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  • A revolution swept across Mexico in 1910, precipitating a decade of civil war and anarchy.   (source)
    anarchy = the complete absence of political authority
  • That would lead to anarchy.   (source)
    anarchy = the complete absence of political authority or order
  • Long live Anarchy and Liberty...   (source)
    anarchy = freedom from any governmental authority
  • They were sick of the anarchy which had been their portion under Uther Pendragon:   (source)
    anarchy = the complete absence of political authority (and order)
  • If she had lived there would have been anarchy.†   (source)
  • You speak of anarchy and treason.†   (source)
  • "If rearranging a particle of dust is as important as discovering relativity, that's a formula for total anarchy.†   (source)
  • The media is the right arm of anarchy.†   (source)
  • In the days of anarchy, it was freedom to.†   (source)
  • High school is neither a democracy nor a dictatorship—nor, contrary to popular belief, an anarchic state.†   (source)
  • Filling a place with people who had no hope and knew they were about to descend into a rotten, horrific spiral of insanity ended up creating some of the most wretched anarchic zones ever known to man.†   (source)
  • The borderers were more at home than others in this anarchic environment, which was well suited to their family system, their warrior ethic, their farming and herding economy, their attitudes toward land and wealth and their ideas of work and power.†   (source)
  • Turning and turning in the widening gyre The falcon cannot hear the falconer; Things fall apart; the center cannot hold; Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world, The hlood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere The ceremony of innocence is drowned.†   (source)
  • It would sow mayhem and anarchy.†   (source)
  • He dresses, if that can be the word, in something approaching a constant state of anarchy, defying the taste and color sense of his android servants, so that on some days he clashes with himself and his environment simultaneously.†   (source)
  • He had access to every door he encountered, but he also had an anarchic streak.†   (source)
  • After a few months of industrial anarchy, Monfort closed the Greeley slaughterhouse and fired all its workers.†   (source)
  • Finally a few consented, especially if it meant an improvement over the anarchy of scrawl.†   (source)
  • Over the next two years the political discord, fueled by the Congress Party and the Church, slid into anarchy.†   (source)
  • Because he has masters, Elders like Hekate and the Witch of Endor, for example, who want the world to dissolve into chaos and anarchy.†   (source)
  • —Jacques Ellul, Anarchy and Christianity "Well, Mackenzie, don't just stand there gawkin' with your mouth open like your pants are full," said the big black woman as she turned and headed across the deck, talking the whole time.†   (source)
  • All through religion, the feeling of the sacred was touched by anarchy from the outer dark.†   (source)
  • And we constantly find individuals, or even whole nations, that claim this 'natural right' when they rebel against anarchy, servitude, and oppression.†   (source)
  • Thus he chose to remember Hamlet's abuse of Ophelia, but not Christ's love of Mary Magdalene; Hamlet's frivolous politics, but not Christ's serious anarchy.†   (source)
  • I told myself that, if I were a Haitian, I'd compete wildly to get a leg up on anything I could, and probably be an anarchic driver, too.†   (source)
  • Give it to the right people and you have an explosion of anarchy and violence, which is exactly what those fringe people want.†   (source)
  • Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,/The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere/The ceremony of innocence is drowned;/The best lack all conviction, while the worst/Are full of passionate intensity.†   (source)
  • It's also one of those bad days at Ballou, when anarchy is loosed and it suddenly becomes clear to kids, teachers, and administrators-all at once-that no one is even remotely in charge.†   (source)
  • Topher Renfrew, the boy who was sitting beside me in the lobby of the high school, was dressed in black jeans and a frayed T-shirt with an anarchy symbol, a guitar pick strung around his neck on a leather lanyard.†   (source)
  • It was complete anarchy.†   (source)
  • Anarchy in the U.K., I love it.†   (source)
  • Jace had never had that—he had recklessness, and the anarchic joy of imagined self-annihilation, but he was not a zealot.†   (source)
  • I sprinted out the door and was met by a great surge of freshmen being herded to their rooms, away from the pandemonium, away from the lone plebe who had in one moment of anarchy stepped outof the control of the system.†   (source)
  • Anarchy, I say.†   (source)
  • They were a strange mixture of innocence and determination and anarchy, making home-made bombs with nails and scraps of metal and at the same time delighted and proud of their uniforms of blue trousers with a stripe down the side, and tennis shoes.†   (source)
