As our actual present world ... shows itself more clearly--our world of an aristocracy materialised and null, a middle-class purbl...ind and hideous, a lower class crude and brutal--we shall turn our eyes again, and to more purpose, upon this passionate and dauntless soldier of a forlorn hope.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The most intellectual of men are moved quite as much by the circumstances which they are used to as by their own will. The active ...voluntary part of a man is very small, and if it were not economised by a sleepy kind of habit, its results would be null.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Prostitution is the supreme triumph of capitalism.... Worst of all, prostitution reinforces all the old dumb clichés about women'...s sexuality; that they are not built to enjoy sex and are little more than walking masturbation aids, things to be DONE TO, things so sensually null and void that they have to be paid to indulge in fornication, that women can be had, bought, as often as not sold from one man to another. When the sex war is won prostitutes should be shot as collaborators for their terrible betrayal of all women, for the moral tarring and feathering they give indigenous women who have had the bad luck to live in what they make their humping ground.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Here, for example, are a few of the doctrinal parallels: Instead of God, the Communists believe in history as a final principle an...d omnipotent judge. They regard "the great task of making history" as the highest activity open to mankind; it is their equivalent for doing God's will on earth. To be cast "into the dustbin of history" is like being cast into hell. Instead of Divine Providence, the Communists believe in the Marxian dialectic as the principle that shapes our lives in society. Since the dialectic consists of three parts--thesis, antithesis, synthesis--it also bears some relation to the Christian Trinity; and it is the subject of quite as many learned disputations. Instead of Divine Grace, they believe in a spirit emanating from the working class; almost by magic it transforms one's doubts and weariness into renewed hope.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
We are told to maintain constitutions because they are constitutions, and what is laid down in those constitutions?... Certain gre...at fundamental ideas of right are common to the world, and ... all laws of man's making which trample on these ideas, are null and void--wrong to obey, right to disobey. The Constitution of the United States recognizes human slavery; and makes the souls of men articles of purchase and of sale.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
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 »
I have been maintaining that the meaning of the word 'ought' and other moral words is such that a person who uses them commits him...self thereby to a universal rule. This is the thesis of universalizability.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »