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There is no such thing as harmless power.
- Nestor Makhno
- Nestor Makhno
January 15, 2026 at 11:54 PM
There is no such thing as harmless power.
- Nestor Makhno
- Nestor Makhno
Basically, if you're not a utopianist, you're a schmuck.
Jonathan Feldman
Jonathan Feldman
January 15, 2026 at 9:04 PM
Basically, if you're not a utopianist, you're a schmuck.
Jonathan Feldman
Jonathan Feldman
As the uselessness and harmfulness of patriotism have become manifest, so also has increased the power of the government and ruling class to excite patriotism among the people.
- Leo Tolstoy
- Leo Tolstoy
January 15, 2026 at 6:32 PM
As the uselessness and harmfulness of patriotism have become manifest, so also has increased the power of the government and ruling class to excite patriotism among the people.
- Leo Tolstoy
- Leo Tolstoy
He who has might has right... is this wisdom so hard to attain?
- Max Stirner
- Max Stirner
January 15, 2026 at 4:04 PM
He who has might has right... is this wisdom so hard to attain?
- Max Stirner
- Max Stirner
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
Johann Most
January 15, 2026 at 1:46 PM
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
Johann Most
The infliction of cruelty with a good conscience is a delight to moralists. That is why they invented Hell.
- Bertrand Russell
- Bertrand Russell
January 15, 2026 at 11:16 AM
The infliction of cruelty with a good conscience is a delight to moralists. That is why they invented Hell.
- Bertrand Russell
- Bertrand Russell
While judging me judge all the unfortunate who poverty, combined with natural pride, made criminals, and who wealth or ease would have made honest men. An intelligent society would have made of them men like any other!
- Ravachol
- Ravachol
January 14, 2026 at 9:04 PM
While judging me judge all the unfortunate who poverty, combined with natural pride, made criminals, and who wealth or ease would have made honest men. An intelligent society would have made of them men like any other!
- Ravachol
- Ravachol
The individualist anarchist critiques to free themselves and others.
- Emile Armand
- Emile Armand
January 13, 2026 at 2:20 PM
The individualist anarchist critiques to free themselves and others.
- Emile Armand
- Emile Armand
In our world everybody thinks of changing humanity, and nobody thinks of changing himself.
- Leo Tolstoy
- Leo Tolstoy
January 12, 2026 at 11:22 PM
In our world everybody thinks of changing humanity, and nobody thinks of changing himself.
- Leo Tolstoy
- Leo Tolstoy
Under a system of permanent revelry, we will witness the Golden Age of the dilettante which will put the Renaissance to shame. There won't be any more jobs, just things to do and people to do them.
- Bob Black
- Bob Black
January 12, 2026 at 9:18 PM
Under a system of permanent revelry, we will witness the Golden Age of the dilettante which will put the Renaissance to shame. There won't be any more jobs, just things to do and people to do them.
- Bob Black
- Bob Black
Revolution is an inalienable right of mankind. Freedom is an imperishable birth right of all
Bhagat Singh
Bhagat Singh
January 12, 2026 at 6:58 PM
Revolution is an inalienable right of mankind. Freedom is an imperishable birth right of all
Bhagat Singh
Bhagat Singh
Without doubt, conventional right, contract and law, even universally and directly exercised, is not natural right, or justice. It is a compromise between anarchy and authority, and everything that is not completely just is injustice.
- Joseph Dejacque
- Joseph Dejacque
January 12, 2026 at 2:12 PM
Without doubt, conventional right, contract and law, even universally and directly exercised, is not natural right, or justice. It is a compromise between anarchy and authority, and everything that is not completely just is injustice.
- Joseph Dejacque
- Joseph Dejacque
Only the shallow know themselves.
- Oscar Wilde
- Oscar Wilde
January 12, 2026 at 11:44 AM
Only the shallow know themselves.
- Oscar Wilde
- Oscar Wilde
It's one thing to say, "Another world is possible." It's another to experience it, however momentarily.
- David Graeber
- David Graeber
January 11, 2026 at 6:06 PM
It's one thing to say, "Another world is possible." It's another to experience it, however momentarily.
- David Graeber
- David Graeber
The lunacy of the Soviet regime must be eliminated and replaced by the vital principles of the exploited workers, on a basis of solidarity, freedom and equal voice for each and every person.
