#anarchism

Anarchism is not a romantic fable but the hardheaded realization, based on five thousand years of experience, that we cannot entrust the management of our lives to kings, priests, politicians, generals, and county commissioners. ↗

— Edward Abbey

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If all our comrades of Europe, America and other countries, who do not understand what we are doing to Spanish Anarchism, would come to Spain, we could then see how they would react. ↗

— Frederica Montseny

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Is anarchism possible? The failure of attempts to attain freedom does not mean the cause is lost. ↗

— Johann Most

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An anarchist is like an undercover agent who plays the game of Reason in order to undercut the authority of Reason (Truth, Honesty, Justice and so on). ↗

— Paul Karl Feyerabend

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Give us what belongs to us in peace, and if you don't give it to us in peace, we will take it by force. ↗

— Emma Goldman

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The individual cannot bargain with the State. The State recognizes no coinage but power: and it issues the coins itself. ↗

— Ursula K. Le Guin

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If you would know who controls you see who you may not criticise. ↗

— Tacitus

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Bruno withdrew from the field of history more resolutely than Vigo; that is why I prefer the former’s retrospect but the latter’s prospect. As an anarch, I am determined to go along with nothing, ultimately take nothing seriously – at least not nihilistically, but rather as a border guard in no man’s land, who sharpens his eyes and ears between the tides. ↗

— Ernst Jünger

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The political trend is always to be observed, partly as a spectacle, partly for one’s own safety. The liberal is dissatisfied with regime; the anarch passes through their sequence – as inoffensively as possible – like a suite of rooms. This is the recipe for anyone who cares more about the substance of the world than its shadow – the philosopher, the artist, the believer. ↗

— Ernst Jünger

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One of the anarch’s emoluments is that he is distinguished for things that he has done on the side or that go against his grain. ↗

— Ernst Jünger

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