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• Anarchy is the stepping stone to absolute power.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Power, Stones, Absolutes

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• The essence of government is force, and most often that force is used to accomplish evil ends.

  Walter E. Williams

  Government, Essence, Evil

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• The Anarchists are right in everything; in the negation of the existing order, and in the assertion that, without authority, there could not be worse violence than that of authority under existing conditions. They are mistaken only in thinking that Anarchy can be instituted by a revolution. "To establish Anarchy." "Anarchy will be instituted." But it will be instituted only by there being more and more people who do not require protection from governmental power, and by there being more and more people who will be ashamed of applying this power.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Thinking, Order, People

  graf Leo Tolstoy (1915). “Social Evils and Their Remedy”

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• All governments are in equal measure good and evil. The best ideal is anarchy.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Government, Evil, Anarchist

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• We have only one alternative: either to build a functioning industrial society or see freedom itself disappear in anarchy and tyranny.

  Peter Drucker

  Alternatives, Disappear, Tyranny

  Peter F. Drucker (2017). “The Future of Industrial Man”, p.107, Routledge

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• Are not laws dangerous which inhibit the passions? Compare the centuries of anarchy with those of the strongest legalism in any country you like and you will see that it is only when the laws are silent that the greatest actions appear.

  Marquis de Sade

  Country, Passion, Law

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• Anarchism, then, really stands for the liberation of the human mind from the dominion of religion.

  Emma Goldman

  Mind, Dominion, Anarchist

  'Anarchism and Other Essays' (1910) p. 68

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• Anarchy is the sure consequence of tyranny; for no power that is not limited by laws can ever be protected by them.

  John Milton

  Freedom, Law, Democracy

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• Democracy leads to anarchy, which is mob rule.

  Plato

  Government, Democracy, Mob Rule

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• Without an advocate for the poor, without a new state of mind in America, the country lies on the brink of anarchy.

  Louis Farrakhan

  Country, Lying, America

  Louis Farrakhan (1993). “A Torchlight for America”, F C N Publishing Company

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• ANARCHISM:The philosophy of a new social order based on liberty unrestricted by man-made law; the theory that all forms of government rest on violence, and are therefore wrong and harmful, as well as unnecessary.

  Emma Goldman

  Philosophy, Men, Order

  Emma Goldman (2015). “Anarchism and Other Essays”, p.37, Library of Alexandria

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• Any man who afflicts the human race with ideas must be prepared to see them misunderstood.

  H. L. Mencken

  Men, Race, Ideas

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• Politics is a pendulum whose swings between anarchy and tyranny are fueled by perennially rejuvenated illusions.

  Albert Einstein

  Swings, Politics, Illusion

  Albert Einstein (2013). “Albert Einstein, The Human Side: Glimpses from His Archives”, p.38, Princeton University Press

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• We have two American flags always: one for the rich and one for the poor. When the rich fly it means that things are under control; when the poor fly it means danger, revolution, anarchy.

  Henry Miller

  Mean, Two, Society

  Henry Miller (1970). “The Air-Conditioned Nightmare”, p.37, New Directions Publishing

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• Where you have no religion, you are sure to have no government, for as religion disappears, anarchy takes place and fixes a compleat Hell on earth till religion returns.

  Daniel Morgan

  Government, Earth, Return

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• There is no chance and anarchy in the universe. All is system and gradation. Every god is there sitting in his sphere.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  God, Sitting, Spheres

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2004). “A Dream Too Wild: Emerson Meditations for Every Day of the Year”, Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations

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• The worst thing in this world, next to anarchy, is government.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Government, World, Next

  Henry Ward Beecher (1873). “The Original Plymouth Pulpit: Sermons of Henry Ward Beecher in Plymouth Church, Brooklyn”, p.736

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• The best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity.

  William Butler Yeats

  Passionate, Doubt And Certainty, Conviction

  "The Second Coming" l. 1 (1921)

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• I define anarchist society as one where there is no legal possibility for coercive aggression against the person or property of any individual. Anarchists oppose the State because it has its very being in such aggression, namely, the expropriation of private property through taxation, the coercive exclusion of other providers of defense service from its territory, and all of the other depredations and coercions that are built upon these twin foci of invasions of individual rights.

  Murray Rothbard

  Rights, Focus, Defense

  "Society Without A State". The Libertarian Forum, 1975.

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• Americans cannot comprehend how their fellow countrymen could not love their country. But the left's anti-Americanism is intrinsic to their entire worldview. Liberals promote the right of Islamic fanatics for the same reason they promote the rights of adulterers, pornographers, abortionists, criminals, and Communists. They instinctively root for anarchy against civilization. The inevitable logic of the liberal position is to be for treason.

  Ann Coulter

  Country, Islamic, Civilization

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• Everyone should be concerned about Internet anarchy in which anybody can pretend to be anybody else, unless something is done to stop it. If hoaxes like this go unchecked, who can believe anything they see on the Internet? What good would the Internet be then? If the people who control Internet web sites do not do anything, is that not an open invitation for government to step in? And does anybody want politicians to control what can go on the Internet?

  Thomas Sowell

  Believe, Government, People

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• Neither a life of anarchy nor a life under a despot should you praise. To all that lies in the middle has a god given excellence.

  Aeschylus

  Lying, Tyrants, Excellence

  "Oresteia".

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• In short, Anarchism means a condition or society where all men and women are free, and where all enjoy equally the benefits of an ordered and sensible life.

  Alexander Berkman

  Mean, Men, Benefits

  Alexander Berkman (2010). “Now and After: the ABC of Anarchist Communism”, p.10, Lulu.com

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• The city and province were given up to anarchy; the coloured people, elated with victory, proclaimed the slaughter of all whites, except the English, French, and American residents.

  Henry Walter Bates

  Cities, People, Victory

  Henry Walter Bates (1863). “The Naturalist on the River Amazons”, p.40

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• It would be immoral to walk away from the consequences of our actions, leaving behind anarchy and civil war in Iraq.

  Kenneth Clarke

  War, Iraq, Leaving

  Kenneth Clarke's speech, www.theguardian.com. August 31, 2005.

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