Authority, when first detecting chaos at its heels, will entertain the vilest schemes to save its orderly facade.

Your pretty empire took so long to build, now, with a snap of history's fingers, down it goes.

Our masters have not heard the people's voice for generations and it is much, much louder than they care to remember.

Authority allows two roles: the torturer and the tortured. Twists people into joyless mannequins that fear and hate, while culture plunges into the abyss.

That is what I have always understood to be the essence of anarchism: the conviction that the burden of proof has to be placed on authority, and that it should be dismantled if that burden cannot be met.

What we're looking at now is international tribunals which would have some authority over state government, and that's something that hasn't been thoroughly thought through, and that's concerning to governors and legislators.