No Freedom Under Anarchy

It does not follow, as these people would have us believe, that a man is more free where there is least law and more restricted where there is most law. A socialism or a communism is not necessarily a slavery, and there is no freedom under Anarchy.

A Modern Utopia (1905) by H. G. Wells

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Context: The narrator argues that some laws increase the total of liberty.

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Source: Chapter 2, Section 1

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