#anarchy

Anarchism is democracy taken seriously. ↗

— Edward Abbey

#anarchy #democracy #politics #anarchism

Throughout the history of our civilisation, two traditions, two opposed tendencies, have been in conflict: the Roman tradition and the popular tradition, the imperial tradition and the federalist tradition, the authoritarian tradition and the libertarian tradition. ↗

— Pyotr Kropotkin

#anarchy #libertarian #anarchism

The moderns say we must not punish heretics. My only doubt is whether we have the right to punish anybody else. ↗

— G.K. Chesterton

#fiction #heresy #anarchy

[Alcohol] not only replaces positive actions which would address the root causes of our despondency – it prevents them, as more energy becomes focused on achieving and recovering from the drunken state. ↗

— CrimethInc.

#alcohol #drunkenness #anarchy

One of the few things my father says when he's had a few that I agree with is that kids don't have much balls in this generation. Some of them are trying to start the revolution by bombing U.S. government washrooms, but none of them are throwing Molotov cocktails at the Pentagon. ↗

— Stephen King

#youth #anarchy

Anarchy is like custard cooking over a flame; it has to be constantly stirred or it sticks and gets heavy, like government. ↗

— Tom Robbins

#cuba #government #passivity #revolution #anarchy

A preoccupation with power - black power, student power, flower power, poor power, 'the power structure' - is the striking aspect of the American political scene at the moment. Oddly enough, obsession with power goes hand in hand with a fear of power. Some of the New Left groups that talk the toughest about power are extremely reluctant to see power operate in any institutional form; within their own organizations, they shun 'hierarchies' and formally structured relations of authority. What the preoccupation with power reflects, essentially, is a deep=seated, pervasive feeling of powerlessness. ↗

— Carey McWilliams

#anonymous #power #anarchy

Anarchy may await America, due to the daily injustices suffered by the people. ↗

— Louis Farrakhan

#anarchy #await #by the people #daily #due

Without an advocate for the poor, without a new state of mind in America, the country lies on the brink of anarchy. ↗

— Louis Farrakhan

#america #anarchy #brink #country #lies

In liberal democracy and anxious anarchy, the traditional classic dance, compact of aristocratic authority and absolute freedom in a necessity of order, has never been so promising as an independent expression as it is today. ↗

— Lincoln Kirstein

#absolute freedom #anarchy #anxious #aristocratic #authority