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

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

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

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 falcon cannot hear the falconer

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

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

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 media is the right arm of anarchy.

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 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 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 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.

This is not anarchy, Eve. This is chaos.

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

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

To the sober person adventurous conduct often seems insanity.

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

Tyranny and anarchy are never far apart.

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.

Unregulated competition is a naive metaphor for anarchy.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

Whenever government abandons law, it proclaims anarchy.

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