Quotes for All
From what I see, nowadays punk and anarchy are still connected with fast loud music by smelly drunk chaos-people and, yes, I know I’m over-generalizing here. So when the occasional venue still describes us The ex as anarchopunk that’s a real bummer, since it attracts an audience that expects a kind of music – which … Read more
To me, the main idea of punk was do-it-yourself, which meant that you could basically do anything that you would wanna do. You don’t have to wait to be allowed to do it. Anarchy was more or less about the same thing, so for me they were closely related. G.W. Sok
Robert Nozick [a Havard philosopher, famous for his book Anarchy, State and Utopia] defined revenge as delivering the message that you know what someone has done, and it doesn’t involve hurting them or doing anything to them beyond that. It’s just delivering the message that their crime has been noted not just by its victims, … Read more
For anarchy to succeed or simply to advance towards its success it must be conceived not only as a lighthouse which illuminates and attracts, but as something possible and attainable, not in centuries to come, but in a relatively short time and without relying on miracles. Errico Malatesta
Anarchy is a word that comes from the Greek, and signifies, strictly speaking, without government: the state of a people without any constituted authority. Before such an organization had begun to be considered possible and desirable by a whole class of thinkers, so as to be taken as the aim of a movement (which has … Read more
Anarchists are opposed to violence; everyone knows that. The main plank of anarchism is the removal of violence from human relations. It is life based on freedom of the individual, without the intervention of the gendarme. For this reason we are the enemies of capitalism which depends on the protection of the gendarme to oblige … Read more
Liberalism is to freedom as anarchism is to anarchy. Ernst Junger
The anarch wages his own wars, even when marching in rank and file Ernst Junger
People, if given the choice between anarchy and dictatorship, will always choose dictatorship because anarchy is the worst dictatorship of all. Eric Sevareid
It is perfectly clear that people, given no alternative, will choose tyranny over anarchy, because anarchy is the worst tyranny of all… The special nature of liberties is that they can be defended only as long as we still have them. So the very first signs of their erosion must be resisted, whether the issue … Read more