#narc

Law and custom are becoming the subjects of a new field of learning. The anarch endeavors to judge them ethnographically, historically, and also – I will probably come back to this – morally. The State will be generally satisfied with him; it will scarcely notice him In this respect he bears a certain resemblance to the criminal – say, the master spy – whose gifts are concealed behind a run-of-the-mill occupation. ↗

— Ernst Jünger

#ernst-jünger #society #respect

I am an anarch – not because I despise authority, but because I need it. Likewise, I am not a nonbeliever, but a man who demands something worth believing in. ↗

— Ernst Jünger

#authority #beliefs #ernst-jünger #anarchism

The anarch wages his own wars, even when marching in rank and file ↗

— Ernst Jünger

#anarchy #ernst-jünger #war #anarchism

In school we chanted, along with our teacher, I am the Captain of my fate, I am the Master of my soul, and meanwhile, within my own body, an anarchic insurrection had been launched by one of my privates- which I was helpless to put down! ↗

— Philip Roth

#anarchism

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

— George Sterling

#conformity #philosophy #prison

I think writers are the most narcissistic people. Well, I musn't say this, I like many of them, a great many of my friends are writers. ↗

— Sylvia Plath

#poets #writers #poets

The bird that would soar above the level plain of tradition and prejudice must have strong wings. ↗

— Kate Chopin

#strength #anarchy

A city's only ever three hot meals away from anarchy. ↗

— Alastair Reynolds

#sf #social-commentary #anarchy

The sadistic narcissist perceives himself as Godlike, ruthless and devoid of scruples, capricious and unfathomable, emotion-less and non-sexual, omniscient, omnipotent and omni-present, a plague, a devastation, an inescapable verdict. ↗

— Sam Vaknin

#sexuality

What is an anarchist? One who, choosing, accepts the responsibility of choice. ↗

— Ursula K. Le Guin

#choice #responsibility #anarchy