Partial quotes; it is frequent that the sentence is overtly political. I just take the partisan politics (for or against redistribution, for or against markets, or capitalism, or the death penalty, or religion, or property, or any other stuff clearly politized) out.
Of course, none of these men we mention here are saints, most of what they wrote or they believed is wrong, counterproductive, untimely, or a linear combination of these.
And last, calls to violence and exhortations to killing and bombing because of a sense of justice rooted in Romanticism are not printed here.
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The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.
― Albert Camus
To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.
― Oscar Wilde
If you took the most ardent revolutionary, vested him in absolute power, within a year he would be worse than the Tsar himself.
― Mikhail Bakunin
You have the right to free speech as long as you're not dumb enough to actually try it.
― The Clash
It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.
― Krishnamurti
Website admin: I disagree with this on its implicit faith in a non-sick society. We are too defective for a non-sick society to exist. Maybe an abbey or monastery of a very small number of people can be healthy, but I doubt it. We are foos or are lying if we keep saying that we can get better that we are, which is profoundly wrong in beliefs, expression of those, understanding of what others say, and in the execution of plans.
Is it surprising that prisons resemble factories, schools, barracks, hospitals, which all resemble prisons?
― Foucault
If there existed no external means for dimming their consciences, one-half of men would at once shoot themselves.
― Tolstoy
Whoever teaches without emancipating stultifies.
― Jacques Ranciere
Albert: Where to start...
To be GOVERNED is to be watched, inspected, spied upon, directed, law-driven, numbered, regulated, enrolled, indoctrinated, preached at, controlled, checked, estimated, valued, censured, commanded, by creatures who have neither the right nor the wisdom nor the virtue to do so. To be GOVERNED is to be at every operation, at every transaction noted, registered, counted, taxed, stamped, measured, numbered, assessed, licensed, authorized, admonished, prevented, forbidden, reformed, corrected, punished. It is, under pretext of public utility, and in the name of the general interest, to be placed under contribution, drilled, fleeced, exploited, monopolized, extorted from, squeezed, hoaxed, robbed; then, at the slightest resistance, the first word of complaint, to be repressed, fined, vilified, harassed, hunted down, abused, clubbed, disarmed, bound, choked, imprisoned, judged, condemned, shot, deported, sacrificed, sold, betrayed; and to crown all, mocked, ridiculed, derided, outraged, dishonored. That is government; that is its justice; that is its morality.
― Pierre-Joseph Proudhon, General Idea of the Revolution in the Nineteenth Century
Our aim is to agitate and disturb people. We're not selling bread, we're selling yeast.
― anonymous graffiti, May 1968
Spending monotonous hours among the common people, the resigned ones, the collaborators, the conformists – isn’t living; it’s a vegetative existence, simply the transport, in ambulatory form, of a mass of flesh and bones. Life needs the exquisite and sublime experience of rebellion in action as well as thought.
― Severino Di Giovanni
Website admin: If you do not bomb or shoot, I support your rebellion
One should as a rule respect public opinion in so far as is necessary to avoid starvation and to keep out of prison, but anything that goes beyond this is voluntary submission to an unnecessary tyranny, and is likely to interfere with happiness in all kinds of ways.
― Bertrand Russell
Website admin: This is acceptable only if married, having children, old parents, etc... If not, we should live freely until the majority sends us to the gallows or prison
Criticism of Anarchism
Every time an anarchist says, 'I believe in democracy,' there is a little fairy somewhere that falls down dead.
― James Barrie
No comment needed for this maladapted person, Lucy Parsons:
Let every dirty, lousy tramp arm himself with a revolver or knife on the steps of the palace of the rich and stab or shoot their owners as they come out. Let us kill them without mercy, and let it be a war of extermination and without pity.
...each of you hungry tramps who read these lines, avail yourselves of those little methods of warfare which Science has placed in the hands of the poor man, and you will become a power in this or any other land. Learn the use of explosives!
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