Anarchy Quotes - Page 5

• The Internet is the first thing that humanity has built that humanity doesn't understand, the largest experiment in anarchy that we have ever had.

  Eric Schmidt

  Humanity, Criminals, Criminal Mind

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• A true outlaw finds the balance between the passion in his heart and the reason in his mind. The outcome is the balance of might and right.

  J-Ax

  Passion, Heart, Mind

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• ANARCHY, or the government of each man by himself or as the English say, self -government.

  Pierre-Joseph Proudhon

  Men, Self, Anarchism

  "The Principle of Federation". Book by Pierre-Joseph Proudhon, 1863.

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• Better the rule of One, whom all obey, than to let clamorous demagogues betray our freedom with the kiss of anarchy.

  Oscar Wilde

  Freedom, Kissing, Dictatorship

  Oscar Wilde, Russell Jackson, Ian Small (2000). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Poems and poems in prose”, p.148, Oxford University Press on Demand

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• If you never encounter anything in your community that offends you, then you are not living in a free society.

  Kim Campbell

  Community, Encounters, Free Society

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• No matter how much I wanted all those things that I needed money to buy, there was some devilish current pushing me off in another direction -- toward anarchy and poverty and craziness. That maddening delusion that a man can lead a decent life without hiring himself out as a Judas Goat.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Men, Goats, Matter

  Hunter S. Thompson (2011). “The Rum Diary: Film Tie-in Edition”, p.140, A&C Black

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• A culture without property, or in which creators can't get paid, is anarchy, not freedom.

  Lawrence Lessig

  Culture, Creator, Property

  Lawrence Lessig “Free Culture”, Lulu.com

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• To say that a bad government must be established for fear of anarchy is really saying that we should kill ourselves for fear of dying.

  Richard Henry Lee

  Fear, Government, Political

  Richard Henry Lee (1825). “Memoir of the Life of Richard H. Lee, and His Correspondence with the Most Distinguished Men in America and Europe”

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• I do not wish to remove from my present prison to a prison a little larger. I wish to break all prisons.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Wish, Littles, Prison

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2011). “Selected Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.102, Penguin

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• Anarchy is a function, not of a society's simplicity and lack of social organization, but of it's complexity and multiplicity of social organizations.

  Colin Ward

  Organization, Simplicity, Social

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• As soon as liberty is complete it dies in anarchy.

  Will Durant

  Liberty, Dies

  Will Durant, Ariel Durant (1967). “Rousseau and Revolution: A History of Civilization in France, England, and Germany from 1756, and in the Remainder of Europe from 1715 to 1789”

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• We're in a state of crisis where our nation is literally ripping apart at the seams right now, and lawlessness is occurring from one ocean to the other. And we're seeing the fulfillment of the Book of Judges here in our own time, where every man doing that which is right in his own eyes-in other words, anarchy.

  Michele Bachmann

  Ocean, Book, Eye

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• I think that Texas is forever ruined unless the citizens make a manly, energetic effort to save themselves from anarchy and confusion, which are the worst of all evils. Let us march like a band of brothers.

  William B. Travis

  Brother, Thinking, Texas

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• Whenever government abandons law, it proclaims anarchy.

  Edmund Burke

  Government, Law, States

  Edmund Burke (1988). “Irish Affairs”, Vintage

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• The media is the right arm of anarchy.

  Dan Brown

  Media, Arms, Angels And Demons

  Dan Brown (2006). “Angels & Demons: A Novel”, p.253, Simon and Schuster

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• If I'd written all the truth I knew for the past ten years, about 600 people - including me - would be rotting in prison cells from Rio to Seattle today. Absolute truth is a very rare and dangerous commodity in the context of professional journalism.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Past, Cells, Years

  1973 'Fear and Loathing at the Superbowl', in Rolling Stone, 15 Feb.

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• Freedom and not servitude is the cure of anarchy; as religion, and not atheism, is the true remedy of superstition.

  Edmund Burke

  Freedom, Atheism, Superstitions

  Speech 'On Conciliation with America' 22 March 1775

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• An Anarchist is anyone who denies the necessity and legitimacy of government; the question of his methods of attacking it is foreign to the definition.

  Benjamin Tucker

  Government, Definitions, Anarchist

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• The main question ... is not what motive inspired the law, but what it will be possible for men of bad motive to do with the law.

  Benjamin Tucker

  Men, Law, Inspired

  Benjamin Ricketson Tucker (1898). “A Blow at Trial by Jury: An Examination of the Special Jury Law Passed by the New York Legislature in 1896”

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• It was play rather than work which enabled man to evolve his higher faculties - everything we mean by the word 'culture'.

  Herbert Read

  Mean, Men, Play

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• The church hates a thinker precisely for the same reason a robber dislikes a sheriff, or a thief despises the prosecuting witness.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Hate, Religion, Church

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.100, Library of Alexandria

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• This is what the government is, has always been, the creator and defender of privilege; the organization of oppression and revenge. To hope that it can ever become anything else is the vainest of delusions. They tell you that Anarchy, the dream of social order without government, is a wild fancy. The wildest dream that ever entered the heart of man is the dream that mankind can ever help itself through an appeal to law, or to come to any order that will not result in slavery wherein there is any excuse for government.

  Voltairine de Cleyre

  Dream, Revenge, Heart

  Eleventh of November 1887: Haymarket Memorial Speech by Voltairine de Cleyre, delivered in Chicago, contentdm.library.uvic.ca. 1901.

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• You can't fight City Hall, but you can goddamn sure blow it up.

  George Carlin

  Stupid, Fighting, Blow

  George Carlin (2015). “3 x Carlin: An Orgy of George including Brain Droppings, Napalm and Silly Putty, and When Will Jesus Bring the Pork Chops?”, p.81, Hachette UK

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• The natural liberty of man is to be free from any superior power on Earth, and not to be under the will or legislative authority of man, but only to have the law of nature for his rule.

  Samuel Adams

  Men, Reality, Law

  Samuel Adams (1946). “Samuel Adams: selections from his writings”

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• The essence of all slavery consists in taking the product of another's labor by force. It is immaterial whether this force be founded upon ownership of the slave or ownership of the money that he must get to live.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Freedom, Essence, Slavery

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