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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 media is the right arm of anarchy.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

This, then, is the Anarchistic definition of government: the subjection of the non-invasive individual to an external will.

This is not anarchy, Eve. This is chaos.

To live exhilaratingly in and for the moment is deadly serious work, fun of the most exhausting sort

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

Undermine their pompous authority, reject their moral standards, make anarchy and disorder your trademarks. Cause as much chaos and disruption as possible but don't let them take you ALIVE.

To me, the main idea of punk was do-it-yourself, which meant that you could basically do anything that you would wanna do. You don't have to wait to be allowed to do it. Anarchy was more or less about the same thing, so for me they were closely related.

To the sober person adventurous conduct often seems insanity.

Tyranny and anarchy are never far apart.

Unregulated competition is a naive metaphor for anarchy.

Unless the Security Council is restored to its pre-eminent position as the sole source of legitimacy on the use of force, we are on a dangerous path to anarchy.

War is not, in itself, a condition so much as the symptom of a condition - that of international anarchy.

We have gone through everything as a nation - partition, dictatorship, and even anarchy.

We can do anything we like as long as it is UNIMPORTANT.

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

We live in a society of victimization, where people are much more comfortable being victimized than actually standing up for themselves.

We have to claim anarchy and realize that systems have a life of their own that is anti-humanist. There is definitely an anti-humanist tendency in all systems.

We must shed the old stereotype of anarchists as bearded bomb throwers furtively stalking about city streets at night.

We must institute a coup d'etat, a third revolution, which must beat down anarchy. Dissolve the Paris Commune and destroy its sections! Dissolve the clubs, which preach disorder and equality! Close the Jacobin Club and seal up its papers! ... The triumvirate of Robespierre, Danton and Marat, all the 'levellers', all the anarchists. Then a new Convention will be elected.

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

What a comfort it is to feel that amid the chaos and anarchy which sweep the surface, God is holding fast the foundations on which we build.

What characterized the whole punk scene for me in 1977 was there was no racism or sexism. It was an anarchy of -isms, and a matter of abolishing it all.

When anarchy is declared, the first thing we do, let's kill all the anarchists.

Whenever government abandons law, it proclaims anarchy.

When men have become heartily wearied of licentious anarchy, their eagerness has been proportionately great to embrace the opposite extreme of rigorous despotism.

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.

Writers. For some reason, a lot of you reject what you hear and see in your heads. If you go too long ignoring it, it builds up and then you do all sorts of weird things. Mumble to yourself. Nightmares. Day-dreams. Total anarchy and chaos. Before you know it, the writer is either sitting in corner feverishly humming to his- or herself or on Prozac. You’re not on Prozac, are you? (Esther)

'What I believe' is a process rather than a finality. Finalities are for gods and governments, not for the human intellect.

When the enemy advances, withdraw; when he stops, harass; when he tires, strike; when he retreats, pursue.

When war is declared, truth is the first casualty

Where there is authority, there is no freedom.

Without real nonviolence, there would be perfect anarchy.

Would you like to do something good for the future of the human race; well, start killing some of its powerful members.

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