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No one can act alone in the name of all and no one can accept the anarchy of a society without rules.
— Jacques Chirac
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
What is an anarchist? One who, choosing, accepts the responsibility of choice.
— Ursula K. Le Guin
We have only one alternative: either to build a functioning industrial society or see freedom itself disappear in anarchy and tyranny.
— Peter Drucker
The government is ethics rape in perpetuity
— Stefan Molyneux
Religion is the bulwark of civilization. A people who believe nothing and therefore fear nothing will create anarchy, for themselves and others.
— Maria R. Bordihn
Only the Church offered an organizing principle, which was the reason for its success, for society cannot bear anarchy.
— Barbara W. Tuchman
As to the American tradition of non-meddling, Anarchism asks that it be carried down to the individual himself.
— Voltairine De Cleyre
Certainly the worker has nothing to lose by a change from government and capitalism to a condition of no government, of anarchy.
— Alexander Berkman
Everyone needs rules. After all, how can you break what doesn't exist? Rules give anarchy something to aim at
— Jodi Taylor
It's easier to ponder the future than it is to do something about the present.
— Curious George Brigade
Rules give anarchy something to aim at. Points
— Jodi Taylor
Never confuse efficiency with effectiveness.
— Curious George Brigade
I watch 'Sons of Anarchy' and 'Game of Thrones' and 'The Walking Dead' and think, 'I want to create that kind of television!'
— Michael Easton
It's the anarchy of poverty
delights me, the old
yellow wooden house indented
among the new brick tenements — William Carlos Williams
delights me, the old
yellow wooden house indented
among the new brick tenements — William Carlos Williams
As soon as liberty is complete it dies in anarchy.
— Will Durant
One has to multiply thoughts to the point where there aren't enough policemen to control them
— Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
Eventually the revolutionaries become the established culture, and then what will they do
— Linus Torvalds
People don't write about kids; you have to give them a lot of freedom, and that causes anarchy and that causes farce.
— Michael Ondaatje
A primary purpose of the police is to enforce the delusions of those with lots of green paper.
— Derrick Jensen
After I wrapped 'Sons of Anarchy,' I traveled by myself for ten weeks. I started in Jordan and finished in Mali, in Timbuktu.
— Henry Rollins
When desertion is not an option, sabotage is a must.
— Curious George Brigade
Woodstock was about the closest thing to anarchy I've ever seen in my whole life, and I didn't like it.
— Billie Joe Armstrong
Your mind is totally controlled, it has been stuffed into my mold. And you will do as you are told, until the rights to you are sold.
— Frank Zappa
I'm a huge fan of 'Sons of Anarchy.'
— Christopher Golden
Anarchy [is] necessarily consequent to inefficiency.
— Thomas Jefferson
This revolution will be noted. It will be successful and above all, it will be in words.
— Moonshine Noire
'Sons of Anarchy' is always murky.
— Theo Rossi
Would you like to always be young? Then be an Anarchist, and live with the faith of hope, that age can't confine you to.
— Brooke Bida
Anarchy is merely the illusion of liberty.
— Stephan Attia
Anarchy is the stepping stone to absolute power.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
We are full of anarchy. We take our clothes off because we shouldn't take our clothes off. And we behave worse in other countries.
— Michael Ondaatje
They can gas me, but I am famous. I have achieved in one day what it took Robert Kennedy all his life to do.
— Sirhan Sirhan
Freedom had no place in the Soviet System. Freedom was another word for anarchy, and that wouldn't do at all.
— Mal Peet
You have a spark of anarchy in your spirit and that's not to be tolerated. Nothing wild or honest is tolerated her! It has to be extinguished ...
— Tennessee Williams
The government of man should be the monarchy of reason: it is too often the democracy of passions or the anarchy of humors.
— Benjamin Whichcote
Victory will not go to those who can inflict the most suffering, but to those who can survive the most.
— CrimethInc.
He'd tried to talk to you about anarchy yesterday but his English and your French conspired against the dialog.
— Ian Rankin
The mischiefs of anarchy have been equaled by the mischiefs of government.
— Henry Ward Beecher
There can be no such thing as "limited government," because there is no way to control an entity that in principle enjoys a monopoly of power ...
— Joseph Sobran
If truth is relative, then it's cousin is anarchy.
— Craig D. Lounsbrough
People who can't imagine order without imposition always end up favoring power over liberty.
— Jeffrey Tucker
The ideally non-violent state will be an ordered anarchy.
— Mahatma Gandhi
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
[ ... ] A society that drives its members to desperate solutions is a non-viable society, a society to be replaced.
— Kathy Acker
We will preserve the right to counsel for the common man in this age of oligarchic anarchy.
— Kenneth Eade
Experience has shown that it is difficult, if not impossible, for a populous state to be run by good laws.
— Aristotle.
In times of anarchy one may seem a despot in order to be a saviour.
— Victor De Riqueti, Marquis De Mirabeau
ANARCHY, or the government of each man by himself or as the English say, self -government.
— Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
Tyranny is the wolf cast by the shadows of sheep.
— Stefan Molyneux
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
One does not suffer nearly so much from one's inadequacies as from one's unused abilities.
— CrimethInc.
Do you want to make it impossible for anyone to oppress his fellow-man? Then make sure that no one shall possess power.
— Mikhail Bakunin
Trade unions are islands of anarchy in a sea of chaos.
— Aneurin Bevan
Innocence is drowned in anarchy. The best lack conviction given time to think, and the worst are full of passion without mercy.
— Joni Mitchell
There is no peace now, and there will never be peace, so long as one rules over another.
— Voltairine De Cleyre
If there is no discipline, there is anarchy. Good citizenship demands attention to responsibilities as well as rights.
— Joe Clark
Good fashion is like rock music: all anarchy and revolt.
— Ann Demeulemeester
A delusion held by one person is a mental illness, held by a few is a cult, held by many is a religion.
— Robert Todd Carroll
Better the rule of One, whom all obey, than to let clamorous demagogues betray our freedom with the kiss of anarchy.
— Oscar Wilde
Tomorrow will use you the way you use today.
— CrimethInc.
The profit of the one is the profit of the other.
— Frederic Bastiat
I think students ought to have the right to protest, but not to the point of anarchy.
— Johnny Carson
Without real nonviolence, there would be perfect anarchy.
— Mahatma Gandhi
Promote the voluntary family; voluntarism is the only known cure for abuses of power - in politics, the economy or the family.
— Stefan Molyneux
It is in war that the State really comes into its own: swelling in power, in number, in pride, in absolute dominion over the economy and the society.
— Murray N. Rothbard
Anarchy is the only slight glimmer of hope.
— Mick Jagger
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
Life will not be a pyramid with the apex sustained by the bottom, but an oceanic circle whose centre will be the individual.
— Mahatma Gandhi
Unregulated competition is a naive metaphor for anarchy.
— John Ralston Saul
It is easy to be conspicuously 'compassionate' if others are being forced to pay the cost.
— Murray N. Rothbard
Just following orders' is no excuse unless you're in the bedroom.
— Donna Lynn Hope
Democracy is a see-saw between complete chaos and tolerable confusion
— Rohinton Mistry
The measure of the state's success is that the word anarchy frightens people, while the word state does not.
— Joseph Sobran
To say that atheism is not a religion is the equivalent of saying anarchy is not really a political creed
— Bo Jinn
Distraction serves evil more than any other mental state.
— Stefan Molyneux
We have gone through everything as a nation - partition, dictatorship, and even anarchy.
— Fatos Nano