Anarchy Quotes - Page 4

• 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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• The anarchists put the thing upside down. They declare that the proletarian revolution must begin by doing away with the political organization of the state. But to destroy it at such a moment would be to destroy the only organism by means of which the victorious proletariat can assert its newly-conquered power, hold down its capitalist adversaries, and carry out that economic revolution of society without which the whole victory must end in a new defeat and a mass slaughter of the workers similar to those after the Paris commune.

  Friedrich Engels

  Mean, Organization, Paris

  Letter to Philipp Van Patten, www.marxists.org. April 18, 1883.

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• The ideally non-violent state will be an ordered anarchy.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Violence, Violent, States

  Mahatma Gandhi (2007). “Gandhi on Non-Violence”, p.69, New Directions Publishing

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• We have gone through everything as a nation - partition, dictatorship, and even anarchy.

  Fatos Nano

  Gone, Dictatorship, Partition

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• Anarchism is really a synonym for socialism. The anarchist is primarily a socialist whose aim is to abolish the exploitation of man by man. Anarchism is only one of the streams of socialist thought, that stream whose main components are concern for liberty and haste to abolish the State.

  Daniel Guerin

  Men, Liberty, Haste

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

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• The history of any nation follows an undulatory course. In the trough of the wave we find more or less complete anarchy; but the crest is not more or less complete Utopia, but only, at best, a tolerably humane, partially free and fairly just society that invariably carries within itself the seeds of its own decadence.

  Aldous Huxley

  Utopia, Wave, Decadence

  Aldous Huxley (2002). “Complete Essays: 1939-1956”, Ivan R Dee

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• The suddenness of the leap from hardware to software cannot but produce a period of anarchy and collapse, especially in the developed countries.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Country, Media, Produce

  Marshall McLuhan, Matie Molinaro, Corinne McLuhan, William Toye (1987). “Letters of Marshall McLuhan”, Oxford University Press, USA

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• Our government is the potent, the omnipresent teacher. For good or for ill it teaches the whole people by example. Crime is contagious. If the government becomes a lawbreaker, it breeds contempt for law; it invites every man to become a law unto himself; it invites anarchy. To declare that in the administration of the criminal law the end justifies the means - to declare that the Government may commit crimes in order to secure the conviction of a private criminal - would bring terrible retributions.

  Louis D. Brandeis

  Teacher, Mean, Men

  Olmstead v. United States (dissenting opinion) (1928)

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• Anarchism, the great leaven of thought, is today permeating every phase of human endeavor.... It is the philosophy of the sovereignty of the individual. It is the theory of social harmony. It is the great, surging, living truth that is reconstructing the world, and that will usher in the Dawn.

  Emma Goldman

  Philosophy, Dawn, World

  Emma Goldman (2015). “Anarchism: Top Crime Collections”, p.37, 谷月社

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• Tyranny and anarchy are never far apart.

  Jeremy Bentham

  Tyrants, Tyranny

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• If we don't make earnest moves toward real solutions, then each day we move one day closer to revolution and anarchy in this country. This is the sad, and yet potentially joyous, state of America.

  Louis Farrakhan

  Country, Real, Moving

  Louis Farrakhan (1993). “A Torchlight for America”, F C N Publishing Company

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• Anarchy may await America, due to the daily injustices suffered by the people.

  Louis Farrakhan

  America, People, May

  Louis Farrakhan (1993). “A Torchlight for America”, F C N Publishing Company

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• The human race is intoxicated with narrow victories, for life is a string of them like pearls that hit the floor when the rope breaks, and roll away in perfection and anarchy.

  Mark Helprin

  Race, Perfection, Victory

  Mark Helprin (2007). “Memoir from Antproof Case”, p.188, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The Disarmament Conference has become the focal point of a great struggle between anarchy and world order... between those who think in terms of inevitable armed conflict and those who seek to build a universal and durable peace.

  Arthur Henderson

  Struggle, Thinking, Order

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• Overall, the anarchy was the most creative of all periods of Japanese culture for in it there appeared the greatest landscape painting, the culmination of the skill of landscape gardening and the arts of flower arrangement, and the No drama.

  John Roberts

  Art, Drama, Flower

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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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• America may be the land of the free, but there are definitely more ignorant people there. Most of the population are semi-retarded.

  Kurt Cobain

  Land, America, People

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• If the power of the Gospel is not felt throughout the length and breadth of the land, anarchy and misrule, degradation and misery, corruption and darkness will reign without mitigation or end.

  Daniel Webster

  Land, Darkness, Degradation

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• When you break the big laws, you do not get liberty; you do not even get anarchy. You get the small laws.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Law, Liberty, Break

  Daily News (London), 29 July 1905

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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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• Turning and turning in the widening gyre The falcon cannot hear the falconer; Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold; Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world, The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere The ceremony of innocence is drowned; The best lack all conviction, while the worst Are full of passionate intensity.

  William Butler Yeats

  Fall, Blood, Passionate

  "The Second Coming" l. 1 (1921)

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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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• That is what I have always understood to be the essence of anarchism: the conviction that the burden of proof has to be placed on authority, and that it should be dismantled if that burden cannot be met.

  Noam Chomsky

  Burden Of Proof, Essence, Conviction

  Noam Chomsky (2004). “Language and Politics”, p.775, AK Press

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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 good father and a good outlaw can't settle inside the same man.

  J-Ax

  Father, Men, Settling

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