Quotes about Anarchy

There is in me an anarchy and frightful disorder. Creating makes me die a thousand deaths, because it means making order, and my entire being rebels against order. But without it I would die, scattered to the winds.

Anarchy is the sure consequence of tyranny; or no power that is not limited by laws can ever be protected by them.

The moment the idea is admitted into society that property is not as sacred as the law of God, and that there is not a force of law and public justice to protect it, anarchy and tyranny commence.

The economic anarchy of capitalist society as it exists today is, in my opinion, the real source of the evil.

Freedom and not servitude is the cure of anarchy; as religion, and not atheism, is the true remedy of superstition.

The moment the idea is admitted into society, that property is not as sacred as the law of God, and that there is not a force of law and public justice to protect it, anarchy and tyranny commence. If "Thou shall not covet," and "Thou shall not steal," are not commandments of Heaven, they must be made inviolable precepts in every society, before it can be civilized or made free.

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

The worst enemy of life, freedom and the common decencies is total anarchy their second worst enemy is total efficiency.

The thin and precarious crust of decency is all that separates any civilization, however impressive, from the hell of anarchy or systematic tyranny which lie in wait beneath the surface.

No American conservative has ever argued that the government should never be involved in peoples' lives. That is anarchy, and we don't argue for that.

Freedom and not servitude is the cure of anarchy; as religion, and not atheism, is the true remedy of superstition.

The poet Yeats felt we were living in the last of a great Christian cycle. His poem "The Second Coming" says, "Turning and turning in the widening gyre/The falcon cannot hear the falconer;/Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;/Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,/The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere/The ceremony of innocence is drowned.