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Colin Ward (August 14, 1924 - February 11, 2010) was a British writer and social theorist, recognized primarily for his contributions to urban planning and anarchism. He is best known for his influential book 'Anarchy in the UK', which examines the concept of anarchism within the context of British society. Ward's writing frequently emphasized the significance of community and the possibility of a more equitable society.

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“The fact there is no route-map to utopia does not mean that there are no routes to more accessible destinations.”

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“The terrifying breakdown of social cohesion in the American city, in spite of intense institutionalized police surveillance equipped with every sophisticated aid to public control, illustrates that social behaviour depends upon mutual responsibility rather than upon the policeman.”

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“American strategists have calculated the proportion of civilians killed in this century's major wars. In the First World War, 5 percent of those killed were civilians, in the Second World War 48 percent, while in a Third World War 90-95 percent would be civilians.”

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“The anarchist conclusion is that every kind of human activity should begin from what from what is local and immediate, should link in a network with no centre and no directing agency, hiving off new cells as the original grows.”

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Book:Anarchy in Action

Source: Anarchy in Action

“The important question is, therefore, not whether anarchy is possible or not, but whether we can so enlarge the scope and influence of libertarian methods that they become the normal way in which human beings organise their society.”

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Book:Anarchy in Action

Source: Anarchy in Action

“Every state protects the privileges of the powerful.”

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Book:Anarchism: A Very Short Introduction

Source: Anarchism: A Very Short Introduction

“Anarchy is a function, not of a society's simplicity and lack of social organization, but of it's complexity and multiplicity of social organizations.”

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“Those who have prophesied dreadful consequences as a result of the greater sexual freedom which the young assert - unwanted babies, venereal disease and so on - are usually the very same people who seek the fulfillment of their prophecies by opposing the free availability to the young of contraception and the removal of the stigma and mystification that surround venereal disease.”

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Book:Anarchy in Action

Source: Anarchy in Action

About the Author

Born: August 14, 1924
Died: February 11, 2010
Known for: Writer
Quotes: 8

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