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Anarchy   /ˈænərki/   Listen
noun
Anarchy  n.  
1.
Absence of government; the state of society where there is no law or supreme power; a state of lawlessness; political confusion. "Spread anarchy and terror all around."
2.
Hence, confusion or disorder, in general.





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"Anarchy" Quotes from Famous Books



... large discretionary prerogatives of the crown, and the danger which might have ensued from the too great limitation of them. If the king had possessed no arbitrary powers, while all the nobles assumed and exercised them, there must have ensued an absolute anarchy ...
— The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.I., Part B. - From Henry III. to Richard III. • David Hume
... conceived a violent affection for the merry Irish girl who presided over his uncle's kitchen—but Norah scoffed, and remained true to the policeman on the beat, and Martin, for a space, embraced the more violent teachings of anarchy and dreamed with gloomy glee of setting off a dynamite bomb under a certain uniformed prop of ...
— Fire Mountain - A Thrilling Sea Story • Norman Springer
... headlong themselves they threw Down from the verge of heav'n; eternal wrath Burnt after them to the bottomless pit. . . .{p. 250} Nine days they fell: confounded Chaos roared And felt tenfold confusion in their fall Through his wide anarchy, so huge a rout Encumbered ...
— Ragnarok: The Age of Fire and Gravel • Ignatius Donnelly
... when his authority was at its lowest ebb. Chinese history consists of a series of dynasties, each strong at first and weak afterwards, each gradually losing control over subordinates, each followed by a period of anarchy (sometimes lasting for centuries), and ultimately succeeded by a new dynasty which temporarily re-establishes a strong Central Government. Historians always attribute the fall of a dynasty to the excessive power of eunuchs, but perhaps this is, in ...
— The Problem of China • Bertrand Russell
... are lost: where eldest Night And Chaos, ancestors of Nature, hold Eternal anarchy, amidst the noise Of endless wars, and ...
— The History of The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire - Volume 1 • Edward Gibbon


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