Anarchy | Wisdom and the Philosophy of Freedom

"Anarchism is the great liberator of man from the phantoms that have held him captive; it is the arbiter and pacifier of the two forces for individual and social harmony." Emma Goldman

"If governments would only understand that if people are left alone they'll work out their own salvation." Henry Ford

"History permits the well-founded observation that the policy of hatred always breeds hatred and fatally complicates the general situation, if not leads to final ruin. How many nations perished in this way. Oppressors as well as oppressed! Should we also be doomed? I hope not! And I owe this hope also to the anarchist thinking, which penetrates day by day more and more into the light and renews the human initiative." Jacques Élisée Reclus

"As soon as you say the topic is civil disobedience, you are saying our problem is civil disobedience. That is not our problem.... Our problem is civil obedience. Our problem is the numbers of people all over the world who have obeyed the dictates of the leaders of their government and have gone to war, and millions have been killed because of this obedience. And our problem is that scene in All Quiet on the Western Front where the schoolboys march off dutifully in a line to war. Our problem is that people are obedient all over the world, in the face of poverty and starvation and stupidity, and war and cruelty. Our problem is that people are obedient while the jails are full of petty thieves, and all the while the grand thieves are running the country. That's our problem." Howard Zinn

"As for politics, I’m an anarchist. I hate governments and rules and fetters. Can’t stand caged animals. People must be free." Charlie Chaplin

"America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between." Oscar Wilde

"Every victim of statism has internalized the State to some degree. The IRS’s annual proclamation that the income tax depends on “voluntary compliance” is ironically true. Should the taxpayer completely cut off the blood supply, the vampire State would helplessly perish, its unpaid police and army deserting almost immediately, defanging the Monster." Samuel Edward Konkin III

"All power is robbery and all its justification is pure ideology." Niccolò Machiavelli

"The marketplace is a wondrous institution. It harnesses the self-interest of each of us and puts it to work for the benefit of all. And it does so without intruding upon our desires, our privacy, or our freedom. It is regulation by reality, not by coercion." Harry Browne

"To the States or any one of them, or any city of the States, Resist much, obey little, once unquestioning obedience, once fully enslaved, once fully enslaved, no nation, state, city of this earth, ever afterward resumes its liberty." Walt Whitman

"The State is that organization in society which attempts to maintain a monopoly of the use of force and violence in a given territorial area; in particular, it is the only organization in society that obtains its revenue not by voluntary contribution or payment for services rendered but by coercion." Murray N. Rothbard

"Government doesn't work. That's the first lesson we must learn if we want to improve society." Harry Browne

"Government is an association of men who do violence to the rest of us." Leo Tolstoi

"There is no grace: there is no guilt: This is the Law: DO WHAT THOU WILT!" Aleister Crowley