Aggression is simply another name for government.

Benjamin Tucker

It is a sad sight to see those who believe themselves to be revolutionaries unleashing their hatred on the anarchist.
- Peter Kropotkin

We should not put forward revolutionary action as a means of social reform, because that pretended means would simply be an appeal to force, to arbitrariness, in brief, a contradiction.
- Pierre-Joseph Proudhon

Anarchists believe we can run our lives without the government.

Vermin Supreme

As man seeks justice in equality, so society seeks order in anarchy.
- Pierre-Joseph Proudhon

As a society, western democracies have moved beyond democracy into a new socio-economic formation, the formation/framework of the soft-totalitarian-state.

Michel Luc Bellemare

Authority is something from which we are constantly subtracting, of which there remains always a residue, and which we attempt to make smaller and smaller.

Federica Montseny

The view which sees in every capitalist only a profit machine may very well meet the demands of propaganda, but it is conceived much too narrowly and does not correspond to reality.
- Rudolf Rocker

Even the most wretched individual of our present society could not exist and develop without the cumulative social efforts of countless generations.
- Mikhail Bakunin

Masters aren't necessary, these people whose idleness is maintained by our labor; everyone must make himself useful to society, by which I mean work according to his ability and his aptitude.
- Ravachol

I die, as I have lived, a free spirit, an Anarchist, owing no allegiance to rulers, heavenly or earthly.

Voltairine de Cleyre

The state is a social relationship; a certain way of people relating to one another. It can be destroyed by creating new social relationships; ie, by people relating to one another differently.

Gustav Landauer

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

Ammon Hennacy

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

But though egoism or altruism, separately, each pushed to its extreme, is pernicious to the individual and society, united they are resolved into a third term, which is the law of future societies. This law is solidarity.
- Jean Grave

Are not laws dangerous which inhibit the passions? Compare the centuries of anarchy with those of the strongest legalism in any country you like and you will see that it is only when the laws are silent that the greatest actions appear.

Marquis de Sade

All things are Nothing to Me

Max Stirner

Power operates only destructively, bent always on forcing every manifestation of life into the straitjacket of its laws. Its intellectual form of expression is dead dogma, its physical form brute force.

Rudolf Rocker

The State is said by some to be a 'necessary evil'; it must be made unnecessary.
- Benjamin Tucker

The government of man by man (under whatever name it be disguised) is oppression.
- Pierre-Joseph Proudhon