What's the difference between anarchist and nihilist?

Anarchist


Definition:

  • (n.) An anarch; one who advocates anarchy of aims at the overthrow of civil government.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Often responsibility for the attacks is claimed on an anarchist website .
  • (2) The policies of zero tolerance equip local and federal law-enforcement with increasingly autocratic powers of coercion and surveillance (the right to invade anybody's privacy, bend the rules of evidence, search barns, stop motorists, inspect bank records, tap phones) and spread the stain of moral pestilence to ever larger numbers of people assumed to be infected with reefer madness – anarchists and cheap Chinese labour at the turn of the 20th century, known homosexuals and suspected communists in the 1920s, hippies and anti-Vietnam war protesters in the 1960s, nowadays young black men sentenced to long-term imprisonment for possession of a few grams of short-term disembodiment.
  • (3) Its failure first motivated cultural nationalists, socialists, anarchists and revolutionaries across Europe, before seeding many anti-colonial movements in Asia and Africa.
  • (4) The church excommunicated him in 1901, unhappy with his novel Resurrection and Tolstoy's espousal of Christian anarchist and pacifist views.
  • (5) Middle-class professional members working alongside self-styled anarchists.
  • (6) "It unfairly implies that anyone involved in anarchism should be known to the police and is involved in an dangerous activity," said Jason Sands, an anarchist from South London.
  • (7) • Laziomar runs regular ferries from Terracina and Formia Santo Stefano Facebook Twitter Pinterest Photograph: Silvia Marchetti Today this jet-black rock, the tiniest of the Pontines, is uninhabited, but until 1965 thousands of criminals, mafiosi and anarchists were jailed and tortured here.
  • (8) As critics of Mr Berlusconi have been barred from the state broadcaster Radiotelevisione Italia, Mr Fo protests that artists are being "defenestrated" metaphorically from the RAI for the same reasons that leftwing dissidents were literally thrown out of police station windows in the 1970s when Mr Fo wrote his work Accidental Death of an Anarchist.
  • (9) He also urged anarchists and radical anti-capitalist groups to stay away from mainstream protests by the trade unions, churches and charities being staged in Belfast on Saturday and Enniskillen on Monday.
  • (10) Already, scruffy anarchists have taken to the Internet to denounce any socialist group for engaging with the corporate state and seeking reform of a broken system.
  • (11) There was no warning about other political groups, but next to an image of the anarchist emblem, the City of Westminster police's "counter terrorist focus desk" called for anti-anarchist whistleblowers stating: "Anarchism is a political philosophy which considers the state undesirable, unnecessary, and harmful, and instead promotes a stateless society, or anarchy.
  • (12) In Barcelona, anarchist workers put down the Nationalist insurgency and launch a social revolution of their own.
  • (13) The so-called "block" of anarchists attached to the demonstrations appears to be growing, however, and masked figures were, as with the storming of Conservative headquarters in Millbank in the first protest, at the forefront of the action.
  • (14) Emma Goldman: A Documentary History of the American Years, Volume One (2003) and Volume Two (2005) The anarchist Emma Goldman was a woman of many causes – free speech, women’s emancipation, birth control and workers’ rights.
  • (15) One view suggests that it was actual students, not anarchists, who rioted.Certainly, most of the 56 arrested are bona fide students.
  • (16) Comfort's mistrust of political and military power, his anarchist faith in personal responsibility, his sense of a more honest life that might be lived beyond the limits of convention – these flow from The Silver River to The Joy of Sex and beyond.
  • (17) The 79-year-old author of plays such as Accidental Death of an Anarchist, who has never held public office but was backed by the Communist and Green parties, paid a grudging tribute to his rival, saying: "He's someone who says the same things as I do, only the day after."
  • (18) His performance as the charismatic cop-killer Michel Poiccard made him the embodiment of a new concept of cool, soon called Belmondism and defined by L'Express as "a bit of a crook, a bit of an anarchist, a bad boy but with a soft heart".
  • (19) India’s political elite has been left reeling after a radical anti-corruption, anti-establishment party led by a self-confessed anarchist swept to power in the capital of the world’s biggest democracy.
  • (20) The woman, who did not want to be named, said "Officer B" arrived in Cardiff in 2005, becoming a key member of the 20-strong Anarchist network in the city and "one of her best friends".

