#his

We have been expropriated from our own language by television, from our songs by reality TV contests, from our flesh by mass pornography, from our city by the police and from our friends by wage-labor. ↗

— The Invisible Committee

#french #revolt #revolution #anarchism

The anarch's study of the history of the caesars has more of a theoretical significance for him - it offers a sampling of how far rulers can go. In practice, self-discipline is the only kind of rule that suits the anarch. He, too, can kill anyone (this is deeply immured in the crypt of his consciousness) and, above all, extinguish himself if he finds himself inadequate. ↗

— Ernst Jünger

#caesarism #ernst-jünger #self-discipline #suicide #anarchism

It is better to recognise that we are in darkness than to pretend that we can see the light. ↗

— Hedley Bull

#political #realist #anarchism

Anarchism? You bet your sweet betsy. The only cure for the ills of democracy is more democracy. Much more. ↗

— Edward Abbey

#democracy #anarchism

Can true function arise from basic dysfunction? ↗

— Ursula K. Le Guin

#anarchism

If crimes are committed they must be seen as a disease, and punishment as treatment rather than as social vengeance. ↗

— Daniel Guérin

#politics #anarchism

The aim is not therefore to liberate some 'essential self' by throwing off the burden of government and the State, but to develop the self in creative and voluntary relations with others. ↗

— Peter Marshall

#anarchism

As an anarch, who acknowledges neither law nor custom, I owe it to myself to get at the very heart of things. I then probe them in terms of their contradictions, like image and mirror image. Either is imperfect – by seeking to unite them, which I practice every morning, I manage to catch a corner of reality. ↗

— Ernst Jünger

#custom #law #reality #anarchism

L'homme qui n'a pas été anarchiste à seize ans est un imbécile. Mais c'en est un autre, s'il l'est encore à quarante. ↗

— Georges Clemenceau

#wisdom #anarchism

The anthropoligical theorist Paul Shepard writes, 'Humans intuitivesly see analogies between the concrete world out there and their own inner world. If they conceive the former as a chaos of anarchic forces or as dead and frozen, then so will they perceive their own bodies and society; so will they think and act on that assumption and vindicate their own ideas by altering the world to fit them.' The loss of a relationship to the nonconstructed world is a loss of these metaphors. It is also loss of the large territory of the senses, a vast and irreplaceable loss of pleasure and meaning. ↗

— Rebecca Solnit

#anarchism