Pastoral Resources

Neither a life of anarchy nor one beneath a despot should you praise; to all that lies in the middle a god has given excellence.

The city and province were given up to anarchy; the coloured people, elated with victory, proclaimed the slaughter of all whites, except the English, French, and American residents.

The worst thing in this world, next to anarchy, is government.

Tyranny and anarchy are never far apart.

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.

Our government... teaches the whole people by its example. If the government becomes the lawbreaker, it breeds contempt for law; it invites every man to become a law unto himself; it invites anarchy.

When anarchy is declared, the first thing we do, let's kill all the anarchists.

It would be immoral to walk away from the consequences of our actions, leaving behind anarchy and civil war in Iraq.

As soon as liberty is complete it dies in anarchy.

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

If we don't make earnest moves toward real solutions, then each day we move one day closer to revolution and anarchy in this country. This is the sad, and yet potentially joyous, state of America.

Anarchy may await America, due to the daily injustices suffered by the people.

Without an advocate for the poor, without a new state of mind in America, the country lies on the brink of anarchy.

The human race is intoxicated with narrow victories, for life is a string of them like pearls that hit the floor when the rope breaks, and roll away in perfection and anarchy.

The Disarmament Conference has become the focal point of a great struggle between anarchy and world order... between those who think in terms of inevitable armed conflict and those who seek to build a universal and durable peace.

In almost every country there are elements of opinion which would welcome such a conclusion because they wish to return to the politics of the balance of power, unrestricted and unregulated armaments, international anarchy, and preparation for war.

Four years of world war, at a cost in human suffering which our minds are mercifully too limited to imagine, led to the very clear realization that international anarchy must be abandoned if civilization was to survive.

I do not believe that the values which the Western democracies consider essential to civilization can survive in a world rent by the international anarchy of nationalism and the economic anarchy of competitive enterprise.

The worst enemy of life, freedom and the common decencies is total anarchy; their second worst enemy is total efficiency.

Anarchy is the only slight glimmer of hope.