Non-Authoritarian Quotes

Leadership does not mean domination

I don't see myself as conservative, but I'm not ultra-leftist. You build a philosophy of your own. I like the libertarian view, which is to leave everyone alone. Even as a kid, I was annoyed by people who wanted to tell everyone how to live.

Anarchism means voluntary co-operation instead of forced participation. It means harmony and order in place of interference and disorder.

The best government rests on the people, and not on the few, on persons and not on property, on the free development of public opinion and not on authority.

He neither serves nor rules, he transmits. His position is humble and the beauty at the crown is not his own. He is merely a channel.

There's no authoritarian structure at Reed College, but the education is conservative. So what you have is a lot of students who are very authentically looking for truth.

No good government but what is republican... the very definition of a republic is 'an empire of laws, and not of men.'

I'm not a disciplinarian. I simply enforce other people's decisions.

My parents couldn't be looser. It was the ultimate laissez faire upbringing.

The roots of the word 'anarchy' are 'an archos,' 'no leaders,' which is not really about the kind of chaos that most people imagine when the word 'anarchy' is mentioned. I think that anarchy is, to the contrary, about taking personal responsibility for yourself.

Indeed, organizing atheists has been compared to herding cats, because they tend to think independently and will not conform to authority.

We don't think a sustainable society need be stagnant, boring, uniform, or rigid. It need not be, and probably could not be, centrally controlled or authoritarian. It could be a world that has the time, the resources, and the will to correct its mistakes, to innovate, to preserve the fertility of its planetary ecosystems. It could focus on mindfully increasing quality of life rather than on mindlessly expanding material consumption and the physical capital stock.

My door is open 24 hours. We can discuss things - I don't think I'm a magician or the only guy who knows anything about football.

Like Rousseau, whom he resembles even more than he resembles Voltaire, Shaw never gave a social form to his assertiveness, never desired to arrive and to assimilate himself, or wield authority as of right.

Our frank ideal is the achievement of a non-authoritarian laborers’ society without parasites and without commissar-bureaucrats. Our immediate goal is the establishment of a free soviet order, without the authority of the Bolsheviks, without pressure from any party whatsoever

For 40 years, I have not been the ruler - the authority has been with the people. They take nothing from me or add anything to me.

The market is sovereign and in the magic economy of the small entrepreneur there is no authoritarian center... in the political sphere... the equilibrium of powers prevails, and hence there is no chance of despotism.