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Quotes About Anarchy

The ordinary man is an anarchist. He wants to do as he likes. He may want his neighbor to be governed, but he himself doesn't want to be governed.
~ George Bernard Shaw
The wonderful thing about being an artist in L.A. is that there is no taste. There's anarchy of taste, which seems good to me.
~ James Turrell
The roots of the word 'anarchy' are 'an archos,' 'no leaders,' which is not really about the kind of chaos that most people imagine when the word 'anarchy' is mentioned. I think that anarchy is, to the contrary, about taking personal responsibility for yourself.
~ Alan Moore
It was just a really thrilling little ride on this big world of 'Sons of Anarchy.'
~ Donal Logue
As a teenager I was more of an anarchist, but now I want people to thrive and be harmonious.
~ Nicolas Cage
A vote for me is a vote completely thrown away.
~ Vermin Supreme
Look, we want freedom and we want liberty in this country. But we've also got to have the guts to stand up and run a tight ship in America. Morality is now a word that many people consider very square and outdated. But if we don't stand up for it, we deserve what we will get in the end - unprincipled anarchy.
~ Cliff Robertson
No hay buena fe en América, ya sea entre los hombres o entre las naciones —se lamentaba cierta vez Bolívar—. Los tratados son papeles, las Constituciones libros, las elecciones batallas, la libertad anarquía y la vida un tormento. Lo único que se puede hacer en América es emigrar.
~ Samuel P. Huntington
Long as you're healthy, Bellona is great. But there's no doctors or nothing, you know?
~ Samuel R. Delany
Innocence is drowned in anarchy. The best lack conviction given time to think, and the worst are full of passion without mercy.
~ Joni Mitchell
When people are blocked creatively, they avoid fun. Why? Because fun leads straight to creativity. Fun leads to healthy anarchy, to festive rebellion, to sensing our own strength and power. Feeling our own power is often frightening.
~ Mark Bryan
Once arrived in Rome, Heliogabalus banishes men from the Senate and replaces them with women. To the Romans, this is anarchy, but for the religion of the menses, which originated the Tyrian Purple, and for Heliogabalus who administers it, it's only a simple restoration of balance.
~ Antonin Artaud
To have a sense of the profound unity of things is to have a sense of anarchy, -and of the effort required to reduce things while restoring them to unity. Whoever has the sense of unity also has the sense of the multiplicity of things, of that dust of appearances through which one must pass in order to reduce and destroy them.
~ Antonin Artaud
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
To be an anarchist is to leave the beaten paths on which for hundreds of years generations of sheep have walked without reflection, break with routines, reject commonly held believes, be contemptuous of public opinion, have disdain for rejecting smiles and treacherous laughs, insults, and calomnies.
~ John Merriman
Anarchy is the sure consequence of tyranny; or no power that is not limited by laws can ever be protected by them
~ John Milton
All hell broke loose.
~ John Milton
even the heart rebels-finally against its own anarchy. And that's the most powerful rebellion.
~ John Rechy
In a near anarchy, the only law is to maintain order. My
~ John Varley
If there is a State, there must be domination of one class by another and, as a result, slavery; the State without slavery is unthinkable -- and this is why we are the enemies of the State.
~ bakunin mikhail iii
Revolution requires extensive and widespread destruction, a fecund and renovating destruction, since in this way and only this way are new worlds born.
~ bakunin mikhail iv
The State, therefore, is the most flagrant, the most cynical, and the most complete negation of humanity. It shatters the universal solidarity of all men on the earth, and brings some of them into association only for the purpose of destroying, conquering, and enslaving all the rest.
~ bakunin mikhail iv
Only the Church offered an organizing principle, which was the reason for its success, for society cannot bear anarchy.
~ Barbara W. Tuchman
Disorder is the least tolerable up sinful conditions.
~ Barbara W. Tuchman