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Quotes About Anarchy

Sometimes the rules don't work. Sometimes the rules cause the anarchy.
~ Susan Beth Pfeffer
Sometimes the rues don't work. Sometimes the rules cause the anarchy.
~ Susan Beth Pfeffer
Personally I can think of nothing more terrifying than to live in a land where law and order have no meaning and violence is the rule of the day.
~ Susan Howatch
By a very conservative estimate, a hundred million people have died at the hands of their own governments in this century. Given that record, how bad could anarchy be?
~ Joseph Sobran
The measure of the state's success is that the word anarchy frightens people, while the word state does not.
~ Joseph Sobran
Etchenike reparó en que el orden solía reinar, mientras que el desorden era mucho más anárquico o democrático porque habitualmente cundía, como el pánico o el desánimo.
~ Juan Sasturain
I hate rules. I hate government intervention. Just live and let live, man.
~ Rob Ford
As the Harvard historian Kenneth Maxwell observed, "Democracy in Brazil has all too often been seen as the enemy of progress, the harbinger of anarchy, disunion and backwardness." And so, democracy itself was discarded.
~ Fernando Henrique Cardoso
Some men just like to watch the world burn.
~ Flavio Volpe
Charlemagne was, indeed, a conqueror and a despot; but by his conquests and his personal power he, so long as he was by, that is, for six and forty years, saved Gallo-Frankish society from barbaric invasion without and anarchy within. That is the characteristic of his government and his title to glory.
~ François Guizot
I'm not a fan of Dr. Seuss's better-known work, but his fables leave me awe-struck. 'Ten Tall Tales' is a collection of stories where his trademark anarchy is combined with a tautness of writing that shines an affectionate yet uncompromising spotlight on some of the absurdities of human behaviour.
~ Giles Andreae
Anarchy, anarchy! Show me a greater evil!This is why cities tumble and the great houses rain down,This is what scatters armies!
~ Sophocles
Some men just want to watch the world burn.
~ Stacia Deutsch
punk placed no premium on technique or production values.
~ Michael Azerrad
punk rock as an alternative," he says, "a real attempt to change the social order of the world.
~ Michael Azerrad
the message being sent out by a broken window-the perception it invites-is that the owener of this building and the people of the community around it don't care if this window is broken: They have given up, and anarchy reigns here. Do as you will, because nobody cares.
~ Michael Levine
Isocrates: "Democracy destroys itself because it abuses its right to freedom and equality. Because it teaches its citizens to consider audacity as a right, lawlessness as a freedom, abrasive speech as equality, and anarchy as progress.
~ Michael Lewis
Democracy destroys itself because it abuses its right to freedom and equality. Because it teaches its citizens to consider audacity as a right, lawlessness as a freedom, abrasive speech as equality, and anarchy as progress.
~ Michael Lewis
a quote from the ancient orator Isocrates: "Democracy destroys itself because it abuses its right to freedom and equality. Because it teaches its citizens to consider audacity as a right, lawlessness as a freedom, abrasive speech as equality, and anarchy as progress.
~ Michael Lewis
Everything may exist for a while - even justice. But the true state of the universe is anarchy. It is the mortal's tragedy that he can never accept this.
~ Michael Moorcock
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
My notes are an anarchy of disputatious taxonomy I see no need to inflict on the reader.
~ Michael Pollan
Overall, the anarchy was the most creative of all periods of Japanese culture for in it there appeared the greatest landscape painting, the culmination of the skill of landscape gardening and the arts of flower arrangement, and the No drama.
~ J. M. Roberts
I'd like a bit of a crack at some kind of anarchic comedy, but whether or not I'm skillful enough at it all, we'll see.
~ Richard C. Armitage