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My politics were pretty anarchistic until 1969 when the Montreal police went on strike. Within hours, mayhem and rioting broke out and the Mounties had to be called in to restore order. It instilled in me that one's convictions can be subjected to empirical test.

— Steven Pinker

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

What we witnessed in Ferguson, in Baltimore, and in Baton Rouge was a collapse of social order. So many of the actions of the Occupy movement and Black Lives Matter transcend peaceful protest and violates the code of conduct we rely on. I call it anarchy.

— David A. Clarke, Jr.

I'm not an anarchist. I believe in government.

— Keith Olbermann

My personal political convictions are rooted in the populist political traditions of western Canada.

— Preston Manning

Politics for me started in violence.

— Marine Le Pen

My sense of politics and justice was deeply shaped in adolescence by my involvement with the underground punk - rock scene, and though lots of social and political issues had come forth in my comics, it wasn't until my late 20s that I felt properly equipped to address certain issues of race, power, and violence in my work.

— Nate Powell

I started my political career facing lynch mobs.

— Bob Filner

✗Opposing Perspectives

I never have been an anarchist, I've always had goals and always have acted out of love.

— Gloria Trevi

The Anarchists set off World War I with a gunshot in Sarajevo - but they faded away. It wasn't that the police drove them out of business. The ideology had nowhere to go except into permanent negativity.

— Pete Hamill

I wish to say that we Anarchists have never changed our position. We are Anarchists as of old and still pursue the same ideals.

— Federica Montseny

I thought of myself as kind of an anarchist all my whole adult life, from the days when I was 15 or 16.

— Mark Leyner