Anti-Authoritarian Quotes

I defy the Pope and all his laws. If God spare my life, ere many years I will cause a boy that drives the plough to know more of the Scripture, than he does.

As an anarchist, I cannot reconcile myself to any government.

Anarchism is democracy taken seriously.

I prefer to play the villain or the antihero.

I've never been any good with authority.

To us, being the bad guys is cool, because we always root for the bad guys in the movies.

guess they forgot to program us with any respect for authority." "well, I have a highly developed sense of irony.

I'm not pro-government at all, I'm pro-people.

I am a crazy fan of movies like 'The Wild Bunch' or 'Wages of Fear,' where you're rooting for the bad guys.

I always wanted to rebel.

Punk was never about one particular clean-cut imagery... it's about many, many individuals coming very loosely together.

I am not an anarchist, but I am anarchistical.

If anything I consider myself an anarchist.

Not a lot of people would think that I spent most of my early years totally rebelling against anything I could, getting suspended from school, going on demonstrations.

We need to organize ourselves and protest against existing order - against war, against economic and sexual exploitation, against racism, etc. But to organize ourselves in such a way that means correspond to the ends, and to organize ourselves in such a way as to create kind of human relationship that should exist in future society. That would mean to organize ourselves without centralize authority, without charismatic leader, in a way that represents in miniature the ideal of the future egalitarian society.

The older I get, the more of an anarchist I become, and I don't mean in a punk rock way.

American ideology is anti government. There is a streak of libertarianism on both conservatives and liberals.

"What would they do to me," he asked in confidential tones, "if I refused to fly them?" "We'd probably shoot you," ex-P.F.C. Wintergreen replied. "We?" Yossarian cried in surprise. "What do you mean, we? Since when are you on their side?" "If you're going to be shot, whose side do you expect me to be on?" ex-P.F.C. Wintergreen retorted.

Believing in the good of humanity is a revolutionary act - it means that we don't need all those managers and CEO's, kings and generals. That we can trust people to govern themselves and make their own decisions.

Anarchism has a broad back, like paper it endures anything.

I have never listened to authority. It is not in my DNA.

I want three words: Woman, Atheist, Anarchist. That's me.

If I had understood the situation a bit better I should probably have joined the Anarchists.

The ordinary man is an anarchist. He wants to do as he likes. He may want his neighbour to be governed, but he himself doesn't want to be governed. He is mortally afraid of government officials and policemen.

I was a rebellious child, a rebellious lover, a rebellious couturière - a real devil.