Margaret Thatcher (1925–2013) British stateswoman and politician
Speech in South Africa (20 May 1991) http://www.margaretthatcher.org/document/108268 <br class="br">Post-Prime Ministerial
Margaret Thatcher (1925–2013) British stateswoman and politician
Speech in South Africa (20 May 1991) http://www.margaretthatcher.org/document/108268 <br class="br">Post-Prime Ministerial
Mohammed VI of Morocco (1963) King of Morocco
Original French: Mais qu’est-ce que la liberté ? Pour moi, c’est le respect de l’autre et le respect de la loi. La liberté, ce n’est pas l’anarchie. <br class="br"> Interview with Le Figaro–September 2001 http://www.maroc.ma/fr/discours-royaux/interview-accord%C3%A9e-par-sa-majest%C3%A9-le-roi-mohammed-vi-au-quotidien-fran%C3%A7ais-%C2%AB-le
Max Stirner book The Ego and Its Own
The state calls its own violence law, but that of the individual, crime.
As quoted in The Great Quotations (1960) by George Seldes, p. 664
The Ego and Its Own (1845)
Mahatma Gandhi (1869–1948) pre-eminent leader of Indian nationalism during British-ruled India
Harijan (27 October 1946) p. 369
1940s
Kurt Vonnegut book The Sirens of Titan
Source: The Sirens of Titan (1959), Chapter 3 “United Hotcake Preferred” (p. 78)
“An unjust law is itself a species of violence.”
Mahatma Gandhi (1869–1948) pre-eminent leader of Indian nationalism during British-ruled India
Non-Violence in Peace & War (1962) Vol. 2, edited by Mahadev Haribhai Desai, p. 144
Posthumous publications (1950s and later)
Context: An unjust law is itself a species of violence. Arrest for its breach is more so. Now the law of nonviolence says that violence should be resisted not by counter-violence but by nonviolence. This I do by breaking the law and by peacefully submitting to arrest and imprisonment.
Kim Stanley Robinson book The Years of Rice and Salt
Book 3: "Ocean Continents"
The Years of Rice and Salt (2002)
“Destruction, violence, ravages, murder, are perpetrated by statute law.”
Elbert Hubbard (1856–1915) American writer, publisher, artist, and philosopher fue el escritor del jarron azul
The Better Part (1901)
Context: I AM an Anarchist.
All good men are Anarchists.
All cultured, kindly men; all gentlemen; all just men are Anarchists.
Jesus was an Anarchist.
A Monarchist is one who believes a monarch should govern. A Plutocrat believes in the rule of the rich. A Democrat holds that the majority should dictate. An Aristocrat thinks only the wise should decide; while an Anarchist does not believe in government at all. Richard Croker is a Monarchist; Mark Hanna a Plutocrat; Cleveland a Democrat; Cabot Lodge an Aristocrat; William Penn, Henry D. Thoreau, Bronson Alcott and Walt Whitman were Anarchists. An Anarchist is one who minds his own business. An Anarchist does not believe in sending warships across wide oceans to kill brown men, and lay waste rice fields, and burn the homes of people who are fighting for liberty. An Anarchist does not drive women with babes at their breasts and other women with babes unborn, children and old men into the jungle to be devoured by beasts or fever or fear, or die of hunger, homeless, unhouseled and undone.
Destruction, violence, ravages, murder, are perpetrated by statute law..