  • In the driving apart of so many families, every family would be driven apart; in the death of so many husbands and sons, every husband and son would die; in the anarchy and gravity of suffering, God's laws would emerge in all their color, hardness, and injustice.†   (source)
  • "The central idea of secession," said Lincoln, "is the essence of anarchy."†   (source)
  • But there was nothing anarchic about their postapocalyptic style.†   (source)
  • Revolutions produced the extremes of tyranny and anarchy.†   (source)
  • The deaths of Lincoln, Grant, Johnson, and Seward should be more than enough to cause anarchy.†   (source)
  • The only thing I actually learned during this period was that, by comparison with the bureaucratic hierarchy in Ottawa, the scientific hierarchy was a brotherhood of anarchy.†   (source)
  • We face this anarchy of jealous German princes, hundreds of them scheming, counterscheming, infighting, dissipating all of the Empire's strength in their useless bickering.†   (source)
  • Then, as I watched the lights below, I wondered … Was I a tinkerer because I would like to further alter the prevailing order, into something more comfortable to my anarchic nature?†   (source)
  • "There's only rule or anarchy," he said.†   (source)
  • I don't believe in anything, don't you see—not even destruction or anarchy.†   (source)
  • Long live world anarchy!†   (source)
  • No, it seems to me that with him it was a case of community spirit triumphing over his anarchic impulses.†   (source)
  • Destroy it, and anarchy awaits us.†   (source)
  • As we drove him to the graveyard, the spoils of injustice, anarchy, discontent, and hatred were all around us.†   (source)
  • The media is the right arm of anarchy, the killer had said.†   (source)
  • Legislation for states is the parent of anarchy.†   (source)
  • Because before I can, Luke pulls back his arm and sends his fist Anarchy!†   (source)
  • Mom is fomenting her own brand of anarchy closer to home.†   (source)
  • So despite the anarchy all around him, Dr. Leale orders the processional halted every few feet.†   (source)
  • And liberty must be protected from the negative effects of ambition, faction, and anarchy.†   (source)
  • We need to be rescued from impending anarchy.†   (source)
  • This would create a government that is weak and sometimes bordering on anarchy.†   (source)
  • Other factors also control the tendency to anarchy and dissolution.†   (source)
  • Federal Government Tends Towards Anarchy†   (source)
  • Historians call this European era a time of feudal anarchy.†   (source)
  • But Americans are too intelligent to be persuaded into anarchy.†   (source)
  • There's much to be said for anarchy, to tell the truth.†   (source)
  • BERENGER: It's the rhinoceroses which are anarchic, because they're in the minority.†   (source)
  • Yurii Andreievich wrote to his wife: "The disintegration and anarchy in the army continue.†   (source)
  • As a totality, this was symbolic anarchy—a bowl of alphabet soup whose letters came from dozens of different languages, cultures, and time periods.†   (source)
  • It was chaos, anarchy.†   (source)
  • The major dams against anarchy in these times were the embryo Guild, the Bene Gesserit and the Landsraad, which continued its 2,000-year record of meeting in spite of the severest obstacles.†   (source)
  • The circus lions don't care to know that their leader is a weakling human; the fiction guarantees their social well-being and staves off violent anarchy.†   (source)
  • I do not speak of anarchy.†   (source)
  • That had set out with the semblance of structure and order, then bolted like a frightened horse into anarchy.†   (source)
  • "The whole place was anarchy," he said.†   (source)
  • Efficiency, not anarchy.†   (source)
  • It is a more inviting embrace than Shadrack's organized public madness—it helps to unify the neighborhood until Sula's anarchy challenges it.†   (source)
  • In the world Michael-Mary Graham inhabited, her mild liberalism, a residue of her Bohemian youth, and her posture of sensitive lady poet passed for anarchy.†   (source)
  • Soon, more windows will be broken, and the sense of anarchy will spread from the building to the street on which it faces, sending a signal that anything goes.†   (source)
  • "Ludovico Indian," he said gendy, but firmly, "since its beginning the world has seen empires, theocracies, slave states, anarchy, feudalism, capitalism, revolutionary states, and everything else you can think of, and no matter what the variation, the bloodstained stakes, guillotines, and killing grounds remain."†   (source)
  • Against her fairly modest claims to personal liberty are placed conventional and anarchic ones: Eva's physical sacrifice for economic freedom; Nel's accommodation to the protection marriage promises; Sula's resistance to either sacrifice or accommodation.†   (source)
  • Built during the first half of the century, at a time of great growth and anarchy and before environmentalists existed, Vitro Glassworks was a living, smoking monster.†   (source)
  • To an unromantic eye, the Institute had the look of a Spanish prison or a fortress beleaguered not by an invading force but by the more threatening anarchy of the twentieth century buzzing insensately outside the Gates of Legrand.†   (source)
