Quotes for All
Anarchy: It is NOT bombs, disorder or chaos. It is NOT robbery and murder. It is NOT a war of each against all. It is NOT a return to barbarism or to the wild state of man. Anarchism is the very opposite of all that. Alexander Berkman
Anarchism is that political philosophy which advocates the maximization of individual responsibility and the reduction of concentrated power regal, dictatorial, parliamentary: the institutions which go loosely by the name of government to a vanishing minimum. Alex Comfort
My sympathies are, of course, with the Government side, especially the Anarchists ; for Anarchism seems to me more likely to lead to desirable social change than highly centralized, dictatorial Communism . Aldous Huxley
Though I knew so far as Anarchism was concerned I was backing a lost cause, it didn’t seem to matter as every other cause had won at some time but that of the people themselves. At least it threw so a light on any other political persuasion. Albert Meltzer
That’s what I’m trying to get over: the idea that anarchism offers a description of equitable relations that go way back rather than a hypothesis of what the future should look like. Rebecca Solnit
Whenever freedom is made into the absolute, the result is not freedom but anarchism. Freedom must be under law, or it is not freedom.
R.J. Rushdoony
Anarchism is in reality the ideal of political and social science, and also the ideal of religion. It is the ideal to which Jesus Christ looked forward. Christ founded no church, established no state, gave practically no laws, organized no government and set up no external authority, but he did seek to write on the hearts of men God’s law and make them self-legislating.
R. Heber Newton