Anarchy famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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A majority held in restraint by constitutional checks and limitations, and always changing easily with deliberate changes of popular opinions and sentiments, is the only true sovereign of a free people. Whoever rejects it does of necessity fly to anarchy or to despotism. Unanimity is impossible. The rule of a minority, as a permanent arrangement, is wholly inadmissible; so that, rejecting the majority principle, anarchy or despotism in some form is all that is left.
-- Abraham Lincoln -
Going to the electric chair will be the supreme thrill of my life.
-- Albert Fish -
The worst enemy of life, freedom and the common decencies is total anarchy; their second worst enemy is total efficiency.
-- Aldous Huxley -
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.
-- Aldous Huxley -
In short, Anarchism means a condition or society where all men and women are free, and where all enjoy equally the benefits of an ordered and sensible life.
-- Alexander Berkman -
Certainly the worker has nothing to lose by a change from government and capitalism to a condition of no government, of anarchy.
-- Alexander Berkman -
War is not, in itself, a condition so much as the symptom of a condition - that of international anarchy.
-- Alfred Hermann Fried -
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.
-- Amos Bronson Alcott -
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.
-- Andrew Napolitano -
I do not think we will see a stateless society in my lifetime. But I am sure we will not see a state that conforms to the minarchists' ideals. The closer we get, the better, but I see no reason not to aspire for the best government as Thoreau imagined it: none at all. It's certainly more consistently idealistic than what the minarchists imagine, and yet it's at least possible, whereas the existence of a lasting, minimal state is a hopeless fantasy.
-- Anthony Gregory -
Life is the great indulgence - death the great abstinence. Therefore, make the most of life here and now!
-- Anton Szandor LaVey -
To the sober person adventurous conduct often seems insanity.
-- Aristotle -
When war is declared, truth is the first casualty
-- Arthur Ponsonby, 1st Baron Ponsonby of Shulbrede -
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.
-- B. R. Ambedkar -
Let those that merely talk and never think, That live in the wild anarchy of drink
-- Ben Jonson -
If the individual has a right to govern himself, all external government is tyranny. Hence the necessity of abolishing the State.
-- Benjamin Tucker -
The State is said by some to be a necessary evil; it must be made unnecessary.
-- Benjamin Tucker -
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 -
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.
-- Benjamin Tucker -
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.
-- Benjamin Tucker -
This, then, is the Anarchistic definition of government: the subjection of the non-invasive individual to an external will...
-- Benjamin Tucker -
Cleansed of its leftist residues, anarchy - anarchism minus Marxism - will be free to get better at being what it is.
-- Bob Black -
Let us designate anarchism1 anarchism as you define it. Let us desiginate anarchism2 anarchism as I and the American Heritage College Dictionary define it.
-- Bryan Caplan -
The more you think you have to use physical force to control life, the less you control life.
-- Cesar Millan -
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.
-- Charles Bukowski -
You know, a long time ago being crazy meant something. Nowadays everybody's crazy.
-- Charles Manson -
Cruel leaders are replaced only to have new leaders turn cruel.
-- Che Guevara -
The chief safeguard of personal freedom in a democratic society is the anarchy and disorder of capitalist individualism.
-- Christopher Dawson -
Anarchy is a function, not of a society's simplicity and lack of social organization, but of it's complexity and multiplicity of social organizations.
-- Colin Ward -
When anarchy is declared, the first thing we do, let's kill all the anarchists.
-- Craig Reucassel -
In the hands of a people whose education has been willfully neglected, the ballot is a cunning swindle benefitting only the united barons of industry, trade and property.
-- Daniel Guerin -
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.
-- Daniel Morgan -
I had thought of annihilating the entire block that I lived on.
-- Edmund Kemper -
Given two tempers and the time, the ordinary marriage produces anarchy ...
-- Ellen Glasgow -
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.
-- Emma Goldman -
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?
-- Emma Goldman -
'What I believe' is a process rather than a finality. Finalities are for gods and governments, not for the human intellect.
-- Emma Goldman -
The Internet is the first thing that humanity has built that humanity doesn't understand, the largest experiment in anarchy that we have ever had.
-- Eric Schmidt -
People, if given the choice between anarchy and dictatorship, will always choose dictatorship because anarchy is the worst dictatorship of all.
-- Eric Sevareid -
The anarch wages his own wars, even when marching in rank and file
-- Ernst Junger -
Liberalism is to freedom as anarchism is to anarchy.
-- Ernst Junger -
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 -
We have gone through everything as a nation - partition, dictatorship, and even anarchy.
-- Fatos Nano -
Beware of the fish people, they are the true enemy.
