Bell Hooks Quotes

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

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.

We have all in some degree become anarchistic.

I'm interested in anything about revolt, disorder, chaos, especially activity that appears to have no meaning. It seems to me to be the road toward freedom.

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.

I am interested in anything about revolt, disorder, chaos-especially activity that seems to have no meaning. It seems to me to be the road toward freedom... Rather than starting inside, I start outside and reach the mental through the physical.

You can't build politics on love. People aren't concerned with love; it's too disordered. They prefer despotism. Too much freedom breeds chaos.

Anarchy works. Italy has proved it for a thousand years.

One of the problems with dealing with anarchism is that there are many people whose ideas are anarchist, but who do not necessarily call themselves anarchists.

Explosion without an objective', declared Miles Blundell, 'is politics in its purest form'.

Not whether we accomplish anarchism today, tomorrow, or within ten centuries, but that we walk towards anarchism today, tomorrow, and always.

Anarchism is a game at which the police can beat you.

I think we have to talk about educating the people for critical consciousness about what anarchy is.

I see anarchism as the theoretical ideal to which we are all gradually evolving to a point where everybody can tell the truth to everybody else and nobody can get punished for it. That can only happen without hierarchy and without people having the authority to punish other people.

Whatever its future success as a historical movement, anarchism will remain a fundamental part of human experience, for the drive for freedom is one of our deepest needs and the vision of a free society is one of our oldest dreams. Neither can ever be fully repressed; both will outlive all rulers and their States.

Liberty plucks justice by the nose; The baby beats the nurse, and quite athwart Goes all decorum.

Anarchism, then, really stands for the liberation of the human mind from the dominion of religion.

Cleansed of its leftist residues, anarchy - anarchism minus Marxism - will be free to get better at being what it is.

The exuberance of democracy leads to undisciplined and disorderly conditions which are inimical to development.

Anarchy is the only slight glimmer of hope.

If you're too free, you're like the way Hong Kong is now. It's very chaotic.

There is no greater evil than anarchy.

Freedom is just Chaos, with better lighting.

The only rule is there's only one rule: no rules.