Anarchy Quotes

• A man is no less a slave because he is allowed to choose a new master once in a term of years.

  Lysander Spooner

  Freedom, Men, Years

  Lysander Spooner (1973). “No Treason and a Letter to Thomas F. Bayard”

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• Anarchy doesn't mean out of control; it means out of their control.

  Jim Dodge

  Mean, Thrive

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• There can be but little liberty on earth while men worship a tyrant in heaven.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Freedom, Men, Tyrants

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.55, Library of Alexandria

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• Our government... teaches the whole people by its example. If the government becomes the lawbreaker, it breeds contempt for law; it invites every man to become a law unto himself; it invites anarchy.

  Louis D. Brandeis

  Change, Men, Law

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  The only means of strengthening one's intellect is to make up one's mind about nothing, to let the mind be a thoroughfare for all thoughts.

  John Keats

  Inspirational, Mean, Science

  Letter to George and Georgiana Keats, 24 September 1819, in H. E. Rollins (ed.) 'The Letters of John Keats' (1958) vol. 2, p. 213

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• 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.

  Sid Vicious

  Alive, Causes, Moral

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• But if the laws are to be so trampled upon with impunity, and a minority is to dictate to the majority, there is an end put at one stroke to republican government, and nothing but anarchy and confusion is to be expected thereafter.

  George Washington

  Government, Law, Confusion

  George Washington (1851). “The life of General Washington: first president of the United States”, p.216

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

  Stephen Jay Gould

  Night, Cities, Bombs

  Stephen Jay Gould (1991). “Bully for Brontosaurus: Reflections in Natural History”, W W Norton & Company Incorporated

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• What is important is to spread confusion, not eliminate it.

  Salvador Dali

  Confusion, Important, Spread

  "Meta-Algorithmics: Patterns for Robust, Low Cost, High Quality Systems" by Steven J. Simske, John Wiley & Sons, (p. 272), May 28, 2013.

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• Everything the State says is a lie, and everything it has it has stolen.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Lying, Libertarian, States

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• The first thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers.

  William Shakespeare

  Funny, Inspiration, Law

  'Henry VI, Part 2' (1592) act 4, sc. 2, l. [73]

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• In no sense do I advocate evading or defying the law . . That would lead to anarchy.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Law, Defying

  Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (2011). “Why We Can't Wait”, p.61, Beacon Press

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• Anarchy: It is NOT bombs, disorder or chaos. It is NOT robbery and murder. It is NOT a war of each against all. It is NOT a return to barbarism or to the wild state of man. Anarchism is the very opposite of all that.

  Alexander Berkman

  War, Men, Opposites

  Alexander Berkman, Jewish Anarchist Federation (1929). “Now and after: the A B C of communist anarchism”

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• The falcon cannot hear the falconer

  William Butler Yeats

  Falling Apart, Things Fall Apart Important, Things Fall Apart Okonkwo

  "The Second Coming" l. 1 (1921)

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• There is a certain combination of anarchy and discipline in the way I work.

  Robert De Niro

  Discipline, Way, Anarchist

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• When war is declared, truth is the first casualty

  Arthur Ponsonby, 1st Baron Ponsonby of Shulbrede

  Peace, War, Firsts

  "Falsehood in Wartime". Book by Arthur Ponsonby, 1st Baron Ponsonby of Shulbrede, 1928.

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• Anarchism is democracy taken seriously.

  Edward Abbey

  Taken, Democracy, Anarchism

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• My political opinions lean more and more to Anarchy (philosophically understood, meaning abolition of control not whiskered men with bombs).

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Men, Political Opinions, Bombs

  1943 Letter to Christopher Tolkien, 29 Apr.

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• I was the only guy with any bit of anarchy left.

  Sid Vicious

  Guy, Left, Bits

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

  Aldous Huxley

  Worst Enemy, Common Decency, Literature

  Aldous Huxley (1956). “Adonis and the alphabet: and other essays”

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

  Edward Abbey

  Power, Worst, Dangerous

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.21, RosettaBooks

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• I die, as I have lived, a free spirit, an Anarchist, owing no allegiance to rulers, heavenly or earthly.

  Voltairine de Cleyre

  Atheist, Free Spirit, Atheism

  Voltairine de Cleyre (2012). “Exquisite Rebel: The Essays of Voltairine de Cleyre -- Anarchist, Feminist, Genius”, p.36, SUNY Press

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• Anarchists know that a long period of education must precede any great fundamental change in society, hence they do not believe in vote begging, nor political campaigns, but rather in the development of self-thinking individuals.

  Lucy Parsons

  Believe, Thinking, Self

  Lucy Eldine Parsons (2004). “Freedom, Equality and Solidarity”, Charles H Kerr Publishing Company

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• No state, upon its own mere motion, can lawfully get out of the Union. Plainly, the central idea of secession, is the essence of anarchy.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Essence, Ideas, Liberty

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• There is no greater evil than anarchy.

  Sophocles

  Evil, Anarchism, Greater

  Sophocles, Aeschylus, Euripides (2016). “The Greek Plays: Sixteen Plays by Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides”, p.301, Modern Library

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