{"quotes":[{"text":"In Labor movements generally, success through violence can hardly be expected except in circumstances where success without violence is attainable.","author":"Bertrand Russell","tags":["anarchism","communism","labor","socialism","syndicalism","violence"],"id":343,"author_id":"Bertrand+Russell"},{"text":"With their concern for personal autonomy and individual freedom, anarchists more than any other socialists are aware of the inhumanity of both physical punishment and manipulative cure for anti-social members of the community. They look to reasoned argument and friendly treatment to deal with criminals and wish to respect their humanity and individuality.","author":"Peter Marshall","tags":["anarchism","autonomy","freedom","individual-freedom","individuality","philosophy","society"],"id":1366,"author_id":"Peter+Marshall"},{"text":"When faced with unbridled wildness of reality, dinosaurs fall into fevered delusions of grandeur. In fits of madness, they recreate the world in their own overblown image, bull-dozing the wild and replacing it with a wasteland that reflects their own emptiness. Where there was once the incredibly complex diversity of nature, there is now the dead simplicity of asphalt and concrete.","author":"Curious George Brigade","tags":["anarchism","anarchy","asphalt","concrete","crimethinc","delusions","dinosaurs","emptiness","madness","nature","poltics","reality","wasteland"],"id":6294,"author_id":"Curious+George+Brigade"},{"text":"I did not believe that a Cause which stood for a beautiful ideal, for anarchism, for release and freedom from convention and prejudice, should demand the denial of life and joy. I insisted that our Cause could not expect me to become a nun and that the movement would not be turned into a cloister. If it meant that, I did not want it. 'I want freedom, the right to self-expression, everybody's right to beautiful, radiant things.' Anarchism meant that to me, and I would live it in spite of the whole world — prisons, persecution, everything. Yes, even in spite of the condemnation of my own closest comrades I would live my beautiful ideal.","author":"Emma Goldman","tags":["anarchism","anarchy","beautiful-radiant-things","women"],"id":6402,"author_id":"Emma+Goldman"},{"text":"Within a diverse swarm of individuals and small groups, resistance can be anywhere and anytime; everywhere and all the time.","author":"Curious George Brigade","tags":["anarchism","anarchy","crimethinc","resistance"],"id":7041,"author_id":"Curious+George+Brigade"},{"text":"These ideas grew out of the Enlightenment; their roots are in Rousseau’s Discourse on Inequality, Humboldt’s Limits of State Action, Kant’s insistence, in his defense of the French Revolution, that freedom is the precondition for acquiring the maturity for freedom, not a gift to be granted when such maturity is achieved. With the development of industrial capitalism, a new and unanticipated system of injustice, it is libertarian socialism that has preserved and extended the radical humanist message of the Enlightenment and the classical liberal ideals that were perverted into an ideology to sustain the emerging social order. In fact, on the very same assumptions that led classical liberalism to oppose the intervention of the state in social life, capitalist social relations are also intolerable.","author":"Noam Chomsky","tags":["anarchism","classical-liberalism","enlightenment","socialism"],"id":7059,"author_id":"Noam+Chomsky"},{"text":"Terrorism is the use of violence or intimidation in the pursuit of a political aim. The highest political aim is the creation and enforcement of law. Cops use violence and intimidation to enforce law. Therefore, all cops are, by definition, terrorists.","author":"Dane Whalen","tags":["anarchism","anarchy","cops","etymology","government","police","political","politics","terrorism"],"id":8597,"author_id":"Dane+Whalen"},{"text":"The voices of actual communities are alive in a way no theory could every be even if, for now, it takes the form of tiny acts of resistance. Who doesn't cheat on taxes, avoid cops, or skip class? These acts themselves may not be revolutionary, but they begin to unravel the control from above. Anarchist approaches must be relevant to everyday experiences and flexible enough to address struggles in different situations and contexts. If we can achieve this, then we may thrive in the world after the dinosaurs. We might even be fortunate enough to be in one of the communities that have a hand in toppling them.","author":"Curious George Brigade","tags":["anarchism","anarchy","cops","crimethinc","dinosaurs","resistance","revolution","taxes","theory"],"id":9289,"author_id":"Curious+George+Brigade"},{"text":"One must commit acts of the highest treason only when dressed in the most resplendent finery.","author":"Grant Morrison","tags":["anarchism","dandyism","fashion"],"id":12907,"author_id":"Grant+Morrison"},{"text":"Plantie is a very strong Protestant, that is to say, he's against all churches, especially the Protestant: and he thinks a lot of Buddha, Karma and Confucius. He is also a bit of an anarchist and three or four years ago he took up Einstein and vitamins.","author":"Joyce Cary","tags":["anarchism","anarchists","buddha","church","churches","confucius","einstein","gulley-jimson","karma","plantie","protestantism","vitamins"],"id":16142,"author_id":"Joyce+Cary"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":166,"pages":17,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}