#anarchy

Why, play we, these games of mere men? ↗

— Daniel A. Craig

#games #life #society #life

The man Of virtuous soul commands not, nor obeys: Power, like a desolating pestilence, Pollutes whate'er it touches, and obedience, Bane of all genius, virtue, freedom, truth, Makes slaves of men, and, of the human frame, A mechanised automaton. ↗

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

#freedom #power #state #freedom

I die, as I have lived, a free spirit, an Anarchist, owing no allegiance to rulers, heavenly or earthly. ↗

— Voltairine de Cleyre

#atheism #religion #religion

Everything the State says is a lie, and everything it has it has stolen. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

#lies #state

Basically, if you're not a utopianist, you're a schmuck. ↗

— Jonathan Feldman

#anarchy #revolution #schmuck #utopia #anarchism

That is what I have always understood to be the essence of anarchism: the conviction that the burden of proof has to be placed on authority, and that it should be dismantled if that burden cannot be met. ↗

— Noam Chomsky

#anarchy #authority #politics #authority

Although I am an anarch, I am not anti-authoritarian. Quite the opposite: I need authority, although I do not believe in it. My critical faculties are sharpened by the absence of the credibility that I ask for. As a historian, I know what can be offered. ↗

— Ernst Jünger

#anarchy #authority #ernst-jünger #history #anarchism

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

— Ernst Jünger

#anarchy #ernst-jünger #war #anarchism

A prison becomes a home when you have the key. ↗

— George Sterling

#conformity #philosophy #prison

The bird that would soar above the level plain of tradition and prejudice must have strong wings. ↗

— Kate Chopin

#strength #anarchy