Pierre-Joseph Proudhon Quotes

While preaching against every kind of government, and demanding complete freedom, we must support all struggles for partial freedom, because we are convinced that one learns through struggle.

We have all in some degree become anarchistic.

In the sense that anarchy equals freedom, yes. Anarchy means freedom, but it also means chaos.

I think I am slowly becoming an anarchist, that this is only another label for my privateness, and I think that you will understand this in the sense of being against collectivity.

In the end, I was the only one with any anarchy left in me.

That is what I have always understood to be the essence of anarchism: the conviction that the burden of proof has to be placed on authority, and that it should be dismantled if that burden cannot be met.

The special trait making me an anarch is that I live in a world which I ‘ultimately’ do not take seriously. This increases my freedom; I serve as a temporary volunteer

I was the only guy with any bit of anarchy left.

Punk is musical freedom. It's saying, doing and playing what you want. In Webster's terms, 'nirvana' means freedom from pain, suffering and the external world, and that's pretty close to my definition of Punk Rock.

I am an Anarchist! Wherefore I will not rule, and also ruled I will not be!

Where there is no law, but every man does what is right in his own eyes, there is the least of real liberty.

I suppose what I believe in is peaceful anarchy.

It's good to be an anarchist and just love yourself.

There's nothing wrong with being an anarchist.

If I was an aspirant litterateur, I was also an aspirant anarchist. I have disliked Authority always, though sometimes seduced by its resplendence.

I'm by no means convinced that capitalism and the development of technology has made anarchism easier.

Anarchism is democracy taken seriously.

Cut word lines — Cut music lines — Smash the control images — Smash the control machine — Burn the books — Kill the priests — Kill! Kill! Kill!

In this age, the mere example of non-conformity, the mere refusal to bend the knee to custom, is itself a service. Precisely because the tyranny of opinion is such as to make eccentricity a reproach, it is desirable, in order to break through that tyranny, that people should be eccentric.

Long live freedom and damn the ideologies.

I do not wish to be either governor nor governed!

I die, as I have lived, a free spirit, an Anarchist, owing no allegiance to rulers, heavenly or earthly.

The term anarchism has become associated with two phenomena with which real anarchist don't want to associate themselves with. One is violence, and the other is disorder or chaos. The popular conception of anarchism is on the one hand bomb-throwing and terrorism, and on the other hand no rules, no regulations, no discipline, everybody does what they want, confusion, etc. That is why there is a reluctance to use the term anarchism.

Liberalism is to freedom as anarchism is to anarchy.

The anarch wages his own wars, even when marching in rank and file