#anarchist

If you took the most ardent revolutionary, vested him in absolute power, within a year he would be worse than the Tsar himself. ↗

— Mikhail Bakunin

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It sets its face rightfully against the doctrines of the Anarchist and the Communist, who seek to solve the social problems not by patient endeavor, but by brutal destruction. ↗

— Henry Cabot Lodge

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I am an anarchist in politics and an impressionist in art as well as a symbolist in literature. Not that I understand what these terms mean, but I take them to be all merely synonyms of pessimist. ↗

— Henry Adams

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

— Alan Bennett

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Freedom, or individual liberty, was a basic premise of the Spanish anarchist tradition. "Individual sovereignty" is a prime tenet of most anarchist writing; the free development of one' s individual potential is one of the basic "rights" to which all humans are born. Yet Spanish anarchists were firmly rooted in the communalist-anarchist tradition. For them, freedom was fundamentally a social product: the fullest expression of individuality and of creativity can be achieved only in and through community. As Carmen Conde (a teacher who was also active in Mujeres Libres) wrote, describing the relationship of individuality and community: "I and my truth; I and my faith ... And I for you, but without ever ceasing to be me, so that you can always be you. Because I don' t exist without your existence, but my existence is also indispensable to yours. ↗

— Martha A. Ackelsberg

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I'm not an anarchist any longer, because I've concluded that anarchism is an impractical ideal. ↗

— Robert Anton Wilson

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Confronted with the choice, the American people would choose the policeman's truncheon over the anarchist's bomb. ↗

— Spiro T. Agnew

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For the anarch, little has changed; flags have meaning for him, but not sense. I have seen them in the air and on the ground like leaves in May and November; and I have done so as a contemporary and not just as a historian. The May Day celebration will survive, but with a different meaning. New portraits will head up the processions. A date devoted to the Great Mother is re-profaned. A pair of lovers in the wood pays more homage to it. I mean the forest as something undivided, where every tree is still a liberty tree. For the anarch, little is changed when he strips off a uniform that he wore partly as fool’s motley, partly as camouflage. It covers his spiritual freedom, which he will objectivate during such transitions. This distinguishes him from the anarchist, who, objectively unfree, starts raging until he is thrust into a more rigorous straitjacket. ↗

— Ernst Jünger

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The love of liberty and the sense of human dignity are the basic elements of the Anarchist creed. ↗

— Frederica Montseny

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And this is the Anarchistic definition of the State: the embodiment of the principle of invasion in an individual, or a band of individuals, assuming to act as representatives or masters of the entire people within a given area. ↗

— Benjamin Tucker

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