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When we talk about questioning and keeping tabs on our governments, the word anarchism is often thrown around to scare us into thinking that anarchism is all about chaos. However, if you would care to read up about anarchist thought, you will find out that anarchism just means 'where there are no rulers'.

Here is a small collection of the best thoughts about questioning the nature of governements of this world.
And, our place in this power structure that we call rule.

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Political language -- and with variations this is true of all political parties, from Conservatives to Anarchists -- is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.

All the war-propaganda, all the screaming and lies and hatred, comes invariably from people who are not fighting.
- George Orwell

A nation of warriors and fanatics, marching forward in perfect unity, all thinking the same thoughts and shouting the same slogans, perpetually working, fighting, triumphing, persecuting - three hundred million people all with the same face.
- George Orwell, 1984

A government that is big enough to give you all you want is big enough to take it all away.
- Barry Goldwater

Laws are rules, made by people who govern by means of organized violence, for non-compliance with which the non-complier is subjected to blows, to loss of liberty, or even to being murdered.
- Leo Tolstoy

How many watched the President's speech last night?
[half-hearted audience applause]
How many watched American Idol?
[thundering applause]
Okay, there you go! You get the government you deserve.
- Jay Leno, The Tonight Show

Look at the government, adults are the LAST people to take responsibility for anything.
- Jess, 19, Survey of youth, by Phatgnat

Government is essentially immoral.
- Herbert Spenser

Today's public figures can no longer write their own speeches or books, and there is some evidence that they can't read them either.
- Gore Vidal

Anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job.
- Douglas Adams

A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion.
- Aristotle

People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid.
- Soren Aabye Kierkegaard

I think the world is run by C students.
- Al McGuire

Power is the ability not to have to say please.
- Anon

You are young, my son, and, as the years go by, time will change and even reverse many of your present opinions. Refrain therefore awhile from setting yourself up as a judge of the highest matters.
- Plato

The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.
- George Bernard Shaw

If we don't believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all.
- Noam Chomsky

What this country needs is more free speech worth listening to.
- Hansell B. Duckett

A Republic is not the rule of the majority...but the rule of those who re strenuous partisans of the majority. It is not the people who preponderate, but those who know what is good for people, a happy distinction which allows them to act in the name of nations without consulting them and to claim their gratitude while their rights are trampled underfoot.
- Alexis De Tocqueville, 'Democracy in America'

True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country.
-Kurt Vonnegut

Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There never was a democracy yet that did not commit suicide.
- John Adams

History is a race between education and catastrophe.
- HG Wells

We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office.
- Aesop (620 - 560 BC)

Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want and deserve to get it good and hard.
- H.L. Mencken

A true democracy, a place run on trust and freedom, not fear.
- Roberto Semmler

Democracy is when the indigent, not the men of property, are the rulers.
- Aristotle

Superior to thost of the whole. the dupe of the statesman and the tool of the conquerors.
- Abmrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary

The national budget must be balanced. The public debt must be reduced; the arrogance of the authorities must be moderated and controlled. Payments to foreign governments must be reduced, if the nation doesn't want to go bankrupt. People must again learn to work, instead of living on public assistance.
- Marcus Tullius Cicero, 55 BC

Political advertising is totally dishonest.
- David Ogilvy

He who controls the money supply of a nation controls the nation
- James Garfield

I think the first duty of society is justice.
- Alexander Hamilton

Nationalism is power hunger tempered by self-deception.
- George Orwell

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