Anarchy Quotations | Page 2

We can do anything we like as long as it is UNIMPORTANT.

'Sons of Anarchy' is always murky.

They can gas me, but I am famous. I have achieved in one day what it took Robert Kennedy all his life to do.

In a world like this one, only the random makes sense.

I call them the Sons of Anarchy Muhammad WilkerSON, Damon HarriSON, Sheldon RichardSON

I think students ought to have the right to protest, but not to the point of anarchy.

When you begin to suggest that dissent, opposition, resistance, the only way to deal with it is not to listen to it and to engage in dialog with it, but basically to label it as anarchy and to repress it with the most violent, in the most violent means possible. I mean, that's essentially an element of neofascism. That's not about democracy.

Given two tempers and the time, the ordinary marriage produces anarchy ...

Government destitute of energy, will ever produce anarchy.

People, if given the choice between anarchy and dictatorship, will always choose dictatorship because anarchy is the worst dictatorship of all.

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

Yes, authority, coercion, and dependence rest on the mass, but never freedom or the free unfoldment of the individual, never the birth of a free society. The Socialist demagogues know that as well as I, but they maintain the myth of the virtues of the majority, because their very scheme of life means the perpetuation of power.

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

... the keynote of government is injustice.

Even were the workers able to have their own representatives, for which our good Socialist politicians are clamoring, what chances are there for their honesty and good faith?

A practical scheme, says Oscar Wilde, is either one already in existence, or a scheme that could be carried out under the existing conditions; but it is exactly the existing conditions that one objects to, and any scheme that could accept these conditions is wrong and foolish.

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

History is the propaganda of the victors.

Religion is induced insanity.

What is called matriarchy is simply moral anarchy, in which the mother alone remains fixed because all the fathers are fugitive and irresponsible.

It's sadly predictable that the only way you can come up with a way to celebrate the liberation you feel at leaving the old system behind is by coming up with a "system of liberation", as if such a thing could exist - but that's what we can expect from those who have never known anything other than systems and systematizing, I guess.

When the enemy advances, withdraw; when he stops, harass; when he tires, strike; when he retreats, pursue.

If we ignore international institutions, it will lead only to lawlessness and anarchy.

Eventually the revolutionaries become the established culture, and then what will they do

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

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

Britain cherishes her eccentrics and wisely holds that the function of government is to build a walled garden in which anarchy can flourish.

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.

I had a house burn down once, and everything in life burned except my family, and it was so liberating. I didn't have a bad moment about it. It sort of reinvigorated my interest in a lot of things. I wonder if there should be some kind of anarchy.

If I ever form a clan, we'll be the anti-cheerleaders and walk under the bleacher forming mild acts of mayhem.

I'm more prone to anarchy than I am to control - even though I'm a film director.

Wrong doing must be punished. If not, it will proliferate until anarchy wears the robes of tolerance and understanding.

We have to claim anarchy and realize that systems have a life of their own that is anti-humanist. There is definitely an anti-humanist tendency in all systems.

Sometimes the rules don't work. Sometimes the rules cause the anarchy.

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.

The primary component upon which all else rests in a kingdom is the authority of the ruler. Without that, there is anarchy resulting in mess.

One has to multiply thoughts to the point where there aren't enough policemen to control them

In debates between anarchists and statists, the burden of proof clearly should rest on those who place their trust in the state. Anarchy's mayhem is wholly conjectural; the state's mayhem is undeniably, factually horrendous.

There is no greater evil than anarchy.

Distraction serves evil more than any other mental state.

I see anarchism as the theoretical ideal to which we are all gradually evolving to a point where everybody can tell the truth to everybody else and nobody can get punished for it. That can only happen without hierarchy and without people having the authority to punish other people.

When men have become heartily wearied of licentious anarchy, their eagerness has been proportionately great to embrace the opposite extreme of rigorous despotism.

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

Somewhere between apathy and anarchy lies the thinking human being.

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

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.

As soon as liberty is complete it dies in anarchy.

All pity choked with custom of fell deeds.

Still, instead of trusting what their own minds tell them, men have as a rule a weakness for trusting others who pretend to supernatural sources of knowledge.

Whenever government abandons law, it proclaims anarchy.

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

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

To the sober person adventurous conduct often seems insanity.

Politics is a pendulum whose swings between anarchy and tyranny are fueled by perennially rejuvenated illusions.

The history of any nation follows an undulatory course. In the trough of the wave we find more or less complete anarchy; but the crest is not more or less complete Utopia, but only, at best, a tolerably humane, partially free and fairly just society that invariably carries within itself the seeds of its own decadence.

It was anarchy inside that building, ... gangs banded together and had more ammunition, at times, than the police.

Democracy will soon degenerate into an anarchy, such an anarchy that every man will do what is right in his own eyes and no man's life or property or reputation or liberty will be secure, and every one of these will soon mould itself into a system of subordination of all the moral virtues and intellectual abilities, all the powers of wealth, beauty, wit and science, to the wanton pleasures, the capricious will, and the execrable cruelty of one or a very few.

Everything the State says is a lie, and everything it has it has stolen.

To bring about destruction by overcrowding, mass starvation, anarchy, the destruction of our most cherished values, there is no need to do anything. We need only do nothing except what comes naturally, and breed. And how easy it is to do nothing

Prohibition is an attempted cure that makes matters worse - for both the addict and the rest of us.

In no sense do I advocate evading or defying the law . . That would lead to anarchy.

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

Anarchy is the sure consequence of tyranny; for no power that is not limited by laws can ever be protected by them.

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

Democracy leads to anarchy, which is mob rule.

If all were nonviolent, there would be no anarchy and there would be no question of anybody being armed for meeting aggression from without.

Without real nonviolence, there would be perfect anarchy.

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

Anarchy is the stepping stone to absolute power.

Anarchy is the sure consequence of tyranny; or no power that is not limited by laws can ever be protected by them

The mischiefs of anarchy have been equaled by the mischiefs of government.

In this day of wonders no one will say that a thing or an idea is worthless because it is new. To say it is impossible because it is difficult is again not in consonance with the spirit of the age. Things undreamt of are daily being seen, the impossible is ever becoming possible.

Life will not be a pyramid with the apex sustained by the bottom, but an oceanic circle whose centre will be the individual.

The ideally non-violent state will be an ordered anarchy.

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

When politics and home life have become one and the same thing, [...] then,[...] it is evident that we will be in a state of total liberty or anarchy.

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

The rich have become richer, and the poor have become poorer; and the vessel of the state is driven between the Scylla and Charybdis of anarchy and despotism.

I do not wish to remove from my present prison to a prison a little larger. I wish to break all prisons.

Anarchy [is] necessarily consequent to inefficiency.

What is important is to spread confusion, not eliminate it.

Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world, the blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere the ceremony of innocence is drowned.

The falcon cannot hear the falconer

The blood-dimmed tide is loosed,