Anarchy Quote by Joseph Story

Today many politicians suggest that where the federal government does not act, there must be anarchy. That view is odd, blinkering out the work…

— Amity Shlaes

The fundamental question of political philosophy, one that precedes questions about how the state should be organized, is whether there should be any state…

— Robert Nozick

Anarchy is a state of society where the only government is reason.

— Michael Schwab

Yes, there is a Government of this changing world. The Government is not in the changing world. It is in the Realm of Permanence,…

— Harold Percival

“Government in and of itself is the foremost agent for destroying order and imposing chaos." "To accept the legitimacy of the state is to…

— L.K. Samuels

Whenever government abandons law, it proclaims anarchy.

— Edmund Burke

A government on the principles on which constitutional governments arising out of society are established, cannot have the right of altering itself. If it…

— Thomas Paine

This, then, is the Anarchistic definition of government: the subjection of the non-invasive individual to an external will...

— Benjamin Tucker

“I believe that all other political states are in fact variations or outgrowths of a basic state of anarchy; after all, when you mention…

— Alan Moore

It is not honest inquiry that makes anarchy; but it is error, insincerity, half belief and untruth that make it.

— Thomas Carlyle

Anarchy is... a form of government or constitution in which public and private consciousness, formed through the development of science and law, is alone…

— Pierre-Joseph Proudhon

In the next place, the state governments are, by the very theory of the constitution, essential constituent parts of the general government. They can…

— Joseph Story