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The aim is not therefore to liberate some 'essential self' by throwing off the burden of government and the State, but to develop the self in creative and voluntary relations with others.
Peter Marshall
Peter Marshall
December 27, 2025 at 11:26 PM
The aim is not therefore to liberate some 'essential self' by throwing off the burden of government and the State, but to develop the self in creative and voluntary relations with others.
Peter Marshall
Peter Marshall
...what does it mean for a Pagan to be apolitical? It can only mean that you will allow mountains be blown apart for coal, forests to be clear-cut, rivers to be poisoned, and the Earth to be overheated until it becomes unlivable.
Christopher Scott Thompson
Christopher Scott Thompson
December 27, 2025 at 9:00 PM
...what does it mean for a Pagan to be apolitical? It can only mean that you will allow mountains be blown apart for coal, forests to be clear-cut, rivers to be poisoned, and the Earth to be overheated until it becomes unlivable.
Christopher Scott Thompson
Christopher Scott Thompson
Law never made men a whit more just; and, by means of their respect for it, even the well-disposed are daily made the agents of injustice.
- Henry David Thoreau
- Henry David Thoreau
December 27, 2025 at 6:52 PM
Law never made men a whit more just; and, by means of their respect for it, even the well-disposed are daily made the agents of injustice.
- Henry David Thoreau
- Henry David Thoreau
Anarchism: The philosophy of a new social order based on liberty unrestricted by man-made law; the theory that all forms of government rest on violence, and are therefore wrong and harmful, as well as unnecessary.
Emma Goldman
Emma Goldman
December 27, 2025 at 4:22 PM
Anarchism: The philosophy of a new social order based on liberty unrestricted by man-made law; the theory that all forms of government rest on violence, and are therefore wrong and harmful, as well as unnecessary.
Emma Goldman
Emma Goldman
All my political ideas boil down to this formula: political federation or decentralization.
- Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
- Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
December 27, 2025 at 2:18 PM
All my political ideas boil down to this formula: political federation or decentralization.
- Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
- Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
Oppressed brother, banish all power from within you and do not allow any to be established either over you or over your brother, be he near or far!
- Nestor Makhno
- Nestor Makhno
December 27, 2025 at 12:10 PM
Oppressed brother, banish all power from within you and do not allow any to be established either over you or over your brother, be he near or far!
- Nestor Makhno
- Nestor Makhno
We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings. Any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings. Resistance and change often begin in art, and very often in our art, the art of words.
Ursula K. Le Guin
Ursula K. Le Guin
December 26, 2025 at 7:54 PM
We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings. Any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings. Resistance and change often begin in art, and very often in our art, the art of words.
Ursula K. Le Guin
Ursula K. Le Guin
As a credo, individualist anarchism remained largely a bohemian lifestyle, most conspicuous in its demands for sexual freedom ("free love") and enamored of innovations in art, behavior, and clothing.
- Murray Bookchin
- Murray Bookchin
December 26, 2025 at 1:48 PM
As a credo, individualist anarchism remained largely a bohemian lifestyle, most conspicuous in its demands for sexual freedom ("free love") and enamored of innovations in art, behavior, and clothing.
- Murray Bookchin
- Murray Bookchin
We anarchists do not want to emancipate the people; we want the people to emancipate themselves.
Errico Malatesta
Errico Malatesta
December 26, 2025 at 11:44 AM
We anarchists do not want to emancipate the people; we want the people to emancipate themselves.
Errico Malatesta
Errico Malatesta
In vices, the very essence of crime - that is, the design to injure the person or property of another - is wanting.
- Lysander Spooner
- Lysander Spooner
December 25, 2025 at 9:08 PM
In vices, the very essence of crime - that is, the design to injure the person or property of another - is wanting.
- Lysander Spooner
- Lysander Spooner
It is from the love of humanity that we are revolutionaries: it is not our fault if history has forced on us this distressing necessity.
- Errico Malatesta
- Errico Malatesta
December 25, 2025 at 6:14 PM
It is from the love of humanity that we are revolutionaries: it is not our fault if history has forced on us this distressing necessity.
