Quotes with anarchy

  • Neither a life of anarchy nor one beneath a despot should you praise; to all that lies in the middle a god has given excellence.
  • I do not believe that the values which the Western democracies consider essential to civilization can survive in a world rent by the international anarchy of nationalism and the economic anarchy of competitive enterprise.

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  • Jim Dodge Anarchy doesn't mean out of control; it means out of their control.
    Jim Dodge
    American novelist and poet (1945 - )
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  • Marquis de Sade Are not laws dangerous which inhibit the passions? Compare the centuries of anarchy with those of the strongest legalism in any country you like and you will see that it is only when the laws are silent that the greatest actions appear.
    Marquis de Sade
    French aristocrat, writer, politician and philosopher (1740 - 1814)
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  • Will Durant As soon as liberty is complete it dies in anarchy.
    Will Durant
    American writer, historian, and philosopher (1885 - 1981)
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  • Oscar Wilde Better the rule of One, whom all obey, than to let clamorous demagogues betray our freedom with the kiss of anarchy.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Arthur Henderson Four years of world war, at a cost in human suffering which our minds are mercifully too limited to imagine, led to the very clear realization that international anarchy must be abandoned if civilization was to survive.
    Arthur Henderson
    British Labour politician
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  • John Ruskin Government and cooperation are in all things the laws of life. Anarchy and competition, the laws of death.
    John Ruskin
    English art critic (1819 - 1900)
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  • Arthur Henderson I do not believe that the values which the Western democracies consider essential to civilization can survive in a world rent by the international anarchy of nationalism and the economic anarchy of competitive enterprise.
    Arthur Henderson
    British Labour politician
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  • Arthur Henderson In almost every country there are elements of opinion which would welcome such a conclusion because they wish to return to the politics of the balance of power, unrestricted and unregulated armaments, international anarchy, and preparation for war.
    Arthur Henderson
    British Labour politician
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  • William Butler Yeats Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world, the blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere the ceremony of innocence is drowned.
    William Butler Yeats
    Irish poet (1865 - 1939)
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  • Aeschylus Neither a life of anarchy nor one beneath a despot should you praise; to all that lies in the middle a god has given excellence.
    Aeschylus
    Greek dramatist (525 - 456)
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  • Arthur Henderson The Disarmament Conference has become the focal point of a great struggle between anarchy and world order... between those who think in terms of inevitable armed conflict and those who seek to build a universal and durable peace.
    Arthur Henderson
    British Labour politician
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  • Benjamin Whichcote The government of man should be the monarchy of reason: it is too often the democracy of passions or the anarchy of humors.
    Benjamin Whichcote
    British philosopher (1609 - 1683)
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  • Aldous Huxley The thin and precarious crust of decency is all that separates any civilization, however impressive, from the hell of anarchy or systematic tyranny.
    Aldous Huxley
    English writer (1894 - 1963)
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  • Aldous Huxley The worst enemy of life, freedom and the common decencies is total anarchy; their second worst enemy is total efficiency.
    Aldous Huxley
    English writer (1894 - 1963)
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  • Henry Ward Beecher The worst thing in the world next to anarchy, is government.
    Henry Ward Beecher
    American Congregationalist clergyman, social reformer, and speaker (1813 - 1887)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson There is no chance, and no anarchy, in the universe. All is system and gradation. Every god is there sitting in his sphere.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Ben Jonson Those that merely talk and never think,
    That live in the wild anarchy of drink.
    The Works of Ben Jonson, Second Folio
    Ben Jonson
    British Dramatist, Poet (1572 - 1637)
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  • Aneurin Bevan Trades unions are islands of anarchy in a sea of chaos.
    Aneurin Bevan
    British Labor politician (1897 - 1960)
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  • Jeremy Bentham Tyranny and anarchy are never far apart.
    Jeremy Bentham
    English philosopher, jurist, and social reformer (1748 - 1832)
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  • Henry Miller We have two American flags always: one for the rich and one for the poor. When the rich fly it means that things are under control; when the poor fly it means danger, revolution, anarchy.
    Henry Miller
    American writer (1891 - 1980)
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