Nihilist


Definition:

  • (n.) One who advocates the doctrine of nihilism; one who believes or teaches that nothing can be known, or asserted to exist.
  • (n.) A member of a secret association (esp. in Russia), which is devoted to the destruction of the present political, religious, and social institutions.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Ready to be fleeced and swamped, I wandered cautiously along Laugavegur past the lovely independent shops, the clean, friendly streets and ended up in a fun hipsterish bar called the Lebowski, where they serve Tuborg and the craft burgers are named things like The Walter (I ordered The Nihilist).
  • (2) That shift might be imperceptible on paper, but where Araki's earlier work affected a certain nihilistic cool, Kaboom is  warm and sympathetic towards its characters.
  • (3) Of course, we’re in this dystopia, not that world, so we’re left with Trump and Ryan’s flock of nihilists.
  • (4) Isis’s violence is far from being nihilistic – a charge usually levelled by those who are wishfully blind to the attraction of their foes.
  • (5) This week’s successful targeting of Haji Imam is another step forward in the struggle against Isis and its brand of nihilistic jihad.
  • (6) We never revel in it in any sort of gleeful or nihilistic sense; but, on the other hand, we want to be clear-eyed and realistic about these choices Walter has made and this world he's forced himself into."
  • (7) Facebook Twitter Pinterest However, behind the nihilistic, numb facade of his new character, the Thin White Duke, Bowie was in trouble.
  • (8) Most patients have been met by a nihilistic approach to therapy, in most cases due to the fact that patients report long after the trauma.
  • (9) Österling, an article in Svenska Dagbladet reveals , felt Beckett's work was negative and nihilistic, writing that he "would almost consider a Nobel prize for him as an absurdity in his own style".
  • (10) The new Afghan President offered the Taliban a route to peace talks if they abandoned nihilist destruction of his country.
  • (11) Rejecting the anarchistic attitude of "anything goes" as professionally nihilistic, we propose that in the present pluralistic era it is necessary to recognize a multiplicity of perspectives for determining the rightness of therapeutic constructs.
  • (12) The nihilistic slaughter perpetrated in Mumbai cannot meaningfully be seen as an attempt to fight injustice.
  • (13) Although reason has failed to provide the grounds to conclusively resolve moral controversies such as abortion, there is still a justifiable understanding of ethics which defies the claims of moral nihilists and relativists.
  • (14) They encourage the suspicion – potentially lethal among the hundreds of millions of young people condemned to being superfluous – that the present order, democratic or authoritarian, is built on force and fraud; they incite a broader and more volatile apocalyptic and nihilistic mood than we have witnessed before.
  • (15) So, to understand why jihadis have been drawn into a moral universe that allows them to celebrate inhuman acts, we have to understand why political rage against the West takes such nihilistic, barbaric forms, and why radical Islam has become the primary vehicle for such rage.
  • (16) Might they not be gobbled extinct by nihilistic gastromaniacs?
  • (17) Consider this extraordinary set of variations on a theme, a passage chosen from these superabundant pages: "I do not know whether Shakespeare the man was Protestant or Catholic, skeptic or occultist, Hermetist or nihilist (though I suspect that last possibility), but the dramatist regularly drew upon the arch-Protestant Geneva Bible throughout the last 17 years of his productivity.
  • (18) Inevitably, Isis retaliated by exporting its nihilist violence into the heart of Europe.
  • (19) It is a measure of how obtuse the guardians of public morality continue to be, that Ballard was ever accused of being a nihilistic pervert or a champion of orgasmic car crashes.
  • (20) Turgenev was critical of tsarism but disliked intensely the nihilists who preached terror.

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