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- A tranquil city of good laws, fine architecture, and clean streets is like a classroom of obedient dullards, or a field of gelded bulls -…
- The human race is intoxicated with narrow victories, for life is a string of them like pearls that hit the floor when the rope breaks,…
- The craftless anarchy of the Beat poets on the one hand, and the extreme control of Henry James on the other, suggest that for most…
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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… — Margaret Atwood
- Does it follow that I reject all authority? Perish the thought. In the matter of boots, I defer to the authority of… — 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… — 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… — Aeschylus
- Our government... teaches the whole people by its example. If the government becomes the lawbreaker, it breeds contempt for law; it invites… — 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