Anarchy | Wisdom and the Philosophy of Freedom

"Revolution calls my name. I will soon dwell in nothingness, and my name will be in the Pantheon of history." Georg Büchner

"Body: A cell state in which every cell is a citizen." Rudolf Virchow

"You must not do anything, not even start a war." Heinrich Böll

"The notion that a society could be regulated entirely by market forces is a utopian fantasy: an impossible dream generated by imagining what the world would be like if everyone's behavior was utterly consistent with some abstract moral ideal-in this case, economic theories that assume all human action is based on calculating, systematic, (but scrupulously law-abiding), greed." David Graeber

"Unfettered capitalism is a revolutionary force that consumes greater and greater numbers of human lives until it finally consumes itself." Chris Hedges

"I remained a socialist for several years, even after my rejection of Marxism; and if there could be such a thing as socialism combined with individual liberty, I would be a socialist still. For nothing could be better than living a modest, simple, and free life in an egalitarian society." Karl Popper

"Without a moral framework, there is nothing left but immediate self-indulgence by some and the path of least resistance by others. Neither can sustain a free society." Thomas Sowell

"Freedom (n.): To ask nothing. To expect nothing. To depend on nothing." Ayn Rand

"Does it seem to you impossible to imagine anything more inextricable than the social contract, when you think of the frightful number of relations that it must regulate -- something like squaring the circle, or finding perpetual motion? That is the reason why, wearied of the struggle, you fall back on absolutism and force." Pierre-Joseph Proudhon

"People seem to know about May Day everywhere except where it began, here in the United States of America. That's because those in power have done everything they can to erase its real meaning." Noam Chomsky

"One must choose between God and Man, and all "radicals" and "progressives", from the mildest liberal to the most extreme anarchist, have in effect chosen Man." George Orwell

"There is nothing, no right and no cause in the world that could justify the use of the atomic bomb." Heinrich Böll

"Man is born an asocial and antisocial being. The newborn child is a savage. Egoism is his nature. Only the experience of life and the teachings of his parents, his brothers, sisters, playmates, and later of other people FORCE HIM to acknowledge the advantages of social cooperation and accordingly to change his behavior." Ludwig von Mises

"Within a capitalist corporation, someone says, "Lend me a wrench," and someone asks, "Yeah, what do I get?" You assume that the idea of each according to his or her abilities, each according to his or her needs - in solving a problem - is actually the only thing that works. And in situations of disaster, there are often communistic notions of improvisation, where you basically exchange hierarchies and all of a sudden all those things that are luxuries that you can't afford, you have them in an emergency." David Graeber