Best 529 quotes in «anarchy quotes» category

It means that we must abandon the method of civil disobedience, non-cooperation and satyagraha. When there was no way left for constitutional methods for achieving economic and social objectives, there was a great deal of justification for unconstitutional methods. But where constitutional methods are open, there can be no justification for these unconstitutional methods. These methods are nothing but the Grammar of Anarchy and the sooner they are abandoned, the better for us.

It's possible to love a human being if you don't know them too well.

It's sadly predictable that the only way you can come up with a way to celebrate the liberation you feel at leaving the old system behind is by coming up with a "system of liberation", as if such a thing could exist - but that's what we can expect from those who have never known anything other than systems and systematizing, I guess.

It's the anarchy of poverty delights me, the old yellow wooden house indented among the new brick tenements

Law And Freedom without Violence (Anarchy) Law And Violence without Freedom (Despotism) Violence without Freedom And Law (Barbarism) Violence with Freedom And Law (Republic)

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

Market Anarchism is the doctrine that the legislative, adjudicative, and protective functions unjustly and inefficiently monopolised by the coercive State should be entirely turned over to the voluntary, consensual forces of market society.

Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world, the blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere the ceremony of innocence is drowned.

Method helps intuition when it is not transformed into dictatorship. Intuition augments method if it does not instill anarchy. In every moment of our semiotic existence, method and intuition complement one another.

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.

Life is the great indulgence - death the great abstinence. Therefore, make the most of life here and now!

Obviously I prefer freedom, but I know, and I think all history has told us, that freedom cannot flow from anarchy and disorder.

One has to multiply thoughts to the point where there aren't enough policemen to control them

On the free market, everyone earns according to his productive value in satisfying consumer desires. Under statist distribution, everyone earns in proportion to the amount he can plunder from the producers.

Let us designate anarchism1 anarchism as you define it. Let us desiginate anarchism2 anarchism as I and the American Heritage College Dictionary define it.

People do not consciously and rationally choose the form of their society. Societies develop through processes of social evolution that are not under rational human control.

Photography promises an enhanced mastery of nature, but photography also threatens conflagration and anarchy.

People, if given the choice between anarchy and dictatorship, will always choose dictatorship because anarchy is the worst dictatorship of all.

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

Power is always dangerous. Power attracts the worst and corrupts the best.

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

Prohibition is an attempted cure that makes matters worse - for both the addict and the rest of us.

Some people with Tourette's have flinging tics- sudden, seemingly motiveless urges or compulsions to throw objects..... (I see somewhat similar flinging behaviors- though not tics- in my two year old godson, now in a stage of primal antinomianism and anarchy)

The chief safeguard of personal freedom in a democratic society is the anarchy and disorder of capitalist individualism.

The Anarchists are simply unterrified Jeffersonian Democrats. They believe that 'the best government is that which governs least,' and that which governs least is no government at all.

The essence of all slavery consists in taking the product of another's labor by force. It is immaterial whether this force be founded upon ownership of the slave or ownership of the money that he must get to live.

The falcon cannot hear the falconer

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.

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

Sadly, anarchy has gotten such a bad name. We don't really see much evidence of it because people associate it with reckless abandon.

The laws of Nature, that is to say the laws of God, plainly made every human being a law unto himself, we must steadfastly refuse to obey those laws, and we must as steadfastly stand by the conventions which ignore them, since the statutes furnish us peace, fairly good government, and stability, and therefore are better for us than the laws of God, which would soon plunge us into confusion and disorder and anarchy if we should adopt them.

The ideally non-violent state will be an ordered anarchy.

The mischiefs of anarchy have been equaled by the mischiefs of government.

... the keynote of government is injustice.

The main question ... is not what motive inspired the law, but what it will be possible for men of bad motive to do with the law.

The passions refuse to be organized on a basis of their own; hostile to personal freedom and one another, they rush precipitately into anarchy and mob rule.

The media is the right arm of anarchy.

The primary component upon which all else rests in a kingdom is the authority of the ruler. Without that, there is anarchy resulting in mess.

There is more than one kind of freedom," said Aunt Lydia. "Freedom to and freedom from. In the days of anarchy, it was freedom to. Now you are being given freedom from. Don't underrate it.

There will always be something to ruin our lives, it all depends on what or which finds us first. We are always ripe and ready to be taken.

The more you think you have to use physical force to control life, the less you control life.

The State is said by some to be a necessary evil; it must be made unnecessary.

The rich have become richer, and the poor have become poorer; and the vessel of the state is driven between the Scylla and Charybdis of anarchy and despotism.

The suddenness of the leap from hardware to software cannot but produce a period of anarchy and collapse, especially in the developed countries.

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

The worst enemy of life, freedom and the common decencies is total anarchy; their second worst enemy is total efficiency.

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

This is not anarchy, Eve. This is chaos.

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

Thus does a 'necessary evil' become an idol. Maybe we're stuck with it. But do we have to worship it?