#anarchy

They vilify us, the scoundrels do, when there is only this difference; they rob the poor under the cover of law, forsooth, and we plunder the rich under the protection of our own courage; had ye not better make one of us, than sneak after the arses of those villains for employment? ↗

— Samuel Bellamy

#anarchy #class #employment #piracy #pirates

Why, play we, these games of mere men? ↗

— Daniel A. Craig

#games #life #society #life

The man Of virtuous soul commands not, nor obeys: Power, like a desolating pestilence, Pollutes whate'er it touches, and obedience, Bane of all genius, virtue, freedom, truth, Makes slaves of men, and, of the human frame, A mechanised automaton. ↗

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

#freedom #power #state #freedom

The bird that would soar above the level plain of tradition and prejudice must have strong wings. ↗

— Kate Chopin

#strength #anarchy

A city's only ever three hot meals away from anarchy. ↗

— Alastair Reynolds

#sf #social-commentary #anarchy

What is an anarchist? One who, choosing, accepts the responsibility of choice. ↗

— Ursula K. Le Guin

#choice #responsibility #anarchy

Oh, most unhappy man,' he cried, 'try to be happy! You have red hair like your sister.' My red hair, like red flames, shall burn up the world,' said Gregory. ↗

— G.K. Chesterton

#red-hair #anarchy

The measure of the state's success is that the word anarchy frightens people, while the word state does not. ↗

— Joseph Sobran

#anarchy

No matter what God's power may be, the first aspect of God is never that of the absolute Master, the Almighty. It is that of the God who puts himself on our human level and limits himself. ↗

— Jacques Ellul

#god #theology #anarchy

Anarchy could never get a man to the moon, but it may the only mode that can allow us to survive on earth. ↗

— Sheldon B. Kopp

#anarchy