Top 100 Quotes About Anarchy
#1. At the fringe edge of advancement it's a war of anarchy and chaos.
Bryant McGill
#2. I think that the Internet is going to be one of the major forces for reducing the role of government.
Milton Friedman
#3. No one wants their stuff stolen. No one wants their physical person harmed. If you understand the implications of those two truths, you can come to see the egregious moral and practical problems of a state-managed society.
Jeffrey Tucker
#4. A necklace of pearls on a white neck.
We had lost the sense of discovery which had infused the anarchy of our first year. I began to settle down.
... the old house in the foreground, the rest of the world abandoned and forgotten; a world of its own of peace and love and beauty ...
Evelyn Waugh
#5. All ponzi schemes are upheld by a centripetal force caused by those orbiting the circles of power, celebrity and wealth and trying to get in. When the ponzi scheme reaches its point of maximum growth, the force disperses and the ponzi scheme collapses.
Heather Marsh
#6. What is the good of telling a community that it has every liberty except the liberty to make laws? The liberty to make laws is what constitutes a free people.
G.K. Chesterton
#7. All governments are in equal measure good and evil. The best ideal is anarchy.
Leo Tolstoy
#8. anarchy should have no place in the life of man or of the beasts who are subject to man.
Plato
#9. The nouvelle cuisine of anarchy. Barium nitrate in a sauce of sulfur and garnished with charcoal. That's your basic gunpowder. Bon appetit.
Chuck Palahniuk
#10. The most urgent necessity is, not that the State should teach, but that it should allow education. All monopolies are detestable, but the worst of all is the monopoly of education.
Frederic Bastiat
#11. Everyone needs rules. After all, how can you break what doesn't exist? Rules give anarchy something to aim at
Jodi Taylor
#12. Because the state necessarily commits aggression, the consistent libertarian, in opposing aggression, is also an anarchist.
Stephan Kinsella
#13. I'm in a business where there's complete anarchy. You can't control it - you can only react to it. The control that people traditionally had over their message is gone. Look at Wikileaks: you have to approach everything you write on the basis it's going to be on the front page of the newspaper.
Martin Sorrell
#14. Experience has shown that it is difficult, if not impossible, for a populous state to be run by good laws.
Aristotle.
#15. Like a butcher without a knife, a knight without a sword, and a farrier without a hammer, you cannot have a town without rules; if there were a town like that, a great big anarchy would reign there, just as in the realm of animals!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#16. 'Sons of Anarchy' has the perfect combination of character and action.
Christopher Golden
#17. 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
Isaac Asimov
#18. Anya, the minor goddess of Anarchy? A woman who had more balls than most men - because she'd cut them off the guys stupid enough to get in her way and kept them as souvenirs.
Gena Showalter
#19. Electricity is really just organized lightning
George Carlin
#20. [Our] struggle for liberation has significance only if it takes place within a feminist movement that has as its fundamental goal the liberation of all people.
Bell Hooks
#21. If a window is broken and left unrepaired, people walking by will conclude that no one cares and no one is in charge. Soon, more windows will be broken, and the sense of anarchy will spread from the building to the street on which it faces, sending a signal that anything goes.
Malcolm Gladwell
#23. 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.
Barbara Bush
#24. I think students ought to have the right to protest, but not to the point of anarchy.
Johnny Carson
#25. For anarchy to succeed or simply to advance towards its success it must be conceived not only as a lighthouse which illuminates and attracts, but as something possible and attainable, not in centuries to come, but in a relatively short time and without relying on miracles ...
Errico Malatesta
#26. When you vote, you play Russian Roulette with a magazine fed pistol.
Tom Wallace
#27. The moral was, in time of anarchy, tough leadership is the only solution - even though the collateral damage may be heartbreaking. Mrs. Thatcher's strident, take-no prisoners approach was in some ways repugnant, but it was surely necessary.
Nigel Hamilton
#28. There is no greater evil than anarchy.
Sophocles
#29. Democracy is morose, and runs to anarchy, but in the state, and in the schools, it is indispensable to resist the consolidation ofall men into a few men.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#30. There can be no greater stretch of arbitrary power than to seize children from their parents, teach them whatever the authorities decree they shall be taught, and expropriate from the parents the funds to pay for the procedure.
Isabel Paterson
#31. We do not understand democracy in its bourgeois meaning
of babbling, lack of discipline, anarchy. We understand democracy as the active participation of the citizens in formulating and implementing the Party's policy.
