(55 quotes found)
“Politics is a pendulum whose swings between anarchy and tyranny are fueled by perpetually rejuvenated illusions.”
Albert Einstein
“When you break the big laws, you do not get liberty; you do not even get anarchy. You get the small laws.”
G. K. Chesterton
“All governments are in equal measure good and evil. The best ideal is anarchy.”
Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy
“The worst enemy of life, freedom and the common decencies is total anarchy; their second worst enemy is total efficiency”
Aldous Huxley
“The worst thing in the world, next to anarchy, is government”
Henry Ward Beecher
“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
“Our government teaches the whole people by its example. If the government becomes the lawbreaker, it breeds contempt for law; it invites every man to become a law unto himself; it invites anarchy.”
Louis D. Brandeis
“The suddenness of the leap from hardware to software cannot but produce a period of anarchy and collapse, especially in the developed countries.”
Marshall McLuhan
“Anarchy is the only slight glimmer of hope”
Mick Jagger
“Applied good taste is a mark of good citizenship. Ugliness is a from of anarchy... ugly cities, ugly advertising, ugly lives produce bad citizens.”
Lester Beall