government” – the notion that some people actually have the moral right to rule over others – has caused immeasurable pain and suffering, injustice and oppression, enslavement and death.

Laughter is an anarchic blasphemy. Tyrants are wise to fear it.

Gun Control: A measure to ensure that guns always point in one direction.

The rejection of mass organizations as the be-all, end-all of organizing is vital for the creation and rediscovery of possibilities for empowerment and effective anarchistic work.

We have gone through everything as a nation – partition, dictatorship, and even anarchy.

Le fait est que le gouvernement, comme un bandit de grand chemin, dit à un individu: “La bourse ou la vie.” Quantité de taxes, ou même la plupart, sont payées sous la contrainte d’une telle...

There is only a certain amount of wealth in the world, this thinking goes. Economics is a matter of acquiring and allocating, not creating. This was the view of the world’s smartest people, all top...

While liberals are in favor of any sexual activity engaged in by two consenting adults, when these consenting adults engage in trade or exchange, the liberals step in to harass, cripple, restrict, or prohibit that...

While the popular understanding of anarchism is of a violent, anti-State movement, anarchism is a much more subtle and nuanced tradition then a simple opposition to government power. Anarchists oppose the idea that power and...

SCREW CHILDREN! That’s the mantra of the world. Instead of burying them with a national debt, shoving them in shitty schools, drugging them if they don’t comply, hitting them, yelling at them, indoctrinating them with...

Democracy without respect for individual rights sucks. It’s just ganging up against the weird kid, and I’m always the weird kid.

It is easier to seize wealth than to produce it, and as long as the State makes the seizure of wealth a matter of legalized privilege, so long will the squabble for that privilege go...

The noise increased and came from all directions. There was no amount of reason to negotiate the void between sound and movement.

There can be no greater stretch of arbitrary power than to seize children from their parents, teach them whatever the authorities decree they shall be taught, and expropriate from the parents the funds to pay...

I didn’t know I was a slave until I found out I couldn’t do the things I wanted.

Before we can forgive one another, we have to understand one another.

basically” everybody is entitled – a freedom that more or less dicates his actions.

When the state itself is held to the same moral standards as everyone else, it dies. And that’s a wonderful thing.

Liberty is no less a blessing because oppression has so long darkened the mind that it can not appreciate it.

The world, viewed philosophically, remains a series of slave camps, where citizens – tax livestock – labor under the chains of illusion in the service of their masters.

To connect is to dissolve the imaginary pyramids of artificial privilege.

The most obvious and the most distinctive features of the History of Civilisation, during the last fifty years, is the wonderful increase of industrial production by the application of machinery, the improvement of old technical...

We started off trying to set up a small anarchist community, but people wouldn’t obey the rules.

Everything subtracted from the present is added to the future with interest.

Instead of worship or ignorance of the past, we must make our own tools, our own stories, and our own legends.

foreigners” from across state borders, and the decision whom to exclude or include, and under what conditions, rests not with a multitude of independent private property owners or neighborhoods of owners but with a single...

The greatest of all historical shams is believing you can not do something you can.

The bird that would soar above the level plain of tradition and prejudice must have strong wings.

Libertarians make no exceptions to the golden rule and provide no moral loophole, no double standard, for government. That is, libertarians believe that murder is murder and does not become sanctified by reasons of state...

If you personally advocate that I be caged if I don’t pay for whatever “government” things YOU want, please don’t pretend to be tolerant, or non-violent, or enlightened, or compassionate. Don’t pretend you believe in...

When poverty declines, the need for government declines, which is why expecting government to solve poverty is like expecting a tobacco company to mount an aggressive anti-smoking campaign.

It is the beginning of wisdom when you recognize that the best you can do is choose which rules you want to live by, and it’s persistent and aggravated imbecility to pretend you can live...

Anarchy raised its seductive head. He could do anything; there was nothing that was not allowed.

Together, they at once dodged those parts of themselves and magnified them, making for enigmatic harmony and anarchy.

Accident – A statistical inevitability. Some nuclear power plants are built on fault lines, but ever mine, dam, oil rig, and waste dump is founded upon a tacit acceptance of the worst-case scenario. One a...

do more in less time” is not a neutral force in our culture; it is the handmaiden of miserable experts, specialists, and leaders. Not everyone has rushed to become efficient. Something else exists on the...

A prison becomes a home when you have the key.

Comme l’impôt est obligatoire pour tous, qu’ils votent ou non, une large proportion de ceux qui votent le font sans aucun doute pour éviter que leur propre argent ne soit utilisé contre eux; alors que,...

Where there is commerce there is peace.

It is easy to be conspicuously ‘compassionate’ if others are being forced to pay the cost.

Are not laws dangerous which inhibit the passions? Compare the centuries of anarchy with those of the strongest legalism in any country you like and you will see that it is only when the laws...

Rights” are something made up by governments to make you feel like you’re buying something with your taxes.

Strange that men, from age to age, should consent to hold their lives at the breath of another, merely that each in his turn may have a power of acting the tyrant according to the...

DICTATOR, n. The chief of a nation that prefers the pestilence of despotism to the plague of anarchy.

We never care for anyone for their own sake. We train them for the system. No one matters for their own sake. No one acts for their own sake. The system will always be bigger...

We are not like you. We do not glory in having power over our own kind.” Haghuf turned to walk away. Then as an afterthought added over his shoulder, “Or imagining that we do.

One of the great things about anarchy is that it’s hard to get it organized.

So long as tyranny exists, in whatever form, man’s deepest aspiration must resist it as inevitably as man must breathe.

Although I am an anarch, I am not anti-authoritarian. Quite the opposite: I need authority, although I do not believe in it. My critical faculties are sharpened by the absence of the credibility that I...

Free markets are the real people’s revolution.