Nicolae Ceausescu
#33. A stable social system is necessary, but every stable system hitherto devised has hampered the development of exceptional artistic or intellectual merit. How much murder and anarchy are we prepared to endure for the sake of great achievements such as those of the Renaissance?
Bertrand Russell
#34. Not a scar just psychological,
But as material as roaches,
Street corners and billy clubs.
A wound reopened systematically,
Inflicted with economic anarchy
And "No Help Wanted" signs.
Cabrini Gulag
#35. If we ignore international institutions, it will lead only to lawlessness and anarchy.
Lisa Anderson
#36. I don't believe in anarchy, because it will ultimately amount to the power of the bully, with weapons. Gandhi is my life's inspiration: passive resistance. I don't want to live in the Thunderdome with Mad Max.
John Lydon
#37. 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.
Stefan Molyneux
#38. Our government teaches the whole people by its example. If the
government becomes the lawbreaker, it breeds contempt for law; it
invites every man to become a law unto himself; it invites anarchy.
Louis D. Brandeis
#39. You look back in time to when there was slavery and you think 'how did people even remotely believe that this was a good idea?'.
It's incomprehensible for us to think of what the mindset was 100 or 200 years ago. I hope to make the present as incomprehensible to the future as the past is to us.
Stefan Molyneux
#40. I've been in so many funeral scenes from The Sopranos, and I think I've even been in one on Sons of Anarchy. Those scenes, as a human being, are the most tedious scenes, of all time. You're waiting, all day, in the blistering hot heat. So, I didn't need to be there.
Drea De Matteo
#41. Metaphysically, his bowl filled and emptied at the same time. Violent and maniacal to push himself so far, he'd both created and destroyed his body's energy. In other words he had complete power, self-sustaining, self-sacrificing power at the origin of himself.
E.J. Koh
#42. In morals as in politics anarchy is not for the weak.
Mary McCarthy
#43. There's a huge swath of humanity that has developed verbal abilities to extract resources from guilt-ridden people.
They used to be priests, and now they're leftists.
Stefan Molyneux
#44. Tyranny and anarchy are alike incompatible with freedom, security, and the enjoyment of opportunity.
Jeane Kirkpatrick
#46. It is the forgetfulness of these principles which as made for the anarchy in thinking in so much of the anemic philosophy of our day.
Fulton J. Sheen
#47. To know another person is to Know How to live and work with her. To know another person in a moral sense is to Know How to respect her... Respect must show in action.
Kathryn Pyne Addelson
#48. [ ... ] A society that drives its members to desperate solutions is a non-viable society, a society to be replaced.
Kathy Acker
#49. Do you think I would want to live under a government that you ran or set up? It's all very nice to say you're an anarchist, but you only want anarchy for yourself. For the rest of us, you want to make sure we do what you say, think how you think, and remember you're the boss.
Jane Smiley
#50. If the perpetual oscillation of nations between anarchy and despotism is to be replaced by the steady march of self-restraining freedom, it will be because men will gradually bring themselves to deal with political, as they now deal with scientific questions.
Thomas Huxley
#51. I am waiting for the war to be fought
which will make the world safe for anarchy
Lawrence Ferlinghetti
#52. It couldn't have been gonorrhea, which never stops eating you up of its own accord. Why should it ever stop of its own accord? It's having such a nice time. Why call off the party? Look how healthy and happy the kids are.
Kurt Vonnegut
#53. It is impossible for us to make any real advance until we take to heart this great truth, that without freedom of choice, without freedom of action, there are not such things as true moral qualities; there can only be submissive wearing of the cords that others have tied round our hands.
Auberon Herbert
#54. Together, they at once dodged those parts of themselves and magnified them, making for enigmatic harmony and anarchy.
Deirdre Riordan Hall
#55. 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.
Murray Rothbard
#56. Victory will not go to those who can inflict the most suffering, but to those who can survive the most.
CrimethInc.
#57. I think that Texas is forever ruined unless the citizens make a manly, energetic effort to save themselves from anarchy and confusion, which are the worst of all evils. Let us march like a band of brothers.
William B. Travis
#58. Anarchy may await America, due to the daily injustices suffered by the people.
Louis Farrakhan
#60. 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 ...
Joseph Sobran
#61. I die, as I have lived, a free spirit, an Anarchist, owing no allegiance to rulers, heavenly or earthly.
Voltairine De Cleyre
#62. Government destitute of energy, will ever produce anarchy.
James Madison
#63. 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.
Lou Engle
#64. Some people believe that if they yell and scream, others will get the point of just how serious they are. For me, all I get is the point of just how out of control that someone is.
