Anarchy Quotes

There is no chance and anarchy in the universe. All is system and gradation. Every god is there sitting in his sphere.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

God, Chance, Universe

We have two American flags always: one for the rich and one for the poor. When the rich fly it means that things are under control; when the poor fly it means danger, revolution, anarchy.
Henry Miller

Control, Revolution, Two

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, Understand, Internet

The worst thing in this world, next to anarchy, is government.
Henry Ward Beecher

Government, Next, Worst

Undermine their pompous authority, reject their moral standards, make anarchy and disorder your trademarks. Cause as much chaos and disruption as possible but don't let them take you ALIVE.
Sid Vicious

Moral, Alive, Possible

The worst enemy of life, freedom and the common decencies is total anarchy; their second worst enemy is total efficiency.
Aldous Huxley

Life, Freedom, Enemy

Our government... teaches the whole people by its example. If the government becomes the lawbreaker, it breeds contempt for law; it invites every man to become a law unto himself; it invites anarchy.
Louis D. Brandeis

Government, Law, Become

Are not laws dangerous which inhibit the passions? Compare the centuries of anarchy with those of the strongest legalism in any country you like and you will see that it is only when the laws are silent that the greatest actions appear.
Marquis de Sade

Greatest, Country, Dangerous

Anarchy is the only slight glimmer of hope.
Mick Jagger

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

Sad, Real, Revolution

There is no greater evil than anarchy.
Sophocles

I was the only guy with any bit of anarchy left.
Sid Vicious

Neither a life of anarchy nor one beneath a despot should you praise; to all that lies in the middle a god has given excellence.
Aeschylus

Life, God, Lies

As soon as liberty is complete it dies in anarchy.
Will Durant

Liberty, Soon, Complete

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

Daily, May, America

If you hear Anarchy in the UK today your hair stands on end. It gives you the shivers.
Vivienne Westwood

Today, End, Hair

Tyranny and anarchy are never far apart.
Jeremy Bentham

Far, Tyranny, Apart

Without an advocate for the poor, without a new state of mind in America, the country lies on the brink of anarchy.
Louis Farrakhan

Mind, Country, America

Kids are anarchy writ large.
Jeffrey Kluger

Kids, Large, Writ

I don't believe in anarchy, because it will ultimately amount to the power of the bully, with weapons. Gandhi is my life's inspiration: passive resistance. I don't want to live in the Thunderdome with Mad Max.
Johnny Rotton

Life, Power, Live

When anarchy is declared, the first thing we do, let's kill all the anarchists.
Craig Bruce

There is a certain combination of anarchy and discipline in the way I work.
Robert De Niro

Work, Discipline

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

Freedom, Culture, Paid

Unregulated competition is a naive metaphor for anarchy.
John Ralston Saul

Naive, Metaphor

When I look back now I realize I was such an obnoxious kid but, you know, I went to schools like you, like a public school in New York so compared to the anarchy that was going on there, they really wouldn't - I wasn't like a bad kid. I saw people come in and punch the teachers.
Colin Quinn

School, Bad, Public

History is full of examples of people who clamp down after they began to enjoy too much freedom. Freedom can lead to instability, anarchy, and confusion. So there can be a moral counter-revolution.
Gary Ross

History, Freedom, Down

Four years of world war, at a cost in human suffering which our minds are mercifully too limited to imagine, led to the very clear realization that international anarchy must be abandoned if civilization was to survive.
Arthur Henderson

War, Human, Suffering

I do not believe that the values which the Western democracies consider essential to civilization can survive in a world rent by the international anarchy of nationalism and the economic anarchy of competitive enterprise.
Arthur Henderson

Values, Economic, Survive

In almost every country there are elements of opinion which would welcome such a conclusion because they wish to return to the politics of the balance of power, unrestricted and unregulated armaments, international anarchy, and preparation for war.
Arthur Henderson

Politics, Power, War

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

Peace, Great, Struggle

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