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ANARCHY

Related Subjects: Agitation, Chaos, Government, Order, Politics, Rebellion, Revolution

  1. The choking, sweltering, deadly, and killing rule of no rule; the consecration of cupidity and braying of folly, and dim stupidity and baseness, in most of the affairs of men. Slop-shirts attainable three-halfpence cheaper by the ruin of living bodies and immortal souls.—CARLYLE

  2. There is no grievance that is a fit object of redress by mob law.—LINCOLN

  3. If the vicious portion of the population shall be permitted to gather in bands of hundreds and thousands, and burn churches, ravage and rob provision-stores, throw printing presses into rivers, shoot editors, and hang and burn obnoxious persons at pleasure and with impunity, depend on it, this government cannot endure.—LINCOLN

  4. In a state of anarchy power is the measure of right.—LUCAN

  5. Anarchy is a word which comes from the Greek, and signifies, strictly speaking, without government: the state of a people, without any constituted authority, that is, without government.—ENRICO MALATESTA, Anarchy

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

  7. In times of anarchy one may seem a despot in order to be a savior.—MIRABEAU

  8. The old cry that Anarchists are haters of mankind, and apostles of wholesale destruction, is beginning to die out. .. Instead of being denounced as human monsters, Anarchists are now accused of being impractical idealists.—JAMES F. MORTON, Is It All a Dream?

  9. Every anarchist is a baffled dictator.—MUSSOLINI

  10. When the rich assemble to concern themselves with the business of the poor it is called charity. When the poor assemble to concern themselves with the business of the rich it is called anarchy.—PAUL RICHARD, The Scourge of Christ

  11. There lives no greater fiend than Anarchy;
    She ruins states, turns houses out of doors,
    Breaks up in rout the embattled soldiery.—SOPHOCLES, Antigone

  12. If the will of man were free, that is, if every man could act as he chose, the whole of history would be a tissue of disconnected accidents.—TOLSTOY, War and Peace

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