“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.” ThinkingMenWantBelieveKindGovernmentDemocracyTyrannyAnarchyMonarchyAristocracyOligarchy Author:Thomas Hobbes
“The laws of democracy remain a dead letter, its freedom is anarchy, its equality the equality of unequals” LawDemocracyLettersAnarchy Author:Plato
“For me democracy is the only way of life. The opposite is dictatorship or anarchy.” WayDemocracyOppositesAnarchyDictatorship Author:Elie Wiesel
“[D]emocracy will soon degenerate into an anarchy, such an anarchy that every man will do what is right in his own eyes and no man's life or property or reputation or liberty will be secure, and every one of these will soon mould itself into a system of subordination of all the moral virtues and intellectual abilities, all the powers of wealth, beauty, wit and science, to the wanton pleasures, the capricious will, and the execrable cruelty of one or a very few.” MenGovernmentEyeWealthAbilityPleasureLibertyMoralVirtueDemocracyIntellectualPropertyWitEvery ManCrueltyReputationSecureAnarchyProperty RightsDegeneratesMouldWantonCapriciousSubordinationMoral Virtues Author:John Adams
“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.” WorldBelieveValuesDemocracyEconomicCivilizationEssentialsWesternInternationalEnterpriseNationalismAnarchy Author:Arthur Henderson
“The science of war leads one to dictatorship, pure and simple. The science of non-violence alone can lead one to pure democracy. Power based on love is thousand times more effective and permanent than power derived from fear of punishment. It is a blasphemy to say non-violence can be practiced only by individuals and never by nations which are composed of individuals. The nearest approach to purest anarchy would be a democracy based on non-violence. A society organized and run on the basis of complete non-violence would be the purest anarchy.” WarWould BeRunningIndividualNationsSimpleLove IsDemocracyViolenceThousandPureApproachBasesPunishmentPermanentOrganizedAnarchyDictatorshipNon ViolenceBlasphemy Author:Mahatma Gandhi