Anarchy Quotes - Page 6

• America... just a nation of two hundred million used car salesmen with all the money we need to buy guns and no qualms about killing anybody else in the world who tries to make us uncomfortable.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Gun, Two, Qualms About

  Hunter S. Thompson (2012). “Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail '72”, p.21, Simon and Schuster

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• Eventually the revolutionaries become the established culture, and then what will they do

  Linus Torvalds

  Culture, Revolutionary

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• The notion of anarchy ...means that once industrial functions have taken over from political functions, then business transactions and exchange alone produce the social order.

  Pierre-Joseph Proudhon

  Taken, Mean, Order

  "The Principle of Federation". Book by Pierre-Joseph Proudhon, 1863.

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• There can be no such thing as "limited government," because there is no way to control an entity that in principle enjoys a monopoly of power.

  Joseph Sobran

  Government, Principles, Way

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

  Victor de Riqueti, marquis de Mirabeau

  Order, May, Despotism

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• The uniformity and obedience of the media, which any dictator would admire...

  Noam Chomsky

  Media, Politics, Dictator

  "Turning the Tide: U.S. Intervention in Central America and the Struggle for Peace". Book by Noam Chomsky, 1985.

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• There is no peace now, and there will never be peace, so long as one rules over another.

  Voltairine de Cleyre

  Long

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• The philosophy of Atheism represents a concept of life without any metaphysical Beyond or Divine Regulator. It is the concept of an actual, real world with its liberating, expanding and beautifying possibilities, as against an unreal world, which, with its spirits, oracles, and mean contentment has kept humanity in helpless degradation.

  Emma Goldman

  Atheist, Philosophy, Real

  Emma Goldman (1915). “Mother Earth Bulletin”

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• Beginning with Santa Claus as a cognitive exercise, a child is encouraged to share the same idea of reality as his peers. Even if that reality is patently invented and ludicrous, belief is encouraged with gifts that support and promote the common cultural lies. The greatest consensus in modern society is our traffic systems. The way a flood of strangers can interact, sharing a path, almost all of them traveling without incident. It only takes one dissenting driver to create anarchy.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Children, Lying, Exercise

  "Rant: An Oral Biography of Buster Casey". Book by Chuck Palahniuk, May 1, 2007.

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• A state of war or anarchy, in which law has little force, is so far valuable, that it puts every man on trial. The man of principle is known as such, and even in the fury of faction is respected.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  War, Character, Men

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.1202, Delphi Classics

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• Life will not be a pyramid with the apex sustained by the bottom, but an oceanic circle whose centre will be the individual.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Circles, Pyramids, Individual

  Mahatma Gandhi, Judith M. Brown (2008). “The Essential Writings”, p.158, Oxford University Press

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• I am waiting for the war to be fought which will make the world safe for anarchy

  Lawrence Ferlinghetti

  War, Waiting, World

  Lawrence Ferlinghetti (1994). “These are My Rivers: New & Selected Poems, 1955-1993”, p.101, New Directions Publishing

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• Faith: Belief without evidence in what is told by one who speaks without knowledge, of things without parallel.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Inspirational, Faith, Atheist

  The Devil's Dictionary

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• Today, nobody sees, or wishes to see, that in our time the enslavement of the majority of men is based on money taxes, levied on land and otherwise, which are collected by government from the subjects.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Men, Land, Wish

  graf Leo Tolstoy (1891). “Church and State and Other Essays: Including Money; Man and Woman: Their Respective Functions; The Mother; A Second Supplement to the Kreutzer Sonata”

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• Government destitute of energy, will ever produce anarchy.

  James Madison

  Government, Energy, Produce

  James Madison (1836). “The Debates in the Several State Conventions on the Adoption of the Federal Constitution: As Recommended by the General Convention at Philadelphia in 1787. Together with the Journal of the Federal Convention, Luther Martin's Letter, Yates's Minutes, Congressional Opinions, Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions of '98-'99, and Other Illustrations of the Constitution”, p.131

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

  Jonathan Swift

  Savages, Arbitrary, Firsts

  Jonathan Swift (1803). “The Works”, p.316

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• It is far more important to resist apathy than anarchy or despotism, for apathy can give rise, almost indifferently, to either one.

  Alexis de Tocqueville

  Giving, Important, Apathy

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• Wrong doing must be punished. If not, it will proliferate until anarchy wears the robes of tolerance and understanding.

  Terry Goodkind

  Understanding, Tolerance, Robes

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• Laws should be like clothes. They should be made to fit the people they are meant to serve.

  Clarence Darrow

  Motivational, Law, Clothes

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• I prefer the discipline of knowledge to the anarchy of ignorance.

  David Ogilvy

  Ignorance, Discipline, Future Growth

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• Freedom is the default position. Everything the government does takes away some of our freedom... That's why we have a constitution, to restrain the government.

  Andrew Napolitano

  Government, Doe, Constitution

  "Super Bowl and Super Tuesday". www.foxnews.com. February 5, 2008.

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• Somewhere between apathy and anarchy lies the thinking human being.

  Rod Serling

  Lying, Thinking, Apathy

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• I think students ought to have the right to protest, but not to the point of anarchy.

  Johnny Carson

  Thinking, Students, Protest

  Source: www.alex-haley.com

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• Energy in the executive is a leading character in the definition of good government. It is essential to the protection of the community against foreign attacks; it is not less essential to the steady administration of the laws; to the protection of property against those irregular and high-handed combinations which sometimes interrupt the ordinary course of justice; to the security of liberty against the enterprises and assaults of ambition, of faction, and of anarchy.

  Alexander Hamilton

  Character, Ambition, Law

  Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, Quentin P. Taylor, John Jay (1998). “The Essential Federalist: A New Reading of the Federalist Papers”, p.133, Rowman & Littlefield

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• It is perfectly clear that people, given no alternative, will choose tyranny over anarchy, because anarchy is the worst tyranny of all... The special nature of liberties is that they can be defended only as long as we still have them. So the very first signs of their erosion must be resisted, whether the issue be domestic surveillance by the Army, so-called preventive detention, or the freedom of corporate television, or that of a campus newspaper.

  Eric Sevareid

  Army, Erosion, Issues

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