  • They had retired early and, while the train witnessed small revolutions among the local military, everyone felt that the anarchic events should be kept from the sleeping foreigners.†   (source)
  • To reject this outcome would destroy the basis of constitutional democracy, said Lincoln, and "fly to anarchy or to despotism."†   (source)
  • Felicia del Pino Felicia del Pino, her head a spiky anarchy of miniature pink rollers, pounds the horn of her 1952 De Soto as she pulls up to the little house by the sea.†   (source)
  • When someone below merely clapped his hands, when a truck lurched by, or when the wind itself became anxious or fierce, they rose in a buoyant cloud that hovered over the trees like a ball of hot smoke and then formed into a wing that rallied back and forth until it broke into a hundred thousand anarchic flights and the air was uniformly colored by birds darting on the winds of catastrophe.†   (source)
  • We are "fighting for the maintenance of law and order," they wrote, "to assert the strength and dignity of the government" against the threat of "dissolution, anarchy, and ruin."†   (source)
  • These were the two pillars of authority upon which my life had been built, and I had learned their rituals well—their worship of order and tradition, their strict codes, their punishment of anarchy, and contempt for the man or woman who stood alone.†   (source)
  • Surrounded on all sides by what can only be described as anarchy, Laura Keene nurtures the dying man.†   (source)
  • As the planes darted through the huge empty space, the singers looked out not only upon the missiles themselves but upon a thousand boys whose heads, as if in a completely anarchic tennis match, moved back and forth in many different directions-and not only back and forth, but slowly and gradually down.†   (source)
  • Like Lincoln, many northern soldiers saw secession as a deadly challenge to the foundation of law and order on which all societies must rest if they are not to degenerate into anarchy.†   (source)
  • A twenty-three-year-old printer from Philadelphia, a private in the 71st Pennsylvania wounded while helping to repel Pickett's assault at Gettysburg, wrote to his father that any sacrifice was worth the cost, "for what is home with all its endearments, if we have not a country freed from every vestige of the anarchy, and the tyrannical and blood thirsty despotism which threatens on every side to overwhelm us?"†   (source)
  • Admit the right of the seceding states to break up the Union at pleasure …. and how long will it be before the new confederacies created by the first disruption shall be resolved into still smaller fragments and the continent become a vast theater of civil war, military license, anarchy and despotism?†   (source)
  • If no government could be set up until every part of it is perfect, society would soon become an anarchy and the world a desert.†   (source)
  • When a society is structured so that a strong faction can easily unite and oppress a weaker group, anarchy reigns.†   (source)
  • And it shows the tendency of federal bodies more towards anarchy among the members than to tyranny in the head.†   (source)
  • A fourth fears the opposite: the Constitution is not energetic enough to keep it upright and firm against anarchy.†   (source)
  • If the government cannot protect itself, it could become weak and, in the future, may turn into anarchy.†   (source)
  • Anarchy reigned between the death of the last emperor of the German province of Swabia and the first emperor of Austria.†   (source)
  • They should guard against hazarding anarchy, civil war, a perpetual alienation of the States from each other, and perhaps the military despotism of a victorious demagogue, while they pursue what they can only learn from TIME and EXPERIENCE.†   (source)
  • I will have none of it…… Our children are either to live in after times in the enjoyment of peace, of harmony, and prosperity, or the alternative remains for them of anarchy, discord, and civil broil.†   (source)
  • Although even the Federalists of Kentucky found it necessary to oppose President Washington on the issue, Marshall bluntly told his constituents: In considering the objections to this Treaty, I am frequently ready to exclaim: Ah! men of faction! friends of anarchy! enemies and willful perverters of the Federal Government! how noisy in clamor and abuse, how weak in reason and judgment, appear all your arguments!†   (source)
  • "So much revolution in you," he said, "so much hatred for order, so much hatred for anarchy--and so much love.†   (source)
  • We had lost the sense of discovery which had infused the anarchy of our first year.†   (source)
  • When I started the Table, it was to stop anarchy.†   (source)
  • Holding them clumsily in his tiny hands, he studied for hours the symbols of speech, knowing that he had here the stones of the temple of language, and striving desperately to find the key that would draw order and intelligence from this anarchy.†   (source)
