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An anarchist is someone who doesn't need a cop to make him behave. ↗

— Ammon Hennacy

#anarchists #anarchism

The words with which a child's heart is poisoned, whether through malice or through ignorance, remain branded in his memory, and sooner or later they burn his soul. ↗

— Carlos Ruiz Zafón

#criticism #memory #verbal-abuse #words #ignorance

A socialist is just someone who is unable to get over his or her astonishment that most people who have lived and died have spent lives of wretched, fruitless, unremitting toil. ↗

— Terry Eagleton

#politics #socialism #ideology

Anarchy is a state of society where the only government is reason. ↗

— Michael Schwab

#government #reason #anarchism

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

— Jonathan Feldman

#anarchy #revolution #schmuck #utopia #anarchism

The situation is like this: they hired our parents to destroy this world, and now they'd like to put us to work rebuilding it, and -- to add insult to injury -- at a profit. ↗

— The Invisible Committee

#french #revolt #revolution #anarchism

Uncouth, clannish, lumbering about the confines of Space and Time with a puzzled expression on his face and a handful of things scavenged on the way from gutters, interglacial littorals, sacked settlements and broken relationships, the Earth-human has no use for thinking except in the service of acquisition. He stands at every gate with one hand held out and the other behind his back, inventing reasons why he should be let in. From the first bunch of bananas, his every sluggish fit or dull fleabite of mental activity has prompted more, more; and his time has been spent for thousands of years in the construction and sophistication of systems of ideas that will enable him to excuse, rationalize, and moralize the grasping hand. His dreams, those priceless comic visions he has of himself as a being with concerns beyond the material, are no more than furtive cannibals stumbling round in an uncomfortable murk of emotion, trying to eat each other. Politics, religion, ideology — desperate, edgy attempts to shift the onus of responsibility for his own actions: abdications. His hands have the largest neural representation in the somesthetic cortex, his head the smallest; but he's always trying to hide the one behind the other. ↗

— M. John Harrison

#greed #human-nature #thought #dreams

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

Our masters have not heard the people's voice for generations and it is much, much louder than they care to remember. ↗

— Alan Moore

#politics #revolution #anarchism

Your pretty empire took so long to build, now, with a snap of history's fingers, down it goes. ↗

— Alan Moore

#history #anarchism