Anarchy Quotes

The economic anarchy of capitalist society as it exists today is, in my opinion, the real source of evil.

Everyone can feel the nothingness, the void, just beneath the surface of everyday routines and securities.

No state, no government exists. What does in fact exist is a man, or a few men, in power over many men.

The moment the idea is admitted into society that property is not as sacred as the law of God, and that there is not a force of law and public justice to protect it, anarchy and tyranny commence.

When poverty declines, the need for government declines, which is why expecting government to solve poverty is like expecting a tobacco company to mount an aggressive anti-smoking campaign.

I define anarchist society as one where there is no legal possibility for coercive aggression against the person or property of any individual.

It is in the nature of tyranny to deride the will of the people as the voice of the mob, and to denounce the cry for freedom as the roar of anarchy.

I didn't know I was a slave until I found out I couldn't do the things I wanted.

What characterized the whole punk scene for me in 1977 was there was no racism or sexism. It was an anarchy of -isms, and a matter of abolishing it all.

We have two American flags always: one for the rich and one for the poor. When the rich fly it means that things are under control; when the poor fly it means danger, revolution, anarchy.

If we are attacked we can only defend ourselves with guns not with butter.

The worst thing in this world, next to anarchy, is government.

Just as war is the natural consequence of monopoly, peace is the natural consequence of liberty.

If you never encounter anything in your community that offends you, then you are not living in a free society.

Do you want to make it impossible for anyone to oppress his fellow-man? Then make sure that no one shall possess power.

There is more than one kind of freedom," said Aunt Lydia. "Freedom to and freedom from. In the days of anarchy, it was freedom to. Now you are being given freedom from. Don't underrate it.

It's possible to love a human being if you don't know them too well.

Freedom is the default position. Everything the government does takes away some of our freedom... That's why we have a constitution, to restrain the government.

When war is declared, truth is the first casualty

'What I believe' is a process rather than a finality. Finalities are for gods and governments, not for the human intellect.

People do not consciously and rationally choose the form of their society. Societies develop through processes of social evolution that are not under rational human control.

There are times when the law jeopardizes those who obey it.

There will always be something to ruin our lives, it all depends on what or which finds us first. We are always ripe and ready to be taken.

What a comfort it is to feel that amid the chaos and anarchy which sweep the surface, God is holding fast the foundations on which we build.

The free market punishes irresponsibility. Government rewards it.

We started off trying to set up a small anarchist community, but people wouldn't obey the rules.

To the sober person adventurous conduct often seems insanity.

The Internet is the first thing that humanity has built that humanity doesn't understand, the largest experiment in anarchy that we have ever had.

Anarchism, then, really stands for the liberation of the human mind from the dominion of religion.

We have gone through everything as a nation - partition, dictatorship, and even anarchy.

If you have unity without variety, you have uniformity and that's boring. If you have variety without unity, you have anarchy.

What happened to California will release a spirit that is more demonic than Islam, a spirit of lawlessness and anarchy. And a sexual insanity will be unleashed into the Earth.

It is easier to seize wealth than to produce it, and as long as the State makes the seizure of wealth a matter of legalized privilege, so long will the squabble for that privilege go on.

The principle that the end justifies the means is in individualist ethics regarded as the denial of all morals. In collectivist ethics it becomes necessarily the supreme rule.

Neither a life of anarchy nor a life under a despot should you praise. To all that lies in the middle has a god given excellence.

The State is said by some to be a necessary evil; it must be made unnecessary.

Certainly the worker has nothing to lose by a change from government and capitalism to a condition of no government, of anarchy.

Unless the Security Council is restored to its pre-eminent position as the sole source of legitimacy on the use of force, we are on a dangerous path to anarchy.

As man seeks justice in equality, so society seeks order in anarchy.

Democracy leads to anarchy, which is mob rule.

My political opinions lean more and more to Anarchy (philosophically understood, meaning abolition of control not whiskered men with bombs).

All governments are in equal measure good and evil. The best ideal is anarchy.

The abstract, unreal freedom of the liberal intellect was really nothing more than childish disobedience, amplified into anarchy.

If we choose, we can live in a world of comforting illusion.

Yes I pay taxes... There are no ethics in the face of coercion, that is blaming the victim. Focus on the man with the gun, not the man in the crosshairs trying to survive.

Free-market capitalism is a network of free and voluntary exchanges in which producers work, produce, and exchange their products for the products of others through prices voluntarily arrived at.

Design without discipline is anarchy, an exercise of irresponsibilit y.

When anarchy is declared, the first thing we do, let's kill all the anarchists.

Better the rule of One, whom all obey, than to let clamorous demagogues betray our freedom with the kiss of anarchy.

A delusion held by one person is a mental illness, held by a few is a cult, held by many is a religion.