Anarchy Quotes - Page 21

• Life is the great indulgence - death the great abstinence. Therefore, make the most of life here and now!

  Anton Szandor LaVey

  Life Is, Abstinence, Here And Now

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• If we are attacked we can only defend ourselves with guns not with butter.

  Joseph Goebbels

  Gun, Heresy, Ifs

  Speech, Berlin, 17 Jan. 1936

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• People do not consciously and rationally choose the form of their society. Societies develop through processes of social evolution that are not under rational human control.

  Theodore Kaczynski

  People, Evolution, Social

  The Unabomber, Theodore Kaczynski (2005). “The Unabomber Manifesto: Industrial Society and Its Future”, p.46, Filiquarian Publishing, LLC.

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• The people's right to change what does not work is one of the greatest principles in our system of government

  Richard M. Nixon

  Government, People, Principles

  Nixon, Richard M. (1974). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Richard M. Nixon, 1972”, p.165, Best Books on

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• In the 1920s, we thought the problems associated with alcohol could be solved by police and jails. Prohibition taught us we were wrong. The strategy of the present drug war is Prohibition redux.

  Rodney S. Quinn

  War, Taught Us, Jail

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• A tidal wave of support for medicinal marijuana has begun in the western United States; the future of many federal officials depends, in large part, on whether they ride that wave into the future or, standing in the way, are rendered irrelevant by the voters.

  John Vasconcellos

  Marijuana, Support, United States

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• The law is the collective organization of the individual's right to lawful defense of his life, liberty and property. When it is used for anything else, no matter how noble the cause, it becomes perverted and justice is weakened. Thus, the law has become perverted by stupid greed and false philanthropy.

  Frederic Bastiat

  Stupid, Law, Organization

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• One has to multiply thoughts to the point where there aren't enough policemen to control them

  Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

  Enough, Policemen

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• When the day comes that it is time to adopt the alternative of lifting punishment for consumption of drugs, it would have to come all over the world. Humanity some day will see that it is best in that sense.

  Vicente Fox

  Punishment, Drug, Humanity

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• Prohibition is an attempted cure that makes matters worse - for both the addict and the rest of us.

  Milton Friedman

  Matter, Prohibition, Cures

  Milton Friedman (1972). “An economist's protest: columns in political economy”

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• Freedom is that faculty that enlarges the usefulness of all other faculties.

  Immanuel Kant

  Cannabis, Faculty, Usefulness

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• A man's greatest work is to break his enemies, to drive them before him, to take from them all the things that have been theirs, to hear the weeping of those who cherished them, to take their horses between his knees and to press in his arms the most desirable of their women.

  Genghis Khan

  Horse, Men, Enemy

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• The truth alone has never set anyone free. It is only DOUBT which will bring mental emancipation. Without the wonderful element of doubt, the doorway through which truth passes would be tightly shut, impervious to the most strenuous poundings of a thousand Lucifers.

  Anton Szandor LaVey

  Doubt, Would Be, Elements

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

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• The Atheist complains about the wind. The Christian prays for it to change. The Satanist adjusts his sails.

  Anton Szandor LaVey

  Christian, Atheist, Wind

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• Constitutional rights are useful up to a point, but they do not serve to guarantee much more than what could be called the bourgeois conception of freedom. According to the bourgeois conception, a "free" man is essentially an element of a social machine and has only a certain set of prescribed and delimited freedoms; freedoms that are designed to serve the needs of the social machine more than those of the individual.

  Theodore Kaczynski

  Men, Rights, Needs

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• How could you set yourself up as the most powerful institution on earth? You first find out what every man feels at least once a day, establish that as a sin, and set yourself up as the only institution capable of pardoning that sin.

  Anton Szandor LaVey

  Powerful, Men, Earth

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• Religion is induced insanity.

  Madalyn Murray O'Hair

  Insanity, Heresy

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• Any revolutionary agitation exacts enormous sacrifices, not so much in terms of prison sentences and years of incarceration - which have been raining down by the hundreds of years annually - as in terms of the manifold personal sacrifices sustained by those who commit themselves to revolutionary agitation.

  Peter Kropotkin

  Rain, Sacrifice, Years

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• 'What I believe' is a process rather than a finality. Finalities are for gods and governments, not for the human intellect.

  Emma Goldman

  Believe, Government, Process

  Emma Goldman, Candace Falk (2008). “Emma Goldman”, p.340, University of Illinois Press

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• Applied good taste is a mark of good citizenship. Ugliness is a from of anarchy.. ugly cities, ugly advertising, ugly lives produce bad citizens.

  Lester Beall

  Life, Cities, Citizens

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• If the will, which in the law of our nature, were withdrawn from our memory, fancy, understanding, and reason, no other hell could equal, for a spiritual being, what we should then feel from the anarchy of our powers. It would be conscious madness,--a horrid thought!

  John Milton

  Spiritual, Memories, Law

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

  Christopher Golden

  Son, Fans, Huge

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• 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.

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• 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

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• 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

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