Anarchist Quote by Leo Tolstoy Download Open image “All governments are in equal measure good and evil. The best ideal is anarchy.” — Leo Tolstoy ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.0 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Anarchist Anarchy Equal Evil Good and evil Government Ideals Politics
Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state, an intolerable one. — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
The best form of government is that which is most likely to prevent the greatest sum of evil. — James Monroe Copy Share Image
The best government is a benevolent tyranny tempered by an occasional assassination. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
To say that a bad government must be established for fear of anarchy is really saying that we should kill ourselves for fear of… — Richard Henry Lee Copy Share Image
There is no such thing as a good government. There never was. There can't be. — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
I heartily accept the motto, "That government is best which governs least"; and I should like to see it acted up to more rapidly… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The best government is that which teaches us to govern ourselves. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Good Government is not intrusive the people are hardly aware of it; the next best is felt yet loved; then comes that which is… — Laozi Copy Share Image
These joys were so trifling as to be as imperceptible as grains of gold among the sand, and in moments of depression she saw… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
The only significance of life consists in helping to establish the kingdom of God. — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“I already love in you your beauty, but I am only beginning to love in you that which is eternal and ever precious –… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“If you only knew what those society women are, and women in general! My father is right. Selfish, vain, stupid, trivial in everything—that's what… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
To evoke in oneself a feeling one has once experienced, and having evoked it in oneself, then by means of movements, lines, colors, sounds,… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Once we're thrown off our habitual paths, we think all is lost, but it's only here that the new and the good begins. — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“He knew she was there by the rapture and the terror that seized on his heart. She was standing talking to a lady at… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“He was not to blame for being born with an irrepressible charachter and a mind some how constrained.” — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
I ask one thing only: I ask for the right to hope, to suffer as I do. But if even that cannot be, command… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
The minimum that most minimalists want leaves in place just the institutions who protect their interests. That's libertarians for you - anarchists who want… — Kim Stanley Robinson Copy Share Image
Anarchism is a definite intellectual current in the life of our times, whose adherents advocate the abolition of economic monopolies and of all political… — Rudolf Rocker Copy Share Image
The hope of Internet anarchists was that repressive governments would have only two options: accept the Internet with its limitless possibilities of spreading information,… — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
In the sixties, during the Vietnam war, when anarchists and pacifists and socialists, Democrats and Republicans, decent-hearted Americans, all recoiled with horror at the… — Pete Seeger Copy Share Image
Creativity comes by breaking the rules, by saying that you're in love with the anarchist. — Anita Roddick Copy Share Image
The modern day anarchists known as the Tea Party, they believe in no government. — Harry Reid Copy Share Image
[On an anarchist acquaintance:] Everything in appearance the most alarmist aunt could wish. — Sylvia Townsend Warner Copy Share Image
Anarchists are opposed to violence; everyone knows that. The main plank of anarchism is the removal of violence from human relations. It is life… — Errico Malatesta Copy Share Image
The Anarchists are simply unterrified Jeffersonian Democrats. They believe that 'the best government is that which governs least,' and that which governs least is… — Benjamin Tucker Copy Share Image
I am in total opposition to any institutional power. I favor a world of neighborhoods in which all social organization is voluntary and the… — Karl Hess Copy Share Image
I'm an anarchist. I'm implacably opposed to heirarchical systems of power and control. I also mistrust crowds, as they often operate according to their… — Will Self Copy Share Image
We must therefore turn to history for enlightenment; here we find that none of the proclaimed anarchist groups correspond to the libertarian position, that… — Murray Rothbard Copy Share Image