Bad idea Quote by Alan Moore

“No society can last in conditions of anarchy. This is self-evident and I am in full agreement. But my aim is not the establishment…

— Jacques Ellul

In a society under the forms of which the stronger faction can readily unite and oppress the weaker, anarchy may as truly be said…

— James Madison

Anarchy is... a form of government or constitution in which public and private consciousness, formed through the development of science and law, is alone…

— Pierre-Joseph Proudhon

There are different forms of anarchy and different currents in it. I must, first say very simply what anarchy I have in view. By…

— Jacques Ellul

“Anarchy is any form of freedom that is outside the law. In your case, you should rather understand universal law and abide by it.”

— Mwanandeke Kindembo

Today many politicians suggest that where the federal government does not act, there must be anarchy. That view is odd, blinkering out the work…

— Amity Shlaes

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

Anarchy is a state of society where the only government is reason.

— Michael Schwab

The roots of the word 'anarchy' are 'an archos,' 'no leaders,' which is not really about the kind of chaos that most people imagine…

— Alan Moore

The fundamental question of political philosophy, one that precedes questions about how the state should be organized, is whether there should be any state…

— Robert Nozick

“Anarchy is like custard cooking over a flame; it has to be constantly stirred or it sticks and gets heavy, like government.”

— Tom Robbins

Anarchism as the name for an ideal total social form is a really complicated question. I have never found satisfying answers from anarchists about…

— Cynthia Kauffman