- Nestor Makhno
- Nestor Makhno
January 11, 2026 at 3:58 PM
The lunacy of the Soviet regime must be eliminated and replaced by the vital principles of the exploited workers, on a basis of solidarity, freedom and equal voice for each and every person.
- Nestor Makhno
- Nestor Makhno
The Anarcho-Syndicalists know that wars are only waged in the interest of the ruling classes; they believe, therefore, that any means is justifiable that can prevent the organised murder of peoples.
Rudolf Rocker
Rudolf Rocker
January 10, 2026 at 2:32 PM
The Anarcho-Syndicalists know that wars are only waged in the interest of the ruling classes; they believe, therefore, that any means is justifiable that can prevent the organised murder of peoples.
Rudolf Rocker
Rudolf Rocker
Every time we take a step we're surrounded by the ideological birds of prey who feed on our possibilities, fill themselves with concepts of our desires and reenslave us with beautiful combinations of words which seem to depict the world we failed to realize.
Fredy Perlman
Fredy Perlman
January 9, 2026 at 9:20 PM
Every time we take a step we're surrounded by the ideological birds of prey who feed on our possibilities, fill themselves with concepts of our desires and reenslave us with beautiful combinations of words which seem to depict the world we failed to realize.
Fredy Perlman
Fredy Perlman
Authority, when first detecting chaos at its heels, will entertain the vilest schemes to save its orderly facade.
Alan Moore
Alan Moore
January 9, 2026 at 6:32 PM
Authority, when first detecting chaos at its heels, will entertain the vilest schemes to save its orderly facade.
Alan Moore
Alan Moore
We can use queer theory to conceptualize new relationship forms and social relations that resist patriarchy and other oppressions by creating a distinctly queer-anarchist form of social relation.
Susan Song
Susan Song
January 9, 2026 at 4:02 PM
We can use queer theory to conceptualize new relationship forms and social relations that resist patriarchy and other oppressions by creating a distinctly queer-anarchist form of social relation.
Susan Song
Susan Song
So that is why anarchists keep coming back to the question of what anarchism is. Because anarchism is not a political movement. Or rather it is, but only in a minor aspect.
- Alfredo Bonanno
- Alfredo Bonanno
January 9, 2026 at 1:36 PM
So that is why anarchists keep coming back to the question of what anarchism is. Because anarchism is not a political movement. Or rather it is, but only in a minor aspect.
- Alfredo Bonanno
- Alfredo Bonanno
Anarchism is "stateless socialism."
- Mikhail Bakunin
- Mikhail Bakunin
January 8, 2026 at 5:02 PM
Anarchism is "stateless socialism."
- Mikhail Bakunin
- Mikhail Bakunin
Sometimes the poor are praised for being thrifty. But to recommend thrift to the poor is both grotesque and insulting. It is like advising a man who is starving to eat less.
- Oscar Wilde
- Oscar Wilde
January 8, 2026 at 12:18 PM
Sometimes the poor are praised for being thrifty. But to recommend thrift to the poor is both grotesque and insulting. It is like advising a man who is starving to eat less.
- Oscar Wilde
- Oscar Wilde
What you have the power to be you have the right to be.
- Max Stirner
- Max Stirner
January 7, 2026 at 11:42 PM
What you have the power to be you have the right to be.
- Max Stirner
- Max Stirner
He who refuses to submit is at once labelled "queer," "different," and decried as a disturbing element in the comfortable stagnancy of modern life.
- Emma Goldman
- Emma Goldman
January 7, 2026 at 9:40 PM
He who refuses to submit is at once labelled "queer," "different," and decried as a disturbing element in the comfortable stagnancy of modern life.
- Emma Goldman
- Emma Goldman
Do not quarrel or deal in personalities. Listen to opposing arguments after you have presented your own. Learn how to remain silent and reflect. Do not try to get the better in an argument at the expense of your own sincerity.
- Elisee Reclus
- Elisee Reclus
January 7, 2026 at 7:30 PM
Do not quarrel or deal in personalities. Listen to opposing arguments after you have presented your own. Learn how to remain silent and reflect. Do not try to get the better in an argument at the expense of your own sincerity.
- Elisee Reclus
- Elisee Reclus