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  • I've been in so many funeral scenes from The Sopranos, and I think I've even been in one on Sons of Anarchy. Those scenes, as a human being, are the most tedious scenes, of all time. You're waiting, all day, in the blistering hot heat. So, I didn't need to be there.

    Son   Thinking   Funeral  
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  • It's the anarchy of poverty delights me, the old yellow wooden house indented among the new brick tenements

    Yellow   House   Delight  
    William Carlos Williams, Charles Tomlinson (1985). “Selected Poems”, p.129, New Directions Publishing
  • The essence of all slavery consists in taking the product of another's labor by force. It is immaterial whether this force be founded upon ownership of the slave or ownership of the money that he must get to live.

  • A society like ours, which professes no one religion and has allowed all religions to decay, which indulges freedom to the point of license and individualism to the point of anarchy, needs all the support that responsible, cultivated homes can furnish. I hope your generation will provide a firmer shelter for civilized standards.

    Home   Support   Needs  
  • I know people have tattooed my 'Sons of Anarchy' photos, they've painted them, on their bikes. I've seen a few of those, sent to me through friends, where they've actually taken my 8x10 Tig photo and put it right on their bike.

    Taken   Son   People  
  • Anarchy is as detestable in grammar as it is in society.

  • The objector and the rebel who raises his voice against what he believes to be the injustice of the present and the wrongs of the past is the one who hunches the world along.

    Believe   Past   Voice  
    Clarence Darrow (2012). “Attorney for the Damned: Clarence Darrow in the Courtroom”, p.147, University of Chicago Press
  • The use of force stands in need of control by a public neutral authority, in the interests of liberty no less than of justice. Within a nation, this public authority will naturally be the state; in relations between nations, if the present anarchy is to cease, it will have to be some international parliament.

    Justice   Liberty   Needs  
    Bertrand Russell (2006). “Political Ideals”, p.73, Cosimo, Inc.
  • Whatever its future success as a historical movement, anarchism will remain a fundamental part of human experience, for the drive for freedom is one of our deepest needs and the vision of a free society is one of our oldest dreams. Neither can ever be fully repressed; both will outlive all rulers and their States.

    Peter Marshall (2009). “Demanding the Impossible: A History of Anarchism”, p.15, PM Press
  • Along the borders to Ethiopia and Somalia, anarchy reigns, the police and military have retreated quite some distance.

  • The events of September 11 and what has happened since have made people understand that even a small, distant and far away country like Afghanistan cannot be left to break up into anarchy and chaos without consequences for the whole world.

  • Anarchy doesn't mean out of control; it means out of their control.

    Mean   Anarchy   Thrive  
  • Anarchism is really a synonym for socialism. The anarchist is primarily a socialist whose aim is to abolish the exploitation of man by man. Anarchism is only one of the streams of socialist thought, that stream whose main components are concern for liberty and haste to abolish the State.

    Men   Liberty   Haste  
    Daniel Guérin (1970). “Anarchism; from theory to practice”, Monthly Review Pr
  • Beginning with Santa Claus as a cognitive exercise, a child is encouraged to share the same idea of reality as his peers. Even if that reality is patently invented and ludicrous, belief is encouraged with gifts that support and promote the common cultural lies. The greatest consensus in modern society is our traffic systems. The way a flood of strangers can interact, sharing a path, almost all of them traveling without incident. It only takes one dissenting driver to create anarchy.

    "Rant: An Oral Biography of Buster Casey". Book by Chuck Palahniuk, May 1, 2007.
  • There is in me an anarchy and frightful disorder. Creating makes me die a thousand deaths, because it means making order, and my entire being rebels against order. But without it I would die, scattered to the winds.

    Mean   Creating   Order  
  • Given two tempers and the time, the ordinary marriage produces anarchy.

    Two   Ordinary   Anarchy  
    Ellen Glasgow (1900). “The Descendant”
  • Found a dead body when I was 12, saved the Enterprise a few times, Ran the Axis of Anarchy, broke up Penny and Leonard. Currently running the non-lethal weapons lab at Global Dynamics.

    Running   Axes   Google  
  • There is no chance and anarchy in the universe. All is system and gradation. Every god is there sitting in his sphere.

    God   Sitting   Anarchy  
    Ralph Waldo Emerson (2004). “A Dream Too Wild: Emerson Meditations for Every Day of the Year”, Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations
  • Anarchy would suggest you're not cooperating. Permaculture is urging complete cooperation between each other and every other thing, animate and inanimate.

    "Permaculture: Design For Living". Interview with Alan AtKisson, www.context.org. 1991.
  • An Anarchist is anyone who denies the necessity and legitimacy of government; the question of his methods of attacking it is foreign to the definition.

  • For anarchy to succeed or simply to advance towards its success it must be conceived not only as a lighthouse which illuminates and attracts, but as something possible and attainable, not in centuries to come, but in a relatively short time and without relying on miracles.

    Errico Malatesta (2015). “Life and Ideas: The Anarchist Writings of Errico Malatesta”, p.11, PM Press
  • Law never made men a whit more just; and, by means of their respect for it, even the well-disposed are daily made the agents of injustice.

    Mean   Men   Law  
    "My Thoughts Are Murder to the State: Thoreau's Essays on Political Philosophy".
  • The more you think you have to use physical force to control life, the less you control life.

    Thinking   Use   Anarchy  
  • Wrong doing must be punished. If not, it will proliferate until anarchy wears the robes of tolerance and understanding.

  • I was definitely looking for a reason to impose rules in the story during the writing process... a set of reasons that you could graph for why it's not chaos and anarchy - for why it has to be order, and why you need architects and an architectural brain to create the world of the dream for the subject to enter.

    Dream   Writing   Order  
    "Watch ‘Inception’ In Real Time & Ten Key Quotes From Chris Nolan’s Interview With Brother Jonathan" by Oliver Lyttelton, www.indiewire.com. December 8, 2010.
  • You know, there’s a philosopher who says, “As you live your life, it appears to be anarchy and chaos, and random events, non-related events, smashing into each other and causing this situation or that situation, and then, this happens, and it’s overwhelming, and it just looks like what in the world is going on ? And later, when you look back at it, it looks like a finely crafted novel. But at the time, it don’t.

  • I do think that women could make politics irrelevant; by a kind of spontaneous cooperative action the like of which we have never seen; which is so far from people’s ideas of state structure or viable social structure that it seems to them like total anarchy — when what it really is, is very subtle forms of interrelation that do not follow some heirarchal pattern which is fundamentally patriarchal. The opposite to patriarchy is not matriarchy but fraternity, yet I think it’s women who are going to have to break this spiral of power and find the trick of cooperation.

  • The Arab world is full of corruption, in the time of the dictatorships and in the time of anarchy. This corruption is not only in politics and the economy, but also in the field of creative activity. There's an elite that controls the festivals, the newspapers, and the reviews. They are just a corrupt clique with no interest in creativity.

    Source: www.guernicamag.com
  • Capitalism can no more be 'persuaded' to limit growth than a human being can be 'persuaded' to stop breathing. Attempts to 'green' capitalism, to make it 'ecological', are doomed by the very nature of the system as a system of endless growth.

    "Remaking Society". Book by Murray Bookchin, 1989.
  • Any man who afflicts the human race with ideas must be prepared to see them misunderstood.

    Men   Race   Ideas  
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