185 quotes found
“There is no master cabal organizing the three-hundred plus Food Not Bombs or mad genius organizing the dozens of Indymedia's across the globe. We can all be the Johnny and Jane Appleseeds of anarch...”
“When faced with unbridled wildness of reality, dinosaurs fall into fevered delusions of grandeur. In fits of madness, they recreate the world in their own overblown image, bull-dozing the wild and ...”
“Everything subtracted from the present is added to the future with interest.”
“It's easier to ponder the future than it is to do something about the present.”
“The faithful of Shiva or Dionysus seek contact with those forces which...lead to a refusal of the politics, ambitions and limitations of ordinary social life. This does not involve simply a recogni...”
“Traditionally, there have been two major strains of motivation (or perceived motivations) in anarchist politics: Duty and Joy. Like any duality, it is easy to fall into the trap of simplistic black...”
“School has become the world religion of a modernized proletariat, and makes futile promises of salvation to the poor of the technological age.”
“Most schooling is training for stupidity and conformity, and that's institutional, but occasionally you get a spark, somebody'll challenge your mind, make you think and so on, and that has a tremen...”
“It is better to enlighten mens minds than to teach them to be obstinate in their prejudices.”
“Provided we can escape from the museums we carry around inside us, provided we can stop selling ourselves tickets to the galleries in our own skulls, we can begin to contemplate an art which re-cre...”
“Your pretty empire took so long to build, now, with a snap of history's fingers, down it goes.”
“There is a saying, if any stranger enquire of the first met of Maan, were it even a child, Who is here the sheykh? he would answer him I am he.”
“It is impossible for me to be an Anarchist, for I do not believe in the essential goodness of man. The world, the physical world, that was once all in all to me, has at moments such as these no roa...”
“Instead of worship or ignorance of the past, we must make our own tools, our own stories, and our own legends.”
“I have often been asked why I maintained such a non-compromising antagonism to government and in what way I have found myself oppressed by it. In my opinion every individual is hampered by it. It e...”
“Victory will not go to those who can inflict the most suffering, but to those who can survive the most.”
“Patriotism is the product of successful systematic indoctrination.”
“[M]an has as much liberty as he is willing to take.”
“Every command slaps liberty in the face.”
“My evanescent anarchistic tendencies are purely classical. I use the word anarchist in the sense in which it was understood by the ancient Greeks. They, of course, accepted the anarchist as a fairl...”
