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. - Noam Chomsky

Revolutionary liberation must be a self-liberation that reaches social dimensions, not mass liberation or class liberation behind which lurks the rule of an elite, a hierarchy and a state. Murray Bookchin

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

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. Johann Most

It is not a crumb of bread, but the harvest of the entire world that the human race needs, without exploiters and without exploited. - Louise Michel

Law never made men a whit more just; and, by means of their respect for it, even the well-disposed are daily made the agents of injustice. - Henry David Thoreau

Once for all, then, we are not opposed to the punishment of thieves and murderers; we are opposed to their manufacture. - Benjamin Tucker

All my political ideas boil down to this formula: political federation or decentralization. - Pierre-Joseph Proudhon

Disorganization is the twin sister of irresponsibility, and together they lead to impoverished ideas and futile practice. - Peter Arshinov

As long as we have a master in heaven, we will be slaves on earth. - Mikhail Bakunin

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

Anarchists are committed to treating other people as equals, rather than as either masters or subordinates. Roderick Long

Anarchism is the attempt to eradicate domination. John Zerzan

Anarchism's lone objective is to reach a point at which the belligerence of some humans against humanity, in whatever form, comes to a halt. Gustav Landauer

Where the state lacks means of coercion, it is important to control what people think. - Noam Chomsky

It's one thing to say, "Another world is possible." It's another to experience it, however momentarily. - David Graeber

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

Socialism and communism both demand a degree of joint effort and administration which would beget more regulation than is wholly consistent with ideal anarchism. - Voltairine de Cleyre

The day will come when our silence will be more powerful than the voices you strangle today. - August Spies

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