  • Other placards, on the other hand, in wonderful colors and magnificently phrased, warned all those who had a stake in the country and some share of prudence (in more moderate and less childish terms which testified to the remarkable cleverness and intellect of those who bad composed them) against the rising tide of anarchy.†   (source)
  • Anyhow, there was a tone and air of anarchy and unruliness around, and of powers thickening with age and delays, planning the stroke that would make the palace ring as in old times and knock the courtiers' noggins on the walls when they were least dreaming of it.†   (source)
  • Yes,some of the things that the Communists said were true; they maintained that there came times in history when a ruling class could no longer rule, and I sat looking at the beginnings of anarchy.†   (source)
  • The Pollock diggings provide a valuable link between the citizen-slave communities of the twentieth century and the tribal anarchy which succeeded them.†   (source)
  • …the mob was pressed tight against the door so that those in front were being crushed by all the others who were pressing and from the square a big drunkard in a black smock with a red-and-black handkerchief around his neck, ran and threw himself against the press of the mob and fell forward onto the pressing men and then stood up and backed away and then ran forward again and threw himself against the backs of those men who were pushing, shouting, 'Long live me and long live Anarchy.'†   (source)
  • Years later, alone in darkness, when he had forgotten the twisted anarchy of that pattern, he still remembered a corner where he left his bag while he climbed a spur of hill, a bank down which he clambered to three rotting shacks, a high porched house into which accurately he shot his folded block of news.†   (source)
  • It is conceivable, but not, I believe, likely, for the hot spring of anarchy rose from depths where was no solid earth, and burst into the sunlight—a rainbow in its cooling vapors with a power the rocks could not repress.†   (source)
  • It was not that Arthur was a prig—it was that his country of Gramarye lay in such a toil of anarchy in the early days that some idea like the Round Table was needed to make the place survive.†   (source)
  • Arthur, who was riding watchfully like a sensible young monarch, withdrew his eye from a clump of whins which might have held an ambush in those early days of anarchy, and cocked one eyebrow at his tutor.†   (source)
  • His year of anarchy had filled a deep, interior need of his, the escape from reality, and as he found himself increasingly hemmed in, where he once felt himself free, he became at times listless and morose, even with me.†   (source)
  • Aunt Bessie Smail sleuthed out this anarchy.†   (source)
  • Short of anarchy he could not think of any chance that Nicole Warren deserved.†   (source)
  • Tangled with love in the moonlight she welcomed the anarchy of her lover.†   (source)
  • The whole of the monarchy is contained in the lounger; the whole of anarchy in the gamin.†   (source)
  • If it does not throw them into anarchy, it perpetually brings them, as it were, to the verge of it.†   (source)
  • Anarchy will then be the result, but it will have been brought about by despotism.†   (source)
  • Anarchy is almost always produced by its tyranny or its mistakes, but not by its want of strength.†   (source)
  • There is always a trace of anarchy in renown.†   (source)
  • Was anarchy, then, on the point of now descending from on high?†   (source)
  • If it does not throw the nation into anarchy, it perpetually augments the chances of that calamity.†   (source)
  • And, after a pause, he added: "Anarchy is entering this garden."†   (source)
  • To whom did this anarchical scoffer unite himself in this phalanx of absolute minds?†   (source)
  • Mahmoud Ali, this is not wise," implored the Nawab Bahadur: he knew that nothing was gained by attacking the English, who had fallen into their own pit and had better be left there; moreover, he had great possessions and deprecated anarchy.†   (source)
  • He stood somewhat isolated: the envoy of the Revolutionary Government of France was not likely to be very popular in England, at a time when the news of the awful September massacres, and of the Reign of Terror and Anarchy, had just begun to filtrate across the Channel.†   (source)
  • On the other hand, individualism was a matter of liberal humanism, which tended toward anarchy and wanted at all costs to protect the precious individual from being sacrificed to the interests of the whole.†   (source)
  • The cause of Anarchy has been ably represented by our one Anarchist, who doesn't know what Anarchism means [laughter]— THE ANARCHIST.†   (source)
  • Do you know whether to laugh or cry at the notion that they, poor devils! will drive a team of continents as they drive a four-in-hand; turn a jostling anarchy of casual trade and speculation into an ordered productivity; and federate our colonies into a world-Power of the first magnitude?†   (source)
  • : they are anarchical, and cannot balance their exposures of Angelo and Dogberry, Sir Leicester Dedlock and Mr Tite Barnacle, with any portrait of a prophet or a worthy leader: they have no constructive ideas: they regard those who have them as dangerous fanatics: in all their fictions there is no leading thought or inspiration for which any man could conceivably risk the spoiling of his hat in a shower, much less his life.†   (source)