- Errico Malatesta
- Errico Malatesta
Aggression is simply another name for government.
Benjamin Tucker
Benjamin Tucker
December 25, 2025 at 12:18 PM
Aggression is simply another name for government.
Benjamin Tucker
Benjamin Tucker
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
Edward Abbey
December 24, 2025 at 10:30 PM
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
Edward Abbey
Revolution is aimed at new arrangements; insurrection leads us no longer to let ourselves be arranged, but to arrange ourselves, and set no glittering hope on institutions
Max Stirner
Max Stirner
December 24, 2025 at 7:56 PM
Revolution is aimed at new arrangements; insurrection leads us no longer to let ourselves be arranged, but to arrange ourselves, and set no glittering hope on institutions
Max Stirner
Max Stirner
If there be in nature such a principle as justice, it is necessarily the only political principle there ever was, or ever will be.
- Lysander Spooner
- Lysander Spooner
December 24, 2025 at 2:14 PM
If there be in nature such a principle as justice, it is necessarily the only political principle there ever was, or ever will be.
- Lysander Spooner
- Lysander Spooner
The state is nothing but this domination and this exploitation, well regulated and systematised.
- Mikhail Bakunin
- Mikhail Bakunin
December 23, 2025 at 9:48 PM
The state is nothing but this domination and this exploitation, well regulated and systematised.
- Mikhail Bakunin
- Mikhail Bakunin
Common to all Anarchists is the desire to free society of all political and social coercive institutions which stand in the way of development of a free humanity.
Rudolf Rocker
Rudolf Rocker
December 23, 2025 at 7:14 PM
Common to all Anarchists is the desire to free society of all political and social coercive institutions which stand in the way of development of a free humanity.
Rudolf Rocker
Rudolf Rocker
Man becomes conscious of himself and his humanity only in society and only by the collective action of the whole society.
- Mikhail Bakunin
- Mikhail Bakunin
December 23, 2025 at 11:24 AM
Man becomes conscious of himself and his humanity only in society and only by the collective action of the whole society.
- Mikhail Bakunin
- Mikhail Bakunin
It is the task of all comrades to think, study and prepare - and to do so with all speed and thoroughly because the times are "dynamic" and we must be ready for what might happen.
- Errico Malatesta
- Errico Malatesta
December 22, 2025 at 8:16 PM
It is the task of all comrades to think, study and prepare - and to do so with all speed and thoroughly because the times are "dynamic" and we must be ready for what might happen.
- Errico Malatesta
- Errico Malatesta
Patriotism: a willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons.
- Bertrand Russell
- Bertrand Russell
December 22, 2025 at 5:58 PM
Patriotism: a willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons.
- Bertrand Russell
- Bertrand Russell
The oppression of one is the oppression of all, and we cannot violate the liberty of one being without violating the freedom of all of us.
- Mikhail Bakunin
- Mikhail Bakunin
December 21, 2025 at 9:08 PM
The oppression of one is the oppression of all, and we cannot violate the liberty of one being without violating the freedom of all of us.
- Mikhail Bakunin
- Mikhail Bakunin
Anarchists are committed to treating other people as equals, rather than as either masters or subordinates.
Roderick Long
Roderick Long
December 21, 2025 at 4:26 PM
Anarchists are committed to treating other people as equals, rather than as either masters or subordinates.
Roderick Long
Roderick Long
The aims of anarchists and true communists are identical.
Johann Most
Johann Most
December 21, 2025 at 2:08 PM
The aims of anarchists and true communists are identical.
Johann Most
Johann Most
I can't see coherent political structures in the traditional sense lasting beyond the next twenty years, I don't think that would be possible.
- Alan Moore
- Alan Moore
December 21, 2025 at 11:18 AM
I can't see coherent political structures in the traditional sense lasting beyond the next twenty years, I don't think that would be possible.
- Alan Moore
- Alan Moore
It's called the American Dream, 'cause you have to be asleep to believe it.
- George Carlin
- George Carlin
December 20, 2025 at 10:42 PM
It's called the American Dream, 'cause you have to be asleep to believe it.
- George Carlin
- George Carlin