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“I'm not an anarchist. I believe in government.”

Believe Government I Believe I Believe In Anarchist

Author:Keith Olbermann

“The poor man who takes property by force is called a thief, but the creditor who can by legislation make a debtor pay a dollar twice as large as he borrowed is lauded as the friend of a sound currency. The man who wants the people to destroy the Government is an anarchist, but the man who wants the Government to destroy the people is a patriot.”

Source: The First Battle: A Story of the Campaign of 1896

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

Government Anarchism Anarchist Reconcile

Author:Peter Kropotkin

“My sympathies are, of course, with the Government side, especially the Anarchists ; for Anarchism seems to me more likely to lead to desirable social change than highly centralized, dictatorial Communism .”

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Book:Letters of Aldous Huxley

Source: Letters of Aldous Huxley

“Jesus , in some respects, was an anarchist, for he had no idea of civil government . That government seems to him purely and simply an abuse. A great social revolution, in which rank will be overturned, in which all authority in this world will be humiliated, was his dream .”

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Author:Ernest Renan

“There is a reason for the affected profession of " anarchist sympathies" among Tories and grandees, and of " libertarian principles" by Hobbesian yahoos of the right. Among the former, one sees the upholding of the view that a gentleman's business and property are his own, and none of the government's. Among the latter, a distaste for democracy, for taxation, and for the need to consult others about the planet.”

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Book:For the Sake of Argument: Essays and Minority Reports

Source: For the Sake of Argument: Essays and Minority Reports

“Anarchists know that a long period of education must precede any great fundamental change in society, hence they do not believe in vote begging, nor political campaigns, but rather in the development of self-thinking individuals. We look away from government for relief, because we know that force (legalized) invades the personal liberty of man, seizes upon the natural elements and intervenes between man and natural laws; from this exercise of force through governments flows nearly all the misery, poverty, crime and confusion existing in society.”

“Above all we should not forget, that government is an evil, an usurpation upon the private judgment and individual conscience of mankind.”

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Author:William Godwin

“There are self-styled "anarcho-capitalists" (not to be confused with anarchists of any persuasion), who want the state abolished as a regulator of capitalism, and government handed over to capitalists.”

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Book:What is Anarchism?: An Introduction

Source: What is Anarchism?: An Introduction

“Every believer is an anarchist at heart. True believers would rather see governments topple and history rewritten than scuff the cover of their faith.”

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Author:Jeanette Winterson

“I'm the kind of anarchist whose chief objection to the State is that it kills so many people. Government is the epitome of the deathist philosophy I reject.”

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Author:Robert Anton Wilson