#anarchy

As soon as liberty is complete it dies in anarchy. ↗

— Will Durant

#complete #dies #liberty #soon

Along the borders to Ethiopia and Somalia, anarchy reigns, the police and military have retreated quite some distance. ↗

— Richard Leakey

#anarchy #borders #distance #ethiopia #military

We have gone through everything as a nation - partition, dictatorship, and even anarchy. ↗

— Fatos Nano

#dictatorship #even #everything #gone #nation

History is full of examples of people who clamp down after they began to enjoy too much freedom. Freedom can lead to instability, anarchy, and confusion. So there can be a moral counter-revolution. ↗

— Gary Ross

#anarchy #began #confusion #down #enjoy

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

#anarchy #any #appear #centuries #compare

Unregulated competition is a naive metaphor for anarchy. ↗

— John Ralston Saul

#competition #metaphor #naive #unregulated

It is only when we have renounced our preoccupation with "I," "me," "mine," that we can truly possess the world in which we live. Everything, provided that we regard nothing as property. And not only is everything ours; it is also everybody else's. ↗

— Aldous Huxley

#communism #hinduism #socialism #spirituality #anarchy

A culture without property, or in which creators can't get paid, is anarchy, not freedom. ↗

— Lawrence Lessig

#creators #culture #freedom #get #paid

This loss [of freedom] means the fading from human life of values infinitely precious to it. The divergent use of individual temperaments can no longer find their various satisfactions in serious activities. There only remain ironbound conditions of employment and trivial amusements for leisure. ↗

— A. N. Whitehead

#leisure #modern-society #work #freedom

There is a certain combination of anarchy and discipline in the way I work. ↗

— Robert De Niro

#certain #combination #discipline #i #way