Notices by Anarchist Quotes (anarchistquotes@todon.eu)

Abundant cheap credit would drastically alter the balance of power between capital and labor, and returns on labor would replace returns on capital as the dominant form of economic activity.
-- Kevin Carson

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The CNT's prisoners will have to thank the politicians for their release, and that to me who am an anarchist, has enormous implications. I would like to walk free thanks to the efforts of my comrades and not due to the philanthropy of someone whom I have to fight tooth and nail as soon as I am out.
-- Buenaventura Durruti

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A different conception of society, very different from that which now prevails, is in process of formation.
-- Peter Kropotkin

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The republic is nothing whatever but absolute monarchy; for it makes no difference whether the monarch is called prince or people, both being a "majesty."
-- Max Stirner

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In our world everybody thinks of changing humanity, and nobody thinks of changing himself.
-- Leo Tolstoy

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Painters: bring back to life, with your talent and your heart, the memory of the great revolts.
-- Fernand Pelloutier

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If the existence of bullshit jobs seems to defy the logic of capitalism, one possible reason for their proliferation might be that the existing system isn't capitalism.
-- David Graeber

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The point social ecology emphasizes is not that moral and spiritual persuasion and renewal are meaningless or unnecessary; they are necessary and can be educational. But modern capitalism is structurally amoral and hence impervious to moral appeals.
-- Murray Bookchin

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I am an anarchist not because I believe anarchism is the final goal, but because there is no such thing as a final goal.
-- Rudolf Rocker

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The legitimate, the equitable compensation for the loan of money, is the cost of labor in lending it and receiving it back again.
-- Josiah Warren

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The state, therefore, is the most flagrant, the most cynical, and the most complete negation of humanity.
-- Mikhail Bakunin

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People, beware of demagogues. They are your worst enemies. They caress you only so they can better shear you.
-- Andre Lorulot

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Most anarchists are, frankly, incapable of living in an autonomous cooperative manner. A lot of them aren't very bright. They tend to peruse their own classics and insider literature to the exclusion of broader knowledge of the world we live in.
-- Bob Black

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Nothing wrong with communist anarchism as long as it remains voluntary. Any one that wants to go make a commune, go ahead, do it. I got nothing against it. As long as there's room to the individualist to do his or her own thing.
-- Robert Anton Wilson

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I have a good idea that will exempt you from relying on others while still finding food naturally. How? By practicing communism.
-- He Zhen

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He who negates present society, and seeks social conditions based on the sharing of property, is a revolutionary whether he calls himself an anarchist or a communist.
-- Johann Most

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If the Nuremberg laws were applied, then every post-war American president would have been hanged.
-- Noam Chomsky

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Federalism is socialist, and for it solidarity is inseparable from liberty.
-- James Guillaume

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To be really medieval one should have no body. To be really modern one should have no soul. To be really Greek one should have no clothes.
-- Oscar Wilde

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Indeed, in many cases, maliciousness and stupidity will put many obstacles in the road of the new idea. That is the reason why hard struggles must be fought for unconditional mutual tolerance, until it is finally achieved. Only from then on will everything proceed automatically, science will bloom and advance, because the necessary foundation for every progress, namely experimental freedom and free research have been achieved.
-- Max Nettlau

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