"<b>Eve:</b> All this riot and uproar, V... is this Anarchy? Is this the Land of Do-As-You-Please?

<b>V:</b> No. This is only the land of take-what-you-want. Anarchy means "without leaders", not "without order". With anarchy comes an age or ordnung, of true order, which is to say voluntary order... this age of ordung will begin when the mad and incoherent cycle of verwirrung that these bulletins reveal has run its course... This is not anarchy, Eve. This is chaos."

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Alan Moore (born 18 November 1953) is a British writer, most famous for his influential work in comic-books and graphic novels.

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