What are your favorite anarchist quotes?

"When the people are being beaten with a stick, they are not much happier if it is called the People's Stick."

Bakunin

"If voting changed anything they would make it illegal."

Emma Goldman

"So I decided to become a midwife… I wanted to deliver a thousand babies. And as each one arrives, especially the little girls, I’ll be there first to whisper into her tender little ear: REBEL! REBEL!” – Emma Goldman

The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.

-Albert Camus

"If I can't dance, I don't want to be part of your revolution." Goldman

I don't really dance but I like the sentiment.

Edit: how did I forget this one:

"With the abolition of private property, then, we shall have true, beautiful, healthy Individualism. Nobody will waste his life in accumulating things, and the symbols for things. One will live. To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all." - Oscar Wilde

That is an all time favorite.

"Anarchism is not, as some may suppose, a theory of the future to be realized through divine inspiration. It is a living force in the affairs of our life, constantly creating new conditions. The methods of Anarchism therefore do not comprise an iron-clad program to be carried out under all circumstances. Methods must grow out of the economic needs of each place and clime, and of the intellectual and temperamental requirements of the individual."

— Emma Goldman, "Anarchism: What it Really Stands for"

I like how it mirrors this:

"Communism is for us not a state of affairs which is to be established, an ideal to which reality [will] have to adjust itself. We call communism the real movement which abolishes the present state of things. The conditions of this movement result from the premises now in existence."

— Karl Marx & Friedrich Engels, "The German Ideology"

"Propaganda is to a democracy, what the bludgeon is to a totalitarian state." - Noam Chomsky

"You have the right to free speech as long as you're not dumb enough to actually try it." -The Clash

The urge to destory is a creative urge. - Bakunin

one must feel intensely the indignity of our social wrongs; one’s very being must throb with the pain, the sorrow, the despair millions of people are daily made to endure. Indeed, unless we have become a part of humanity, we cannot even faintly understand the just indignation that accumulates in a human soul, the burning, surging passion that makes the storm inevitable.

-Emma Goldman

Upon the other hand, there are a great many people who, having no private property of their own, and being always on the brink of sheer starvation, are compelled to do the work of beasts of burden, to do work that is quite uncongenial to them, and to which they are forced by the peremptory, unreasonable, degrading Tyranny of want.

-Oscar Wilde

“Those who profess to favor freedom and yet depreciate agitation, are people who want crops without ploughing the ground; they want rain without thunder and lightning; they want the ocean without the roar of its many waters. The struggle may be a moral one, or it may be a physical one, or it may be both. But it must be a struggle. Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.”

-Frederick Douglas

Let the ruling classes tremble at a Communistic revolution. The proletarians have nothing to lose but their chains. They have a world to win. Working Men of All Countries, Unite!

-Karl Marx

“Quotations are useful in periods of ignorance or obscurantist beliefs.” ― Guy Debord

"I die as I have lived. An anarchist. Owing allegiance to neither God nor man." -Written by Voltaire DeCleyrin before a failed suicide attempt.

''This world is poisoning us and forcing us to carry out useless noxious activity; it imposes the need for money on us and deprives us of impassioned relationships. We are growing old among men and women without dreams, strangers in a reality which leaves no room for outbursts of generosity. We are not partisans of abnegation. It’s just that the best this society can offer us (a career, fame, a sudden win, ‘love’) simply doesn’t interest us. Giving orders disgusts us just as much as obedience. We are exploited like everyone else and want to put an end to exploitation right away. For us, revolt needs no other justification.

Our lives are escaping us, and any class discourse that fails to start from this is simply a lie. We do not want to direct or support social movements, but rather to participate in those that already exist, to the extent to which we recognise common needs in them. In an excessive perspective of liberation there are no such things as superior forms of struggle. Revolt needs everything: papers and books, arms and explosives, reflection and swearing, poison, daggers and arson. The only interesting question is how to combine them.''

