#anarchy

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 worst thing in this world, next to anarchy, is government. ↗

— Henry Ward Beecher

#anarchy #next #thing #world #worst

Tyranny and anarchy are never far apart. ↗

— Jeremy Bentham

#apart #far #never #tyranny

You can do anything you want. You don't believe me. You think, she's out of her head. Yeah, I'm out of my head- on being me. What are you on? On being them. You don't even know. I bet you were never given a chance to know. ....Listen. You can be anything you want to be. Be careful. It's a spell. It's magic. Listen to the words.... You are anything...everyone, anyone. ...You listen to them, teachers, parents, politicians. They're always saying, if you steal you're a thief, if you sleep aroung you're a slut, if you take drugs you're a junkie. They want to get inside your head and control you with their fear. ...Don't play their game. Nothing can touch you; you stay beautiful. ↗

— Melvin Burgess

#freedom #liberation #self-determination #self-empowerment #beauty

Four years of world war, at a cost in human suffering which our minds are mercifully too limited to imagine, led to the very clear realization that international anarchy must be abandoned if civilization was to survive. ↗

— Arthur Henderson

#anarchy #civilization #clear #cost #four