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  • You have to prove that you're not a radical or an anarchist or anything like that.†   (source)
  • I read a few books about revolutionaries: Che Guevara, Emma Goldman, an odd book titled Mutual Aid by Peter Kropotkin, who was an anarchist, and a book by Alexander Berkman titled ABC of Anarchism.†   (source)
  • He was an anarchist.†   (source)
  • In 1995, a crowd of four hundred Danish anarchists looted a McDonald's in downtown Copenhagen, made a bonfire of its furniture in the street, and burned the restaurant to the ground.†   (source)
  • But the curious thing, the contradiction, is that I was standing in the middle of a fenced enclosure in a bungalow slum looking up at the spires of the great strange architectural cluster known as the Watts Towers, an idiosyncrasy out of someone's innocent anarchist visions, and the more I looked, the more I thought of Jimmy.†   (source)
  • I tell him he's an anarchist.†   (source)
  • Those accused ranged from an anarchist group called the Societe Internationale to a disgruntled fire extinguisher salesman who, it was alleged, was upset at sluggish sales and decided to demonstrate for Chicago why his product was vital.†   (source)
  • I grew limp with my anarchistic laughter.†   (source)
  • Wouldn't surprise me if he's been mixing with commies or anarchists over there.†   (source)
  • I'm a rational anarchist.†   (source)
  • Anarchists were using the poles of their black banners to flail the crowd, and mounted cara-binieri were sidling upon their horses to herd them into a maze of meandering side streets.†   (source)
  • I think of everyone who might be awake with me—insomniacs, thieves, anarchists, women with children who drowned in their baths.†   (source)
  • Like the church we hate, anarchists also believe in another world.†   (source)
  • He wasn't even a Communist, he was an anarchist.†   (source)
  • He is a bomb-throwing anarchist, a hairy-eyed revolutionary.†   (source)
  • After the fall of the Zybushino republic, the Meliuzeievo Executive Committee launched a campaign against the local anarchistic tendencies.†   (source)
  • For his action, the Governor was burned in effigy, excluded from customary ceremonies such as parades and commencements, and assaulted daily in the press with such epithets as "anarchist,"†   (source)
  • Reich flipped through the pages of the notebook...ABDUCTION...ANARCHISTS...ARSONISTS...BRIBERY (PROVEN)...BRIBERY (POTENTIAL)...Under (POTENTIAL) he found the names of fifty-seven prominent people.†   (source)
  • JACQUES: Anarchists.†   (source)
  • Chapter 64: THE ANARCHIST'S SUIT COLLECTION   (source)
  • PART EIGHT the word shaker featuring: dominoes and darkness—the thought of Rudy naked—punishment—a promise keeper's wife—a collector—the bread eaters—a candle in the trees—a hidden sketchbook—and the anarchist's suit collection   (source)
  • Are you really anarchists?   (source)
    anarchists = people who favor eliminating all government
  • And besides, this girl looked like some sort of half-witted fifteen-year-old anarchist.†   (source)
  • I mean, The Anarchist Cookbook is online.†   (source)
  • Call him rational anarchist, for he's rational and he feels no loyalty to any government.†   (source)
  • Given a few years she would probably be able to make a good anarchist out of Dr. Anders Jonasson.†   (source)
  • You have put your finger on the dilemma of all government—and the reason I am an anarchist.†   (source)
  • Whether he was actually a student (he was an anarchist, all right) there was no way of telling.†   (source)
  • Greens: Anarchistic elements, chiefly peasants, who fought both Reds and Whites.†   (source)
  • Jesus Arrabal would have called it an anarchist miracle.†   (source)
  • She had, as a matter of fact, but she said no. The anarchist is dressed all in black.†   (source)
  • Did you ever see the one about Porky Pig and the anarchist?†   (source)
  • Convinced as most people were by the official version that nothing had happened, Fernanda was scandalized with the idea that the child had inherited the anarchist ideas of Colonel Aureliano Buendia and told him to be quiet.†   (source)
  • Some kind of anarchist, doomsayer.†   (source)
  • They wanted to be told that Laura had run away with a married man, or had been abducted by anarchists, or had been found dead in a checked suitcase in the baggage room.†   (source)
  • Some loony anarchist politician.†   (source)
  • Millennium is generally viewed as critical of society, but I'm guessing the anarchists think it's a wimpy bourgeois crap magazine along the lines of Arena or Ordfront, while the Moderate Students Association probably thinks that the editors are all Bolsheviks.†   (source)
  • The Stalin-backed Communists, well armed by Russia, are rumoured to be carrying out purges against the rival POUM, the extremist Trotskyists who have made common cause with the Anarchists.†   (source)
