George Orwell
Writer, Journalist
"If I had understood the situation a bit better I should probably have joined the Anarchists."
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Bell Hooks
Author, Feminist, Social Activist
"I would also say that, in practice, many more Americans are anarchists than would ever use that term."
Ursula K. Le Guin
Author, Poet, Essayist
"What is an anarchist? One who, choosing, accepts the responsibility of choice."
George Orwell
Writer, Journalist
"One must choose between God and Man, and all "radicals" and "progressives", from the mildest liberal to the most extreme anarchist, have in effect chosen Man."
Friedrich Nietzsche
Philosopher, Writer
"The anarchist and the Christian have a common origin."
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"I heartily accept the motto, "That government is best which governs least"; and I should like to see it acted up to more rapidly and systematically."
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"There's nothing wrong with being an anarchist."
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"I'm not an anarchist any longer, because I've concluded that anarchism is an impractical ideal."
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"That government is best which governs not at all; and when men are prepared for it, that will be the kind of government which they will have."
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"My sympathies are, of course, with the Government side, especially the Anarchists ; for Anarchism seems to me more likely to lead to desirable social change than highly centralized, dictatorial Communism ."
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"My father was a painter and an anarchist, always getting in trouble for his performance art."
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"Millie Beggs, by the time she was forty-five, had become an emotional anarchist."
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"If anything I consider myself an anarchist."
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"Charlie Hebdo mocked everyone. They mocked the left. They mocked the right. They mocked, above all, the extreme right, the extreme right of Le Pen's. If anything could identify their politics, they were kinds of anarchists."
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"Anarchists have always gone against the grain, and that's been a place of hope."
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"Dead anarchists make martyrs, you know, and keep living for centuries. But absent ones can be forgotten."
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"When he found that the administrators were upset, he laughed. “Do they expect students not to be anarchists?” he said. “What else can the young be? When you are on the bottom, you must organize from the bottom up"
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"Comedy is the ultimate anarchist."
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"Charlie Hebdo were the licensed anarchist clowns of the society."
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"All Artists are Anarchists."
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"The communists were mainly responsible for the destruction of the Spanish anarchists. Not just in Catalonia - the communist armies mainly destroyed the collectives elsewhere."
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"I don't encourage socialists or anarchists to accept falsehoods, in particular, to see revolutionary potential where there is none."
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