Anarchy Quotes

The government of man should be the monarchy of reason: it is too often the democracy of passions or the anarchy of humors.

Whenever government abandons law, it proclaims anarchy.

Arbitrary power is but the first natural step from anarchy, or the savage life.

Government and cooperation are in all things the laws of life. Anarchy and competition, the laws of death.

There is no chance and anarchy in the universe. All is system and gradation. Every god is there sitting in his sphere.

A prison becomes a home when you have the key.

Distraction serves evil more than any other mental state.

The men of the future will yet fight their way to many a liberty that we do not even miss.

Inside every working anarchy, there's an Old Boy Network.

If we don't make earnest moves toward real solutions, then each day we move one day closer to revolution and anarchy in this country. This is the sad, and yet potentially joyous, state of America.

Bad as any government may be, it is seldom worse than anarchy.

In times of anarchy one may seem a despot in order to be a saviour.

Democracy is an imperfect way of steering between the violence of anarchy and the violence of tyranny, with the least violence you can get away with.

In the sense that anarchy equals freedom, yes. Anarchy means freedom, but it also means chaos.

Woodstock was about the closest thing to anarchy I've ever seen in my whole life, and I didn't like it.

We have only one alternative: either to build a functioning industrial society or see freedom itself disappear in anarchy and tyranny.

The human race is intoxicated with narrow victories, for life is a string of them like pearls that hit the floor when the rope breaks, and roll away in perfection and anarchy.

If the power of the Gospel is not felt throughout the length and breadth of the land, anarchy and misrule, degradation and misery, corruption and darkness will reign without mitigation or end.

We're being treated to the wisdom of some puffed up, little fart. Doing exactly what I used to do, pretensions to anarchy and art.

Nonviolent non-co-operation is the only alternative to anarchy and worse.

Anarchy may await America, due to the daily injustices suffered by the people.

They made and recorded a sort of institute and digest of anarchy, called the rights of man.

It would be immoral to walk away from the consequences of our actions, leaving behind anarchy and civil war in Iraq.

Non-praying is lawlessness, discord, anarchy.

When you break the big laws, you do not get liberty; you do not even get anarchy. You get the small laws.

Anarchy! Revolution, Justice, Screaming For Solutions, Forcing Changes, Risk, and Danger, Making Noise and Making Pleas!.

The city and province were given up to anarchy; the coloured people, elated with victory, proclaimed the slaughter of all whites, except the English, French, and American residents.

Liberty is the solution of all social and economic questions.

Liberty begets anarchy, anarchy leads to despotism, and despotism brings about liberty once again. Millions of human beings have perished without being able to make any of these systems triumph.

Democracy without respect for individual rights sucks. It's just ganging up against the weird kid, and I'm always the weird kid.

I'd always maintained that much of the anarchy and craziness of the early internet had a lot to do with the fact that governments just hadn't realised it was there.

Experience has shown that it is difficult, if not impossible, for a populous state to be run by good laws.

And so many of the people in the arena here, you know, were underprivileged anyway, so this is working very well for them.

Let those that merely talk and never think, That live in the wild anarchy of drink

Growing up in an old-fashioned Bengali Hindu family and going to a convent school run by stern Irish nuns, I was brought up to revere rules. Without rules, there was only anarchy.

Cleansed of its leftist residues, anarchy - anarchism minus Marxism - will be free to get better at being what it is.

Africa is destined to anarchy. It is turning into 36 Haitis, with 36 Duvaliers, full of Cadillacs, beggars and snarling dogs.

We may complain and cavil at the anarchy which is the amateurs natural element, but in soberness we must agree that if the amateur did not exist it would be necessary to invent him.

No one can act alone in the name of all and no one can accept the anarchy of a society without rules.

There are different forms of anarchy and different currents in it. I must, first say very simply what anarchy I have in view. By anarchy I mean first an absolute rejection of violence.

To make a thief, make an owner; to create crime, create laws.

East and West are coming together. Whether in peace or anarchy - they are coming together. There needn't be a clash between East and West, between Islam and Europe.

Government destitute of energy, will ever produce anarchy.

Democracy is morose, and runs to anarchy.

Remove all the traffic lights, yellow lines, one-way systems and road markings, and let blissful anarchy prevail. I imagine it would produce a kind of harmony.

Mankind can live free in a society hemmed in by laws, but we have yet to find a historical example of mankind living free in lawless anarchy.

Innocence is drowned in anarchy. The best lack conviction given time to think, and the worst are full of passion without mercy.

In a society under the forms of which the stronger faction can readily unite and oppress the weaker, anarchy may as truly be said to reign as in a state of nature.

As to the American tradition of non-meddling, Anarchism asks that it be carried down to the individual himself.

Anarchy could never get a man to the moon, but it may the only mode that can allow us to survive on earth.