#anarchy

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

Why, play we, these games of mere men? ↗

— Daniel A. Craig

#games #life #society #life

The man Of virtuous soul commands not, nor obeys: Power, like a desolating pestilence, Pollutes whate'er it touches, and obedience, Bane of all genius, virtue, freedom, truth, Makes slaves of men, and, of the human frame, A mechanised automaton. ↗

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

#freedom #power #state #freedom

A prison becomes a home when you have the key. ↗

— George Sterling

#conformity #philosophy #prison

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

One of the great things about anarchy is that it’s hard to get it organized. ↗

— George Hammond

#anarchy

The real enemy" is the totality of physical and mental constraints by which capital, or class society, or statism, or the society of the spectacle expropriates everyday life, the time of our lives. The real enemy is not an object apart from life. It is the organization of life by powers detached from it and turned against it. The apparatus, not its personnel, is the real enemy. But it is by and through the apparatchiks and everyone else participating in the system that domination and deception are made manifest. The totality is the organization of all against each and each against all. It includes all the policemen, all the social workers, all the office workers, all the nuns, all the op-ed columnists, all the drug kingpins from Medellin to Upjohn, all the syndicalists and all the situationists. ↗

— Bob Black

#neo-situationism #philosophy #political-philosophy #political-science #post-left-anarchy