Anarchy Quotes

415 Anarchy quotes by 271 unique authors

The primary component upon which all else rests in a kingdom is the authority of the ruler. Without that, there is anarchy resulting in mess. — Tony Evans
Lawlessness is lawlessness. Anarchy is anarchy is anarchy. Neither race nor color nor frustration is an excuse for either lawlessness or anarchy. — Thurgood Marshall
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world, the blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere the ceremony of innocence is drowned. — William Butler Yeats
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… — Robert Higgs
Anarchy is all around us. Without it, our world would fall apart. All progress is due to it. All order extends from it. All blessed… — Jeffrey Tucker
Anarchy is a state of society where the only government is reason. — Michael Schwab
Anarchy is no guarantee that some people won't kill, injure, kidnap, defraud, or steal from others. Government is a guarantee that some will. — Gustave de Molinari
If a window is broken and left unrepaired, people walking by will conclude that no one cares and no one is in charge. Soon, more… — Malcolm Gladwell
If you have unity without variety, you have uniformity and that's boring. If you have variety without unity, you have anarchy. — Skip Heitzig
No doubt, anarchy, once established, might not last forever. But if your house is on fire, the sensible course of action is to put out… — Robert Higgs
My aim is to be understood by everyone. I reject the 'depth' that people demand nowadays, into which you can never descend without a diving… — George Grosz
To make a thief, make an owner; to create crime, create laws. — Ursula K. Le Guin
Distraction serves evil more than any other mental state. — Stefan Molyneux
The anarch wages his own wars, even when marching in rank and file — Ernst Junger
He asks how the evil is to be remedied. I tell him that there seems to be little chance for avoiding the extremes of despotism… — Gouverneur Morris
All governments are in equal measure good and evil. The best ideal is anarchy. — Leo Tolstoy
Anarchy, when it works to destroy authority in all its aspects, when it demands the abrogation of laws and the abolition of the mechanism that… — Peter Kropotkin
Anarchy: It is NOT bombs, disorder or chaos. It is NOT robbery and murder. It is NOT a war of each against all. It is… — Alexander Berkman
Found a dead body when I was 12, saved the Enterprise a few times, Ran the Axis of Anarchy, broke up Penny and Leonard. Currently… — Wil Wheaton
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… — George Washington
But if the laws are to be so trampled upon with impunity, and a minority is to dictate to the majority, there is an end… — George Washington
Even if the absence of government really did mean anarchy in a negative, disorderly sense - which is from from being the case - even… — Leo Tolstoy
It is cold anarchy to say that all men are to meddle in all men'smarriages. It is cold anarchy to say that any doctor may… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
I was sick of the way my lyrics had been extrapolated, their meanings subverted into polemics and that I had been anointed as the Big… — Bob Dylan
When the highwayman holds his gun to your head, you turn your valuables over to him. You 'consent' alright, but you do so because you… — Alexander Berkman

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