Quotes About Anarchy
I'd like to write the encomium of a new incoherence that could serve as the negative charter for the new anarchy of souls.
~ Fernando Pessoa
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The city and province were given up to anarchy; the coloured people, elated with victory, proclaimed the slaughter of all whites, except the English, French, and American residents.
~ Henry Walter Bates
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The day that the balance between the two sections of the country - the slaveholding States and the non-slaveholding States - is destroyed is a day that will not be far removed from political revolution, anarchy, civil war, and widespread disaster.
~ John C. Calhoun
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You couldn't put me in a social group setting. I'm probably a terrible anarchist deep down.
~ Maya Lin
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In India's eastern side, there are communist terror outfits and in the western side there are Islamic terror organisations. These outfits ensure that there is always a state of anarchy.
~ Vivek Agnihotri
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The fate of Syria hangs in the balance, but it is entirely possible that the fall of the Assad regime will result in anarchy and cause Syria to turn into a second Afghanistan, a base for anti-Israel terrorism.
~ Martin Van Creveld
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Terrorists destroy randomly.
~ Bill Ayers
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My politics were pretty anarchistic until 1969 when the Montreal police went on strike. Within hours, mayhem and rioting broke out and the Mounties had to be called in to restore order. It instilled in me that one's convictions can be subjected to empirical test.
~ Steven Pinker
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anarchy is but disorganized oppression.
~ Robin Hobb
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Do you get the same peace of mind that I do when you're causing random damage? Especially random, senseless, mindless damage that serves no real purpose. That's my favorite kind, you know! That's the best!
~ Robin Wayne Bailey
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We're all responsible," he said presently to Laurie. "Law and order is a job for all of us. If we shirk it long enough we will have anarchy, and all we've built will be destroyed. It is like building a beautiful building and then turning a lot of wild animals into it and letting them go. "This is the old war, the war of civilization against the barbarian; of peacefulness, order, and hard work against the heedless, the cruel, the destructive.
~ Louis L'Amour
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Broken bones and blood and gore, blood and gore, blood and gore. Broken bones and blood and gore, my fair lady. "We don't have no school no more, school no more, school no more. We don't have no school no more, my fair lady.
~ Louis Sachar
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Regarding the uprising as a direct threat to constitutional order, Washington asked Supreme Court Justice James Wilson to declare a state of anarchy around Pittsburgh.
~ Ron Chernow
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There is no road to despotism more sure or more to be dreaded than that which begins at anarchy.
~ Ron Chernow
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Perhaps the true legacy of his boyhood was an equivocal one: he came to detest the tyranny embodied by the planters and their authoritarian rule, while also fearing the potential uprisings of the disaffected slaves. The twin specters of despotism and anarchy were to haunt him for the rest of his life.
~ Ron Chernow
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in a report unsuccessfully hushed up by the Bush administration, the Pentagon predicts worldwide famine, anarchy, and warfare within a generation should climate change fulfill the more severe projections.
~ Ronald Wright
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Thou hast been with the Monkey People—the gray apes—the people without a law—the eaters of everything.
~ Rudyard Kipling
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They like the making of mischief, mayhem, anarchy. They have traditionally lacked management skills.
~ Salman Rushdie
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If ever the free institutions of America are destroyed, that event may be attributed to the unlimited authority of the majority, which may at some future time urge the minorities to desperation, and oblige them to have recourse to physical force. Anarchy will then be the result, but it will have been brought about by despotism.
~ Alexis de Tocqueville
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if the Supreme Court is ever composed of imprudent men or bad citizens, the Union may be plunged into anarchy or civil war.
~ Alexis de Tocqueville
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The revolution of the United States was the result of a mature and dignified taste for freedom, and not of a vague or ill-defined craving for independence. It contracted no alliance with the turbulent passions of anarchy; but its course was marked, on the contrary, by an attachment to whatever was lawful and orderly.
~ Alexis de Tocqueville
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I'm seein' the syphilitic afterbirth of a Mongolian clusterfuck, is what I see there.
~ Joe Coleman
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Fuck politics. I just want to burn shit down.
~ Joey Comeau
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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
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