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Quotes Used
Researchers, historians, and others coming from Search Engine queries should note that some quotes may slightly vary based on translation, and a few have been slightly modified, conjoined, or paraphrased for effectiveness, while still remaining true to the original spirit of the authors. While most authors here labelled themselves as anarchists, there are a few authors cited who don’t/did not use the label “anarchist.”
- SHEET 1:
The Anarchist Network of ‘Vancouver Island’: “We can build resilient communities based on reciprocity and mutual aid.”
Pierre-Joseph Proudhon: “I do not wish to be either ruler or ruled.”
Oscar Wilde: “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.”
Albert Camus: “The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.”
Voltairine de Cleyre: “Government is, has always been, the creator and defender of privilege; the organization of oppression and revenge.”
David Graeber: “Anarchism is just the way people act when they are free to do as they choose, and when they deal with others who are equally free — and therefore aware of the responsibility to others that entails.”
Buenaventura Durruti: “It is we who built these cities everywhere. We can build others to take their place. And better ones! We carry a new world here, in our hearts. That world is growing this minute.”
Lucy Parsons: “Never be deceived that the rich will allow you to vote away their wealth.”
Pyotr Kropotkin: “Don’t compete! — competition is always injurious to the species, and you have plenty of resources to avoid it!”
Arthur Solomon: “When colonizers landed in ‘North America,’ there was not one Indigenous person in prison because there were no prisons. There were no prison guards, no police, and no lawyers and no judges. We simply did not need them because we had a vastly better way. The laws of the people were written in the hearts and minds and souls of the people. And justice was tempered with mercy.”
- SHEET 2:
Emma Goldman: “The most violent element in society is ignorance.”
Errico Malatsta: “By the anarchist spirit I mean that deeply human sentiment, which aims at the good of all, freedom and justice for all, solidarity and love among the people; which is not an exclusive characteristic only of self-declared anarchists, but inspires all people who have a generous heart and an open mind.”
Maria Nikiforova: “Anarchists are not promising anything to anyone. Anarchists only want people to be conscious of their own situation and seize freedom for themselves.”
Ursula K LeGuin: “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.”
Marsha P Johnson: “No pride for some of us without liberation for all of us.”
Mikhail Bakunin: “We are convinced that liberty without socialism is privilege, injustice; and that socialism without liberty is slavery and brutality. When the people are being beaten with a stick, they are not much happier if it is called the People’s Stick.”
J.R.R. Tolkien: “My political opinions lean more and more to anarchy. The most improper job of any man, even saints, is bossing other men. There is only one bright spot and that is the growing habit of disgruntled men.”
Louise Michel: “As long as poverty is combined with prejudice, which makes the unknown fearful and fetters people… ignorance will continue to imprison the world.”
Ricardo Flores Magon: “We are free, truly free, when we don’t need to rent our arms to anybody in order to be able to lift a piece of bread to our mouths.”
- SHEET 3:
Leo Tolstoy: “In the midst of winter, I find within me the invisible summer.”
Fumiko Kaneko: “Every joy that some experience is paid with the sorrow of others.”
He-Yin Zhen: “When women’s liberation is in the power of men, men take advantage of women and ultimately subordinate them. Women should seek their own liberation without relying on men to give it to them.”
Lorenzo Komboa’Ervin: “While we should mobilise to restrain offenders, we must begin to realise that only the community will effectively deal with the matter. Not the racist capitalist system, with its repressive police, courts and prisons.”
Emiliano Zapata: “If there is no justice for the people, let there be no peace for the government.”
Subcomandante Marcos: “We are nothing if we walk alone; we are everything when we walk together in step with other dignified feet.”
Jiddu Krishnamurti: “It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.”
Zoé Samudzi: “We are not ready to fight because we love fighting. We are ready to fight because we are worth fighting for.”
Tawinikay: “I’d like to see an anarchy of my people and the anarchy of settlers (also my people) enacted here together, side by side. With an equal distribution of power, each pursuing healthy relationships, acting from their own ideas and history.”
Klee Benally: “Our project is to replace the principle of political authority with the principle of autonomous Indigenous mutuality. To live a life in conflict with authoritarian constraint on stolen occupied land is negation of settler colonial domination.”
- SHEET 4:
Anatole France: “The law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread.”
Ricardo Flores Magon: “When the people Have the conscience that they are stronger than their rulers, there will no longer be tyrants.”
