#anarchism

As an anarch, who acknowledges neither law nor custom, I owe it to myself to get at the very heart of things. I then probe them in terms of their contradictions, like image and mirror image. Either is imperfect – by seeking to unite them, which I practice every morning, I manage to catch a corner of reality. ↗

— Ernst Jünger

#custom #law #reality #anarchism

L'homme qui n'a pas été anarchiste à seize ans est un imbécile. Mais c'en est un autre, s'il l'est encore à quarante. ↗

— Georges Clemenceau

#wisdom #anarchism

The anthropoligical theorist Paul Shepard writes, 'Humans intuitivesly see analogies between the concrete world out there and their own inner world. If they conceive the former as a chaos of anarchic forces or as dead and frozen, then so will they perceive their own bodies and society; so will they think and act on that assumption and vindicate their own ideas by altering the world to fit them.' The loss of a relationship to the nonconstructed world is a loss of these metaphors. It is also loss of the large territory of the senses, a vast and irreplaceable loss of pleasure and meaning. ↗

— Rebecca Solnit

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The truth, indeed, is out—but the ears to hear it and the minds to learn from it seem to have been atrophied by a cultivated ignorance and a nearly total loss of critical insight. ↗

— Murray Bookchin

#history #truth #wikileaks #anarchism

I am an anarch – not because I despise authority, but because I need it. Likewise, I am not a nonbeliever, but a man who demands something worth believing in. ↗

— Ernst Jünger

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The anarch wages his own wars, even when marching in rank and file ↗

— Ernst Jünger

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In school we chanted, along with our teacher, I am the Captain of my fate, I am the Master of my soul, and meanwhile, within my own body, an anarchic insurrection had been launched by one of my privates- which I was helpless to put down! ↗

— Philip Roth

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The anarchist conclusion is that every kind of human activity should begin from what from what is local and immediate, should link in a network with no centre and no directing agency, hiving off new cells as the original grows. ↗

— Colin Ward

#autonomy #federalism #organisation #anarchism

An anarchist is like an undercover agent who plays the game of Reason in order to undercut the authority of Reason (Truth, Honesty, Justice and so on). ↗

— Paul Karl Feyerabend

#philosophy-of-science #science

Give us what belongs to us in peace, and if you don't give it to us in peace, we will take it by force. ↗

— Emma Goldman

#political-philosophy #revolution #anarchism