Anarchy Quotations

War is not, in itself, a condition so much as the symptom of a condition - that of international anarchy.

Anarchy is the only slight glimmer of hope.

Where you have no religion, you are sure to have no government, for as religion disappears, anarchy takes place and fixes a compleat Hell on earth till religion returns.

If we wish to substitute for war the settlement of disputes by justice, we must first substitute for the condition of international anarchy a condition of international order.

Roald Dahl pioneered a new kind of literature for youngsters, one that dispensed with cant and solemnity, favoring anarchy and joy over duty and humbuggery while acknowledging that oftentimes no good deed goes unpunished. But ultimately, it was his sheer joie de vivre that carried the day.

Cruel leaders are replaced only to have new leaders turn cruel.

You need to know the characters as living, breathing people before you start the plot; otherwise, you'll feel panic, anarchy and chaos.

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

I'm a huge fan of 'Sons of Anarchy.'

A culture without property, or in which creators can't get paid, is anarchy, not freedom.

I was the only guy with any bit of anarchy left.

Unregulated competition is a naive metaphor for anarchy.

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

Undermine their pompous authority, reject their moral standards, make anarchy and disorder your trademarks. Cause as much chaos and disruption as possible but don't let them take you ALIVE.

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.

Power is always dangerous. Power attracts the worst and corrupts the best.

The craftless anarchy of the Beat poets on the one hand, and the extreme control of Henry James on the other, suggest that for most human beings, just as both freedom and discipline are necessary in life, serendipity and design must coexist in a work to make it readable.

It's not about composition. It's the way you feel about how your objects should relate to each other. I've got lots of African statues and things, and the cleaner arranges them like soldiers, which drives me mad. So I have to rearrange them, and I must drive her mad, because I'm doing anarchy and she's doing military manoeuvres.

There is a certain combination of anarchy and discipline in the way I work.

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.

The fate of Syria hangs in the balance, but it is entirely possible that the fall of the Assad regime will result in anarchy and cause Syria to turn into a second Afghanistan, a base for anti-Israel terrorism.

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

The best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity.

There was a kind of physical anarchy that dominated most of my younger life. I was always too skinny, not hairy enough, my voice jumped around. It was a thing that drove me away from towel lines in gym class.

My lifestyle, my life, everything has changed because of this show. Has it made me look different? Yes, it's changed everything for me, everything from this show. And I cannot thank every single part of 'Sons of Anarchy' enough.

We must know our own roles. We should also know the roles that others play, and the rules such roles follow. In this manner, social harmony is maintained. It is when we overstep our roles, or act without knowing them, that social anarchy ensues.

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

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

We live in a society of victimization, where people are much more comfortable being victimized than actually standing up for themselves.

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.

No American conservative has ever argued that the government should never be involved in peoples' lives. That is anarchy, and we don't argue for that.

The liberation of Iraq, which is already hard to justify from the perspective of American interests, at least had the virtue of freeing Iraqis from a brutal dictator. Despite all the anarchy and violence, life has gotten better for most Iraqis.

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

If we have to use force, it is because we are America.

This is not anarchy, Eve. This is chaos.

You know, a long time ago being crazy meant something. Nowadays everybody's crazy.

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

The main question ... is not what motive inspired the law, but what it will be possible for men of bad motive to do with the law ...

An Anarchist is anyone who denies the necessity and legitimacy of government; the question of his methods of attacking it is foreign to the definition.

The Anarchists are simply unterrified Jeffersonian Democrats. They believe that 'the best government is that which governs least,' and that which governs least is no government at all.

This, then, is the Anarchistic definition of government: the subjection of the non-invasive individual to an external will...

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

If the individual has a right to govern himself, all external government is tyranny. Hence the necessity of abolishing the State.

Non-praying is lawlessness, discord, anarchy.

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

The more you think you have to use physical force to control life, the less you control life.

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

Anarchy works. Italy has proved it for a thousand years.

Anarchism is democracy taken seriously.

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

It is far more important to resist apathy than anarchy or despotism, for apathy can give rise, almost indifferently, to either one.