Frantz Fanon: “Each generation must, out of relative obscurity, discover its mission, fulfill it, or betray it.”
Sok Hok Gie: “Heroes are those that, despite resignation to the forgotten by history, work toward their own revolution.”
Gustav Landauer: “The transformation of society will come only in love, in labour, and in stillness.”
Max Stirner: “Whoever will be free must make themselves free. Freedom is no fairy gift to fall into one’s lap. it is having the will to be responsible for one’s self.”
Judi Bari: “You cannot seriously address the destruction of wilderness without addressing the society that is destroying it. If we don’t overthrow capitalism, we don’t have a chance of saving the world ecologically.”
John Brown: “I cannot remember a night so dark as to have hindered the coming day.”
Mokokoma Mokhonoana: “In a patriarchal society, the family makes the man feel like a somebody in his own yard, when he is a nobody in his employer’s.”
Octavia E. Butler: “There’s no single answer that will solve all of our future problems. There’s no magic bullet. Instead there are thousands of answers–at least. You can be one of them if you choose to be.”
- SHEET 5:
Abbie Hoffman: “Revolution is about life. With your fingers probe the holiness of your body and see that it was meant to live.”
Hakugen Ichikawa: “Śūnya anarchism is the vertical foundation of both the subjectivity that engages in social revolution and the humble and open spirit that has been purified from dogmatism, self-absolutism and the will to power.”
Colin Ward: “An anarchist society, which organizes itself without authority, is always in existence, like a seed beneath the snow, buried under the weight of the state and its bureaucracy, capitalism and its waste, privilege and its injustices, nationalism, and its suicidal loyalties.”
Ashanti Alston: “Black is an oppositional force, black has always been oppositional and is all about finding ways to creatively resist oppression. So, when I speak of a Black anarchism, it is not so tied to the color of my skin but who I am as a person, as someone who can resist, who can see differently when I am stuck, and thus live differently.”
Nestor Makhno: “Any State, whether capitalist or ‘socialist,’ tends, by its very nature, simply to exploit and oppress man, to destroy in each and every one of us all the natural qualities of the human spirit that strive for equality and for the solidarity that underpins it.”
Murray Bookchin: “There are no hierarchies in nature other than those imposed by hierarchical modes of human thought, but rather differences merely in function between and within living things.”
Kanno Sugako: “Men hide behind their masks, looking grave, putting on airs and affecting dignity; and the more they talk self-importantly, feign cleverness, and take themselves too seriously, the more we are able to see through their downright stupidity. for us women, the most urgent task is to develop our own self-awareness.”
James Baldwin: “The law is meant to be my servant and not my master, still less my torturer and my murderer. To respect the law, in the context in which we find themselves, is simply to surrender our self-respect.”
Alan Moore: “Authority, when first detecting chaos at its heels, will entertain the vilest schemes to save its orderly facade.”
Edward Abbey: “Anarchism is founded on the observation that since few men are wise enough to rule themselves, even fewer are wise enough to rule others.”
- SHEET 6
CrimeThinc: “No one is more qualified than you are to decide how you live; no one should be able to vote on what you do with your time and your potential unless you invite them to.”
Dorothy Day: “The greatest challenge of the day is: how to bring about a revolution of the heart, a revolution which has to start with each one of us? Everyone wants a revolution, but no one wants to do the dishes.”
Benjamin Zephaniah: “Most people know that politics is failing. That’s not a theory or my point of view. They can see it, they can feel it. The problem is they just can’t imagine an alternative. They lack confidence.”
Ruth Kinna: “Anarchists promise the prospect of self-rule, replacing government’s trust in ‘the people’ with genuine confidence that people can organise their own affairs by co-operating with others.”
Walt Whitman: “Love the earth, despise riches, give alms to everyone that asks, stand up for the stupid and crazy, hate tyrants, have patience and indulgence toward the people … Re-examine all you have been told at school or church, dismiss what insults your own soul, and your very flesh shall be a great poem.”
Jonina abron Ervin: “We have to create a new culture, a new way of relating to each other, a new way of living in harmony with the earth and all living beings. We have to create a culture of resistance and liberation.”
Cindy Milstein: “At the core of Jewishness is this foundation of continually questioning and interpreting and communally coming at ways of living. I understand the core of Jewishness as being ultimately a story of liberation and how we continually strive for that in the here and now, wherever we end up. I understand Judaism as a sacred duty, which goes along with anarchism.”
