Top 66 Anarchist Quotes

Everyone’s a mixed bag. I’m a utopian social anarchist, but I’m also a pragmatist.

In order to fully realise our aspirations, we must create in the masses of the people the sense of sacrifice and responsibility that has been the characteristic of the anarchist movement throughout its historic development in Spain.

I never have been an anarchist, I’ve always had goals and always have acted out of love.

I am a pragmatist. We are given what we have here in terms of government, so as an anarchist, okay, I’ll lean to the Republican side of getting the government small enough to drown in a bathtub or whatever.

I love Tike Alicar, The Anarchist. But I love Edie Sawyer, U-Go Girl, too. I was a little in love with her.

I was an anarchist punk, and I think, in many ways, I still am.

People are first and foremost Republicans, first and foremost Anarchists, first and foremost a man or woman, and that is a mistake. It hurts the individual and it hurts the whole.

‘Cue for Treason,’ by Geoffrey Trease, radicalized my young girl brain and made me want to be a gender-bending, sonnet-writing anarchist. It really made something roar to life inside of me.

I’m not for no taxes. That would be an anarchist. I am for lower taxes.

Demonstrations must be dignified and nonviolent, as the overwhelming protests in Ferguson and Staten Island have been. Do not confuse anarchists who don’t want the system to work and thugs who want to exploit a situation with the majority who from day one have operated with impeccable nonviolence and clear goals.

Fortunately, no country was ever more suited for anarchist agitation than present-day America.

Anarchists are socialists because they want the improvement of society, and they are communists because they are convinced that such a transformation of society can only result from the establishment of a commonwealth of property.

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.

As a teenager I was more of an anarchist, but now I want people to thrive and be harmonious.

If I say most people are pretty decent that may sound nice and warm but actually it’s really radical and subversive and that’s why, all throughout history, those who have advocated a more hopeful view of human nature – often the anarchists – have been persecuted.

Anarchists are simply unterrified Jeffersonian Democrats.

The Anarchists set off World War I with a gunshot in Sarajevo – but they faded away. It wasn’t that the police drove them out of business. The ideology had nowhere to go except into permanent negativity.

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

My father was a painter and an anarchist, always getting in trouble for his performance art.

I thought of myself as kind of an anarchist all my whole adult life, from the days when I was 15 or 16.

It’s my view that children are violent, dirty, corrupt anarchists. Just adults-in-waiting, basically.

Sure, I considered myself an anarchist; I considered myself – I still am, obviously – distrustful of the government. But I also understand the virtues of civility or democracy and kindness, of course. I wasn’t throwing garbage cans through shop windows.

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

The Anarchists answer that the abolition of the State will leave in existence a defensive association, resting no longer on a compulsory but on a voluntary basis, which will restrain invaders by any means that may prove necessary.

It seems to me we are now, since 1789, going through the same sort of process of regeneration the Roman world went through between 300 and 500. It is only to be hoped all civilization will not again be destroyed by the anarchists.

I’m not an anti-capitalist, or anarchist. I want capitalism to work.

I created my own party. It’s called the Sloth and Indolence Party, and I’m running as an anarchist candidate in the best sense of that word. I’ve studied the presidency carefully.

The anarchist painter is not the one who will create anarchist pictures, but the one who will fight with all his individuality against official conventions.

I much preferred the approach at the anarchist camp, with its shared tasks and collective responsibilities. Everyone played their part. There was no division between workers and consumers.

London has always moved and surprised me, reinventing itself in ways both fresh and familiar. It’s a contrary, complex and creative city, an anarchist of a thousand faces – fickle and unfailing, tender and bleak, ambitious and callous.

I get asked quite often if I’m an anarchist. If they want to put a label on me, that’s fine. What is most important to me is to live in a world that is not being murdered.

Anarchists believe we can run our lives without the government.

I’m not an anarchist any more. I still love the Sex Pistols, but I don’t want to be a punk rocker all the time, but I do want to carry on exploring new forms of acting.

‘Pump Up the Volume’ was a film and character that I really responded to. That was a movie about a guy trying to take down the establishment using a ham radio. I feel ‘Mr. Robot’ has a similar value. This show is about taking down a global empire. I was an anarchist then. I’m getting to be an anarchist again.

You couldn’t put me in a social group setting. I’m probably a terrible anarchist deep down.

I want three words: Woman, Atheist, Anarchist. That’s me.

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

I’m an anarchist and I do think things such as Occupy Wall Street are about getting a little closer to the solution.

If you really want to have an anarchist experience, make a movie with a studio.

The last book I read was Noam Chomsky on anarchism; maybe I will become an anarchist.

That’s libertarians for you – anarchists who want police protection from their slaves.

The ‘Bolton News’ is the best place for online comments. They say I’m an absolute idiot and a communist anarchist. I was never an anarchist; I was a communist!

‘The Secret Agent,’ Joseph Conrad’s 1907 novel about an anarchist plot to blow up the Royal Observatory at Greenwich – in fact, a scheme by a secret police agent to stir up a government backlash – has acquired a kind of cult status as the classic novel for the post-9/11 age.

I think any good actor is an anarchist. They have to be.

I wish to say that we Anarchists have never changed our position. We are Anarchists as of old and still pursue the same ideals.

I had displeased the jacobins by blaming their aristocratic usurpation of legitimate powers; the priests of all sorts by claiming religious liberty; the anarchists by repressing them; and the conspirators by rejecting their offers.

It’s an old anarchist dream that people can take care of their own lives.

It’s good to be an anarchist and just love yourself.

I’m not an anarchist. I believe in government.

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.

The aims of anarchists and true communists are identical.

He who negates present society, and seeks social conditions based on the sharing of property, is a revolutionary whether he calls himself an anarchist or a communist.

Never will the Anarchists in Spain be made to suffer as they have been and are in Russia.

Comedy is the ultimate anarchist.

If man asks for many laws it is only because he is sure that his neighbor needs them; privately he is an unphilosophical anarchist, and thinks laws in his own case superfluous.

As a social anarchist, I believe that capitalism itself is an inherently exploitative hierarchical situation – you do have a boss, you do have somebody in charge.

In the matter of the maintenance and rearing of children the Anarchists would neither institute the communistic nursery which the State Socialists favor nor keep the communistic school system which now prevails.

I’m not a complete libertarian. There is a proper role in some areas of the government to have rules and regulations – I’m not an anarchist.

I’m an anarchist. I have it tattooed on my stomach.

If you want to make an anarchist film, make it with a corporation.

When anarchy is declared, the first thing we do, let’s kill all the anarchists.

The anarchists, on behalf of the proletariat, therefore consider it necessary to show the proletariat that it will have to win a gigantic battle before it realizes its goals.

The older I get, the more of an anarchist I become, and I don’t mean in a punk rock way.

I guess I was always an outsider and some kind of anarchist.

I’ve never been a popular person, but it doesn’t matter. I have everything in my life that I want. I’m not a walking publicity stunt. I’m not an anarchist, or bitter. I’m not trying to be subversive. I just try to remain unguarded, unprotected by fear, and agents and publicists, and I feel comfortable that way.