Anarchism
Quotes & Thinkers in Anarchism
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"Governments can be democratic or not, more or less corrupt, but they will still pursue the same basic goals, and they will still be controlled by an elite. Government by its very nature concentrates power and excludes people from making decisions over their own lives."
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🇺🇸Murray Bookchin
Literature
Anarchism
1921–2006
"Murray Bookchin Archive at Anarchy Archives"
34 quotes
🇬🇧Vernon Richards
Technology
1915–2001
"Vernon Richards,from the Antiauthoritarian Encyclopedia"
2 quotes
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🇺🇸Peter Gelderloos
Social Activism
social anarchism
b. 1982
"Governments are by their nature aggressive and dominating. No society is safe if its neighbor is a state."
57 quotes
🇺🇸Karl Hess
Literature
Libertarianism
1923–1994
"Karl Hess and the Death of Politics by Jeff Riggenbach"
19 quotes
Notable Quotes
"The state is not a passive thing. If it wants to repress a movement or organization, it does not wait for an excuse, it manufactures one."
— Peter Gelderloos, b. 1982View →
"We can never know whether our analysis and our methods are wrong, except sometimes with hindsight. Our movements are stronger when they employ diverse methods and analyses and these different positions criticize one another."
— Peter Gelderloos, b. 1982View →
"Governments are by their nature aggressive and dominating. No society is safe if its neighbor is a state."
— Peter Gelderloos, b. 1982View →
"An anarchist society, far from being a remote ideal, has become a precondition for the practice of ecological principles."
— Murray Bookchin, b. 1921View →
"The Inclusive Democracy project and Social Ecology by Takis Fotopoulos, The International Journal of Inclusive Democracy, vol.1, no.3,"
— Murray Bookchin, b. 1921View →