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“Our government is the potent, the omnipresent teacher. For good or for ill it teaches the whole people by example. Crime is contagious. If the government becomes a lawbreaker, it breeds contempt for law; it invites every man to become a law unto himself; it invites anarchy. To declare that in the administration of the criminal law the end justifies the means - to declare that the Government may commit crimes in order to secure the conviction of a private criminal - would bring terrible retributions.”

“Where and when have riots and anarchy been provoked by wise measures? If the government had acted wisely, and if their measures had met the needs of the poor peasants, would there have been unrest among the peasant masses?”

Ifs Needs Has Beens Government Poor Wise Mets Mass Anarchy Peasants Riot Unrest Provoked

Author:Vladimir Lenin

“Anarchy is a word that comes from the Greek, and signifies, strictly speaking, "without government": the state of a people without any constituted authority. Before such an organization had begun to be considered possible and desirable by a whole class of thinkers, so as to be taken as the aim of a movement (which has now become one of the most important factors in modern social warfare), the word "anarchy" was used universally in the sense of disorder and confusion, and it is still adopted in that sense by the ignorant and by adversaries interested in distorting the truth.”

“Anarchy is... a form of government or constitution in which public and private consciousness, formed through the development of science and law, is alone sufficient to maintain order and guarantee all liberties.”

Government Form Law Order Consciousness Liberty Development Constitution Sufficient Guarantees Anarchy Anarchism Forms Of Government

Author:Pierre-Joseph Proudhon

“ANARCHY, or the government of each man by himself or as the English say, self -government.”

Men Self Government Anarchy Anarchism Self-government

Author:Pierre-Joseph Proudhon

“I'd always maintained that much of the anarchy and craziness of the early internet had a lot to do with the fact that governments just hadn't realised it was there.”

Facts Government Internet Anarchy Realised Craziness

Author:William Gibson

“Certainly the worker has nothing to lose by a change from government and capitalism to a condition of no government, of anarchy.”

Government Loses Conditions Capitalism Workers Anarchy Anarchism Nothing To Lose

Book:What is Communist Anarchism?

Source: What is Communist Anarchism?

“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.”

Thinking Men Want Believe Kind Government Democracy Tyranny Anarchy Monarchy Aristocracy Oligarchy

Author:Thomas Hobbes

“America needs fewer laws, not more prisons. By trying to seize far more power than is necessary over American citizens, the federal government is destroying its own legitimacy. We face a choice not of anarchy or authoritarianism, but a choice of limited government or unlimited government .”

Source: Lost Rights: The Destruction of American Liberty

“Yet, here we are, long and difficult years into that conflict," ... "we still have not created the state we promised them. On the contrary, our costly and valiant efforts have produced an outcome our government did not predict or intend-a failed state spinning out of control into anarchy and civil war.”

Years Long Stills War States Government Difficult Effort Conflict Contrary Outcomes Civil War Anarchy Spinning Valiant Spinning Out Of Control

Author:Anthony Zinni

“This is what the government is, has always been, the creator and defender of privilege; the organization of oppression and revenge. To hope that it can ever become anything else is the vainest of delusions. They tell you that Anarchy, the dream of social order without government, is a wild fancy. The wildest dream that ever entered the heart of man is the dream that mankind can ever help itself through an appeal to law, or to come to any order that will not result in slavery wherein there is any excuse for government.”

“Beneath a free government there is nothing but the intelligence of the people to keep the people's peace. Order must be preserved, not by a military police or regiments of horse-guards, but by the spontaneous concert of a well-informed population, resolved that the rights which have been rescued from despotism shall not be subverted by anarchy.”

People Wells Has Beens Government Order Rights Military Horse Police Population Concerts Anarchy Spontaneous Despotism Free Government Military Police

Book:Orations and Speeches on Various Occasions

Source: Orations and Speeches on Various Occasions

“Bad as any government may be, it is seldom worse than anarchy.”

May Government Anarchy

Author:Aesop

“Government destitute of energy, will ever produce anarchy.”

Government Energy Produce Anarchy Destitute

Book:The Debates in the Several State Conventions on the Adoption of the Federal Constitution: As Recommended by the General Convention at Philadelphia in 1787. Together with the Journal of the Federal Convention, Luther Martin's Letter, Yates's Minutes, Congressional Opinions, Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions of '98-'99, and Other Illustrations of the Constitution

Source: The Debates in the Several State Conventions on the Adoption of the Federal Constitution: As Recommended by the General Convention at Philadelphia in 1787. Together with the Journal of the Federal Convention, Luther Martin's Letter, Yates's Minutes, Congressional Opinions, Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions of '98-'99, and Other Illustrations of the Constitution

“Whenever government abandons law, it proclaims anarchy.”

States Government Law Abandon Anarchy

Book:Irish Affairs

Source: Irish Affairs