“In anarchy there is no automatic harmony.”
Source: Man, the State, and War (1959), Chapter VI, The Third Image, p. 160
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Thurgood Marshall (1908–1993) Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court
Speech at the national convention of Alpha Phi Alpha, St. Louis, Missouri, August 15, 1966, as reported by the St. Louis Globe-Democrat, August 17, 1966, p. 1.
Leo Tolstoy (1828–1910) Russian writer
But it will be instituted only by there being more and more people who do not require protection from governmental power, and by there being more and more people who will be ashamed of applying this power.
"On Anarchy", in Pamphlets : Translated from the Russian (1900) as translated by Aylmer Maude, p. 22
“This is why I decide for anarchy.”
Jacques Ellul (1912–1994) French sociologist, technology critic, and Christian anarchist
Source: The Ethics of Freedom (1973 - 1974), p. 396
Context: Every modern state is totalitarian. It recognizes no limit either factual or legal. This is why I maintain that no state in the modern world is legitimate. No present-day authority can claim to be instructed by God, for all authority is set in the framework of a totalitarian state. This is why I decide for anarchy.
Benjamin Ricketson Tucker (1854–1939) American journalist and anarchist
Individual Liberty (1926), Passive Resistance
Context: The idea that Anarchy can be inaugurated by force is as fallacious as the idea that it can be sustained by force. Force cannot preserve Anarchy; neither can it bring it. In fact, one of the inevitable influences of the use of force is to postpone Anarchy. The only thing that force can ever do for us is to save us from extinction, to give us a longer lease of life in which to try to secure Anarchy by the only methods that can ever bring it. But this advantage is always purchased at immense cost, and its attainment is always attended by frightful risk. The attempt should be made only when the risk of any other course is greater.
“The real struggle is between order and anarchy.”
Edmund Cooper book All Fools' Day
All Fools' Day (1966)
“Anarchy is the only slight glimmer of hope.”
Mick Jagger (1943) British rock musician, member of The Rolling Stones
“There are different forms of anarchy and different currents in it.”
Jacques Ellul (1912–1994) French sociologist, technology critic, and Christian anarchist
Anarchy and Christianity [Anarchie et Christianisme] (1988) as translated by Geoffrey W. Bromiley (1991), p. 11
Context: There are different forms of anarchy and different currents in it. I must, first say very simply what anarchy I have in view. By anarchy I mean first an absolute rejection of violence. Hence I cannot accept either nihilists or anarchists who choose violence as a means of action.