  • …which, blind and wrathful by nature, have flung themselves tumultuously upon it, torn its rich garment of carving and sculpture, burst its rose windows, broken its necklace of arabesques and tiny figures, torn out its statues, sometimes because of their mitres, sometimes because of their crowns; lastly, fashions, even more grotesque and foolish, which, since the anarchical and splendid deviations of the Renaissance, have followed each other in the necessary decadence of architecture.†   (source)
  • There may be nations whom this distribution of social powers might lead to anarchy; but in itself it is not anarchical.†   (source)
  • That sort of intellectual freedom which equality may give ought, therefore, to be very carefully distinguished from the anarchy which revolution brings.†   (source)
  • Thus we have two great and hardly reconcilable streams of thought and ethical strivings; the danger of the one lies in anarchy, that of the other in hypocrisy.†   (source)
  • However, we will remark by the way, everything was not ridiculous and superficial in that curious epoch to which we are alluding, and which may be designated as the anarchy of baptismal names.†   (source)
  • "I say so," he continued desperately, "because the Bourbons fled from the Revolution leaving the people to anarchy, and Napoleon alone understood the Revolution and quelled it, and so for the general good, he could not stop short for the sake of one man's life."†   (source)
  • …incontrovertibly, the disastrous effects of machinery and division of labour; the concentration of capital and land in a few hands; overproduction and crises; it pointed out the inevitable ruin of the petty bourgeois and peasant, the misery of the proletariat, the anarchy in production, the crying inequalities in the distribution of wealth, the industrial war of extermination between nations, the dissolution of old moral bonds, of the old family relations, of the old nationalities.†   (source)
  • The fear of anarchy perpetually haunts them, and they are always ready to fling away their freedom at the first disturbance.†   (source)
  • Appendix Z It cannot be absolutely or generally affirmed that the greatest danger of the present age is license or tyranny, anarchy or despotism.†   (source)
  • I am, however, persuaded that anarchy is not the principal evil which democratic ages have to fear, but the least.†   (source)
  • Few of the nations of Europe could escape the calamities of anarchy or of conquest every time they might have to elect a new sovereign.†   (source)
  • There may be nations whom this distribution of social powers might lead to anarchy; but in itself it is not anarchical.†   (source)
  • The proper object therefore of our most strenuous resistance, is far less either anarchy or despotism than the apathy which may almost indifferently beget either the one or the other.†   (source)
  • Another sign of the times was the anarchy mingled with governmentalism [the barbarous name of the correct party].†   (source)
  • Thus in feudal society the whole system of the commonwealth rested upon the sentiment of fidelity to the person of the lord: to destroy that sentiment was to open the sluices of anarchy.†   (source)
  • But if the Supreme Court is ever composed of imprudent men or bad citizens, the Union may be plunged into anarchy or civil war.†   (source)
  • In this state of things the voluntary association of the citizens might supply the individual exertions of the nobles, and the community would be alike protected from anarchy and from oppression.†   (source)
  • I have shown how the dread of disturbance and the love of well-being insensibly lead democratic nations to increase the functions of central government, as the only power which appears to be intrinsically sufficiently strong, enlightened, and secure, to protect them from anarchy.†   (source)
  • It was clear that the hydra of anarchy had emerged from its box and that it was stalking abroad through the quarter.†   (source)
  • The appearance of disorder which prevails on the surface leads him at first to imagine that society is in a state of anarchy; nor does he perceive his mistake till he has gone deeper into the subject.†   (source)
  • The more attentively I consider the effects of equality upon the mind, the more am I persuaded that the intellectual anarchy which we witness about us is not, as many men suppose, the natural state of democratic nations.†   (source)
  • But if the peasant's whole passivity lies in this saying, the whole of the free-thinking anarchy of the brat of the faubourgs is, assuredly, contained in this other saying.†   (source)
  • For the principle of equality begets two tendencies; the one leads men straight to independence, and may suddenly drive them into anarchy; the other conducts them by a longer, more secret, but more certain road, to servitude.†   (source)
  • It contracted no alliance with the turbulent passions of anarchy; but its course was marked, on the contrary, by an attachment to whatever was lawful and orderly.†   (source)
