The history of any nation follows an undulatory course. In the trough of the wave we find more or less complete anarchy; but the crest is not more or less complete Utopia, but only, at best, a tolerably humane, partially free and fairly just society that invariably carries within itself the seeds of its own decadence.
What is important is to spread confusion, not eliminate it.
It's sadly predictable that the only way you can come up with a way to celebrate the liberation you feel at leaving the old system behind is by coming up with a "system of liberation", as if such a thing could exist - but that's what we can expect from those who have never known anything other than systems and systematizing, I guess.
If a path to the better there be, it begins with a full look at the worst.
The State is said by some to be a necessary evil; it must be made unnecessary.
War is not, in itself, a condition so much as the symptom of a condition - that of international anarchy.
There are times when the law jeopardizes those who obey it.
You know, a long time ago being crazy meant something. Nowadays everybody's crazy.
Bad as any government may be, it is seldom worse than anarchy.
Sons of Anarchy has the perfect combination of character and action.
The suddenness of the leap from hardware to software cannot but produce a period of anarchy and collapse, especially in the developed countries.
There is more than one kind of freedom," said Aunt Lydia. "Freedom to and freedom from. In the days of anarchy, it was freedom to. Now you are being given freedom from. Don't underrate it.
Haiti is closer to anarchy than it is to anything else.
It's possible to love a human being if you don't know them too well.
No American conservative has ever argued that the government should never be involved in peoples' lives. That is anarchy, and we don't argue for that.
Anarchy works. Italy has proved it for a thousand years.
Everything the State says is a lie, and everything it has it has stolen.
There will always be something to ruin our lives, it all depends on what or which finds us first. We are always ripe and ready to be taken.
History is the propaganda of the victors.
If I ever form a clan, we'll be the anti-cheerleaders and walk under the bleacher forming mild acts of mayhem.