Quotes About Anarchy

To say that a bad government must be established for fear of anarchy is really saying that we should kill ourselves for fear of dying.

Anarchy is no guarantee that some people won't kill, injure, kidnap, defraud, or steal from others. Government is a guarantee that some will.

There's never been a good government.

If the individual has a right to govern himself, all external government is tyranny. Hence the necessity of abolishing the State.

Anarchy is a state of society where the only government is reason.

These so-called governments are in reality only great bands of robbers and murderers, organized, disciplined, and constantly on the alert.

Certainly the worker has nothing to lose by a change from government and capitalism to a condition of no government, of anarchy.

All governments are in equal measure good and evil. The best ideal is anarchy.

While preaching against every kind of government, and demanding complete freedom, we must support all struggles for partial freedom, because we are convinced that one learns through struggle.

This, then, is the Anarchistic definition of government: the subjection of the non-invasive individual to an external will.

Where you have no religion, you are sure to have no government, for as religion disappears, anarchy takes place and fixes a compleat Hell on earth till religion returns.

Bad as any government may be, it is seldom worse than anarchy.

I'd always maintained that much of the anarchy and craziness of the early internet had a lot to do with the fact that governments just hadn't realised it was there.

all government, whatever its forms or pretenses, is a dead weight that paralyzes the free spirit and activities of the masses.

There is, in fact, no law or government at all; and it is wonderful how well things go on without them.

Britain cherishes her eccentrics and wisely holds that the function of government is to build a walled garden in which anarchy can flourish.

The worst thing in this world next to anarchy is government.

Obviously I prefer freedom, but I know, and I think all history has told us, that freedom cannot flow from anarchy and disorder.

Every believer is an anarchist at heart. True believers would rather see governments topple and history rewritten than scuff the cover of their faith.

Kill all the rich people. Break up their cars and apartments. Bring the revolution home, kill your parents, that's where it's really at.

You know how I always believe in the future. Without disorder, the revolution is impossible; knowing that, I did not lose hope, and I do not lose it now.

No theory, no ready-made system, no book that has ever been written will save the world. I cleave to no system. I am a true seeker.

The time is always now to declare your freedom!"..."The Authority says that Anarchy is the devil. But I say that a man who's both an anarchist and a patriot has been ordained by God himself!

Liberty and happiness have a powerful enemy on each hand; on the one hand tyranny, on the other licentiousness [anarchy]. To guard against the latter, it is necessary to give the proper powers to government; and to guard against the former, it is necessary that those powers should be properly distributed.