Quotes of: Anarchism Keyword

Anarchism is democracy taken seriously.

Edward Abbey

Laughter is an anarchic blasphemy. Tyrants are wise to fear it.

David Mitchell

Creativity can only be anarchic, capitalist, Darwinian.

Umberto Eco

At the same time, of course, Marxism arose - Rosa Luxembourg, Leninism, anarchism - and art became political.

Douglas Sirk

Is anarchism possible? The failure of attempts to attain freedom does not mean the cause is lost.

Johann Most

Direct action is the logical, consistent method of Anarchism.

Emma Goldman

This brings us to Anarchism, which may be described as the doctrine that all the affairs of men should be managed by individuals or voluntary associations, and that the State should be abolished.

Benjamin Tucker

It is only those who do nothing who makes no mistake.

Anarchism: A Collection of Revolutionary Writings

The more hideous the mental contortions, the greater the delight and bravos of the mass.

Anarchism and Other Essays

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

Robert Anton Wilson

The anarch wages his own wars, even when marching in rank and file

Eumeswil

I'm kind of glad the web is sort of totally anarchic. That's fine with me.

Roger Ebert

Anarchism is founded on the observation that since few men are wise enough to rule themselves, even fewer are wise enough to rule others.

Edward Abbey

I'd like a bit of a crack at some kind of anarchic comedy, but whether or not I'm skillful enough at it all, we'll see.

Richard Armitage

Anarchism is the great liberator of man from the phantoms that have held him captive; it is the arbiter and pacifier of the two forces for individual and social harmony.

Emma Goldman

The atmosphere of orthodoxy is always damaging to prose, and above all it is completely ruinous to the novel, the most anarchical of all forms of literature.

George Orwell

The anarch, as I have expounded elsewhere, is the pendant to the monarch; he is as sovereign as the monarch, and also freer since he does not have to rule.

Eumeswil

Ask for work. If they don't give you work, ask for bread. If they do not give you work or bread, then take bread.

Anarchism and Other Essays

[...] in a predatory capitalist economy, state intervention would be an absolute necessity to preserve human existence and to prevent the destruction of the physical environment [...].

On Anarchism

Satire may be mad and anarchic, but it presupposes an admitted superiority in certain things over others; it presupposes a standard.

Orthodoxy

That is what I have always understood to be the essence of anarchism: the conviction that the burden of proof has to be placed on authority, and that it should be dismantled if that burden cannot be met.

Noam Chomsky