“The core of the anarchist tradition, as I understand it, is that power is always illegitimate, unless it proves itself to be legitimate. So the burden of proof is always on those who claim that some authoritarian hierarchic relation is legitimate. If they can’t prove it, then it should be dismantled.”
― On Anarchism
― On Anarchism
“John Brown wears a hangman's noose for a necktie up in Heaven. I asked him about it, and he said, "Where's yours? Where's yours?”
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“We shall, I expect, open the last door in the castle even if it leads, perhaps because it leads, onto realities which are beyond the reach of human comprehension and control. We shall do so with that desolate clairvoyance, so marvelously rendered in Bartók's music, because opening doors is the tragic merit of our identity.”
― In Bluebeard's Castle: Some Notes Towards the Redefinition of Culture
― In Bluebeard's Castle: Some Notes Towards the Redefinition of Culture
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