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Anarchy Quotes by Steven Pinker
- Dominance in an adaptation to anarchy and it serves no purpose in a society that has undergone a civilising process or in an international system…
- Democracy is an imperfect way of steering between the violence of anarchy and the violence of tyranny, with the least violence you can get away…
- America had, for one thing, lived in anarchy for - until much more recently than Europe. We had the Wild West, where the cliche of…
- If you look in general at people who live in anarchy, they have quite high rates of death from either homicide or warfare or both.…
- Everywhere you look for comparisons of life under anarchy and life under government, life under government is less violent.
More Anarchy Quotes
- 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