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Those that envision the goal from the first steps, those that want the certitude of reaching it before walking never arrive.
- Albert Libertad
- Albert Libertad
February 13, 2026 at 1:48 PM
Those that envision the goal from the first steps, those that want the certitude of reaching it before walking never arrive.
- Albert Libertad
- Albert Libertad
Revolution is indeed a violent process.
- Emma Goldman
- Emma Goldman
February 13, 2026 at 11:34 AM
Revolution is indeed a violent process.
- Emma Goldman
- Emma Goldman
You may be wondering if I'm joking or serious. I'm joking and serious.
- Bob Black
- Bob Black
February 12, 2026 at 11:34 PM
You may be wondering if I'm joking or serious. I'm joking and serious.
- Bob Black
- Bob Black
In certain intellectual circles in France, the very basis for discussion - minimal respect for facts and logic - has been virtually abandoned.
- Noam Chomsky
- Noam Chomsky
February 12, 2026 at 8:58 PM
In certain intellectual circles in France, the very basis for discussion - minimal respect for facts and logic - has been virtually abandoned.
- Noam Chomsky
- Noam Chomsky
Monopoly and privilege must be destroyed, opportunity afforded, and competition encouraged. This is liberty's work, and "Down with Authority" her war-cry.
- Benjamin Tucker
- Benjamin Tucker
February 12, 2026 at 6:34 PM
Monopoly and privilege must be destroyed, opportunity afforded, and competition encouraged. This is liberty's work, and "Down with Authority" her war-cry.
- Benjamin Tucker
- Benjamin Tucker
The philosophy of anarchism is included in the word "Liberty"; yet it is comprehensive enough to include all things else that are conducive to progress.
- Lucy Parsons
- Lucy Parsons
February 12, 2026 at 4:30 PM
The philosophy of anarchism is included in the word "Liberty"; yet it is comprehensive enough to include all things else that are conducive to progress.
- Lucy Parsons
- Lucy Parsons
Unfortunately, you can't vote the rascals out, because you never voted them in, in the first place.
- Noam Chomsky
- Noam Chomsky
February 12, 2026 at 2:12 PM
Unfortunately, you can't vote the rascals out, because you never voted them in, in the first place.
- Noam Chomsky
- Noam Chomsky
We love to have agents provocateurs in the party, because they always propose the most revolutionary motions.
- Louise Michel
- Louise Michel
February 12, 2026 at 11:42 AM
We love to have agents provocateurs in the party, because they always propose the most revolutionary motions.
- Louise Michel
- Louise Michel
It is impossible to achieve a harmonization of man and nature without creating a human community that lives in a lasting balance with its natural environment.
Murray Bookchin
Murray Bookchin
February 11, 2026 at 8:28 PM
It is impossible to achieve a harmonization of man and nature without creating a human community that lives in a lasting balance with its natural environment.
Murray Bookchin
Murray Bookchin
The morality which is born out of the present conception of the state and social hierarchy is necessarily corrupt.
- Elisee Reclus
- Elisee Reclus
February 11, 2026 at 1:58 PM
The morality which is born out of the present conception of the state and social hierarchy is necessarily corrupt.
- Elisee Reclus
- Elisee Reclus
Nine-tenths of the activities of modern government are harmful; therefore the worse they are performed, the better.
- Bertrand Russell
- Bertrand Russell
February 11, 2026 at 11:56 AM
Nine-tenths of the activities of modern government are harmful; therefore the worse they are performed, the better.
- Bertrand Russell
- Bertrand Russell
When we have but the will to do it, that very moment will Justice be done: that very instant the tyrants of the Earth shall bite the dust.
- Peter Kropotkin
- Peter Kropotkin
February 10, 2026 at 10:50 PM
When we have but the will to do it, that very moment will Justice be done: that very instant the tyrants of the Earth shall bite the dust.
- Peter Kropotkin
- Peter Kropotkin
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.
- Peter Kropotkin
- Peter Kropotkin
February 10, 2026 at 5:58 PM
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.
- Peter Kropotkin
- Peter Kropotkin
Government means the right to make the law and to impose it on everyone by force: without a police force there is no government.