Andrew Sage (Andrewism): “It’s time we threw off the burdens of the ideologies and systems built in opposition to our freedom. Despite the denial of our humanity, the constant war waged against us, and the relentless genocide against our people, across the world, we will be free. Our legacy is having lived in defiance of the violence of capitalism and the State.”
Kuwasi Balagoon: “We must be willing to do more than just what is expedient. We must help each other learn a new way, or rather remember the old way. We must destroy that which ravages the earth. We must destroy the ravaging itself.”
Aragorn!: “Political power, properly so called, is merely the organized power of one class for oppressing another.”
- SHEET 7:
Nsambu Za Suekama: “May we unravel the veil even further and not just study the conditions of today’s world that have been mystified because of it, but struggle to change the world whilst we change and define ourselves.”
Gord Hill: “Indigenous sovereignty is a path towards liberation from the state & capital. we have survived through centuries of European colonization and can serve as models of mostly non-hierarchical or non- authoritarian forms of social organization. These were societies without any centralized state or authority, and which lived in balance with the natural world.”
Uri Gordon: “Solutions don’t know borders. I believe at this point in joint struggle and shared fates.”
Mohammed Bamyeh: “There’s a larger history of anarchism, an organic anarchism. we see systems of mutual aid embedded in social traditions around the world.”
Charlotte Wilson: “The genuine Anarchist looks with sheer horror upon every destruction, every mutilation of a human being, physical or moral. they loathe wars, executions and imprisonments, the sexual and economic slavery of women, the oppression of children, the crippling and poisoning of human nature by the preventable cruelty and injustice in every shape and form.”
Chiara Bottici: “I cannot be free unless everyone else is equally free, because even if I am the master, the relationship of domination to which I participate will enslave me as much as the slave themselves.”
Peter Gelderloos: “Capitalism is dying. It has been dying for a very long time, and still it keeps growing. Colonialism has already changed its masks. Why keep pretending? Why bite our tongues? There is another world right here. It has been with us the whole time.”
Andrej Grubačić: “Anarchism, in my mind, means taking democracy seriously and organizing prefiguratively—that is, creating the institutions of a new society in the shell of the old.”
Ba Jin: “Only by not forgetting the past can we be the master of the future. Then, everyone will have the freedom to develop in any way they want.”
Shūsui Kōtoku: “Over and above money, there is duty. There is bread and there are clothes. Yet nowadays, when money has unlimited power, is there any room for truth in the world?”
- SHEET 8:
Marie Louise Berneri: “when honours and greatness comes in, people become selfish, seeking themselves and not common freedom. nature tells us that if water stands long it corrupts; whereas running water keeps sweet and is fit for common use.”
Alexandra David-Neel: “Guard against idols—yes, guard against all idols, of which surely the greatest is oneself.”
Pak Yol: “The extortion of the rich and their rule of the powerful against everyone else comes from a meaningless and intense, most foolish and ugly sense of superiority: a desire for conquest, a desire for domination.”
Shin Chae-Ho: “After most revolutions, people become slaves of the state, and, above them, lords and masters, a privileged group dominating them. Consequently, most so-called revolutions are nothing but an altered name for the privileged group.”
Martha Acklesberg: “means are inseparable from ends. People can establish, and learn to live in, a non-hierarchical society only by engaging in non-hierarchical, egalitarian forms of revolutionary activity.”
J. Kēhaulani Kauanui: “State power and domination cannot be analyzed, let alone challenged, without an understanding that we are living in a settler colonial state.”
Noelani Goodyear-Ka‘ōpu: “Our Indigenous identity is at the crux of struggles for land and power. colonial Law can never adequately answer the question of who we are.”
M. P. T. Acharya: “The anarchists, when they insist on non-governed society, mean government of the people, by the people, for the people,—directly by the people themselves without any intermediary. Society ruling itself, not ruled by a part over itself, which they can only do with violence.”
Mèo Mun: “you all have the power to change it all for the better. people will gradually be free of the mental prisons and have the want to take control of their lives instead of putting it at the mercy of ‘the powers that be.’”
Abdullah Öcalan (Apo): “The liberation of women is the liberation of society. To understand this history is to understand our present.”
William Blake: “Those who restrain desire, do so because their’s is weak enough to be restrained. the restrainer or reason usurps its place & governs the unwilling.”