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“A concept is a brick. It can be used to build a courthouse of reason. Or it can be thrown through the window.”
― Gilles Deleuze, A Thousand Plateaus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia

“Everything the State says is a lie, and everything it has it has stolen.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

“I die, as I have lived, a free spirit, an Anarchist, owing no allegiance to rulers, heavenly or earthly.”
― Voltairine de Cleyre

“It is our suffering that brings us together. It is not love. Love does not obey the mind, and turns to hate when forced. The bond that binds us is beyond choice. We are brothers. We are brothers in what we share. In pain, which each of us must suffer alone, in hunger, in poverty, in hope, we know our brotherhood. We know it, because we have had to learn it. We know that there is no help for us but from one another, that no hand will save us if we do not reach out our hand. And the hand that you reach out is empty, as mine is. You have nothing. You possess nothing. You own nothing. You are free. All you have is what you are, and what you give.”
― Ursula K. Le Guin, The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia

“What is an anarchist? One who, choosing, accepts the responsibility of choice.”
― Ursula K. Le Guin

“The poor have sometimes objected to being governed badly; the rich have always objected to being governed at all.”
― G.K. Chesterton

“No great idea in its beginning can ever be within the law. How can it be within the law? The law is stationary. The law is fixed. The law is a chariot wheel which binds us all regardless of conditions or place or time. ”
― Emma Goldman, Anarchism and Other Essays

“Anarchism is democracy taken seriously.”
― Edward Abbey

“There are times when the law jeopardizes those who obey it.”
― Kathy Acker, Pussy, King of the Pirates

“Nationalism does nothing but teach you to hate people you never met, and to take pride in accomplishments you had no part in.”
― Doug Stanhope

“We have nothing but our freedom. We have nothing to give you but your own freedom. We have no law but the single principle of mutual aid between individuals. We have no government but the single principle of free association. We have no states, no nations, no presidents, no premiers, no chiefs, no generals, no bosses, no bankers, no landlords, no wages, no charity, no police, no soldiers, no wars. Nor do we have much else. We are sharers, not owners. We are not prosperous. None of us is rich. None of us is powerful. If it is Anarres you want, if it is the future you seek, then I tell you that you must come to it with empty hands. You must come to it alone, and naked, as the child comes into the world, into his future, without any past, without any property, wholly dependent on other people for his life. You cannot take what you have not given, and you must give yourself. You cannot buy the Revolution. You cannot make the Revolution. You can only be the Revolution. It is in your spirit, or it is nowhere.”
― Ursula K. Le Guin, The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia

“To make a thief, make an owner; to create crime, create laws.”
― Ursula K. Le Guin, The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia

“The measure of the state's success is that the word anarchy frightens people, while the word state does not.”
― Joseph Sobran

“Everyone needs rules. After all, how can you break what doesn’t exist? Rules give anarchy something to aim at”
― Jodi Taylor, What Could Possibly Go Wrong?

“The more laws and restrictions there are,
The poorer people become.
...
The more rules and regulations,
The more thieves and robbers.”
― Lao Tzu

“Just as war is the natural consequence of monopoly, peace is the natural consequence of liberty.”
― Gustave de Molinari

“If government played by the same rules as the rest of us, it would cease to be government.”
― Sheldon Richman

“If anarchy is chaos, and chaos is war, why wasn't a single war started by anarchists?”
― Jakub Bożydar Wiśniewski

“To live in a state of liberty is not to live apart from law. It is, on the contrary, to live under the highest law, the only law that can really profit a man, the law which is consciously and deliberately imposed by himself on himself.”
― Auberon Herbert

“Conflict is not unavoidable. However, it is nonsensical to consider the institution of a state as a solution to the problem of possible conflict, because it is precisely the institution of a state which first makes conflict unavoidable and permanent.”
― Hans-Hermann Hoppe

“Peace is found when people stand for morality and reject
culture. Defend freedom at all costs and at all times and peace
will rule the world instead of tyrants.”
― Jeremy Locke, The End of All Evil

“Why anarchy? Because anything less would be uncivilized.”
― Jeffrey Tucker

“All the social ills that
law presumes to correct exist because people are not free to
learn and grow.”
― Jeremy Locke, The End of All Evil

“If any man's money can be taken by a so-called government, without his own personal consent, all his other rights are taken with it; for with his money the government can, and will, hire soldiers to stand over him, compel him to submit to its arbitrary will, and kill him if he resists.”
― Lysander Spooner

“But who would build the roads if there were no government?

You mean to tell me that 300 million people in this country and 7 billion people on the planet would just sit around in their houses and think “Gee, I’d like to go visit Fred, but I can't because there isn’t a flat thing outside for me to drive on, and I don’t know how to build it and the other 300 million or 7 billion people can’t possibly do it because there aren’t any politicians and tax collectors. If they were here then we could do it. If they were here to boss us around and steal our money and really inefficiently build the flat places, then we would be set. Then I would be comfortable and confident that I could get places. But I can’t go to Fred’s house or the market because we can’t possibly build a flat space from A to B. We can make these really small devices that enable us to contact people from all over the word that fits in our pockets; we can make machines that we drive around in, but no, we can’t possibly build a flat space.”
― Larken Rose

“It's not an endlessly expanding list of rights — the 'right' to education, the 'right' to health care, the 'right' to food and housing. That's not freedom, that's dependency. Those aren't rights, those are the rations of slavery — hay and a barn for human cattle.”
― P.J. O'Rourke

“People and institutions that refuse to admit error eventually discredit themselves.”
― Jeffrey Tucker

“When the state itself is held to the same moral standards as everyone else, it dies. And that's a wonderful thing.”
― Jeffrey Tucker

“I define anarchist society as one where there is no legal possibility for coercive aggression against the person or property of any individual.”
― Murray N. Rothbard

“Victory will not go to those who can inflict the most suffering, but to those who can survive the most.”
― CrimethInc., Contradictionary