anarchy quotes

Freedom and not servitude is the cure of anarchy; as religion, and not atheism, is the true remedy for superstition.

- Edmund Burke
  On Conciliation with  America.

They that are discontented under monarchy call it tyranny; and they that are displeased with aristocracy call it oligarchy; so also, they which find themselves grieved under a democracy call it anarchy, which signifies the want of government; and yet I think no man believes that want of government is any new kind of government.

-Thomas Hobbes
Leviathan, pt.2, ch.19.

Government and co-operation are in all things the laws of life; anarchy and competition the laws of death.

-John Ruskin
  Unto this Last, essay 3.

My political opinions lean more and more to anarchy (philosophically understood, meaning abolition of control not whiskered men with bombs)† The most improper job of any man is bossing other men.

-J(ohn) R(onald) R(euel) Tolkien
  Letter to ChristopherTolkien, 29 Apr.

Turning and turning in the widening gyre The falcon cannot hear the falconer; Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold; Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world, The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere The ceremony of innocence is drowned; The best lack all conviction, while the worst Are full of passionate intensity. SeeAchebe 2:18.

-W(illiam) B(utler) Yeats
  'The Second Coming', l.1^8. Collected in Michael Robartes and the Dancer (1921).