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| The atmosphere of orthodoxy is always damaging to prose, and above all it is completely ruinous to the novel, the most anarchical of all forms of literature. | George Orwell | 1903-1950, British Author, ''Animal Farm'' |
| Lo! thy dread empire, Chaos! is restored; dies before thy uncreating word: thy hand, great Anarch! lets the curtain fall; and universal darkness buries all. | Alexander Pope | 1688-1744, British Poet, Critic, Translator |
| Freedom without obligation is anarchy. Freedom without obligation is democracy. | Earl Riney | |
| The anarchist and the Christian have a common origin. | Friedrich Nietzsche | 1844-1900, German Philosopher |
| The ordinary man is an anarchist. He wants to do as he likes. He may want his neighbour to be governed, but he himself doesn't want to be governed. He is mortally afraid of government officials and policemen. | George Bernard Shaw | 1856-1950, Irish-born British Dramatist |
| Every genuine boy is a rebel and an anarch. If he were allowed to develop according to his own instincts, his own inclinations, society would undergo such a radical transformation as to make the adult revolutionary cower and cringe. | Henry Miller | 1891-1980, American Author |
| 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 | 1891-1980, American Author |
| The worst thing in the world next to anarchy, is government. | Henry Ward Beecher | 1813-1887, American Preacher, Orator, Writer |
| Tyranny and anarchy are never far apart. | Jeremy Bentham | 1748-1832, British Philosopher, Jurist, Political Theorist |
| Government and cooperation are in all things the laws of life. Anarchy and competition, the laws of death. | John Ruskin | 1819-1900, British Critic, Social Theorist |
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| We are at heart so profoundly anarchistic that the only form of state we can imagine living in is Utopian; and so cynical that the only Utopia we can believe in is authoritarian. | Lionel Trilling | 1905-1975, American Critic |
| 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 | 1740-1814, French Author |
| People sometimes inquire what form of government is most suitable for an artist to live under. To this question there is only one answer. The form of government that is most suitable to the artist is no government at all. | Oscar Wilde | 1856-1900, British Author, Wit |
| Better the rule of One, whom all obey, than to let clamorous demagogues betray our freedom with the kiss of anarchy. | Oscar Wilde | 1856-1900, British Author, Wit |
| 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 | 1803-1882, American Poet, Essayist |
| There is a certain combination of anarchy and discipline in the way I work. | Robert De Niro | 1943-, American Actor, Director |
| Sleeping in a bed -- it is, apparently, of immense importance. Against those who sleep, from choice or necessity, elsewhere society feels righteously hostile. It is not done. It is disorderly, anarchical. | Rose Macaulay | 1881-1958, British Novelist, Essayist |
| Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world, the blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere the ceremony of innocence is drowned. | William Butler Yeats | 1865-1939, Irish Poet, Playwright. |