She (Sonia) wants to create anarchy in this country. She became a victim of her own actions.

Life is the great indulgence - death the great abstinence. Therefore, make the most of life here and now!

It means that we must abandon the method of civil disobedience, non-cooperation and satyagraha. When there was no way left for constitutional methods for achieving economic and social objectives, there was a great deal of justification for unconstitutional methods. But where constitutional methods are open, there can be no justification for these unconstitutional methods. These methods are nothing but the Grammar of Anarchy and the sooner they are abandoned, the better for us.

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

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.

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

The passions refuse to be organized on a basis of their own; hostile to personal freedom and one another, they rush precipitately into anarchy and mob rule.

A city's only ever three hot meals away from anarchy.

The media is the right arm of anarchy.

I prefer the discipline of knowledge to the anarchy of ignorance.

There has been a constitutional coup in the republic. A small group of irresponsible plotters and carpet-baggers in a criminal way used force to capture power. An uncontrolled and destructive wave of anarchy and violence overwhelmed the capital and other cities,

Roles of the various university constituent groups are either ill- or undefined, the By-Laws of the Board of Trustees are replete with implied invitations to conflict and micro-management, and the Presidency is effectively compromised. In such circumstances, a kind of anarchy invariably becomes the order of the day.

In an open world, no one can live in isolation, no one can act alone in the name of all, and no one can accept the anarchy of a society without rules, ... There is no alternative to the United Nations.

In all of my books, I'm taking them on an emotionally challenging and sometimes physically dangerous process with a bit of fun and anarchy along the way. With the power comes responsibility.

In all income groups you find your average regulation slob who sniggers at anarchy but calls the police indignantly to his burglarized home, who is actively anti-authority until he needs to be saved from someone with a gun.

But he tempts Providence who suffers that spirit of anarchy to grow and gather strength before striking a blow for its destruction.

Hunger is the mother of anarchy.

Liberalism is to freedom as anarchism is to anarchy.

The anarch wages his own wars, even when marching in rank and file

There ought to be limits to freedom.

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

Kids are anarchy writ large.

The chief safeguard of personal freedom in a democratic society is the anarchy and disorder of capitalist individualism.

Tyranny and anarchy are never far apart.

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

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.

Law And Freedom without Violence (Anarchy) Law And Violence without Freedom (Despotism) Violence without Freedom And Law (Barbarism) Violence with Freedom And Law (Republic)

Freedom is that faculty that enlarges the usefulness of all other faculties.

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.

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

Your mind is totally controlled, it has been stuffed into my mold. And you will do as you are told, until the rights to you are sold.

Beware of the fish people, they are the true enemy.

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

On the free market, everyone earns according to his productive value in satisfying consumer desires. Under statist distribution, everyone earns in proportion to the amount he can plunder from the producers.

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.

I loved horror movies, and I loved movies like that - stuff with an anarchy to them, with chaos. Stuff that glorified violence and whatnot. It's not as entertaining now. It effects me now in a way that it didn't then.

In morals as in politics anarchy is not for the weak.

Anarchism is "stateless socialism.

Anarchy, the absence of a master, of a sovereign.

ANARCHY, or the government of each man by himself or as the English say, self -government.

That is what I have always understood to be the essence of anarchism: the conviction that the burden of proof has to be placed on authority, and that it should be dismantled if that burden cannot be met.

Any dictator would admire the uniformity and obedience of the U.S. media.

The suddenness of the leap from hardware to software cannot but produce a period of anarchy and collapse, especially in the developed countries.

Even if we are all doomed to live under the state, it doesn't follow that there is, or even can be, such a thing as a good state.

Thus does a 'necessary evil' become an idol. Maybe we're stuck with it. But do we have to worship it?

There can be no such thing as "limited government," because there is no way to control an entity that in principle enjoys a monopoly of power...

The measure of the state's success is that the word anarchy frightens people, while the word state does not.

I get shocked by people smoking cigarettes sometimes. i get shocked by watching talk shows. people's moralities are so far below what i would consider standard.

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.