  • Near the basin there was a bourgeois forty years of age, with a prominent stomach, who was holding by the hand a little urchin of five, and saying to him: "Shun excess, my son, keep at an equal distance from despotism and from anarchy."†   (source)
  • Of all the political effects produced by the equality of conditions, this love of independence is the first to strike the observing, and to alarm the timid; nor can it be said that their alarm is wholly misplaced, for anarchy has a more formidable aspect in democratic countries than elsewhere.†   (source)
  • It is the idea of right which enabled men to define anarchy and tyranny; and which taught them to remain independent without arrogance, as well as to obey without servility.†   (source)
  • Blocks resembling headsman's blocks, dislocated chains, pieces of woodwork with brackets having the form of gibbets, horizontal wheels projecting from the rubbish, amalgamated with this edifice of anarchy the sombre figure of the old tortures endured by the people.†   (source)
  • Other thinkers, less numerous but more enlightened, take a different view: besides that track which starts from the principle of equality to terminate in anarchy, they have at last discovered the road which seems to lead men to inevitable servitude.†   (source)
  • The Polish laws, which subjected the election of the sovereign to the veto of a single individual, suggested the murder of that individual or prepared the way to anarchy.†   (source)
  • …terrorism of the Holy Office at variance with the chimerical terrorism of the liberals; the sansculottes resuscitated, to the great terror of dowagers, under the name of descamisados; monarchy opposing an obstacle to progress described as anarchy; the theories of '89 roughly interrupted in the sap; a European halt, called to the French idea, which was making the tour of the world; beside the son of France as generalissimo, the Prince de Carignan, afterwards Charles Albert, enrolling…†   (source)
  • At the time of the insurrection of 1839, in the Rue Saint-Martin a little, infirm old man, pushing a hand-cart surmounted by a tricolored rag, in which he had carafes filled with some sort of liquid, went and came from barricade to troops and from troops to the barricade, offering his glasses of cocoa impartially,—now to the Government, now to anarchy.†   (source)
  • Thus, the difference of laws, the various conditions of peace and war, of order and of anarchy, have exercised no perceptible influence upon the gradual development of the Anglo-Americans.†   (source)
  • …or limiting the authority of their rulers or their princes—the nations, which are not in open revolution, restless at least, and excited—all of them animated by the same spirit of revolt: and on the other hand, at this very period of anarchy, and amongst these untractable nations, the incessant increase of the prerogative of the supreme government, becoming more centralized, more adventurous, more absolute, more extensive—the people perpetually falling under the control of the…†   (source)
  • The ruin of the Confederation had impressed the people with a dread of anarchy, and the Federalists did not fail to profit by this transient disposition of the multitude.†   (source)
  • In our days men see that constituted powers are dilapidated on every side—they see all ancient authority gasping away, all ancient barriers tottering to their fall, and the judgment of the wisest is troubled at the sight: they attend only to the amazing revolution which is taking place before their eyes, and they imagine that mankind is about to fall into perpetual anarchy: if they looked to the final consequences of this revolution, their fears would perhaps assume a different shape.†   (source)
  • Many observers, who have witnessed the anarchy of democratic States, have imagined that the government of those States was naturally weak and impotent.†   (source)
  • I do not believe that there is a single country in Europe in which the progress of equality has not been preceded or followed by some violent changes in the state of property and persons; and almost all these changes have been attended with much anarchy and license, because they have been made by the least civilized portion of the nation against that which is most civilized.†   (source)
  • The extension of judicial power in the political world ought therefore to be in the exact ratio of the extension of elective offices: if these two institutions do not go hand in hand, the State must fall into anarchy or into subjection.†   (source)
  • One set of men can perceive nothing in the principle of equality but the anarchical tendencies which it engenders: they dread their own free agency—they fear themselves.†   (source)
  • The old French aristocracy has undergone the consequences of the Revolution, but it neither felt the revolutionary passions nor shared in the anarchical excitement which produced that crisis; it may easily be conceived that this aristocracy feels the salutary influence of the Revolution in its manners, before those who achieve it.†   (source)
