Anarchism is the only philosophy which brings to man the consciousness of himself; which maintains that God, the State, and societ...y are non-existent, that their promises are null and void, since they can be fulfilled only through man's subordination. Anarchism is therefore the teacher of the unity of life; not merely in nature, but in man.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Anarchism is the only philosophy which brings man the consciousness of himself; which maintains that God, the State, and society a...re non-existent, that their promises are null and void, since they can be fulfilled only through man's subordination.... The individual is the heart of society, conserving the essence of social life; society is the lungs which are distributing the element to keep the life essence--that, is, the individual--pure and strong.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
When those who have the power to name and to socially construct reality choose not to see you or hear you ... when someone with th...e authority of a teacher, say, describes the world and you are not in it, there is a moment of psychic disequilibrium, as if you looked in the mirror and saw nothing. It takes some strength of soul--and not just individual strength, but collective understanding--to resist this void, this non-being, into which you are thrust, and to stand up, demanding to be seen and heard.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The great object in life is Sensation--to feel that we exist, even though in pain; it is this "craving void" which drives us to ga...ming, to battle, to travel, to intemperate but keenly felt pursuits of every description whose principal attraction is the agitation inseparable from their accomplishment.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Mental violence has no potency and injures only the person whose thoughts are violent. It is otherwise with mental non-violence. I...t has potency which the world does not yet know.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
(Non! Rien de rien.... Non, je ne regrette rien! Ni le bien qu'on m'a fait, Ni le mal. Tout ça m'est bien égal!) No, I regret no...thing.... Neither the good nor the bad, It's all the same for me.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
No wealth can buy the requisite leisure, freedom, and independence which are the capital in this profession. It comes only by the ...grace of God. It requires a direct dispensation from Heaven to become a walker. You must be born into the family of the Walkers. Ambulator nascitur, non fit.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
For the first time, the stage-scenery of the senses collapsed; the human mind felt itself stripped naked, vibrating in a void of s...hapeless energies, with resistless mass, colliding, crushing, wasting and destroying what these same energies had created and labored from eternity to perfect.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »