We are neither for a majority nor for a minority government; neither for democracy not for dictatorship. We are for the abolition of the gendarme. We are for the freedom of all and for free agreement, which will be there for all when no one has the means to force others, and all are involved in the good running of society. We are for anarchy. -- Errico Malatesta
The really wholesome, joyous life of the individual or group is not built up with the aid of power and programs that seek to enclose it within artificial constructs and written laws. -- Nestor Makhno
The police are making more anarchists than I could do in ten years. -- Emma Goldman
America is just the country that shows how all the written guarantees in the world for freedom are no protection against tyranny and oppression of the worst kind. There the politician has come to be looked upon as the very scum of society. -- Peter Kropotkin
The current structure of capital ownership and organization of production in our so-called "market" economy, reflects coercive state intervention prior to and extraneous to the market. -- Kevin Carson
An anarchist society, far from being a remote ideal, has become a precondition for the practice of ecological principles. -- Murray Bookchin
I'm for truth, no matter who tells it. I'm for justice, no matter who it's for or against. I'm a human being first and foremost, and as such I am for whoever and whatever benefits humanity as a whole. -- Malcolm X
The paramount question of the day is not political, is not religious, but is economic. The crying-out demand of today is for a circle of principles that shall forever make it impossible for one man to control another by controlling the means of his existence. -- Voltairine de Cleyre
High hopes were once formed of democracy; but democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people. -- Oscar Wilde
Those maintaining positions of power will always encourage the freedom to talk about ideas, but never to act. -- Moxie Marlinspike