Emma GoldmanThinkers

Anarchism is a social order based upon the free grouping of individuals for the purpose of producing real social wealth. It guaranties free access to the earth and free enjoyment of the necessities of life, according to individual desires, tastes, and inclinations.

Anarchism is the only philosophy which brings to man the consciousness of himself; which maintains that God, the State, and society are non-existent, that their promises are null and void, since they can be fulfilled only through man's subordination.

Anarchism is a form of social organization that aims to make work an instrument of joy, of strength, of color, of real harmony, so that the poorest sort of a man should find in work both recreation and hope.

Anarchism is a form of social organization that aims to strip labor of its deadening, dulling aspect, of its gloom and compulsion.

Anarchism is another word for direct action, the open defiance of, and resistance to, all laws and restrictions, economic, social, and moral.

Anarchism is grounded in the assertion of the possibility of an organization without discipline, fear, or punishment, and without the pressure of poverty: a new social organism which will make an end to the terrible struggle for the means of existence.

Anarchism is grounded in the liberation of the human mind from the dominion of religion.

Anarchism is the philosophy of a new social order based on liberty unrestricted by man-made law; the theory that all forms of government rest on violence, and are therefore wrong and harmful, as well as unnecessary.