Anonymous, at daggers drawn with the existent

Sometimes I dream of this social change. I get a streak of faith in Evolution, and the good in man. I paint a gradual slipping out of the now, to that beautiful then, where there are neither kings, presidents, landlords, national bankers, stockbrokers, railroad magnates, patentright monopolists, or tax and title collectors; where there are no over-stocked markets or hungry children, idle counters and naked creatures, splendor and misery, waste and need. I am told this is farfetched idealism, to paint this happy, povertyless, crimeless, diseaseless world; I have been told I “ought to be behind the bars” for it. Remarks of that kind rather destroy the white streak of faith. I lose confidence in the slipping process, and am forced to believe that the rulers of the earth are sowing a fearful wind, to reap a most terrible whirlwind. When I look at this poor, bleeding, wounded World, this world that has suffered so long, struggled so much, been scourged so fiercely, thorn-pierced so deeply, crucified so cruelly, I can only shake my head and remember: The giant is blind, but he’s thinking: and his locks are growing, fast.

-Voltairine de Cleyre

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" I have told Captain Schaack, and I stand by it,“if you cannonade us, we shall dynamite you.” You laugh! Perhaps you think,“you’ll throw no more bombs”; but let me assure you I die happy on the gallows, so confident am I that the hundreds and thousands to whom I have spoken will remember my words; and when you shall have hanged us, then—mark my words—they will do the bombthrowing! In this hope do I say to you: I despise you. I despise your order, your laws, your force-propped authority. Hang me for it!" - Louis Lingg before being wrongfully sentenced to death for the Haymarket bombings

I am not a peaceful man, a man content and willing to accept the will of the gods. No, I am a man at war – with the world and with society, indeed, but also with myself and those I love the most.

- Wolfi

The passage I revisit the most is the first section of Fillipi's Free Art of a Free Spirit.

Oh and this Tolstoy quote:

It is only thus that we can explain that terrible tension with which the men of our time incline to intoxicate themselves with wine, tobacco, opium, cards, the reading of newspapers, travelling, all kinds of spectacles, and amusements. All these things are done like serious, important affairs. They are indeed important affairs. If there existed no external means for dimming their consciences, one-half of men would at once shoot themselves, because to live contrary to one’s reason is a most intolerable state, and all men of our time are in such a state. All men of our time live in a constant crying contradiction between consciousness and life.

"Murder is a crime, unless it was done by a police man"- the Clash

"Now is the time in which, when the one from below asks why he is being attacked, the answer from the one above is: “for being who you are.“

It’s because in this world in which we feel pain, the criminal is free and the just are in prison. The killer is rewarded and the dead are slandered.

But we also see and hear that there are more and more voices all the time that don’t trust [those above], that don’t let themselves [be manipulated] and that rebel.

Those above have no trustworthy word, no honor, no shame and no dignity.

Truth and justice will never, ever, come from above."

From the mountains of the Mexican Southeast,

-Subcomandante Insurgente Moisés
-Subcomandante Insurgente Galeano

Mexico, August 2015

Anything Emma Goldman has said.

"As long as there is a law peace will be a crime' - Patrick Schneeweis

"Whoever teaches without emancipating stultifies." -Jacques Ranciere

"Society will only be free when the last capitalist is hung by the entrails of the last bureaucrat" -situationist graffiti

The famous Durruti quote (seen on the sidebar) about how we carry a new world in our hearts.

The entirety of Voltairine de Cleyre's 'Anarchism' essay. I would post the most influential sections but they're way too long for a Reddit comment.

CrimethInc. may just be feel-good lifestylist propaganda-poetry as people seem to insist, but their writings (especially issues of Harbinger and Days of War, Nights of Love) quite often stir within me sensations and emotions I haven't felt since I was a kid.

It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.

• Krishnamurti

A concept is a brick. It can be used to build a courthouse of reason. Or it can be thrown through the window.

• Gills Deleuze

The masters of the world certainly do not want humanity to be able to be happy, because a happy humanity would not let itself be caught up in productivity, in the discipline over work or in hypermarkets.

• Franco Bifo Berardi

The strains and stresses suffered by the individual in society are grounded in the normal functioning of that society (and of the individual!) rather than in its disturbances and diseases.

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Free election of masters does not abolish the masters or the slaves.

• Herbert Marcuse

When the prison, stake or scaffold can no longer silence the voice of the protesting minority, progress moves on a step, but not until then.

• Lucy Parsons

I don't think we have to have a personal relation to a life lost to understand that something terrible has taken place...

