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Quotes About Anarchy

I'm kind of glad the web is sort of totally anarchic. That's fine with me.
~ Roger Ebert
I've seen, not surprisingly, no action taken against those people, but here I am, an anarchist website, not even close to what that is, not even close to what else you can find on the Internet.
~ Sherman Austin
Confronted with the choice, the American people would choose the policeman's truncheon over the anarchist's bomb.
~ Spiro T. Agnew
If you want to make an anarchist film, make it with a corporation.
~ Zal Batmanglij
Creativity can only be anarchic, capitalist, Darwinian.
~ Umberto Eco
It's an old anarchist dream that people can take care of their own lives.
~ Todd Gitlin
Anarchy would be a world that nobody felt responsible for, that nobody felt any sort of love for. When there's real intelligence happening, when there's real love happening, there's a sense of responsibility: Hey, we've got to take care of this place and each other.
~ Ed Kowalczyk
In all of my books, I'm taking them on an emotionally challenging and sometimes physically dangerous process with a bit of fun and anarchy along the way. With the power comes responsibility.
~ Morris Gleitzman
If when the chips are down, the world's most powerful nation… acts like a pitiful, helpless giant, the forces of totalitarianism and anarchy will threaten free nations and free institutions throughout the world.
~ Richard M. Nixon
World War II acronym, SNAFU. Situation normal, all fucked up.
~ Richard Phillips
Nations existed in a condition of international anarchy. No hierarchical authority defined their relations with one another. They negotiated voluntarily as self-interest moved them and took what they could get. War had been their final negotiation, brutally resolving their worst disputes. Now an ultimate power had appeared.
~ Richard Rhodes
He had more than his share of that streak of anarchy which was the birthright of every American;
~ Robert A. Heinlein
Buras? da tüm iyi ailelerde olduÄŸu gibi anarÅŸi ve tiranl???n bir kar???m?d?r, demokrasiye yer yoktur.
~ Robert A. Heinlein
There is no governor anywhere; you are all absolutely free. There is no restraint that cannot be escaped. We are all absolutely free. If everybody could go into dhyana at will, nobody could be controlled — by fear of prison, by fear of whips or electroshock, by fear of death, even. All existing society is based on keeping those fears alive, to control the masses. Ten people who know would be more dangerous than a million armed anarchists.
~ Robert Anton Wilson
Proudhon was a great communication analyst, bom 100 years too soon to be understood. His system of voluntary association (anarchy) is based on the simple communication principles that an authoritarian system means one-way communication, or stupidity, and a libertarian system means two-way communication, or rationality.
~ Robert Anton Wilson
The conflict, Marat/Sade (which should really be Marx/Sade, except that the ingenious Mr. Weiss was not quite ingenious enough to devise a historical conjunction between uncle Karl and the Marquis), is the conflict between anarchy and tyranny. Sade, not Marat or Marx, is the true revolutionary, for he aims at a world outside the crucible of punishment-and-submission, while they aim at a new world still within that crucible.
~ Robert Anton Wilson
I dreamed I called Adolf Hitler on the phone and asked him. What was your gimmick? They believed it was wiser to obey anyone, even me, than to risk anarchy, he said with a ghoulish laugh. And the line went dead with a sharp click like boot-heels snapped together.
~ Robert Anton Wilson
Rats They fought the dogs and killed the cats, And bit the babies in the cradles, And ate the cheeses out of the vats, And licked the soup from the cook's own ladles. Split open the kegs of salted sprats, Made nests inside men's Sunday hats, And even spoiled the women's chats By drowning their speaking With shrieking and squeaking In fifty different sharps and flats.
~ Robert Browning
So far we have seen the weakening and collapse of small and medium-sized states in Africa and the Middle East. But quasi-anarchy in larger states like Russia and China, on which the territorial organization of Eurasia hinges, could be next - tied to structural economic causes linked, in turn, to slow growth world-wide.
~ Robert D. Kaplan
The age of comparative anarchy is upon us.
~ Robert D. Kaplan
In the interest of thinking tragically in order to avoid tragedy, policy makers need to worry about how not to provoke more anarchy than the world has already seen.
~ Robert D. Kaplan
Regulile erau simple: fara reguli.
~ Khaled Hosseini
Revolution suspends habit as well as law. But just as nature abhors a vacuum, people abhor anarchy.
~ Kim Stanley Robinson
Freedom and not servitude is the cure of anarchy; as religion, and not atheism, is the true remedy of superstition.
~ Edmund Burke