Colin Ward > Quotes

“Every state protects the privileges of the powerful.”
― Colin Ward, Anarchism: A Very Short Introduction

“The important question is, therefore, not whether anarchy is possible or not, but whether we can so enlarge the scope and influence of libertarian methods that they become the normal way in which human beings organise their society.”
― Colin Ward, Anarchy in Action

“The anarchist conclusion is that every kind of human activity should begin from what from what is local and immediate, should link in a network with no centre and no directing agency, hiving off new cells as the original grows.”
― Colin Ward, Anarchy in Action

“The state is not something which can be destroyed by a revolution, but is a condition, a certain relationship between human beings, a mode of human behaviour; we destroy it by contracting other relationships, by behaving differently.”
― Colin Ward, Anarchism: A Very Short Introduction

“the ideal of a self-organizing society based on voluntary cooperation rather than upon coercion is irrepressible.”
― Colin Ward, Anarchism: A Very Short Introduction

“Anarchism does not demand the changing of the labels on the layers, it doesn't want different people on top, it wants us to clamber out underneath.”
― Colin Ward, Anarchy in Action

“A goal which is infinitely remote is not a goal at all, it is a deception.”
― Colin Ward, Anarchism: A Very Short Introduction