  • Whenever we could, we would steal away from Avilion and roam the town, despite Reenie's belief that the world was full of criminals and anarchists and sinister Orientals with opium pipes, thin moustaches like twisted rope and long pointed fingernails, and dope fiends and white slavers, waiting to snatch us away and hold us to ransom for Father's money.†   (source)
  • His uncle protested: "My namesake Leona with her worthless anarchist theories has put those ideas in your head."†   (source)
  • Hans von Rottinger had first hired Falun for the Section in 1986 for an operation that involved forcing entry into the home of the leader of an anarchist group.†   (source)
  • Propagandizing among the troops, the socialists and anarchists had made the barracks into a war of religion, and among the exhausted prisoners theological debates raged at a languorous pace.†   (source)
  • It was the struggle between the state and secret groups of insurgents, state-born, wild-eyed—the anarchists, terrorists, assassins and revolutionaries who tried to bring about apocalyptic change.†   (source)
  • But he was sure that the bells were not tolling for Jeremiah de Saint-Amour, who was a militant unbeliever and a committed anarchist and who had, moreover, died by his own hand.†   (source)
  • The group's membership was a small, eclectic mix of pacifists, anarchists, vegetarians, and libertarians brought together by a commitment to nonviolent political action.†   (source)
  • The very height of the man (he had to bend his head in the doorway) and his expression made Alessandro wonder why he, Alessandro, had presumed to protect him, for he looked the match of all the monarchists and anarchists in Italy.†   (source)
  • It embraces all Swedish citizens, from the crazy neo-Nazi living in the woods to the rock-throwing anarchist—and everyone in between.†   (source)
  • Farmers, leftists, anarchists, nationalists, environmentalists, consumer advocates, educators, health officials, labor unions, and defenders of animal rights have found common ground in a campaign against the perceived Americanization of the world.†   (source)
  • Anarchist individualist, anarchist Communist, Christian anarchist, philosophical anarchist, syndicalist, libertarian—those I know.†   (source)
  • Because of the way he spoke, and because his defiance had marked him as a leader, he was sought by socialists and anarchists, who were interested primarily in giving directions and commands, and punishing anyone not sufficiently possessed of their vision— with reluctance, of course (punishment, they thought, was something the world could do without were the world only properly uniform), but with enthusiasm.†   (source)
  • They were chiefly concerned with the anarchists and the neo-Nazis: the anarchists because they persisted in practicing civil disobedience, the neo-Nazis because they were by definition the enemies of democracy.†   (source)
  • A rational anarchist believes that concepts such as 'state' and 'society' and 'government' have no existence save as physically exemplified in the acts of self-responsible individuals.†   (source)
  • The dead man is Thomas Jefferson—first of the rational anarchists, my boy, and one who once almost managed to slip over his non-system through the most beautiful rhetoric ever written.†   (source)
  • And so I became, at last, an anarchist.†   (source)
  • Defeated for re-election in 1896, denied even the customary right to make a farewell address at his successor's inaugural ("Illinois has had enough of that anarchist," the new Governor snorted), John Peter Altgeld returned to private life and a quiet death six years later.†   (source)
  • After that he heard nothing at all until, hours later, it seemed, the anarchist gave a kind of gasp, not loud but somehow chilling.†   (source)
  • What I wanted to tell you was this-I went to Pazhinsk for Easter, and there was a visiting lecturer there, an anarchist, very interesting he was.†   (source)
  • In the morning they saw there was a long, clotted gash on the anarchist's left arm, from his elbow to his wrist, and there was blood spattered on his already filthy trousers.†   (source)
  • But now, suddenly, Rzhanitsky, a friend of Vdovichenko, who walked beside him and who, like him, was an old anarchist, fired three shots at the guards, aiming at Sivobluy.†   (source)
  • As the police were in the act of arresting him he had managed to burn all the papers in his billfold (dancing up and down, shaking like a leaf), and he refused to say now a halfway sensible word about himself, except that he was "an anarchist, a student.†   (source)
  • His head high, his gray hair streaming in the wind, he spoke to Rzhanitsky as one fellow anarchist to another, in a voice loud enough to be heard by all: "Don't humble yourself!†   (source)