• Judith Butler

Sous les pavés, la plage!

• From May '68

Dehumanization, although a concrete historical fact, is not a given destiny but the result of an unjust order that engenders violence in the oppressors, which in turn dehumanizes the oppressed

• Freire

The best way to predict the future is to design it

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War is the ultimate tool of politics

• Buckminster Fuller

Is it surprising that prisons resemble factories, schools, barracks, hospitals, which all resemble prisons?

• Foucault

“The structure of the world was built by the dead, they were paid in wages, and when the wages were spent and they were dead in the ground, what they had made continued to exist, these cities, roads and factories are their calcified bones.”

"The revolution aimed at new arrangements; insurrection leads us no longer to let ourselves be arranged."

--Max Stirner

"Resignation is death. Life is revolt."

--Albert Libertad

"Today, go blossom in the shadow of the dark and sad prisons. Go, bloom near the somber captive, and tell them truly that we love them. Tell them that through fleeting time, everything belongs to the future, that the livid conqueror can die more surely than the conquered."

--Louise Michel

"Any society that you build will have its limits. And outside the limits of any society, unruly and heroic tramps will wander with their wild and untamed thought - those who cannot live without planning ever new and dreadful outbursts of rebellion! I shall be among them!

Because every person who, searching his own inwardness, extracts what was mysteriously hidden therein is a shadow eclipsing any form of society which can exist under the sun!"

--Renzo Novatore

"Drawn at first to socialism, I was not slow in separating myself from that party. I have too much love of freedom, too much respect for individual initiative, too much repugnance for military organization, to assume a number in the ordered army of a fourth estate. Besides, I have come to realize that socialism essentially changes nothing in the existing order. It maintains the principle of authority, and, whatever self-styled free-thinkers may say about it, that principle is no more than the antiquated survival of faith in a superior power."

--Emile Henry

"Of all ideologies, anarchy is the one that addresses liberty and egalitarian relations in a realistic and ultimate fashion. It is the only one consistent with each individual having an opportunity to live a complete and total life. With anarchy, the society as a whole not only maintains itself at an equal expense to all, but progresses in a creative process unhindered by any class, caste or party. This is because the goals of anarchism don't include replacing one ruling class with another, neither in the guise of a fairer boss or as a party. This is key because this is what separates anarchist revolutionaries from Maoist, socialist and nationalist revolutionaries who from the onset do not embrace complete revolution. They cannot envision a truly free and egalitarian society and must to some extent embrace the socialization process that makes exploitation and oppression possible and prevalent in the first place."

--Kuwasi Balagoon

"The condition and character of solidarity are spontaneity and freedom. But whereas the bourgeois regime is the domination of a majority over the minority, we aspire to realize the autonomy of the individual within the freedom of association, the independence of his thought, of his life, of his development, of his destiny, freedom from violence, from caprice and from the domination of the majority, as well as of various minorities; and when we refer to libertarian communism, a term which our descendants will take care to amend, we are trying to find an economic ubi consistam in which the political autonomy of the individual may find an enlightened and happy realization."

--Luigi Galleani

"Modestly, but firmly, we are opposed to those anarchists who call themselves organizationalists, whether they wish to organize an anarchist party politically, or whether, in order to strengthen it, they aim to base it on labour organizations as they exist now, or on other ones they might organize that correspond more to their aims.

A political party, any political party, has its programme; ie, its constitutional charter: in assemblies of group representatives, it has its parliament: in its management, its boards and executive committees, it has its government. In short, it is a graduated superstructure of bodies -- a true hierarchy -- no matter how disguised, in which all stages are connected by a single bond --discipline-- which punishes infractions of the unruly individual with sanctions that go from censure to excommunication, to expulsion."

--Luigi Galleani

"We are cozy, cuddly, armed and dangerous ... and we will raze every fucking prison to the ground."

--George Jackson Brigade

"Bombs and pistols alone do not make a revolution. The sword of revolution is sharpened on the whetting-stone of critical thought."

--Bhagat Singh

"The violence that reigns among the poor, which is sometimes practiced openly among them, is equal to the violence of the conditions that constrain them. At the same time that all the poor fully submit to the rules of the war of all against all, they can no longer aspire to a civilized existence and so become decidedly dangerous. This moment when separation has invaded everything also shows us that the poor cannot constitute a collective legal subject like in the period of the former workers’ movement. Their dissatisfaction returns to its original basis, i.e. the ferocity that characterized their rebellion before society tried to civilize them."

--Os Cangacieros

"Nobody in the world, nobody in history, has ever gotten their freedom by appealing to the moral senses of the people who were oppressing them."

--Assata Shakur

"The state is nothing more than the sum total of the liberties denied to the individual by a society."

--Mikhail Bakunin

"To me, however, the flower of the proletariat does not mean, as it does to the Marxists, the upper layer, the most civilized and comfortably off in the working world, that layer of semi-bourgeois workers, which is precisely the class the Marxists want to use to constitute their fourth governing class, and which is really capable of forming one if things are not set to rights in the interests of the great mass of the proletariat; for with its relative comfort and semi-bourgeois position, this upper layer of workers is unfortunately only too deeply penetrated with all the political and social prejudices and all the narrow aspirations and pretensions of the bourgeois. It can be truly said that this upper layer is the least socialist, the most individualist in all the proletariat.

By the flower of the proletariat, I mean above all, that great mass, those millions of non-civilized, disinherited, wretched and illiterates whom Messrs. Engels and Marx mean to subject to the paternal regime of a very strong government…Without doubt, this will be for their own salvation, as of course all governments, as is well known, have been established solely in the interests of the masses themselves. By the flower of the proletariat I mean precisely that eternal 'meat' for governments, that great rabble of the people ordinarily designated by Messrs. Marx and Engels by the phrase at once picturesque and contemptuous of 'lumpenproletariat', the 'riff–raff', that rabble which, being very nearly unpolluted by all bourgeois civilization carries in its heart, in its aspirations, in all necessities and the miseries of its collective position, all the germs of the Socialism of the future, and which alone is powerful enough to-day to inaugurate the Social Revolution and bring it to triumph"

--Mikhail Bakunin

"Our aim is to agitate and disturb people. We're not selling bread, we're selling yeast."

--anonymous graffiti, May 1968

"There is one kind of prison where the man is behind bars, and everything he desires is outside; and there is another kind where the things are behind the bars, and the man is outside."

--Upton Sinclair

"Every time an anarchist says, 'I believe in democracy,' there is a little fairy somewhere that falls down dead."

--James Barrie

"Spending monotonous hours among the common people, the resigned ones, the collaborators, the conformists – isn’t living; it’s a vegetative existence, simply the transport, in ambulatory form, of a mass of flesh and bones. Life needs the exquisite and sublime experience of rebellion in action as well as thought."

--Severino Di Giovanni

"Anarchism, to me, means not only the denial of authority or the economic system, but a revision of the principles of morality. It means the development of the individual as well as the assertion of the individual. It means self-responsibility, and not leader worship."

--Voltairine De Cleyre

"The practice of wearing black and destroying everything may very well be the queerest gesture of them all."

--anonymous in The Enemy of Mankind Speaks Power

Basically this whole song from MC Sole.

"Used to fuck with Karl Marx till I met Emma Goldman

My homey Ravi Zupa put me up on game

I know why communism always fails

Because a power-hungry communist is just as dangerous as a blood-sucking capitalist

From gulags to the prison-industrial complex

To each his own, no thrones no preachers spreading fantasies

God is a myth and man's enslavement is his reality

God don't like ugly, god hates itself

God hates flags, god hates cops

God is a mass murdering sociopath

I don't need it to be moral

All I need is a library card and a feeling in my gut that says no man is above me

Next time you fuck and use a birth control pill thank Emma

And the IWW for 8-hour work days and general strikes

Before kings stole the land from the peasants we have the commons

Private property is a system used to dispossess people from their needs

That's why poverty is pandemic and capitalism can't eliminate crime

Ain't nothing fair in debt slavery and bribes

Emma Goldman, I know I'm no Emma Goldman

She opened up a ice cream shop to fund an assassin

That's gangsta

Welcome to the new black scare

Shouts out to the northwestern grand jury resistors

They say anarchism can't work

But all anarchists do is put in work

Not for money, but out of necessity

Imagine a world where you could follow your passions

A federation, built on community

Shouts to Occupy Sandy stepping in with mutual aid

You'd find out you were an anarchist if you took the time to read

While academics debate tactics

We shutting down the Keystone XL Pipeline

We plant gardens in the projects

They push us to the sidewalks and we take the streets

We strike debt

We can bring things back to normal, or we can do the opposite

We can bicker over differences or we can fuck up shit cuz shits fucked up and bullshit

