#anarchism

I believe that in time we will have reached the point where we will deserve to be free of government. ↗

— Jorge Luis Borges

#government #anarchism

One must commit acts of the highest treason only when dressed in the most resplendent finery. ↗

— Grant Morrison

#dandyism #fashion #anarchism

Authority, when first detecting chaos at its heels, will entertain the vilest schemes to save its orderly facade. ↗

— Alan Moore

#authority #authority

An anarchist is someone who doesn't need a cop to make him behave. ↗

— Ammon Hennacy

#anarchists #anarchism

To be GOVERNED is to be watched, inspected, spied upon, directed, law-driven, numbered, regulated, enrolled, indoctrinated, preached at, controlled, checked, estimated, valued, censured, commanded, by creatures who have neither the right nor the wisdom nor the virtue to do so. To be GOVERNED is to be at every operation, at every transaction noted, registered, counted, taxed, stamped, measured, numbered, assessed, licensed, authorized, admonished, prevented, forbidden, reformed, corrected, punished. It is, under pretext of public utility, and in the name of the general interest, to be place under contribution, drilled, fleeced, exploited, monopolized, extorted from, squeezed, hoaxed, robbed; then, at the slightest resistance, the first word of complaint, to be repressed, fined, vilified, harassed, hunted down, abused, clubbed, disarmed, bound, choked, imprisoned, judged, condemned, shot, deported, sacrificed, sold, betrayed; and to crown all, mocked, ridiculed, derided, outraged, dishonored. That is government; that is its justice; that is its morality." General Idea of the Revolution in the Nineteenth Century, translated by John Beverly Robinson (London: Freedom Press, 1923), pp. 293-294. ↗

— Pierre-Joseph Proudhon

#government #freedom

Every society has the criminals it deserves. ↗

— Emma Goldman

#criminal #emma-goldman #politics #society #anarchism

Y no tienen ni puta idea lo que es estar en una mala condición de salud, ninguna de las 2. Pendejas. ↗

— Mariana Calderón de la Barca

#anarchism

Is anarchism possible? The failure of attempts to attain freedom does not mean the cause is lost. ↗

— Johann Most

#attain #attempts #cause #does #failure

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