Anarchy Quotes - page 8

The craftless anarchy of the Beat poets on the one hand, and the extreme control of Henry James on the other, suggest that for most human beings, just as both freedom and discipline are necessary in life, serendipity and design must coexist in a work to make it readable. (Mark Helprin)
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. View quote
Mark Helprin
Surely, with so much at stake for the entire human race, the only place for the United States is in the vanguard of the movement to substitute international law for international violence, international agencies of justice for international anarchy. View quote
Kirby Page
Is compulsion necessarily a violation of the law of love? To offer an affirmative answer is to deny the validity of all existing governments. This is the position of Tolstoy and other absolute non-resistants. Few readers of these words, however, will agree that anarchy alone is consistent with love. View quote
Kirby Page
The foreign policy of the United States in the decades ahead may prove to be the deciding factor in determining whether or not militant nationalism, aggressive imperialism and international anarchy, are to lead to further wars, or whether an era of international peace shall be ushered in by outlawing war and by creating effective social machinery through which a new and higher conception of nationalism may find expression. View quote
Kirby Page
If you hear Anarchy in the UK today your hair stands on end. It gives you the shivers. View quote
Vivienne Westwood
Privilege is basically a form of property, and as John Locke pointed out, property is what makes a civilization rather than a Libyan war zone of Hobbesian anarchy. The world is a better place when people can work constructively to earn privileges, individual and collective, and pass some of them on to their heirs. View quote
Steve Sailer
Government and cooperation are in all things the laws of life anarchy and competition the laws of death. View quote
John Ruskin
It is the fashion to talk of institutions as cold and cramping things. The truth is that when people are in exceptionally high spirits, really wild with freedom and invention, they always must, and they always do, create institutions. When men are weary they fall into anarchy; but while they are gay and vigorous they invariably make rules. View quote
G. K. Chesterton
If social stability goes pear-shaped, you have a choice between anarchy and dictatorship. Most people will opt for more security, even if they have to give up some personal freedom. View quote
Margaret Atwood
The Kingdom of God is freedom and the absence of such power... the Kingdom of God is anarchy. (Nikolai Berdyaev)
There is absolute truth in anarchism and it is to be seen in its attitude to the sovereignty of the state and to every form of state absolutism. ... The religious truth of anarchism consists in this, that power over man is bound up with sin and evil, that a state of perfection is a state where there is no power of man over man, that is to say, anarchy. The Kingdom of God is freedom and the absence of such power... the Kingdom of God is anarchy. View quote
Nikolai Berdyaev
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. View quote
William Gibson
'Sons of Anarchy' has the perfect combination of character and action. View quote
Christopher Golden
I'm a huge fan of 'Sons of Anarchy.' View quote
Christopher Golden
I think these will both still be with us, but fascism becomes less and less possible. We have to accept that we are moving towards some sort of anarchy. View quote
Alan Moore
I believe that all other political states are in fact variations or outgrowths of a basic state of anarchy. View quote
Alan Moore
Capitalism and communism felt like they were always going to be around, but it turns out they were just two ways of ordering an industrial society. If you were looking for more fundamental human political poles, you'd take anarchy and fascism, for my money. View quote
Alan Moore
Now anarchy, on the other hand, is almost starting from the principle that "in diversity, there is strength,” which makes much more sense from the point of view of looking at the natural world. View quote
Alan Moore
In order for any workable and realistic state of anarchy to be achieved, you will obviously have to educate people - and educate them massively - towards a state where they could actually take responsibility for their own actions and simultaneously be aware that they are acting in a wider group: that they must allow other people within that group to take responsibility for their own actions. View quote
Alan Moore
Further, humanity must never be complacent about the virtues of human nature. Therefore, everything must be done at all levels to prevent alienation, inequality, deprivation, fear, injustice, anarchy and the loss of the rule of law. History has shown repeatedly that humankind is capable of unthinkable brutality and injustice. This is often a result of what I call fear(survival)-induced pre-emptive aggression, which may occur no matter how calm the situation appears, although it is not necessarily inevitable. Moreover, where there is injustice that is perceived as posing a threat to survival, humankind will do whatever necessary to survive and be free. In such instances, might (military or otherwise) may not prevail or be the optimal solution. (Nayef Al-Rodhan)
We live in a badly developed anarchist situation in which the biggest gang has taken over and have declared that it is not an anarchist situation – that it is a capitalist or a communist situation. But I tend to think that anarchy is the most natural form of politics for a human being to actually practice. View quote
Alan Moore
You can't have an official set of rules for anarchy. View quote
Alan Moore
The whole program of evolution seems to be to diversify, because in diversity there is strength. And if you apply that on a social level, then you get something like anarchy. View quote
Alan Moore
Unless you're talking about some incredibly rigid Victorian family, there is nobody that could be said to be the leader of the family; everybody has their own function. And it seems to me that anarchy is the state that most naturally obtains when you're talking about ordinary human beings living their lives in a natural way. View quote
Alan Moore