Anarchy Quotes
415 quotes by 276 authors
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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
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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
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Grown men do not need leaders.
— Edward Abbey
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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
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The worst thing in this world, next to anarchy, is government.
— Henry Ward Beecher
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We started off trying to set up a small anarchist community, but people wouldn't obey the rules.
— Alan Bennett
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Tyranny and anarchy are never far apart.
— Jeremy Bentham
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Faith: Belief without evidence in what is told by one who speaks without knowledge, of things without parallel.
— Ambrose Bierce
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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
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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
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Some people never go crazy, What truly horrible lives they must live.
— Charles Bukowski
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If you're losing your soul and you know it, then you've still got a soul left to lose.
— Charles Bukowski
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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
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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
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The more you can increase fear of drugs and crime, welfare mothers, immigrants and aliens, the more you control all the people.
— Noam Chomsky
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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
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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
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Any dictator would admire the uniformity and obedience of the U.S. media.
— Noam Chomsky
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If we choose, we can live in a world of comforting illusion.
— Noam Chomsky
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Propaganda is to a democracy what the bludgeon is to a totalitarian state.
— Noam Chomsky
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