Quotes on Anarchy

No state, upon its own mere motion, can lawfully get out of the Union. Plainly, the central idea of secession, is the essence of anarchy.

Liberty begets anarchy, anarchy leads to despotism, and despotism brings about liberty once again. Millions of human beings have perished without being able to make any of these systems triumph.

Anarchy is the stepping stone to absolute power.

The uniformity and obedience of the media, which any dictator would admire...

All over the place, from the popular culture to the propaganda system, there is constant pressure to make people feel that they are helpless, that the only role they can have is to ratify decisions and to consume.

War is not in itself a condition so much as the symptom of a condition, that of international anarchy. If we wish to substitute for war the settlement of disputes by justice, we must first substitute for the condition of international anarchy a condition of international order

The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly.

Energy in the executive is a leading character in the definition of good government. It is essential to the protection of the community against foreign attacks; it is not less essential to the steady administration of the laws; to the protection of property against those irregular and high-handed combinations which sometimes interrupt the ordinary course of justice; to the security of liberty against the enterprises and assaults of ambition, of faction, and of anarchy.

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

This is not anarchy, Eve. This is chaos.

The only means of strengthening one's intellect is to make up one's mind about nothing, to let the mind be a thoroughfare for all thoughts.

A concept is a brick. It can be used to build a courthouse of reason. Or it can be thrown through the window.

It's possible to love a human being if you don't know them too well.

Some people never go crazy, What truly horrible lives they must live.

There can be but little liberty on earth while men worship a tyrant in heaven.

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

Understand that legal and illegal are political, and often arbitrary, categorizations; use and abuse are medical, or clinical, distinctions.

Everything the State says is a lie, and everything it has it has stolen.

When politics and home life have become one and the same thing, [...] then,[...] it is evident that we will be in a state of total liberty or anarchy.