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“Have the courage to be destructive and you will soon see which wonderful flowers grow out of the ashes of what you have torn down.”
— Max Stirner
“Destroy or be destroyed—there's no middle way! Let us then be the destroyers.”
— Mikhail Bakunin
“Let us therefore trust the eternal Spirit which destroys and annihilates only because it is the unfathomable and eternally creative source of all life. The passion for destruction is a creative passion, too.”
— Mikhail Bakunin
— Max Stirner
“Destroy or be destroyed—there's no middle way! Let us then be the destroyers.”
— Mikhail Bakunin
“Let us therefore trust the eternal Spirit which destroys and annihilates only because it is the unfathomable and eternally creative source of all life. The passion for destruction is a creative passion, too.”
— Mikhail Bakunin
Forwarded from Disobey
"The point is not for women simply to take power out of men’s hands, since that wouldn’t change anything about the world. It’s a question precisely of destroying that notion of power."
— Simone de Beauvoir
— Simone de Beauvoir
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“After all, nobody can spend more than he has:—this is true of individuals, it is also true of nations. If you spend your strength in acquiring power, or in politics on a large scale, or in economy, or in universal commerce, or in parliamentarism, or in military interests—if you dissipate the modicum of reason, of earnestness, of will, and of self-control that constitutes your nature in one particular fashion, you cannot dissipate it in another. Culture and the state—let no one be deceived on this point—are antagonists: A “culture-state” is merely a modern idea. The one lives upon the other, the one flourishes at the expense of the other. All great periods of culture have been periods of political decline; that which is great from the standpoint of culture, was always unpolitical—even anti-political.”
— Friedrich Nietzsche,
The Twilight of the Idols
— Friedrich Nietzsche,
The Twilight of the Idols
“Work gets more and more of the good conscience to its side: the desire for enjoyment is already called ‘the need for recreation,’ and even begins to be ashamed of itself. “One owes it to one's health,” people say, when they are caught on a country trip. Yes, it might soon go so far that one could not yield to the desire for the vita contemplativa (i.e., excursions with thoughts and friends), without self-contempt and bad conscience.”
— Friedrich Nietzsche, The Gay Science
— Friedrich Nietzsche, The Gay Science
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Stop obeying! The government and the police are your enemies.
https://redd.it/17g4x91
@COMPLETE_ANARCHY
https://redd.it/17g4x91
@COMPLETE_ANARCHY
“The most industrious of all ages—ours—does not know how to make anything of all its industriousness and money, except always still more money and still more industriousness; for it requires more genius to spend than to acquire. —Well, we shall have our “grandchildren”!”
— Friedrich Nietzsche, The Gay Science
— Friedrich Nietzsche, The Gay Science
Forwarded from Disobey
“To the activity of priestly minds belongs especially what one often hears called ‘moral influence’.
Moral influence takes its start where humiliation begins; yes, it is nothing else than this humiliation itself, the breaking and bending of the temper [Mutes] down to humility [Demut]. If I call to someone to run away when a rock is to be blasted, I exert no moral influence by this demand; if I say to a child ‘you will go hungry if you will not eat what is put on the table’, this is not moral influence. But, if I say to it, ‘you will pray, honour your parents, respect the crucifix, speak the truth, for this belongs to man and is man's calling’, or even ‘this is God's will’, then moral influence is complete; then a man is to bend before the calling of man, be tractable, become humble, give up his will for an alien one which is set up as rule and law; he is to abase himself before something higher: self-abasement. ‘He that abaseth himself shall be exalted’ [Matthew 23:12 etc]. Yes, yes, children must early be made to practise piety, godliness, and propriety; a person of good breeding is one into whom ‘good maxims’ have been instilled and impressed, poured in through a funnel [eingetrichtert], thrashed in and preached in.”
Moral influence takes its start where humiliation begins; yes, it is nothing else than this humiliation itself, the breaking and bending of the temper [Mutes] down to humility [Demut]. If I call to someone to run away when a rock is to be blasted, I exert no moral influence by this demand; if I say to a child ‘you will go hungry if you will not eat what is put on the table’, this is not moral influence. But, if I say to it, ‘you will pray, honour your parents, respect the crucifix, speak the truth, for this belongs to man and is man's calling’, or even ‘this is God's will’, then moral influence is complete; then a man is to bend before the calling of man, be tractable, become humble, give up his will for an alien one which is set up as rule and law; he is to abase himself before something higher: self-abasement. ‘He that abaseth himself shall be exalted’ [Matthew 23:12 etc]. Yes, yes, children must early be made to practise piety, godliness, and propriety; a person of good breeding is one into whom ‘good maxims’ have been instilled and impressed, poured in through a funnel [eingetrichtert], thrashed in and preached in.”
Forwarded from Disobey
Disobey
“To the activity of priestly minds belongs especially what one often hears called ‘moral influence’. Moral influence takes its start where humiliation begins; yes, it is nothing else than this humiliation itself, the breaking and bending of the temper [Mutes]…
“If one shrugs his shoulders at this, at once the good wring their hands despairingly, and cry: ‘But, for heaven's sake, if one is to give children no good instruction, why, then they will run straight into the jaws of sin, and become good-for-nothings!’ Gently, you prophets of evil. Good-for-nothing in your sense they certainly will become; but your sense happens to be a very good-for-nothing sense. The impudent rogues will no longer let anything be whined and chattered into them by you, and will have no sympathy for all the follies for which you have been raving and drivelling since the memory of man began; they will abolish the law of inheritance; they will not be willing to inherit your stupidities as you inherited them from your fathers; they destroy inherited sin. If you command them, ‘Bend before the Most High’, they will answer: ‘If he wants to bend us, let him come himself and do it; we, at least, will not bend of our own accord.’ And, if you threaten them with his wrath and his punishment, they will take it like being threatened with the bogey-man. If you are no more successful in making them afraid of ghosts, then the dominion of ghosts is at an end, and nurses' tales find no – faith.
And is it not precisely the liberals again that press for good education and improvement of the educational system? For how could their liberalism, their ‘liberty within the bounds of law’, come about without discipline? Even if they do not exactly educate to the fear of God, yet they demand the fear of man all the more strictly, and awaken ‘enthusiasm for the truly human calling’ by discipline.”
— Max Stirner
And is it not precisely the liberals again that press for good education and improvement of the educational system? For how could their liberalism, their ‘liberty within the bounds of law’, come about without discipline? Even if they do not exactly educate to the fear of God, yet they demand the fear of man all the more strictly, and awaken ‘enthusiasm for the truly human calling’ by discipline.”
— Max Stirner