Anarchistic Quotes

#1. What do I need a movie for? The stage is on a higher level in every way, and a more satisfying medium. Movies, by comparison, are like calendar art next to great paintings. You can't really do very much in movies or in television, but the stage is such an anarchistic medium.

Eli Wallach

#2. My politics were pretty anarchistic until 1969 when the Montreal police went on strike. Within hours, mayhem and rioting broke out and the Mounties had to be called in to restore order. It instilled in me that one's convictions can be subjected to empirical test.

Steven Pinker

#3. Culture is Anarchistic if it is alive at all.

Siva Vaidhyanathan

#4. Only responsible human beings can exist in an anarchistic society.

Terence McKenna

#5. The leather community is largely anarchistic and shares a healthy distrust of power and arrogance.

Geoff Mains

#6. In fact I always disliked conceptual art, because my work is about anarchistic humor.

Dan Graham

#7. If i were pressed to give my brand of political thought a label, I would call it pessimistic anarchistic quietism

J.M. Coetzee

#8. Only in Italy are elections as carnivalesque as they are here. Except, in Ukraine, the carnival is always anarchistic, and more or less uncontrollable.

Andrey Kurkov

#9. We have all in some degree become anarchistic.

Lionel Trilling

#10. We are at heart so profoundly anarchistic that the only form of state we can imagine living in is Utopian; and so cynical that the only Utopia we can believe in is authoritarian.

Lionel Trilling

#11. For the state by its nature claims sovereignty, the right to an unlimited development of power, determined only by self-interest. It is by nature anarchistic.

Christian Lous Lange

#12. I worked out an anarchistic theory that all government is evil, that the punishment always does more harm than the crime and the people can be trusted to behave decently if you will only let them alone.

George Orwell

#13. Many people think that open source projects are sort of chaotic and and anarchistic. They think that developers randomly throw code at the code base and see what sticks.

Mitchell Baker

#14. I believe that I have been basically anarchistic, anti-religion and anti-industry and business. In other words, anti-bureaucracy. I would like to see people behave well without having to have priests stand by, politicians stand by, or people collecting bills.

B.F. Skinner

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

Benjamin Tucker

#16. And this is the Anarchistic definition of the State: the embodiment of the principle of invasion in an individual, or a band of individuals, assuming to act as representatives or masters of the entire people within a given area.

Benjamin Tucker

#17. The rejection of mass organizations as the be-all, end-all of organizing is vital for the creation and rediscovery of possibilities for empowerment and effective anarchistic work.

Curious George Brigade

#18. Production is "anarchistic.

Ludwig Von Mises

#19. I found I am not an anarchistic form creator; I'm intuitive, and I'm trying to figure out a way to explore human fragility.

Thomas Vinterberg

#20. What is the most sacred duty and the greatest source of our security in a Republic? An inviolable respect for the Constitution and Laws.

Alexander Hamilton

#21. don't be overly concerned about what other people think of you and your decisions. Most of them are not thinking about you as much as you might imagine that they are anyway.

Joyce Meyer

#22. That may be so, but his faerie had suffered too much and he had had more than enough. If anybody so much as looked at her funny, he was going to come down hard on them with both size fourteen steel-toed boots. Then he would consider seriously the merits of evisceration.

Thea Harrison

#23. I believe, and always have, that America must engage - not retreat - in the world.

Chuck Hagel

#24. Then said Jesus unto the twelve, Will ye also go away? 68. Then Simon Peter answered him, Lord, to whom shall we go? thou hast the words of eternal life.

Anonymous

#25. Inspiration gives strength to do, what we are capable of doing.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#26. History took hold of me and never let me go thereafter.

Simone De Beauvoir

#27. It is well for people who think, to change their minds ocasionally in order to keep them clean.

Luther Burbank

#28. It is to be hoped that the leaders of this movement will place the nation above the party.

Franz Von Papen

#29. I don't think we should discriminate against an organization or congregation because they're religious, if they're doing good work. But government can't subsidize proselytizing or worship or religious activity. It can't.

Jim Wallis

#30. Jesus was a revolutionary, who did not become an extremist, since he did not offer an ideology, but Himself.

Henri J.M. Nouwen

#31. The Athenians govern the Greeks; I govern the Athenians; you, my wife, govern me; your son governs you.

Themistocles

#32. The fortune of war is always doubtful.

Seneca The Younger