Anarchy Quotes
415 quotes by 271 authors
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All political parties die at last of swallowing their own lies.
— John Arbuthnot
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Every sane man recognises that unlimited liberty is anarchy, or rather is nonentity. The civic idea of liberty is to give the citizen a province…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Energy in the executive is a leading character in the definition of good government. It is essential to the protection of the community against foreign…
— Alexander Hamilton
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The citizens of America have too much discernment to be argued into anarchy. And I am much mistaken, if experience has not wrought a deep…
— Alexander Hamilton
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Were it not that it might require too long a discussion, it would not be difficult to demonstrate that a large and well-organized republic can…
— Alexander Hamilton
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The potency of prayer hath subdued the strength of fire; it hath bridled the rage of lions, hushed anarchy to rest, extinguished wars, appeased the…
— Saint John Chrysostom
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The ideally non-violent state will be an ordered anarchy.
— Mahatma Gandhi
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War is not in itself a condition so much as the symptom of a condition, that of international anarchy. If we wish to substitute for…
— Alfred Hermann Fried
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It is not honest inquiry that makes anarchy; but it is error, insincerity, half belief and untruth that make it.
— Thomas Carlyle
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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…
— Thomas Huxley
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Anarchy is the stepping stone to absolute power.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
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The library card is a passport to wonders and miracles, glimpses into other lives, religions, experiences, the hopes and dreams and strivings of ALL human…
— Libba Bray
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Let us not fear that the issues of natural science shall be scepticism or anarchy. Through all God's works there runs a beautiful harmony. The…
— Edwin Hubbel Chapin
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Liberty begets anarchy, anarchy leads to despotism, and despotism brings about liberty once again. Millions of human beings have perished without being able to make…
— Honore de Balzac
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No state, upon its own mere motion, can lawfully get out of the Union. Plainly, the central idea of secession, is the essence of anarchy.
— Abraham Lincoln
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To say that a bad government must be established for fear of anarchy is really saying that we should kill ourselves for fear of dying.
— Richard Henry Lee
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It is impossible to read the history of the petty republics of Greece and Italy without feeling sensations of horror and disgust at the distractions…
— Alexander Hamilton
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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…
— James Madison
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Let those that merely talk and never think, That live in the wild anarchy of drink
— Ben Jonson
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Anarchy [is] necessarily consequent to inefficiency.
— Thomas Jefferson
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