Anarchy Quotes - Page 5

That is what I have always understood to be the essence of anarchism: the conviction that the burden of proof has to be placed on authority, and that it should be dismantled if that burden cannot be met.

Inside every working anarchy, there's an Old Boy Network.

Nonviolent non-co-operation is the only alternative to anarchy and worse.

A culture without property, or in which creators can't get paid, is anarchy, not freedom.

Arbitrary power is but the first natural step from anarchy, or the savage life.

Liberty is the solution of all social and economic questions.

To bring about destruction by overcrowding, mass starvation, anarchy, the destruction of our most cherished values, there is no need to do anything. We need only do nothing except what comes naturally, and breed. And how easy it is to do nothing

When you break the big laws, you do not get liberty; you do not even get anarchy. You get the small laws.

Anarchism, the great leaven of thought, is today permeating every phase of human endeavor.... It is the philosophy of the sovereignty of the individual. It is the theory of social harmony. It is the great, surging, living truth that is reconstructing the world, and that will usher in the Dawn.

Woodstock was about the closest thing to anarchy I've ever seen in my whole life, and I didn't like it.

An Anarchist is anyone who denies the necessity and legitimacy of government; the question of his methods of attacking it is foreign to the definition.

This is not anarchy, Eve. This is chaos.

Bad as any government may be, it is seldom worse than anarchy.

In times of anarchy one may seem a despot in order to be a saviour.

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 with.

In the sense that anarchy equals freedom, yes. Anarchy means freedom, but it also means chaos.

Non-praying is lawlessness, discord, anarchy.

They made and recorded a sort of institute and digest of anarchy, called the rights of man.

Let those that merely talk and never think, That live in the wild anarchy of drink

And so many of the people in the arena here, you know, were underprivileged anyway, so this is working very well for them.

Experience has shown that it is difficult, if not impossible, for a populous state to be run by good laws.

The history of any nation follows an undulatory course. In the trough of the wave we find more or less complete anarchy; but the crest is not more or less complete Utopia, but only, at best, a tolerably humane, partially free and fairly just society that invariably carries within itself the seeds of its own decadence.

I'd always maintained that much of the anarchy and craziness of the early internet had a lot to do with the fact that governments just hadn't realised it was there.

To make a thief, make an owner; to create crime, create laws.

I do not wish to remove from my present prison to a prison a little larger. I wish to break all prisons.