In the 1800s anarchists were libertines

Only in America are libertarians an arm of the right wing

They put a gun in your face and tell you to be non violent

But ignorance is violence

And who spreads ignorance through public schools?

And sends the poor to die overseas to steal more shit

For you know who

You know who

If voting changed anything they'd make it illegal

She said that 100 years ago

Ain't shit changed but the manufacturers of weapons

Ain't shit changed they replaced churches with banks & mainstream news

This government was designed to over rule the mob

So we mobs design to over rule the government

Emma Goldman I think I'm Emma Goldman

In the belly of the beast made that motherfucker sick

Emma Goldman I must be doing something wrong if the feds ain't on my dick

You can say I'm guilty of propping up a cult of personality

But I'm a Malcolm X man, "by any means necessary"

Avant gardists might say I'm dumbing it down

But Emma didn't speak in academic riddles; she spoke in the common tongue

No future utopias we building it now

Horizontally, no 10,000 MLKS ain't getting popped

Red & black all day

I'm a Kropotkin man myself

The streets is my public offices where I plan my attack

You rap, we plot, you vote we act

I'll never say bitch in a song again"

This is that good shit

Many commentators dismiss anarchism as utopian, formless, primitive, or otherwise incompatible with the realities of a complex society. One might, however, argue rather differently: that at every stage of history our concern must be to dismantle those forms of authority and oppression that survive from an era when they might have been justified in terms of the need for security or survival or economic development, but that now contribute to — rather than alleviate — material and cultural deficit.
—Noam Chomsky

"Beware of he who would deny you information, for in his heart he seeks to be your master." (Anon.)

"We already know much! What if that knowledge — and only that — should become the possession of all? Would not science itself progress in leaps, and cause mankind to make strides in production, invention, and social creation, of which we are hardly in a condition now to measure the speed?" -Kropotkin

"When we can't dream any longer we die." -Emma Goldman

"I am an anarchist, wherefore I will not rule and also ruled I will not be!" -John Henry Mackay

"We anarchists do not want to emancipate the people; we want the people to emancipate themselves." -Ericco Malatesta

"School is the advertising agency which makes you believe you need the society as it is." -Ivan Illich

"But if the word evolution serves but to conceal a lie in the mouths of those who most willingly pronounce it, it is a reality for revolutionists; it is they who are the true evolutionists. Escaping from all formulas, which to them have lost their meaning, they seek for truth outside the teaching of the schools; they criticise all that rulers call order, all that teachers call morality; they grow, they develop, they live, and seek to communicate their life. What they have learned they proclaim; what they know they desire to practise. The existing state of things seems to them iniquitous, and they wish to modify it in accordance with a new ideal of justice. It does not suffice them to have freed their own minds, they wish to emancipate those of others also, to liberate society from all servitude. Logical in their evolution, they desire what their mind has conceived, and act upon their desire."-Elisée Reclus

"Science! is — in short — accepted on face value. It is taken more or less as what we see called Science! almost everywhere. An unlucky few of us are granted closer experience, stumbling into soul-sucking engineering jobs for companies or academic sweatshops, specializing in what boils down to optimizing a single widget. Science! is on the nametag. Science! is on the diploma. Science! is on our report. Science! is how our paymasters excuse the damage our widget causes in military or economic application. Science! must surely be this. You can tell I think this is all patent nonsense. A similar intentionally misattributed and surface-deep tale could be told about “Anarchy” from the newscaster desks to the Hot Topic stickers."-anon person probably doesn't want to be named

"Work makes a mockery of freedom"-Bob Black (yes I actually hate him insofar because he is a police snitch and misogynistic scumbag. I'm actually reluctant to call him an anarchist but I just happened to like the abolition of work)