  • Pierce, because of his neutral manners when in the presence of ill will, had nothing to tell Arrabal; he played the rich, obnoxious gringo so perfectly that Oedipa had seen gooseflesh come up along the anarchist's forearms, due to no Pacific sea breeze.†   (source)
  • He thought of the Sunlight Man shot through the heart, how he'd said when the Universe told him to jump he would jump; and now—because Luke was his nephew, it came to him: Luke was his brother's son, and he would be alive today if it weren't for the anarchist Taggert Hodge—now, because Luke was his nephew and had died on account of him—he had jumped.†   (source)
  • She thought of the people who were lording it in Khodat-skoie now; she knew more or less what they were like, they were former political exiles from the capitals, Tiverzin, Antipov, the anarchist "Black Banner" Vdovichenko, the local locksmith "Mad Dog" Gorsheny.†   (source)
  • An anarchist miracle.†   (source)
  • There are ideological anarchists, poor people with no political affiliation, and high-school boys expelled for precocious skirt chasing.†   (source)
  • From the battle of Austerlitz until the difficulties of 1848, the Tristero drifted on, deprived of nearly all the noble patronage that had sustained them: now reduced to handling anarchist correspondence; only peripherally engaged—in Germany with the ill-fated Frankfurt Assembly, in Buda-Pesth at the barricades, perhaps even among the watchmakers of the Jura, preparing them for the coming of M. Bakunin.†   (source)
  • Religion declines, and patriotism; law and justice become abstruse questions of metaphysics; the younger generation grows dangerous and irrational, shameless, selfish, anarchistic.†   (source)
  • All anarchists.†   (source)
  • It only kept the anarchists from getting them.†   (source)
  • One of them anarchists who's agin the government.†   (source)
  • ROCKY—De old anarchist wise guy dat knows all de answers!†   (source)
  • Piani's an anarchist too," Bonello said.†   (source)
  • Once tonight we have been impeded by the ignorance of the anarchists.†   (source)
  • That's the way our friends the anarchists talk.†   (source)
  • Nor an Old Men's Home for lousy Anarchist tramps that ought to be in jail!†   (source)
  • Something hot will be good for those two anarchists.†   (source)
  • He says, "Socialist and Anarchist, we ought to shoot dem dead.†   (source)
  • That was a silly stunt for a free Anarchist woman, wasn't it, being ashamed of being free?†   (source)
  • LARRY—(frowns) Forget the anarchist part of it.†   (source)
  • I says, "Hold on, you talk 's if Anarchists and Socialists was de same.†   (source)
  • 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.†   (source)
  • There is a foreign atmosphere about him, the stamp of an alien radical, a strong resemblance to the type Anarchist as portrayed, bomb in hand, in newspaper cartoons.†   (source)
  • Then I could read the dancing reeling letters: ANARCHIST EVENING ENTERTAINMENT MAGIC THEATER ENTRANCE NOT FOR EVERYBODY "I've been looking for you," I shouted with delight.†   (source)
  • I have made it my aim to reconcile the so-called Anarchists and the so-called Communists, and with that in view I and my committee have digested all the available documentation of the subject.†   (source)
  • The city is crawling with Anarchists, but an American woman tried to sit here the other night with bare shoulders and they drove her away by coming to stare at her, quite silently; they were like circling gulls coming back and back to her, until she left.†   (source)
  • "Listen to the anarchist," Aymo said.†   (source)
  • The cat is the best anarchist.†   (source)
  • "And afterwards shoot the anarchists and the Communists and all this canalla except the good Republicans," Agustan said.†   (source)
  • Why haven't you brains, anarchist?†   (source)
  • He's an anarchist," Piani said.†   (source)
  • De Anarchist he never works.†   (source)
  • This agitator, law-breaker, firebrand, anarchist!†   (source)
  • "The first Anarchist," Maud laughed, rising and preparing to withdraw to her state-room.†   (source)
  • He looks like an anarchist,' said Mildred.†   (source)
  • I'm the town badman, Mrs. Kennicott: town atheist, and I suppose I must be an anarchist, too.†   (source)
  • They touch their hats, except the Anarchist, who defies the State with folded arms.†   (source)
  • [argumentative to the last] On the contrary, only by capturing the State machine— THE ANARCHIST†   (source)
  • Everybody who doesn't love the bankers and the Grand Old Republican Party is an anarchist.†   (source)
  • "Then it is good to be an anarchist!" he cried.†   (source)
  • THE SULKY SOCIAL-DEMOCRAT, A motor— THE ANARCHIST.†   (source)
  • When this war is over, I suppose you'll be calling them 'red anarchists.'†   (source)
  • [shaking his fist at the anarchist] Fumiste†   (source)
  • Sit down, etc. etc. [The Social-Democrats and the Anarchist are hurtled into the background.†   (source)
  • Besides, Anarchists don't believe in order.†   (source)
