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

America had, for one thing, lived in anarchy for - until much more recently than Europe. We had the Wild West, where the cliche of the cowboy movies was the nearest sheriff is 90 miles away, and so you had to pack a gun and defend yourself.

The Anarchists set off World War I with a gunshot in Sarajevo - but they faded away. It wasn't that the police drove them out of business. The ideology had nowhere to go except into permanent negativity.

There never was a social change in America without angry people at the heart.

Without the United States, there simply would not have been an armed uprising in our country.

We are at heart so profoundly anarchistic that the only form of state we can imagine living in is Utopian; and so cynical that the only Utopia we can believe in is authoritarian.

I never have been an anarchist, I've always had goals and always have acted out of love.

I'm not an anarchist any longer, because I've concluded that anarchism is an impractical ideal.

Tyranny and anarchy are never far apart.

Every anarchist is a baffled dictator.