"The assumption that what currently exists must neccessarily exist is the acid that corrodes all visionary thinking"-Murray Bookchin

"The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion."-Albert Camus

"À chacun selon ses besoins, de chacun selon ses faculté." Louis Blanc

“You must always have a secret plan. Everything depends on this: it is the only question. So as not to be conquered by the conquered territory in which you lead your life, so as not to feel the horrible weight of inertia wrecking your will and bending you to the ground, so as not to spend a single night more wondering what there is to do or how to connect with your neighbors and countrymen, you must make secret plans without respite. Plan for adventure, plan for pleasure, plan for pandemonium, as you wish; but plan, lay plans constantly. And when you come to, on the steps of the presidential palace, in the green grass beside the highway, in your cell’s gloomy solitude, your secret plan finished or foiled, ask your comrades, ask your cellmates, ask your wind, the waves, the stars, the sea, ask everything that ponders, everything that wanders, everything that sings, everything that stings ask them what time it is; and your comrades, your cellmates, the wind, the waves, the stars, the sea all will answer: “It is time for a new secret plan. So as not to be the martyred slave of routine, plan adventure, plan pleasure, plan pandemonium, as you wish; but plan, plan secretly and without respite.” - the anarchist cookbook

And as you are invaded and violated, so you subconsciously revenge yourself by invading and violating others over whom you have authority or can exercise compulsion

-Alexander Berkman

--"Every nation-state tends towards the imperial - that is the point. Through banks, armies, secret police, propaganda, courts and jails, treaties, taxes, laws and orders, myths of civil obedience, assumptions of civic virtue at the top. Still it should be said of the political left, we expect something better. And correctly. We put more trust in those who show a measure of compassion, who denounce the hideous social arrangements that make war inevitable and human desire omnipresent; which fosters corporate selfishness, panders to appetites and disorder, waste the earth."—

-Daniel Berrigan

"We have been taught that the emperor is a descendant of the gods, and that his right to rule is bestowed upon him by the gods… We have in our midst someone who is supposed to be a living god, one who is omnipotent and omniscient, an emperor who is supposed to realize the will of the gods. Yet his children are crying because of hunger, suffocating to death in the coal mines, and being crushed by factory machines. Why is this so? Because, in truth, the emperor is a mere human being. We wanted to show the people that the emperor is an ordinary human being just like us. So we thought of throwing a bomb at him to show that he too will die like any other human being…”
~ Fumiko Kaneko

"If you consider these worthy electors as unable to look after their own interests themselves, how is it that they know how to choose for themselves the shepherds who must guide them? And how will they be able to solve this problem of social alchemy, of producing the election of a genius from the votes of a mass of fools?"
~ Ericco Malatesta

"To be governed is to be watched over, inspected, spied on, directed, legislated at, regulated, docketed, indoctrinated, preached at, controlled, assessed, weighed, censored, ordered about, by men who have neither the right, nor the knowledge, nor the virtue. ... To be governed is to be at every operation, at every transaction, noted, registered, enrolled, taxed, stamped, measured, numbered, assessed, licensed, authorized, admonished, forbidden, reformed, corrected, punished. It is, under the pretext of public utility, and in the name of the general interest, to be placed under contribution, trained, ransomed, exploited, monopolized, extorted, squeezed, mystified, robbed; then, at the slightest resistance, the first word of complaint, to be repressed, fined, despised, harassed, tracked, abused, clubbed, disarmed, choked, imprisoned, judged, condemned, shot, deported, sacrificed, sold, betrayed; and, to crown all, mocked, ridiculed, outraged, dishonoured. That is government; that is its justice; that is its morality."
~ Pierre-Joseph Proudhon, "The General Idea of the Revolution" (1851)

"To revolt is a natural tendency of life. Even a worm turns against the foot that crushes it. In general, the vitality and relative dignity of an animal can be measured by the intensity of its instinct to revolt."
~ Mikhail Bakunin

"Let every dirty, lousy tramp arm himself with a revolver or knife on the steps of the palace of the rich and stab or shoot their owners as they come out. Let us kill them without mercy, and let it be a war of extermination and without pity."
~ Lucy Parsons

