What's your favorite Anarchist quote?

Were there's authority,Theres no freedom Peter Kropotkin

 

The state is said by some to be a necessary evil,It must be made unnecessary evil Benjamn Tucker

 

Things fall apart.the centre cannot hold.Mere anarchy is loosened upon the world.
The blood dimmed tide is loosened and everywhere the ceremony of innocence is drowned.The best lack all conviction.while the worst are full of passionate intensity.

W.B. Yeats

 

Usually when people are sad, they don't do anything. They just cry over their condition. But when they get angry, they bring about a change.”
late 60,s Malcolm X
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“Be peaceful, be courteous, obey the law, respect everyone; but if someone puts his hand on you, send him to the cemetery.”
early 60,s Malcolm X

 

“Anarchism, really stands for the liberation of the human mind from the dominion of religion; the liberation of the human body from the dominion of property; liberation from the shackles and restraint of government.”

 

'There are no rules.'

 

I love this thread!

 

"In the information age we live in today, we are allowed to watch the events of the world unfold almost in real-time. Many of these events are examples of suffering. Things like war, poverty, famine, the destruction of our environment and the species that inhabit it. We are bearing witness to this suffering. We are not blind offenders. We can no longer pretend it doesn't exist, because the technology we've created is bringing images of Darfur, Baghdad, the riots in Paris, and the slaughtering of animals right to your living room. You are now a witness. You can't close your eyes to it. What will you decide to do about it?"
- Tim McIlath of Rise Against:love:

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What are you rebelling against?

"What do ya got ?"- The wild One

 

"Every old white man was once a six year old boy, and I don't take orders from children"

 

Anarchy is not the absence of rules, it's the absence of rulers.

Edward Abbey

 

" We have always lived in slums and holes in the wall. We will know how to accommodate ourselves for a while. For you must not forget that we can also build. It is we who built these palaces and cities, here in Spain and America and everywhere. We, the workers. We can build others to take their place. And better ones. We are not in the least afraid of ruins. We are going to inherit the earth; there is not the slightest doubt about that. The bourgeoisie might blast and ruin its own world before it leaves the stage of history. We carry a new world here, in our hearts. That world is growing in this minute."

"It is possible that only a hundred of us will survive, but with that hundred we shall enter Saragossa, beat Fascism and proclaim libertarian communism. I will be the first to enter. We shall proclaim the free commune. We shall subordinate ourselves neither to Madrid nor Barcelona, neither to Azana nor Companys.... We shall show you, Bolsheviks how to make a revolution!."

i've always liked the cut of Durruti's jib.

and of course, the classic and possibly most significant:

"We are convinced that liberty without Socialism is privilege and injustice, and that Socialism without liberty is slavery and brutality."

 

Nice .

 

'Cos IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII wanna beeeeeeeee Anarchy!

 

In vain did I clinically go over this thread for a sentiment that I share. Often, I look at anarchist threads only to find out precisely what I don't think.

The quote above is the closest to it, however.

 

Government at it's finest:

Everybody gets what nobody wants.

 

Almost anything said by Hagbard Celine (one of Robert Anton Wilson's best characters).

I especially like this exchange:

“MR. KHARIS: 'Does Mr. Celine seriously suggest that the United States Government is in need of a guardian?'
MR. CELINE: 'I am merely offering a way out for your client. Any private individual with a record of such incessant murder and robbery would be glad to cop an insanity plea. Do you insist that your client was in full possession of its reason at Wounded Knee? At Hiroshima? At Dresden?'
JUSTICE IMMHOTEP: 'You become facetious, Mr. Celine.'
MR. CELINE: 'I have never been more serious.”
― Robert Anton Wilson, The Eye in the Pyramid

 

Hopefully someone hasn't already said this, I didn't look.

"A man is no less a slave because he is allowed to choose a new master once in a term of years." -Spooner

 

"Anarchist Meeting; Organized by the Anarchist club president"

 

are those your hands in that picture?