Anarchy Quotes

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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… — Margaret Atwood
Does it follow that I reject all authority? Perish the thought. In the matter of boots, I defer to the authority of the boot-maker. — Mikhail Bakunin
Grown men do not need leaders. — Edward Abbey
The natural liberty of man is to be free from any superior power on Earth, and not to be under the will or legislative authority… — Samuel Adams
The worst thing in this world, next to anarchy, is government. — Henry Ward Beecher
We started off trying to set up a small anarchist community, but people wouldn't obey the rules. — Alan Bennett
Tyranny and anarchy are never far apart. — Jeremy Bentham
Faith: Belief without evidence in what is told by one who speaks without knowledge, of things without parallel. — Ambrose Bierce
Neither a life of anarchy nor one beneath a despot should you praise; to all that lies in the middle a god has given excellence. — Aeschylus
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… — Louis D. Brandeis
Some people never go crazy, What truly horrible lives they must live. — Charles Bukowski
If you're losing your soul and you know it, then you've still got a soul left to lose. — Charles Bukowski
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… — Charles Bukowski
There is in me an anarchy and frightful disorder. Creating makes me die a thousand deaths, because it means making order, and my entire being… — Albert Camus
The more you can increase fear of drugs and crime, welfare mothers, immigrants and aliens, the more you control all the people. — Noam Chomsky
All over the place, from the popular culture to the propaganda system, there is constant pressure to make people feel that they are helpless, that… — Noam Chomsky
Either you repeat the same conventional doctrines everybody is saying, or else you say something true, and it will sound like it's from Neptune. — 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
Propaganda is to a democracy what the bludgeon is to a totalitarian state. — Noam Chomsky

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