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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
Without poets, without artists, men would soon weary of nature's monotony. The sublime idea men have of the universe would collaps...e with dizzying speed. The order which we find in nature, and which is only an effect of art, would at once vanish. Everything would break up in chaos. There would be no seasons, no civilization, no thought, no humanity; even life would give way, and the impotent void would reign everywhere.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
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 man Shelley, in very truth, is not entirely sane, and Shelley's poetry is not entirely sane either. The Shelley of actual life... is a vision of beauty and radiance, indeed, but availing nothing, effecting nothing. And in poetry, no less than in life, he is "a beautiful and ineffectual angel, beating in the void his luminous wings in vain."LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »