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• The measure of the state's success is that the word anarchy frightens people, while the word state does not.

  Joseph Sobran

  People, Doe, States

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• Anarchy loves theatre. That's the whole point. People forget that. You have to laugh at the devil, not fight him. They'll always have more guns, they'll always have more bombs that go off with a bigger bang. No matter how revolting you become they'll always be willing to be more revolting to you. They've had so much more practice.

  Melvin Burgess

  Fighting, Gun, Practice

  Melvin Burgess (2010). “Smack”, p.95, Henry Holt and Company (BYR)

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• Discipline isn't a dirty word. Far from it. Discipline is the one thing that separates us from chaos and anarchy. Discipline implies timing. It's the precursor to good behavior, and it never comes from bad behavior. People who associate discipline with punishment are wrong: with discipline, punishment is unnecessary.

  Buck Brannaman

  Dirty, Punishment, Discipline

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

  Christopher Dawson

  Individualism, Disorder, Chiefs

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• The star of revolution will rise high above the streets of Moscow, from a sea of blood and fire, and turn into a lodestar to lead a liberated humanity

  Mikhail Bakunin

  Stars, Fire, Blood

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• You can't mine coal without machine guns.

  Richard B. Mellon

  Gun, Coal, Machines

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• Anarchism aims to strip labor of its deadening, dulling aspect, of its gloom and compulsion. It aims to make work an instrument of joy, of strength, of color, of real harmony, so that the poorest sort of a man should find in work both recreation and hope.

  Emma Goldman

  Real, Men, Color

  Emma Goldman (2015). “Anarchism: Top Crime Collections”, p.34, 谷月社

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• In the hands of a people whose education has been willfully neglected, the ballot is a cunning swindle benefitting only the united barons of industry, trade and property.

  Daniel Guerin

  Hands, People, Neglected

  Daniel Guérin (1970). “Anarchism; from theory to practice”, Monthly Review Pr

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• The objector and the rebel who raises his voice against what he believes to be the injustice of the present and the wrongs of the past is the one who hunches the world along.

  Clarence Darrow

  Believe, Past, Voice

  Clarence Darrow (2012). “Attorney for the Damned: Clarence Darrow in the Courtroom”, p.147, University of Chicago Press

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• Those who directed the state in the time of Solon and Cleisthenes did not establish a polity which ... trained the citizens in such fashion that they looked upon insolence as democracy, lawlessness as liberty, impudence of speech as equality, and licence to do what they pleased as happiness, but rather a polity which detested and punished such men and by so doing made all the citizens better and wiser.

  Isocrates

  Freedom, Equality, Rights

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• Once one concedes that a single world government is not necessary, then where does one logically stop at the permissibility of separate states? If Canada and the United States can be separate nations without being denounced as in a state of impermissible ‘anarchy’, why may not the South secede from the United States? New York State from the Union? New York City from the state? Why may not Manhattan secede? Each neighbourhood? Each block? Each house? Each person?

  Murray Rothbard

  New York, Block, Government

  Murray N. Rothbard (2004). “Man, Economy, and State with Power and Market, Scholar's Edition”, p.1051, Ludwig von Mises Institute

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• In debates between anarchists and statists, the burden of proof clearly should rest on those who place their trust in the state. Anarchy's mayhem is wholly conjectural; the state's mayhem is undeniably, factually horrendous.

  Robert Higgs

  Burden Of Proof, Debate, Anarchist

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• I earnestly pray that the Omnipotent Being who has not deserted the cause of America in the hour of its extremest hazard, will never yield so fair a heritage of freedom a prey to 'Anarchy' or 'Despotism'.

  George Washington

  Yield, America, Hazards

  George Washington, Jared Sparks (1835). “The Writings of George Washington: Being His Correspondence, Addresses, Messages, and Other Papers, Official and Private”, p.406

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• Design without discipline is anarchy, an exercise of irresponsibilit y.

  Massimo Vignelli

  Exercise, Discipline, Design

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• Liberalism is to freedom as anarchism is to anarchy.

  Ernst Junger

  Anarchism, Liberalism

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• Why don’t we have libertarian anarchy? Why does government exist? The answer implicit in previous chapters is that government as a whole exists because most people believe it is necessary.

  David D. Friedman

  Believe, Government, People

  David D. Friedman (1989). “The machinery of freedom: guide to a radical capitalism”, Open Court Publishing Company

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• Anarchism asserts the possibility of an organization without discipline, fear, or punishment, and without the pressure of poverty: a new social organism which will make an end to the terrible struggle for the means of existence, --the savage struggle which undermines the finest qualities in man, and ever widens the social abyss. In short, Anarchism strives towards a social organization which will establish well-being for all.

  Emma Goldman

  Struggle, Mean, Men

  Emma Goldman (2015). “Anarchism and Other Essays”, p.25, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• In almost every country there are elements of opinion which would welcome such a conclusion because they wish to return to the politics of the balance of power, unrestricted and unregulated armaments, international anarchy, and preparation for war.

  Arthur Henderson

  Country, War, Preparation

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• Innocence is drowned in anarchy. The best lack conviction given time to think, and the worst are full of passion without mercy.

  Joni Mitchell

  Passion, Reality, Thinking

  Joni Mitchell (2013). “Joni Mitchell Complete So Far: Guitar Sheet Music Songbook Collection”, p.410, Alfred Music

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• We're being treated to the wisdom of some puffed up, little fart. Doing exactly what I used to do, pretensions to anarchy and art.

  Don Henley

  Art, Media, Littles

  Song: Damn It, Rose

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• Would you like to do something good for the future of the human race; well, start killing some of its powerful members.

  William C. Brown

  Powerful, Race, Killing

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

  Eric Sevareid

  People, Choices, Given

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• If we ignore international institutions, it will lead only to lawlessness and anarchy.

  Lisa Anderson

  Lawlessness, Institutions, International

  Source: www.rollingstone.com

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• A majority held in restraint by constitutional checks and limitations, and always changing easily with deliberate changes of popular opinions and sentiments, is the only true sovereign of a free people. Whoever rejects it does of necessity fly to anarchy or to despotism. Unanimity is impossible. The rule of a minority, as a permanent arrangement, is wholly inadmissible; so that, rejecting the majority principle, anarchy or despotism in some form is all that is left.

  Abraham Lincoln

  People, Majority, Principles

  Abraham Lincoln (1989). “Abraham Lincoln: Speeches & Writings Part 2: 1859-1865: Library of America #46”, p.220, Library of America

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• A different conception of society, very different from that which now prevails, is in process of formation. Under the name of Anarchy, a new interpretation of the past and present life of society arises, giving at the same time a forecast as regards its future, both conceived in the same spirit as the above-mentioned interpretation in natural sciences. Anarchy, therefore, appears as a constituent part of the new philosophy, and that is why Anarchists come in contact, on so many points, with the greatest thinkers and poets of the present day.

  Peter Kropotkin

  Philosophy, Past, Names

  "Anarchism: Its Philosophy and Ideal". Lecture by Peter Kropotkin, translated by Harry Lyman Koopman, dwardmac.pitzer.edu. 1898.

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