Best 529 quotes in «anarchy quotes» category

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 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.

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 keynote of government is injustice.

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 falcon cannot hear the falconer

The media is the right arm of anarchy.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Tyranny and anarchy are never far apart.

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 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.

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.