-- Frank Zappa -
Everything the State says is a lie, and everything it has it has stolen.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche -
I earnestly pray that the Omnipotent Being who has not deserted the cause of America in the hour of its extremest hazard, will never yield so fair a heritage of freedom a prey to 'Anarchy' or 'Despotism'.
-- George Washington -
The worst thing in this world, next to anarchy, is government.
-- Henry Ward Beecher -
No matter how much I wanted all those things that I needed money to buy, there was some devilish current pushing me off in another direction -- toward anarchy and poverty and craziness. That maddening delusion that a man can lead a decent life without hiring himself out as a Judas Goat.
-- Hunter S. Thompson -
Anarchy doesn't mean out of control; it means out of their control.
-- Jim Dodge -
Liberty is the solution of all social and economic questions.
-- Jo Labadie -
Unregulated competition is a naive metaphor for anarchy.
-- John Ralston Saul -
Everyone can feel the nothingness, the void, just beneath the surface of everyday routines and securities.
-- John Zerzan -
I call them the Sons of Anarchy Muhammad WilkerSON, Damon HarriSON, Sheldon RichardSON
-- Jon Gruden -
Arbitrary power is but the first natural step from anarchy, or the savage life.
-- Jonathan Swift -
If we are attacked we can only defend ourselves with guns not with butter.
-- Joseph Goebbels -
The measure of the state's success is that the word anarchy frightens people, while the word state does not.
-- Joseph Sobran -
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.
-- Joseph Sobran -
There are times when the law jeopardizes those who obey it.
-- Kathy Acker -
If you never encounter anything in your community that offends you, then you are not living in a free society.
-- Kim Campbell -
If I ever form a clan, we'll be the anti-cheerleaders and walk under the bleacher forming mild acts of mayhem.
-- Laurie Halse Anderson -
A culture without property, or in which creators can't get paid, is anarchy, not freedom.
-- Lawrence Lessig -
In a world like this one, only the random makes sense.
-- Libba Bray -
Eventually the revolutionaries become the established culture, and then what will they do
-- Linus Torvalds -
History is the propaganda of the victors.
-- Louis de Bernieres -
If we have to use force, it is because we are America.
-- Madeleine Albright -
An unjust law is itself a species of violence. Arrest for its breach is more so.
-- Mahatma Gandhi -
The ideally non-violent state will be an ordered anarchy.
-- Mahatma Gandhi -
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.
-- Margaret Atwood -
We live in a society of victimization, where people are much more comfortable being victimized than actually standing up for themselves.
-- Marilyn Manson -
Anarchy is as detestable in grammar as it is in society.
-- Maurice Druon -
Anarchy is a state of society where the only government is reason.
-- Michael Schwab -
Inside every working anarchy, there's an Old Boy Network..
-- Mitchell Kapor -
Anarchy is the stepping stone to absolute power.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte -
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.
-- Noam Chomsky -
Any dictator would admire the uniformity and obedience of the U.S. media.
-- Noam Chomsky -
If we choose, we can live in a world of comforting illusion.
-- Noam Chomsky -
No human being can go on living in the same house with a pigeon, a pigeon is the epitomy of chaos and anarchy, a pigeon that whizzes around unpredictably, that sets it's claws in you, picks at your eyes..
-- Patrick Süskind -
ANARCHY, or the government of each man by himself or as the English say, self -government.
-- Pierre-Joseph Proudhon -
Anarchy, the absence of a master, of a sovereign.
-- Pierre-Joseph Proudhon -
I do not wish to remove from my present prison to a prison a little larger. I wish to break all prisons.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson -
You can't mine coal without machine guns.
-- Richard B. Mellon -
There is a certain combination of anarchy and discipline in the way I work.
-- Robert De Niro -
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.
-- Robert Higgs -
A delusion held by one person is a mental illness, held by a few is a cult, held by many is a religion.
-- Robert Todd Carroll -
What is important is to spread confusion, not eliminate it.
-- Salvador Dali -
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.
-- Sean Penn -
I was the only guy with any bit of anarchy left.
-- Sid Vicious -
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.
-- Sid Vicious -
They can gas me, but I am famous. I have achieved in one day what it took Robert Kennedy all his life to do.
-- Sirhan Sirhan -
If you have unity without variety, you have uniformity and that's boring. If you have variety without unity, you have anarchy.
-- Skip Heitzig -
Distraction serves evil more than any other mental state.
-- Stefan Molyneux -
Because the state necessarily commits aggression, the consistent libertarian, in opposing aggression, is also an anarchist.
-- Stephan Kinsella
