Anarchy Quotes - Page 19

• 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

  4 Copy quote

• 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

  10 Copy quote

• 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

  12 Copy quote

  Show source

• 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.

  12 Copy quote

  Show source

• I don't think Peg Bundy was very much like Katey Sagal. Definitely the wardrobe Gemma from Sons of Anarchy wears might be a little more like Katey Sagal. I mean, any time you play anything, there's pieces of yourself that you're kind of elaborating on. I mean, you're using parts of yourself.

  Katey Sagal

  Mean, Son, Thinking

  Source: www.fanbolt.com

  5 Copy quote

  Show source

• It means that we must abandon the method of civil disobedience, non-cooperation and satyagraha. When there was no way left for constitutional methods for achieving economic and social objectives, there was a great deal of justification for unconstitutional methods. But where constitutional methods are open, there can be no justification for these unconstitutional methods. These methods are nothing but the Grammar of Anarchy and the sooner they are abandoned, the better for us.

  B. R. Ambedkar

  Mean, Way, Cooperation

  B. R. Ambedkar (1997). “Selected speeches of Dr. B. R. Ambedkar: (1927 - 1956)”

  15 Copy quote

  Show source

• The more you can increase fear of drugs and crime, welfare mothers, immigrants and aliens, the more you control all the people.

  Noam Chomsky

  Mother, People, Drug

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

  69 Copy quote

  Show source

• America had, for one thing, lived in anarchy for - until much more recently than Europe. We had the Wild West, where the cliche of the cowboy movies was the nearest sheriff is 90 miles away, and so you had to pack a gun and defend yourself.

  Steven Pinker

  Gun, Cowboy, Europe

  "Is Human Violence On The Wane?". "Science Friday" with Ira Flatow, www.npr.org. October 7, 2011.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Going to trial with a lawyer who considers your whole life-style a Crime in Progress is not a happy prospect.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Law, Perspective, Style

  Letter, The Champion, July 1990

  10 Copy quote

  Show source

• Every sane man recognises that unlimited liberty is anarchy, or rather is nonentity. The civic idea of liberty is to give the citizen a province of liberty; a limitation within which a citizen is a king.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Kings, Men, Ideas

  8 Copy quote

• There is no freedom that I would grant to any man that I would refuse to woman, and there is no freedom that I would refuse to either man or woman except the freedom to invade ... whoever has the ballot has the freedom to invade, and whoever wants the ballot wants the freedom to invade. Give woman equality with man, by all means; but do it by taking power from man, not giving it to woman.

  Benjamin Tucker

  Mean, Men, Giving

  15 Copy quote

• Let us designate anarchism1 anarchism as you define it. Let us desiginate anarchism2 anarchism as I and the American Heritage College Dictionary define it.

  Bryan Caplan

  College, Heritage, Anarchism

  6 Copy quote

• I see anarchism as the theoretical ideal to which we are all gradually evolving to a point where everybody can tell the truth to everybody else and nobody can get punished for it. That can only happen without hierarchy and without people having the authority to punish other people.

  Robert Anton Wilson

  People, Hierarchy, Telling The Truth

  38 Copy quote

• Even if we are all doomed to live under the state, it doesn't follow that there is, or even can be, such a thing as a good state.

  Joseph Sobran

  States, Doomed, Ifs

  5 Copy quote

• Thus does a 'necessary evil' become an idol. Maybe we're stuck with it. But do we have to worship it?

  Joseph Sobran

  Idols, Evil, Doe

  4 Copy quote

• To be an anarchist only means that you believe that aggression is not justified, and that states necessarily employ aggression. And, therefore, that states, and the aggression they necessarily employ, are unjustified. It's quite simple, really. It's an ethical view, so no surprise it confuses utilitarians.

  Stephan Kinsella

  Believe, Mean, Simple

  5 Copy quote

• I do not think we will see a stateless society in my lifetime. But I am sure we will not see a state that conforms to the minarchists' ideals. The closer we get, the better, but I see no reason not to aspire for the best government as Thoreau imagined it: none at all. It's certainly more consistently idealistic than what the minarchists imagine, and yet it's at least possible, whereas the existence of a lasting, minimal state is a hopeless fantasy.

  Anthony Gregory

  Thinking, Government, Fantasy

  7 Copy quote

• Briefly, the State is that organization in society which attempts to maintain a monopoly of the use of force and violence in a given territorial area; in particular, it is the only organization in society that obtains its revenue not by voluntary contribution or payment for services rendered but by coercion.

  Murray Rothbard

  Organization, Use, Coercion

  Murray Newton Rothbard (19??). “The Anatomy of the State”, p.11, Ludwig von Mises Institute

  15 Copy quote

  Show source

• I'm a huge fan of 'Sons of Anarchy.'

  Christopher Golden

  Son, Fans, Huge

  4 Copy quote

• Sons of Anarchy has the perfect combination of character and action.

  Christopher Golden

  Character, Son, Perfect

  "Hellboy Writer Revs Up For SONS OF ANARCHY". Interview with Chris Arrant, www.newsarama.com. July 3, 2013.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Britain cherishes her eccentrics and wisely holds that the function of government is to build a walled garden in which anarchy can flourish.

  Quentin Crisp

  Garden, Government, Cherish

  5 Copy quote

• Albania in 1994 was the strangest place I've ever seen. It was like walking into the looking glass: falling apart, paranoid people, anarchy, no one farming, full of thieves. It was beyond any Third World country. They were living in their own private nightmare.

  Paul Theroux

  Country, Fall, Glasses

  Source: www.usatoday.com

  12 Copy quote

  Show source
• 

  Someplace between apathy and anarchy is the stance of the thinking human being; he does embrace a cause, he does take a position, and can't allow it to become business as usual. Humanity is our business.

  Rod Serling

  Thinking, Humanity, Causes

  "American Masters (Rod Serling: Submitted for Your Approval)". TV Series, November 29, 1995.

  92 Copy quote

  Show source

• Some people with Tourette's have flinging tics- sudden, seemingly motiveless urges or compulsions to throw objects..... (I see somewhat similar flinging behaviors- though not tics- in my two year old godson, now in a stage of primal antinomianism and anarchy)

  Oliver Sacks

  Years, Two Year Olds, People

  Oliver Sacks (2007). “Vintage Sacks”, p.116, Vintage

  10 Copy quote

  Show source

• Sometimes the rules don't work. Sometimes the rules cause the anarchy.

  Susan Beth Pfeffer

  Causes, Sometimes

  9 Copy quote