Quotations of Anarchy, Heresy and Unconventional Thought

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http://mentalanarchy.com/quotes.html

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"To the indefinite, uncertain mind of the American radical the most contradictory ideas and methods are possible. The result is a sad chaos in the radical movement, a sort of intellectual hash, which has neither taste nor character." -Emma Goldman

"The State is the altar of political freedom and, like the religious altar, it is maintained for the purpose of human sacrifice." -Emma Goldman

"The political arena leaves one no alternative, one must either be a dunce or a rogue." -Emma Goldman

"The most violent element in society is ignorance." -Emma Goldman

"The most unpardonable sin in society is independence of thought." -Emma Goldman

"Only when human sorrows are turned into a toy with glaring colors will baby people become interested - for a while at least. The people are a very fickle baby that must have new toys every day." -Emma Goldman

"Since boredom advances and boredom is the root of all evil, no wonder, then, that the world goes backwards, that evil spreads. This can be traced back to the very beginning of the world. The gods were bored; therefore they created human beings." -Soren Kierkegaard (My all time favourite quote )

"The paradox is really the pathos of intellectual life and just as only great souls are exposed to passions it is only the great thinker who is exposed to what I call paradoxes, which are nothing else than grandiose thoughts in embryo." -Soren Kierkegaard (second favourite)

(read the one above first) "Take away paradox from the thinker and you have a professor." -Soren Kierkegaard

"Idealists foolish enough to throw caution to the winds have advanced mankind and have enriched the world." -Emma Goldman

"No real social change has ever been brought about without a revolution... revolution is but thought carried into action." -Emma Goldman

"If there is no God, everything is permitted." -Fyodor Dostoevsky

"Direct action is the logical, consistent method of Anarchism" -Emma Goldman

"Rightful liberty is unobstructed action according to our will within limits drawn around us by the equal rights of others. I do not add 'within the limits of the law' because law is often but the tyrant's will, and always so when it violates the rights of the individual." -Thomas Jefferson

"Heaven must be an awfully dull place if the poor in spirit live there." -Emma Goldman

"Men do not accept their prophets and slay them, but they love their martyrs and worship those whom they have tortured to death." -Fyodor Dostoevsky

"Power is given only to those who dare to lower themselves and pick it up. Only one thing matters, one thing; to be able to dare!" -Fyodor Dostoevsky

"To dare is to lose one's footing momentarily. Not to dare is to lose oneself." -Soren Kierkegaard

"Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government of himself. Can he, then be trusted with the government of others? Or have we found angels in the form of kings to govern him? Let history answer this question." -Thomas Jefferson

"A man who as a physical being is always turned toward the outside, thinking that his happiness lies outside him, finally turns inward and discovers that the source is within him." -Soren Kierkegaard

"The tyrant dies and his rule is over, the martyr dies and his rule begins." -Soren Kierkegaard

"It is essential that we realize once and for all that man is much more of a sex creature than a moral creature. The former is inherent, the other is grafted on." -Emma Goldman

"Prostitution, although hounded, imprisoned, and chained, is nevertheless the greatest triumph of Puritanism." -Emma Goldman