Art is individualism, and individualism is a disturbing and disintegrating force. Therein lies its immense value.
-- Oscar Wilde

The state without slavery is unthinkable -- and this is why we are the enemies of the state.
-- Mikhail Bakunin

Now, in a situation where the working class has practically disintegrated, the possibility of an expropriation of the means of production no longer exists.
-- Alfredo Bonanno

These revolutionaries, bare-necked politickers, have preserved with the imprint of the collar, the moral stain of servitude, the stiff neck of despotism.
-- Joseph Dejacque

If we do not do the impossible, we shall be faced with the unthinkable.
-- Murray Bookchin

We must make the world safe for poverty without dependence on government.
-- John Cage

Every state is a despotism.
-- Max Stirner

Rights have never been granted by authority. They have always been asserted against authority, and won from it.
-- Kevin Carson

The struggle is so great that the triumph over fascism alone is worth the sacrifice of our lives.
-- Frederica Montseny

A commercial company enslaved a nation comprising two hundred millions. Tell this to a man free from superstition and he will fail to grasp what these words mean.
-- Leo Tolstoy

For us, everything that seeks to destroy economic and political oppression, all that which serves to raise the moral and intellectual level of human beings, to give them the consciousness of their rights and of their forces and to persuade them to do their business by themselves, all that provokes hatred against oppression and love between people, brings us closer to our aim.
-- Errico Malatesta

There is only one class in the community that thinks more about money than the rich, and that is the poor.
-- Oscar Wilde

Government intervention in the market is the main source of large fortunes.
-- Kevin Carson

To be governed is to be watched over, inspected, spied on, directed, legislated at, regulated, docketed, indoctrinated, preached at, controlled, assessed, weighed, censored, ordered about, by men who have neither the right, nor the knowledge, nor the virtue.
-- Pierre-Joseph Proudhon

The fact that modern wars are fewer in number can hardly be considered a praiseworthy contribution to peace if we take into account the misery they spread from one end of the world to the other.
-- Leopold Kohr

We're supposed to worship Adam Smith but you're not supposed to read him. That's too dangerous. He's a dangerous radical.
-- Noam Chomsky

Society will have no need to create special institutions for a social insurance. Since it expects all to work, it will determine the minimum and maximum working ages, before and after which all people will be provided, on an equal footing with others, with the necessities for existence and the comforts of life. Similarly, society will provide for invalids, cripples and the sick.
-- Gregori Maximoff

A man's natural rights are his own, against the whole world; and any infringement of them is equally a crime, whether committed by one man, or by millions; whether committed by one man, calling himself a robber, (or by any other name indicating his true character,) or by millions, calling themselves a government.
-- Lysander Spooner

Laws: We know what they are, and what they are worth!
-- Pierre-Joseph Proudhon

No future and no humanity, no communism and no anarchy is worthy of the sacrifice of my life.
-- Renzo Novatore