"...each of you hungry tramps who read these lines, avail yourselves of those little methods of warfare which Science has placed in the hands of the poor man, and you will become a power in this or any other land.
Learn the use of explosives!"
~ Lucy Parsons

"In a self-managed society, the prevention of communal squalor, of social malpractice in general (the nonfulfillment of production-plans, etc.) depends, not on nobody being an authority, but on everybody being an authority where his own needs and desires, his own interests, are concerned. And this means expanded self-interests; social self-interests. This means that anybody must be self-authorized to mess with anybody else befouling a communal place, impeding collectively agreed-upon production, etc., and must know how to do so. Only such a non-centralized, all-sided flow of practical-critical feedback and social dialogue can reproduce such a society. The end of specialized supervision can only be in the process of generalized supervision and collective self-supervision. The end of the special police depends on general self-regulation, that is, generalized self-management — people taking responsibility for their social needs. This is the opposite of the repressive conception, “self-policing” based on the present external policing, which serves an alien interest, and is internalized as such."
~ "The Right to Be Greedy"

"If men reach the point of losing respect for property, every one will have property, as all slaves become free men as soon as they no longer respect the master as master. Unions will then, in this matter too, multiply the individual's means and secure his assailed property."
~ Max Stirner, "The Ego and Its Own"

"The witch-hunt occurred simultaneously with the colonization and extermination of the population of the New World, the English enclosures, the beginning of the slave trade, the enactment of ‘bloody laws’ against vagabonds and beggars, and it climaxed in that interregnum between the end of feudalism and the capitalist ‘take off’ when the peasantry in Europe reached the peak of its power but, in time, consummated its historic defeat."
~ "Caliban and the Witch" by Silvia Federici

"I had been told that society’s institutions were founded on justice and equality, and all around me I could see nothing but lies and treachery. Everyday I was disabused further. Everywhere I went, I witnessed the same pain in some, the same delights in others. It did not take me long to realize that the same great words that I had been raised to venerate: honor, devotion, duty were merely a mask hiding the most shameful turpitude.
The factory-owner amassing a huge fortune on the back of the labor of his workers who lacked everything was an upright gentleman. The deputy, the minister whose hands were forever outstretched for bribes were committed to the public good. The officer testing his new model rifle on seven-year-old children had done his duty well, and in open parliament the premier offered him his congratulation. Everything I could see turned my stomach and my mind fastened on criticism of social organization. The criticism has been voiced too often to need rehearsing by me. Suffice it say that I turned into an enemy of a society which I held to be criminal."
~ Émile Henry

"Hanged in Chicago, beheaded in Germany, garroted in Xerez, shot in Barcelona, guillotined in Montbrison and in Paris, our dead are many; but you have not been able to destroy anarchy. Its roots go deep: its spouts from the bosom of a rotten society that is falling apart; it is a violent backlash against the established order; it stands for the aspirations to equality and liberty which have entered the lists against the current authoritarianism. It is everywhere. That is what makes it indomitable..."
~ Émile Henry

*"I'd rather have roses on my table than diamonds around my neck".

• Emma Goldman*

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"He who attempts to control another is a governor, an aggressor, an invader; and the nature of such invasion is not changed, whether it is made by one man upon another man, after the manner of the ordinary criminal, or by one man upon all other men, after the manner of an absolute monarch, or by all other men upon one man, after the manner of a modern democracy."

Benjamin R. Tucker | 1890

"Spit out the lies they have forced us to swallow." - Anon

"When we realize that love is not something we give or get from others, but the very essence of our own being—only then do we stop seeking to monopolize, limit, and control it in others."

