Anarchism

Anarchism is an intellectual or artistic movement that has shaped the ideas of many notable thinkers throughout history.

13 thinkers433 quotesTop field: Philosophy

"The law is an adroit mixture of customs that are beneficial to society, and could be followed even if no law existed, and others that are of advantage to a ruling minority, but harmful to the masses of men, and can be enforced on them only by terror."

Peter Kropotkin· b. 1842View quote →

Field:

Sort:

Notable Thinkers

13 of 13

"Nothing, in fact, is as universal or as ancient as the iniquitous and absurd; truth and justice, on the contrary, are the least universal, the youngest features in the development of human society."

"Educated men — "civilized," as Fourier used to say with disdain — tremble at the idea that society might some day be without judges, police, or gaolers."

"War is the health of the State, wrote Bourne, and in his full realization of what that meant, he recognized the roots of modern totalitarianism years before the psychoanalysis of fascism."

"I do not mean that bombs and pistols are useless, rather the contrary. But I mean to say that mere bomb-throwing is not only useless but sometimes harmful."

14 quotes

🇫🇷Pierre-Joseph Proudhon

Philosophy

Anarchism

1809–1865

"Pierre-Joseph Proudhon Page at the Anarchist Encyclopedia"

"The ecological principle of unity in diversity grades into a richly mediated social principle; hence my use of the term social ecology."

"We aren’t afraid, just stupidly full of prefabricated ideas we cannot break free from."

"The Tyranny of the Clock" — a recitation of Woodcock's essay"

"We have all known the long loneliness and we have learned that the only solution is love and that love comes with community."

"Monopoly and privilege must be destroyed, opportunity afforded, and competition encouraged. This is Liberty's work, and "Down with Authority" her war-cry."

"The irony is that in our decades, the combination of rationalism, asceticism, and individualism has produced precisely the system of boondoggling, luxury-consumption, and status."

"His pretended "saviors" ... place him under the yoke of labor - they force him to the utmost of his mental and physical abilities to produce new treasures, which however he is not entitled to own."

32 quotes

Notable Quotes

"Nothing, in fact, is as universal or as ancient as the iniquitous and absurd; truth and justice, on the contrary, are the least universal, the youngest features in the development of human society."

— Mikhail Bakunin, b. 1764View →

"We wish, in a word, equality — equality in fact as a corollary, or rather, as primordial condition of liberty. From each according to his faculties, to each according to his needs; that is what we wish sincerely and energetically."

— Mikhail Bakunin, b. 1764View →

"Educated men — "civilized," as Fourier used to say with disdain — tremble at the idea that society might some day be without judges, police, or gaolers."

— Peter Kropotkin, b. 1842View →

"No theory, no ready-made system, no book that has ever been written will save the world. I cleave to no system. I am a true seeker."

— Mikhail Bakunin, b. 1764View →

"Millions of human beings have labored to create this civilization on which we pride ourselves today. Other millions, scattered through the globe, labor to maintain it. Without them nothing would be left in fifty years but ruins."

— Peter Kropotkin, b. 1842View →

Also explore

📚 Philosophy →📚 Literature →📚 Politics →📚 Journalism →🏺 Ancient →🏛️ Classical →⚔️ Medieval →🎨 Renaissance →