Cathy Burnham Martin
#65. From too much liberty, my Lucio, liberty
As surfeit is the father of much fast,
So every scope of the immoderate use
Turns to restraint. Our natures do pursue, -
Like rats that ravin down their proper bane, -
A thirsty evil; and when we drink we die.
William Shakespeare
#66. True freedom isn't limited by partiality or favoritism for one over the other. It's freedom for all or it isn't freedom at all.
D.M. Anthony
#67. If disguise was a vehicle, murder was a world.
E.J. Koh
#68. Though their goals had been righteous, their means of anarchy would not go unpunished.
Sarah McCoy
#69. Nationalism does nothing but teach you to hate people you never met, and to take pride in accomplishments you had no part in.
Doug Stanhope
#70. The entire Nazi war machine was only possible because of past, present and future violations of the non aggression principle (achievable only through government).
Stefan Molyneux
#72. 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 ...
Benjamin Tucker
#73. In almost every country there are elements of opinion which would welcome such a conclusion because they wish to return to the politics of the balance of power, unrestricted and unregulated armaments, international anarchy, and preparation for war.
Arthur Henderson
#74. If I can't dance to it, it's not my revolution.
Emma Goldman
#75. 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.
Paul Di Filippo
#76. From that historically brief quite opaque moment, came the chaos of our material history, an anarchy of chronology, of mismatched remnants that delighted and horrified investigators.
China Mieville
#77. Income inequality has no necessary connection with poverty, the lack of material resources for a decent life, such as adequate food, shelter, and clothing. A society with great income inequality may have no poor people, and a society with no income inequality may have nothing but poor people.
Robert Higgs
#78. 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.
Ken Marino
#79. Cal thought: A new player. Terrific. Maybe William Shatner's in here, too. Also Mike Huckabee . . . Kim Kardashian . . . the guy who plays Opie on Sons of Anarchy and the entire cast of The Walking Dead.
Stephen King
#80. If social stability goes pear-shaped, you have a choice between anarchy and dictatorship. Most people will opt for more security, even if they have to give up some personal freedom.
Margaret Atwood
#81. If we once and for so long lived in balance with nature and each other, we should be able to do so again. The catastrophe that's overtaking us has deep roots, but our previous state of natural anarchy reaches much further into our shared history .
John Zerzan
#82. As is the curse of Humanity. We constantly rediscover the old and sing platitudes of its newness.
J.D. Brewer
#83. The poor have sometimes objected to being governed badly; the rich have always objected to being governed at all.
G.K. Chesterton
#84. You are what you do. If you do boring, stupid monotonous work, chances are you'll end up boring, stupid and monotonous. Work is a much better explanation for the creeping cretinization all around us than even such significant moronizing mechanisms as television and education.
Bob Black
#85. 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.
James Madison
#86. If mankind were to resolve to agree in no institution of government, until every part of it had been adjusted to the most exact standard of perfection, society would soon become a general scene of anarchy, and the world a desert.
Alexander Hamilton
#87. Sometimes the rules don't work. Sometimes the rules cause the anarchy.
Susan Beth Pfeffer
#88. He asks how the evil is to be remedied. I tell him that there seems to be little chance for avoiding the extremes of despotism or anarchy; that the only ground of hope must be the morals of the people, but that these are, I fear, too corrupt.
Gouverneur Morris
#89. Democracy leads to anarchy, which is mob rule.
Plato
#90. Eventually the revolutionaries become the established culture, and then what will they do
Linus Torvalds
#91. I placed discipline above all else and it might have cost us several titles. If I had to repeat things, I'd do precisely the same, because once you bid farewell to discipline you say goodbye to success and set the stage for anarchy.
Alex Ferguson
#92. Her own vague red trail created a livid atmosphere. She was like an avalanche and they were her nostalgia.
E.J. Koh
#93. He'd tried to talk to you about anarchy yesterday but his English and your French conspired against the dialog.
Ian Rankin
#94. Oh, most unhappy man,' he cried, 'try to be happy! You have red hair like your sister.'
My red hair, like red flames, shall burn up the world,' said Gregory.
G.K. Chesterton
#95. Anarchy is a state of society where the only government is reason.
Michael Schwab
#96. The line between the allure of liberty and the menace of of anarchy is often blurred." From: Caspian Diary
J.M. Sandler
#97. I'm more prone to anarchy than I am to control - even though I'm a film director.
Terry Gilliam
#98. We have gone through everything as a nation - partition, dictatorship, and even anarchy.
Fatos Nano
#100. Democracy without respect for individual rights sucks. It's just ganging up against the weird kid, and I'm always the weird kid.
Penn Jillette
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