyerabend

  Honesty, Order, Games

  Paul Feyerabend (1993). “Against Method”, p.23, Verso

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• I'm enough of an anarchist aesthetically, when it comes to art - I want people to be reading my stuff voluntarily. They should be doing it because they want to.

  Nell Zink

  Art, Reading, People

  "Subjects That Interest Most People". Interview with Amy Feltman, logger.believermag.com. July 20, 2015.

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

  Andre Malraux

  Superstitions, Belief, Christ

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• A long long time ago I took an oath to tell all secrets that came my way. Don't tell me a secret, I won't keep it. I'm against secrets, I'm against hierarchies, lineages, all assumption of special knowledge on the part of anyone in the presence of anyone else is abhorrent to me. I mean, I am a true anarchist first and foremost.

  Terence McKenna

  Mean, Long, Secret

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• All comedians are, in a way, anarchists. Our job is to make fun of the existing world.

  Bob Newhart

  Jobs, Fun, Comedian

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• I think I have in fact been situated in most of the squares on the political checkerboard, one after another and sometimes simultaneously: as anarchist, leftist, ostentatious or disguised Marxist, nihilist, explicit or secret anti-Marxist, technocrat in the service of Gaullism, new liberal and so on.

  Michel Foucault

  Thinking, Squares, Political

  Source: www.nicklewis.org

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• The term anarchism has become associated with two phenomena with which real anarchist don't want to associate themselves with. One is violence, and the other is disorder or chaos. The popular conception of anarchism is on the one hand bomb-throwing and terrorism, and on the other hand no rules, no regulations, no discipline, everybody does what they want, confusion, etc. That is why there is a reluctance to use the term anarchism.

  Howard Zinn

  Real, Hands, Two

  "Rebels Against Tyranny". Interview with Ziga Vodovnik, www.counterpunch.org. May 12, 2008.

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• I'm not an anarchist, but I believe that people don't want the royal family - the so-called royal family.

  Steven Morrissey

  Believe, People, Want

  "Morrissey Blasts Royal Wedding, Family". www.huffingtonpost.com. April 28, 2011.

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• A consistent anarchist must oppose private ownership of the means of production, and the wage-slavery which is a component of this system, as incompatible with the principle that labor must be freely undertaken and under the control of the producer.

  Noam Chomsky

  Mean, Principles, Slavery

  Noam Chomsky (2013). “The Essential Chomsky”, p.115, The New Press

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• Imagine, capitalist America also divides the anarchists into two categories, philosophic and criminal. The first are accepted in highest circles; one of them is even high in the councils of the Wilson Administration. The second category, to which we have the honor of belonging, is persecuted and often imprisoned. Yours also seems to be a distinction without a difference. Don't you think so?

  Emma Goldman

  Thinking, Circles, Two

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• I want to remind the viewers that people like Nancy Pelosi and Barack Obama endorsed the Occupy Wall Street movement which is actually full of anarchists.

  Katie Pavlich

  Wall, People, Movement

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• Transcendentalism is, we might say, an early form of anarchism. The Transcendentalists also did not call themselves anarchists, but there are anarchist ideas in their thinking and in their literature. They were all suspicious of authority. We might say that the Transcendentalism played a role in creating an atmosphere of skepticism towards authority, towards government.

  Howard Zinn

  Thinking, Government, Ideas

  "Rebels Against Tyranny". Interview with Ziga Vodovnik, www.counterpunch.org. May 12, 2008.

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• No more painters, no more scribblers, no more musicians, no more sculptors, no more religions, no more royalists, no more radicals, no more imperialists, no more anarchists, no more socialists, no more communists, no more proletariat, no more democrats, no more republicans, no more bourgeois, no more aristocrats, no more arms, no more police, no more nations, an end at last to all this stupidity, nothing left, nothing at all, nothing, nothing.

  Louis Aragon

  Stupidity, Police, Musician

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• Charlie Hebdo mocked everyone. They mocked the left. They mocked the right. They mocked, above all, the extreme right, the extreme right of Le Pen's. If anything could identify their politics, they were kinds of anarchists.

  Scott Simon

  Charlie Hebdo, Kind, Extremes

  Source: www.npr.org

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• 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.

  Robert Anton Wilson

  Long, Fiction, Libertarian

  "Robert Anton Wilson: Searching For Cosmic Intelligence". Interview with Jeffrey Elliot, 1980.

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