  • You know, my dear Miss Warren, I am a born anarchist.†   (source)
  • It was said that he could create life in the laboratory, that he could talk to the monkeys which he inoculated, that he had been driven out of Germany as a devil-worshiper or an anarchist, and that he secretly drank real champagne every evening at dinner.†   (source)
  • "There is," began Brichot, with a resonant smack upon every syllable, "a rather curious definition of intelligence by that pleasing old anarchist Fenelon..."†   (source)
  • They're reg'lar anarchists.'†   (source)
  • Elaborated in the imagination of Mr. Gould, the probationary assistant in the National School, this theory took the form that the stranger was an Anarchist in disguise, preparing explosives, and he resolved to undertake such detective operations as his time permitted.†   (source)
  • "Burne's a fanatic," he said to Tom, "and he's dead wrong and, I'm inclined to think, just an unconscious pawn in the hands of anarchistic publishers and German-paid rag wavers—but he haunts me—just leaving everything worth while—" Burne left in a quietly dramatic manner a week later.†   (source)
  • But, after all, is not this simply the writhing of the age translated into black,—the triumph of the Lie which today, with its false culture, faces the hideousness of the anarchist assassin?†   (source)
  • Pavel, the tall one, was said to be an anarchist; since he had no means of imparting his opinions, probably his wild gesticulations and his generally excited and rebellious manner gave rise to this supposition.†   (source)
  • Why, say, he's a regular anarchist!†   (source)
  • Not once did he talk of results of the sort called "practical"; not once did he cease warring on the post hoc propter hoc conclusions which still make up most medical lore; not once did he fail to be hated by his colleagues, who were respectful to his face, uncomfortable in feeling his ironic power, but privily joyous to call him Mephisto, Diabolist, Killjoy, Pessimist, Destructive Critic, Flippant Cynic, Scientific Bounder Lacking in Dignity and Seriousness, Intellectual Snob, Pacifist, Anarchist, Atheist, Jew.†   (source)
  • Schliemann called himself a "philosophic anarchist"; and he explained that an anarchist was one who believed that the end of human existence was the free development of every personality, unrestricted by laws save those of its own being.†   (source)
  • Don't need so many skilled workmen in my place, and it's a lot of these cranky, wage-hogging, half-baked skilled mechanics that start trouble—reading a lot of this anarchist literature and union papers and all.†   (source)
  • If you Tories were wise, you wouldn't arrest anarchists; you'd arrest all these children while they're asleep in their cribs.†   (source)
  • You fuss over Carol Kennicott when she has some crazy theory that we all ought to turn anarchists or live on figs and nuts or something.†   (source)
  • The cause of Anarchy has been ably represented by our one Anarchist, who doesn't know what Anarchism means [laughter]— THE ANARCHIST.†   (source)
  • I must say that of all the confounded pieces of impertinence—well, if these are Anarchist manners I hope you like them.†   (source)
  • The Anarchist is suppressed.†   (source)
  • Mendoza goes to his presidential block and seats himself calmly with his rank and file grouped behind him, and his Staff, consisting of Duval and the Anarchist on his right and the two Social-Democrats on his left, supporting him in flank].†   (source)
  • THE ANARCHIST.†   (source)
  • THE ANARCHIST.†   (source)
  • THE ANARCHIST.†   (source)
  • ANARCHIST.†   (source)
  • ANARCHIST.†   (source)
  • THE ANARCHIST.†   (source)
  • Even atheists reproach me with infidelity and anarchists with nihilism because I cannot endure their moral tirades.†   (source)
  • We have now spent three evenings in discussing the question Have Anarchists or Social-Democrats the most personal courage?†   (source)
  • Like all the rest of the world, he possessed the termination in ist, without which no one could exist at that time, but he was neither a Royalist, a Bonapartist, a Chartist, an Orleanist, nor an Anarchist; he was a bouquinist, a collector of old books.†   (source)
  • For the rest, there were six persons present, and consequently six sections of the party were represented, four of which had strong but divergent Anarchist opinions.†   (source)
  • 'We are not particularly afraid,' said he, 'of all these socialists, anarchists, infidels, and revolutionists; we keep watch on them and know all their goings on.†   (source)
  • Now and then some anarchistic student of the language boldly defends and even advocates it.†   (source)
  • Again I doubt it—but even more anarchistic dedications of verbs and adjectives to substantival use are to be found in the /Congressional Record/ every day.†   (source)
  • Anarchist.†   (source)
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