"He who has found his ideal today, has already been turned into a pillar of salt as was Lot's wife, has already grown into the earth and moves no further. The world lives only by heretics: Christ the heretic, Copernicus the heretic, Tolstoj the heretic. Our creed is heresy: tomorrow is infallibly heresy for the today which has been turned into a pillar of salt, for the yesterday which has crumbled into dust. Today negates yesterday, but tomorrow is the negation of negation: always the same dialectical path, which carries the world into infinity along a grandiose parabola. Thesis yesterday, antithesis today, and synthesis tomorrow." - Zemyatin

"I have no absolute faith in any person. Such a faith would be fatal to my reason, to my liberty, and even to the success of my undertakings; it would immediately transform me into a stupid slave, an instrument of the will and interests of others." - Bakunin

"The Liberty of man consists solely in this: that he obeys natural laws because he has himself recognised them as such, and not because they have been externally imposed upon him by any extrinsic will whatsoever, divine or human, collective or individual." - Bakunin

"One should as a rule respect public opinion in so far as is necessary to avoid starvation and to keep out of prison, but anything that goes beyond this is voluntary submission to an unnecessary tyranny, and is likely to interfere with happiness in all kinds of ways." -Bertrand Russel

"by striving to do the impossible, man has always achieved what is possible. those who have cautiously done no more than they believed possible have never taken a single step forward." - Bakunin

"people only have as much liberty as they have the intelligence to want and the courage to take" - Goldman

"Persuasion is a form of violence" - Gandi

These aren't all totally anarchist. Enjoy!

"Anarchist theory and practice cannot take the form of a mere adherence to the founding fathers and canonal practices, such as Kropotkin, Bakunin, and the Spanish Civil War. Tired of hearing it! Anarchism HERE in Babylon must reflect our unique problems and possibilities for struggle."

-Ashanti Alston

Whose property is my body? Probably mine. I so regard it. If I experiment with it, who must be answerable? I, not the State. If I choose injudiciously, does the State die? Oh no. — Mark Twain

"The domination of nature by man stems from the very real domination of human by human" - Murray Bookchin

Rien ne sert d'être vivant, s'il faut qu'on travaille

• André Breton.

"Anarchy will be!" -Luigi Galleani

"Anarchy accepts no adjectives." — Ricardo Mella

"That word An-archy, so slandered by the governors, and cast at the people as a sign of terror, is the proper word, the only admissible one, precisely because of its correlatives, Mon-archy and Olig-archy, or demo-cracy, auto-cracy and aristo-cracy." — P.-J. Proudhon

"I can only consider the generalization of an idea as equivalent to its complete neutralization, to its death by anemia. It is in this sense that I have said: anarchy to the anarchists, because it is dear to me and I have seen with horror that it is sacrificed to the thirst for success or to purely humanitarian, charitable considerations..." — Max Nettlau

“What could a few lapses, a few false steps, detract from the rectitude of my faith, the goodness of my cause?... You will please me, sir, to learn for yourself what road I have traveled, and how many times I have fallen along the way. Far from blushing at so many spills, I would be tempted to boast of them, and to measure my valor by the number of my contusions.” — P.-J. Proudhon

"The question is simply whether we take responsibility for our part in the ongoing transformation of the cosmos, acting deliberately and with a sense of our own power, or frame our actions as reactions, participating in unfolding events accidentally as if we were purely victims of circumstance."

• Crimethinc, Expect Resistance :)

Aristippus, the king's favorite philosopher, said to Diogenes "if you would only learn to flatter the king, you would not have to live on lentils."

Diogenes responded, "If only you would learn to live on lentils, you would not have to flatter the king."

Runner up Diogenes quote: "In the rich man's house, there is nowhere to spit but in his face."

"Haters gonna hate, spectacle's gonna recuperate" — me

Not that I condone reducing things to soundbytes...

The first man who, having fenced in a piece of land, said "This is mine," and found people naïve enough to believe him, that man was the true founder of civil society. From how many crimes, wars, and murders, from how many horrors and misfortunes might not any one have saved mankind, by pulling up the stakes, or filling up the ditch, and crying to his fellows: Beware of listening to this impostor; you are undone if you once forget that the fruits of the earth belong to us all, and the earth itself to nobody.

(Rosseau, not anarchist but eh)

... and of course the one about dancing

"It is fortunate that what is necessary is easy to acquire, and what is difficult to acquire, is not necessary" - Epicurus

Not by an Anarchist, but surprisingly anarchistic if you think about it.

"In girum imus nocte et consumimur igni" (We go round and round in the night and are consumed by fire) by Debord.

Although not his own quote I really love the way he bends the meaning of the original latin palindrome.

"Is it conflictual? Do it generalize?" — A sticker that a comrade gave me one time

Thing won't work until you do... This is mine favorite also