#anarchy

The anarch is oriented to facts, not ideas. He fights alone, as a free man, and would never dream of sacrificing himself to having one inadequacy supplant another and a new regime triumph over the old one. In this sense, he is closer to the philistine; the baker whose chief concern is to bake good bread; the peasant, who works his plow while armies march across his fields. ↗

— Ernst Jünger

#anarchy #ernst-jünger #facts-and-ideas #politics #dreams

A concept is a brick. It can be used to build a courthouse of reason. Or it can be thrown through the window. ↗

— Gilles Deleuze

#freedom #inspirational #lateral-thinking #philosophy #rationalism

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

A city's only ever three hot meals away from anarchy. ↗

— Alastair Reynolds

#sf #social-commentary #anarchy

What is an anarchist? One who, choosing, accepts the responsibility of choice. ↗

— Ursula K. Le Guin

#choice #responsibility #anarchy

Oh, most unhappy man,' he cried, 'try to be happy! You have red hair like your sister.' My red hair, like red flames, shall burn up the world,' said Gregory. ↗

— G.K. Chesterton

#red-hair #anarchy

The measure of the state's success is that the word anarchy frightens people, while the word state does not. ↗

— Joseph Sobran

#anarchy

No matter what God's power may be, the first aspect of God is never that of the absolute Master, the Almighty. It is that of the God who puts himself on our human level and limits himself. ↗

— Jacques Ellul

#god #theology #anarchy

Anarchy could never get a man to the moon, but it may the only mode that can allow us to survive on earth. ↗

— Sheldon B. Kopp

#anarchy