B. F. Skinner Quotes

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

I know of no better name than Anarchism.

Anarchists are simply unterrified Jeffersonian Democrats.

Is anarchism desirable? Well, who does not seek freedom? What man, unless willing to declare himself in bondage, would care to call any control agreeable? Think about it!

I don't believe in politics. I'm an anarchist, I guess you could say. I think people could be just fine looking after themselves.

Anarchism is not a romantic fable but the hardheaded realization, based on five thousand years of experience, that we cannot entrust the management of our lives to kings, priests, politicians, generals, and county commissioners.

Anarchism is grounded in a rather definite social-psychological hypothesis: that forceful, graceful and intelligent behaviour occurs only when there is an uncoerced and direct response to the physical and social environment; that in most human affairs, more harm than good results from compulsion, top-down direction, bureaucratic planning, pre-ordained curricula, jails, conscription, states.

If anything I consider myself an anarchist.

Anarchism is democracy taken seriously.

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

Our principle is: to prevent all command over man by his fellowmen, to, make state, government, laws, or whatsoever form of compulsion existing, a thing of the past, to establish full freedom for all. Anarchism means first and foremost freedom from all government.

We have all in some degree become anarchistic.

Anarchism is the only philosophy which brings to man the consciousness of himself; which maintains that God, the State, and society are non-existent, that their promises are null and void, since they can be fulfilled only through man's subordination.

As to the American tradition of non-meddling, Anarchism asks that it be carried down to the individual himself.

You have to make your own decisions. That's what the freedom in America is all about.

I wish to say that we Anarchists have never changed our position. We are Anarchists as of old and still pursue the same ideals.

I'm for absolute autonomy of the individual, and an adult, competent woman has absolute autonomy. It's her choice.

Anarchism is founded on the observation that since few men are wise enough to rule themselves, even fewer are wise enough to rule others.

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

For why should my freedom be judged by another’s conscience?

The most enlightened judicial policy is to let people manage their own business in their own way.

The Anarchists never have claimed that liberty will bring perfection; they simply say that its results are vastly preferable to those that follow authority.

Anarchism … may be described as the doctrine that all the affairs of men should be managed by individuals or voluntary associations, and that the State should be abolished.

… the true individualist must regard power over others as preeminently something to be loathed and shunned.