Anarchy Quotes - Page 12

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

  Benjamin Tucker

  Evil, Unnecessary, States

  Benjamin Ricketson Tucker (1972). “Instead of a Book”

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• The student of Liberty must constantly endeavor to disassociate his imagination from sanguinary dramas of assassination and revolt.

  Benjamin Tucker

  Drama, Imagination, Liberty

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• They do not want to know that centralization is not only the death-knell of liberty, but also of health and beauty, of art and science, all these being impossible in a clock-like, mechanical atmosphere.

  Emma Goldman

  Art, Atmosphere, Liberty

  Emma Goldman (2015). “Anarchism: Top Crime Collections”, p.30, 谷月社

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• If the individual has a right to govern himself, all external government is tyranny. Hence the necessity of abolishing the State.

  Benjamin Tucker

  Government, Anarchist, Individual

  Benjamin Ricketson Tucker (1972). “State Socialism and Anarchism and Other Essays”, Ralph Myles Pub

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• Aggression is simply another name for government. Aggression, invasion, government, are interconvertible terms. The essence of government is control, or the attempt to control. He who attempts to control another is a governor, an aggressor, an invader; and the nature of such invasion is not changed, whether it is made by one man upon another man, after the manner of the ordinary criminal, or by one man upon all other men, after the manner of an absolute monarch, or by all other men upon one man, after the manner of a modern democracy.

  Benjamin Tucker

  Men, Essence, Names

  Address to Unitarian Ministers, 1890.

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• He who attempts to control another is a governor, an aggressor, an invader; and the nature of such invasion is not changed, whether it is made by one man upon another man ... or by all other men upon one man, after the manner of a modern democracy.

  Benjamin Tucker

  Men, Democracy, Invasion

  Benjamin Ricketson Tucker (1893). “Instead of a Book”, Ayer Company Pub

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

  Benjamin Tucker

  Government, Definitions, Individual

  Benjamin Ricketson Tucker (1972). “Instead of a Book”

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• Anarchism does not repudiate the right of ownership, but it has a conception thereof sufficiently different from [others'] to include the possibility of an end of that social organization which will arise, not out of the ruins of government, but out of the transformation of government into voluntary association for defence.

  Benjamin Tucker

  Government, Organization, Doe

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• 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.

  Murray Rothbard

  Desire, Plunder, Proportion

  Murray N. Rothbard (2004). “Man, Economy, and State with Power and Market, Scholar's Edition”, p.1363, Ludwig von Mises Institute

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• I went down on my knees and prayed to Almighty God for light and guidance and one night late it came to me this way. We could not leave (the Philippines) to themselves-they were unfit for self-government-and they would soon have anarchy and misrule over there worse than Spain's was. There was nothing left for us to do but take them all and educate the Filipinos, and uplift and Christianize them.

  William McKinley

  Uplifting, Night, Light

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• Part of the heart of anarchy is, dare to go against the grain of the conventional ways of thinking about our realities. Anarchists have always gone against the grain, and that's been a place of hope.

  Bell Hooks

  Heart, Reality, Thinking

  "How Do You Practice Intersectionalism? An Interview with bell hooks". Interview with Randy Lowens, nefac.net. March 15, 2012.

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• Your mind is totally controlled, it has been stuffed into my mold. And you will do as you are told, until the rights to you are sold.

  Frank Zappa

  Rights, Mind, Mold

  Song: I'm the Slime, Album: Over-Nite Sensation

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• The seven deadly sins of the Christian Church are: greed, pride, envy, anger, gluttony, lust, and sloth. Satanism advocates indulging in each of these "sins" as they all lead to physical, mental, or emotional gratification.

  Anton Szandor LaVey

  Christian, Pride, Emotional

  "The Satanic Bible". Book by Anton Szandor LaVey, 1969.

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• The three most ancient opinions concerning God are Anarchia, Polyarchia, and Monarchia. The first two are the sport of the children of Hellas, and may they continue to be so. For Anarchy is a thing without order; and the Rule of Many is factious, and thus anarchical, and thus disorderly. For both these tend to the same thing, namely disorder; and this to dissolution, for disorder is the first step to dissolution. But Monarchy is what we hold in honor.

  Gregory of Nyssa

  Sports, Children, Order

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• Looking at the world as a whole, the drift for many decades has been not towards anarchy but towards the reimposition of slavery. We may be heading not for general breakdown but for an epoch as horribly stable as the slave empires of antiquity.

  George Orwell

  World, Slavery, May

  George Orwell (1968). “The Collected Essays, Journalism, and Letters of George Orwell: In front of your nose, 1945-1950”

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• Lawlessness is lawlessness. Anarchy is anarchy is anarchy. Neither race nor color nor frustration is an excuse for either lawlessness or anarchy.

  Thurgood Marshall

  Frustration, Race, Color

  Thurgood Marshall's speech at the National Convention of Alpha Phi Alpha in St. Louis, Missouri (August 15, 1966) as quoted in "St. Louis Globe-Democrat" (p. 1), August 17, 1966.

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• Anarchy is all around us. Without it, our world would fall apart. All progress is due to it. All order extends from it. All blessed things that rise above the state of nature are owned to it. The human race thrives only because of the lack of control, not because of it. I’m saying that we need ever more absence of control to make the world a more beautiful place. It is a paradox that we must forever explain.

  Jeffrey Tucker

  Beautiful, Blessed, Fall

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

  Alfred Hermann Fried

  War, Symptoms, International

  Alfred Hermann Fried (1918*). “International Co-operation”

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• I get shocked by people smoking cigarettes sometimes. i get shocked by watching talk shows. people's moralities are so far below what i would consider standard.

  Marilyn Manson

  People, Smoking, Morality

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• If a window is broken and left unrepaired, people walking by will conclude that no one cares and no one is in charge. Soon, more windows will be broken, and the sense of anarchy will spread from the building to the street on which it faces, sending a signal that anything goes.

  Malcolm Gladwell

  People, Broken, Anything Goes

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• If you have unity without variety, you have uniformity and that's boring. If you have variety without unity, you have anarchy.

  Skip Heitzig

  Unity, Boring, Uniformity

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• No doubt, anarchy, once established, might not last forever. But if your house is on fire, the sensible course of action is to put out the fire, even though this extinguishment provides no guarantee that the house will never catch fire again.

  Robert Higgs

  Fire, Guarantees That, House

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• My aim is to be understood by everyone. I reject the 'depth' that people demand nowadays, into which you can never descend without a diving bell crammed with cabbalistic bullshit and intellectual metaphysics. This expressionistic anarchy has got to stop... A day will come when the artist will no longer be this bohemian, puffed-up anarchist but a healthy man working in clarity within a collectivist society.

  George Grosz

  Artist, Men, People

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• Distraction serves evil more than any other mental state.

  Stefan Molyneux

  Evil, Distraction, States

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• Anarchy is as detestable in grammar as it is in society.

  Maurice Druon

  Grammar

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