  • Nor will bad laws, revolutions, and anarchy be able to obliterate that love of prosperity and that spirit of enterprise which seem to be the distinctive characteristics of their race, or to extinguish that knowledge which guides them on their way.†   (source)
  • The confederation might still subsist, although its Government were reduced to such a degree of inanition as to paralyze the nation, to cause internal anarchy, and to check the general prosperity of the country.†   (source)
  • A revolution which overthrows an ancient regal family, in order to place men of more recent growth at the head of a democratic people, may temporarily weaken the central power; but however anarchical such a revolution may appear at first, we need not hesitate to predict that its final and certain consequence will be to extend and to secure the prerogatives of that power.†   (source)
  • They will tell you that "all the American republics are collectively involved with each other; if the republics of the West were to fall into anarchy, or to be mastered by a despot, the republican institutions which now flourish upon the shores of the Atlantic Ocean would be in great peril.†   (source)
  • *v When the Constitution of 1789 was promulgated, the nation was a prey to anarchy; the Union, which succeeded this confusion, excited much dread and much animosity; but it was warmly supported because it satisfied an imperious want.†   (source)
  • …nations should borrow this general and pregnant idea from the Americans, without however intending to imitate them in the peculiar application which they have made of it; if they should attempt to fit themselves for that social condition, which it seems to be the will of Providence to impose upon the generations of this age, and so to escape from the despotism or the anarchy which threatens them; what reason is there to suppose that their efforts would not be crowned with success?†   (source)
  • Nevertheless, as all peoples are obliged to have recourse to certain grammatical forms, which are the foundation of human language, in order to express their thoughts; so all communities are obliged to secure their existence by submitting to a certain dose of authority, without which they fall a prey to anarchy.†   (source)
  • Under these circumstances one of the two alternatives has invariably occurred; either the most preponderant of the allied peoples has assumed the privileges of the Federal authority and ruled all the States in its name, *p or the Federal Government has been abandoned by its natural supporters, anarchy has arisen between the confederates, and the Union has lost all powers of action.†   (source)
  • In a society, under the forms of which the stronger faction can readily unite and oppress the weaker, anarchy may as truly be said to reign as in a state of nature, where the weaker individual is not secured against the violence of the stronger: and as in the latter state even the stronger individuals are prompted by the uncertainty of their condition to submit to a government which may protect the weak as well as themselves, so in the former state will the more powerful factions be…†   (source)
  • They were involved in ceaseless embarrassments between the mechanism of their double government; the sovereignty of the States and that of the Union perpetually exceeded their respective privileges, and entered into collision; and to the present day Mexico is alternately the victim of anarchy and the slave of military despotism.†   (source)
  • …open war must be very near its ruin, for one of two alternatives would then probably occur: if its authority was small and its character temperate, it would not resort to violence till the last extremity, and it would connive at a number of partial acts of insubordination, in which case the State would gradually fall into anarchy; if it was enterprising and powerful, it would perpetually have recourse to its physical strength, and would speedily degenerate into a military despotism.†   (source)
  • Because in all cities these two distinct parties are found, and from this it arises that the people do not wish to be ruled nor oppressed by the nobles, and the nobles wish to rule and oppress the people; and from these two opposite desires there arises in cities one of three results, either a principality, self-government, or anarchy.†   (source)
  • What evils are not wrought by Anarchy!   (source)
    anarchy = the absence of political authority
  • The poor debtor class (including probably a majority of the veterans of the Revolution) had been fired by the facile doctrines of the French Revolution to demands which threatened the country with bankruptcy and anarchy, and the class of property-owners, in reaction, went far to the other extreme.†   (source)
  • The adverb, being at best the step-child of grammar—as the old Latin grammarians used to say, "/Omnis pars orationis migrat in adverbium/"—is one of the chief victims of this anarchy.†   (source)
  • This period of European affairs is emphatically styled by historians, the times of feudal anarchy.†   (source)
  • Its situation must always savor of weakness, sometimes border upon anarchy.†   (source)
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