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

The police represent the authority of the state, the willingness of the state to use violence to assert their will. Vermin Supreme

Anarchism is for liberty, and neither for nor against anything else … I define Anarchism as the belief in the greatest amount of liberty compatible with equality of liberty; or, in other words, as the belief in every liberty except the liberty to invade. Benjamin Tucker

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

Anarchism is not a romantic fable but the hardheaded realization, based on five thousand years of experience, that we cannot entrust the management of our lives to kings, priests, politicians, generals, and county commissioners. Edward Abbey

The habit of direct action is, perhaps, identical with the habit of being free, prepared to live responsibly in a free society. - David Wieck

Direct action is the insistence, when faced with structures of unjust authority, on acting as if one is already free. - David Graeber

The state is not something which can be destroyed by a revolution, but is a condition, a certain relationship between human beings, a mode of human behaviour; we destroy it by contracting other relationships, by behaving differently. Colin Ward

It is often said that anarchists live in a world of dreams to come, and do not see the things which happen today. We do see them only too well, and in their true colors, and that is what makes us carry the hatchet into the forest of prejudice that besets us. - Peter Kropotkin

Authority, when first detecting chaos at its heels, will entertain the vilest schemes to save its orderly facade. Alan Moore

The greatest bulwark of capitalism is militarism. - Emma Goldman

My personal view of the anarch-capitalists is that it's an oxymoron. Vermin Supreme

Liberty without socialism is privilege and injustice; socialism without liberty is slavery and brutality. - Mikhail Bakunin

Anarchism is not mysticism; it is not a discourse on beauty; it is not a cry of despair. - Peter Arshinov

Anarchists no more want to be masters than they want to be servants - they no more want to exercise violence than to submit to it. They expose, they propose, but they do not impose. - Emile Armand

For, just as it has been said that there is no half-way house between Rome and Reason, so it may be said that there is no half-way house between state socialism and anarchism. - Benjamin Tucker

We’re not depressed; we’re on strike. For those who refuse to manage themselves, “depression” is not a state but a passage, a bowing out, a sidestep towards a political disaffiliation. The Invisible Committee

You cannot buy the revolution. You cannot make the revolution. You can only be the revolution. It is in your spirit, or it is nowhere. Ursula K. Le Guin

A worker is a part-time slave. - Bob Black

The aims of anarchists and true communists are identical. Johann Most

Political rights do not exist because they have been legally set down on a piece of paper, but only when they have become the ingrown habit of a people, and when any attempt to impair them will meet with the violent resistance of the populace. - Rudolf Rocker

It is not the product of their labors to which the workers have a right. It is the satisfaction of their needs, whatever the nature of those needs. - Joseph Dejacque

First, then, God, being all-just, wishes to do justice; being all-wise, knows what justice is; being all-powerful, can do justice. Why then injustice? - Voltairine de Cleyre

The mutual-aid tendency in man has so remote an origin, and is so deeply interwoven with all the past evolution of the human race, that is has been maintained by mankind up to the present time, notwithstanding all vicissitudes of history. Peter Kropotkin

An anarchist is someone who doesn't need a cop to make him behave. Ammon Hennacy

Anarchists know that a long period of education must precede any great fundamental change in society, hence they do not believe in vote begging, nor political campaigns, but rather in the development of self-thinking individuals. Lucy Parsons

The situation is like this: they hired our parents to destroy this world, and now they'd like to put us to work rebuilding it, and -- to add insult to injury -- at a profit. The Invisible Committee

Wherever there is a man who exercizes authority, there is a man who resists authority. - Oscar Wilde

Anarchy is the obliteration of property. - Ravachol

Each seeks his way, we seek ours and think the day that freedom and equality reign, mankind will be happy. - Louise Michel