Anarchy

The pursuit of perfection, then, is the pursuit of sweetness and light. . . .He who works for sweetness and light united, works to make reason and the will of God prevail.

- Matthew Arnold Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

The governing idea of Hellenism is spontaneity of consciousness that of Hebraism, strictness of conscience.

- Matthew Arnold Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

Anarchism is founded on the observation that since few men are wise enough to rule themselves, even fewer are wise enough to rule others.

- Edward Paul Abbey Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

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 Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

In an open world, no one can live in isolation, no one can act alone in the name of all, and no one can accept the anarchy of a society without rules, ... There is no alternative to the United Nations.

- Jacques Chirac Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

Anarchism ... stands for direct action, the open defiance of, and resistance to, all laws and restrictions, economic, social, and moral.

- Emma Goldman Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

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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There is no greater evil than anarchy.

- Sophocles Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

Culture is. . . properly described not as having its origin in curiosity, but as having its origin in the love of perfection it is a study of perfection.

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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 Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

The Internet is the first thing that humanity has built that humanity doesn't understand, the largest experiment in anarchy that we have ever had.

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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 Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

Culture, then, is a study of perfection, and perfection which insists on becoming something rather than in having something, in an inward condition of the mind and spirit, not in an outward set of circumstances.

- Matthew Arnold Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

Alan was always interested in politics in a major way. He actually believes that anarchy is a politically viable system, but I don't. I was always interested in putting forward the ideas that represented my viewpoint. I feel the same about anything I'm doing.

- David Lloyd Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

Unregulated competition is a naive metaphor for anarchy.

- John Saul Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

The entire world, the much-praised European civilization, is falling into ruins through the anarchy which has been let loose by the world war.

- Karl Liebknecht Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

I personally call on Muslims in Indonesia not to react excessively, let alone getting trapped into anarchy, because this is something which is very much against Islam.

- Din Syamsuddin Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

All governments are in equal measure good and evil. The best ideal is anarchy.

- Leo Tolstoy Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

You know, we were worried that in the UK, there's no anarchy on kids TV. When we grew up kids TV was very anarchic and it was about stuff that your parents would probably object to, if they got to object. And it's gotten very safe.

- Dave Rowntree Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

When anarchy is declared, the first thing we do, let's kill all the anarchists.

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The worst thing in the world next to anarchy, is government.

- Henry Ward Beecher Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

Where you have no religion, you are sure to have no government, for as religion disappears, anarchy takes place and fixes a compleat Hell on earth till religion returns.

- Daniel Morgan Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

It's not a time for anarchy or trying to make a buck. My real concern is the impoverished people waiting in their houses to be picked up or waiting at the Superdome to get out of the city.

- Amy Wilson Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

Overall, the anarchy was the most creative of all periods of Japanese culture for in it there appeared the greatest landscape painting, the culmination of the skill of landscape gardening and the arts of flower arrangement, and the No drama.

- J. M. Roberts Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

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

- Lawrence Lessig Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes