33 Movie Quotes about Anarchy (+ Sound Clips)

Updated: Mar 1, 2026

Memorable quotes about anarchy, selected from famous or less known movies by Movie-Sounds.org's visitors, accompanied by short mp3 and wav audio samples.

1 Blowing up a building can change the world.

Hugo Weaving as V in V for Vendetta

2 Now is the age of the barbarians.

Humphrey Bogart as Billy Dannreuther in Beat the Devil (1953)

3 Here in Cloud Cuckooland there are no rules. There's no government, no babysitters, no bedtimes, no frowny faces, no bushy mustaches and no negativity of any kind.

Chris Pratt as Emmet Brickowski in The Lego Movie (2014)

4 No. No, I want you to set a fire so goddamn big the gods will notice us again. That's what I'm saying.

Michael Wincott as Top Dollar in The Crow (1994)

5 Well, I don't know how you feel about Wall Street, Doctor, but I mailed this shoebox to JP Morgan with a time bomb in it. And it came back because of insufficient postage. Blew the whole roof off my boarding house.

Austin Pendleton as Earl Williams in The Front Page (1974)

6 Rules indeed. She only wants rules so she can break them.

Archimedes From The Sword In The Stone in The Sword in the Stone (1963)

7 A riot is an ugly thing und I think that it is just about time that we had one!

Gene Wilder as Dr. Frederick Frankenstein in Young Frankenstein (1974)

8 To hell with all you sheriffs and deputies and all who gave birth to you.

Eli Wallach as Tuco in The Good, the Bad and the Ugly

9 Anarchy! -I don't even know what that means but I love it!

Will Ferrell as Ricky Bobby in Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby

10 You see, gentlemen, greed is for amateurs. Disorder, chaos, anarchy... now that's fun!

Michael Wincott as Top Dollar in The Crow (1994)