"If we choose, we can live in a world of comforting illusion."
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"Better the rule of One, whom all obey, than to let clamorous demagogues betray our freedom with the kiss of anarchy."
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"A practical scheme, says Oscar Wilde, is either one already in existence, or a scheme that could be carried out under the existing conditions; but it is exactly the existing conditions that one objects to, and any scheme that could accept these conditions is wrong and foolish."
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"Where you have no religion, you are sure to have no government, for as religion disappears, anarchy takes place and fixes a compleat Hell on earth till religion returns."
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"What is important is to spread confusion, not eliminate it."
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"Freedom is that faculty that enlarges the usefulness of all other faculties."
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"The media is the right arm of anarchy."
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"Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world, the blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere the ceremony of innocence is drowned."
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"I closed the gulf of anarchy and brought order out of chaos. I rewarded merit regardless of birth or wealth, wherever I found it. I abolished feudalism and restored equality to all regardless of religion and before the law. I fought the decrepit monarchies of the Old Regime because the alternative was the destruction of all this. I purified the Revolution."
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"Law And Freedom without Violence (Anarchy) Law And Violence without Freedom (Despotism) Violence without Freedom And Law (Barbarism) Violence with Freedom And Law (Republic)"
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"What is called matriarchy is simply moral anarchy, in which the mother alone remains fixed because all the fathers are fugitive and irresponsible."
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"Anarchism is democracy taken seriously."
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"In Nigeria, there is energy, whether it is Lagos, which is sheer anarchy, but it is not lethargic. It is strong, even aggressive and if that energy could be directed to work it will produce really enormous results."
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"All pity choked with custom of fell deeds."
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"There is no greater evil than anarchy."
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"In no sense do I advocate evading or defying the law . . That would lead to anarchy."
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"Whenever government abandons law, it proclaims anarchy."
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"That is what I have always understood to be the essence of anarchism: the conviction that the burden of proof has to be placed on authority, and that it should be dismantled if that burden cannot be met."
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"Arbitrary power is but the first natural step from anarchy, or the savage life."
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"We have only one alternative: either to build a functioning industrial society or see freedom itself disappear in anarchy and tyranny."
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