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

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Lying, Libertarian, States

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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 is the stepping stone to absolute power.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Power, Stones, Absolutes

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• If we choose, we can live in a world of comforting illusion.

  Noam Chomsky

  Hero, Comforting, World

  Noam Chomsky (2001). “9-11 [neuf-onze]”, p.68, Seven Stories Press

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

  Albert Einstein

  Swings, Politics, Illusion

  Albert Einstein (2013). “Albert Einstein, The Human Side: Glimpses from His Archives”, p.38, Princeton University Press

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• Democracy leads to anarchy, which is mob rule.

  Plato

  Government, Democracy, Mob Rule

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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 was the only guy with any bit of anarchy left.

  Sid Vicious

  Guy, Left, Bits

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

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Government, World, Next

  Henry Ward Beecher (1873). “The Original Plymouth Pulpit: Sermons of Henry Ward Beecher in Plymouth Church, Brooklyn”, p.736

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• Bad as any government may be, it is seldom worse than anarchy.

  Aesop

  Government, May

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• Anarchism is "stateless socialism."

  Mikhail Bakunin

  Socialism, Anarchism

  "Stateless Socialism: Anarchism". "The Political Philosophy of Bakunin" by G.P. Maximoff, dwardmac.pitzer.edu. 1953.

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• A culture without property, or in which creators can't get paid, is anarchy, not freedom.

  Lawrence Lessig

  Culture, Creator, Property

  Lawrence Lessig “Free Culture”, Lulu.com

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• Freedom and not servitude is the cure of anarchy; as religion, and not atheism, is the true remedy of superstition.

  Edmund Burke

  Freedom, Atheism, Superstitions

  Speech 'On Conciliation with America' 22 March 1775

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• To say that a bad government must be established for fear of anarchy is really saying that we should kill ourselves for fear of dying.

  Richard Henry Lee

  Fear, Government, Political

  Richard Henry Lee (1825). “Memoir of the Life of Richard H. Lee, and His Correspondence with the Most Distinguished Men in America and Europe”

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• Grown men do not need leaders.

  Edward Abbey

  Leadership, Maturity, Men

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.17, RosettaBooks

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• The most absurd apology for authority and law is that they serve to diminish crime. Aside from the fact that the State is itself the greatest criminal, breaking every written and natural law, stealing in the form of taxes, killing in the form of war and capital punishment, it has come to an absolute standstill in coping with crime. It has failed utterly to destroy or even minimize the horrible scourge of its own creation.

  Emma Goldman

  War, Apology, Law

  Emma Goldman (2015). “Anarchism: Top Crime Collections”, p.33, 谷月社

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• Anarchism, to me, means not only the denial of authority, not only a new economy, but a revision of the principles of morality. It means the development of the individual as well as the assertion of the individual. It means self-responsibility, and not leader worship.

  Voltairine de Cleyre

  Mean, Responsibility, Self

  Voltairine de Cleyre (2012). “Exquisite Rebel: The Essays of Voltairine de Cleyre -- Anarchist, Feminist, Genius”, p.156, SUNY Press

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• Anarchism is the only philosophy which brings to man the consciousness of himself; which maintains that God, the State, and society are non-existent, that their promises are null and void, since they can be fulfilled only through man's subordination.

  Emma Goldman

  Philosophy, Men, Promise

  Emma Goldman (2015). “Anarchism and Other Essays”, p.35, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• The Internet is the first thing that humanity has built that humanity doesn't understand, the largest experiment in anarchy that we have ever had.

  Eric Schmidt

  Humanity, Criminals, Criminal Mind

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• As soon as liberty is complete it dies in anarchy.

  Will Durant

  Liberty, Dies

  Will Durant, Ariel Durant (1967). “Rousseau and Revolution: A History of Civilization in France, England, and Germany from 1756, and in the Remainder of Europe from 1715 to 1789”

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