- Errico Malatesta
- Errico Malatesta
February 10, 2026 at 3:48 PM
Government means the right to make the law and to impose it on everyone by force: without a police force there is no government.
- Errico Malatesta
- Errico Malatesta
I don't vote, because I firmly believe that if you vote, you have no right to complain.
- George Carlin
- George Carlin
February 10, 2026 at 11:42 AM
I don't vote, because I firmly believe that if you vote, you have no right to complain.
- George Carlin
- George Carlin
True intellectual culture and the demand for higher interests in life does not become possible until man has achieved a certain material standard of living, which makes him capable of these.
- Rudolf Rocker
- Rudolf Rocker
February 10, 2026 at 1:24 AM
True intellectual culture and the demand for higher interests in life does not become possible until man has achieved a certain material standard of living, which makes him capable of these.
- Rudolf Rocker
- Rudolf Rocker
Each seeks his way, we seek ours and think the day that freedom and equality reign, mankind will be happy.
- Louise Michel
- Louise Michel
February 9, 2026 at 11:04 PM
Each seeks his way, we seek ours and think the day that freedom and equality reign, mankind will be happy.
- Louise Michel
- Louise Michel
The individual cannot bargain with the State. The State recognizes no coinage but power: and it issues the coins itself.
Ursula K. Le Guin
Ursula K. Le Guin
February 9, 2026 at 8:32 PM
The individual cannot bargain with the State. The State recognizes no coinage but power: and it issues the coins itself.
Ursula K. Le Guin
Ursula K. Le Guin
We do not fetishize organization, but in order to elaborate and defend this struggle, organization is a necessity.
- Daniel Guerin
- Daniel Guerin
February 9, 2026 at 6:08 PM
We do not fetishize organization, but in order to elaborate and defend this struggle, organization is a necessity.
- Daniel Guerin
- Daniel Guerin
Anarchism is the attempt to eradicate domination.
John Zerzan
John Zerzan
February 9, 2026 at 12:14 PM
Anarchism is the attempt to eradicate domination.
John Zerzan
John Zerzan
Those services which the community will most readily pay for it is most disagreeable to render. You are paid for being something less than a man.
- Henry David Thoreau
- Henry David Thoreau
February 9, 2026 at 12:14 AM
Those services which the community will most readily pay for it is most disagreeable to render. You are paid for being something less than a man.
- Henry David Thoreau
- Henry David Thoreau
I die, as I have lived, a free spirit, an Anarchist, owing no allegiance to rulers, heavenly or earthly.
Voltairine de Cleyre
Voltairine de Cleyre
February 8, 2026 at 10:08 PM
I die, as I have lived, a free spirit, an Anarchist, owing no allegiance to rulers, heavenly or earthly.
Voltairine de Cleyre
Voltairine de Cleyre
Not to speak of war and its crimes, from the guilt of which no civilized state is free, can it be denied that chief among the consequences of the existing social system are murder, maladies, and death.
- Elisee Reclus
- Elisee Reclus
February 8, 2026 at 7:52 PM
Not to speak of war and its crimes, from the guilt of which no civilized state is free, can it be denied that chief among the consequences of the existing social system are murder, maladies, and death.
- Elisee Reclus
- Elisee Reclus
Anarchism means all sort of things to different people, but the traditional anarchists' movements assumed that there'd be a highly organized society, just one organized from below with direct participation and so on.
- Noam Chomsky
- Noam Chomsky
February 8, 2026 at 5:36 PM
Anarchism means all sort of things to different people, but the traditional anarchists' movements assumed that there'd be a highly organized society, just one organized from below with direct participation and so on.
- Noam Chomsky
- Noam Chomsky
There are differences in the parties - I don't think they're great differences, but they're real, and small differences in a system of great power can have enormous consequences.
- Noam Chomsky
- Noam Chomsky
February 8, 2026 at 2:08 PM
There are differences in the parties - I don't think they're great differences, but they're real, and small differences in a system of great power can have enormous consequences.
- Noam Chomsky
- Noam Chomsky