"Power operates only destructively, bent always on forcing every manifestation of life into the straitjacket of its laws. Its intellectual form of expression is dead dogma, its physical form brute force. And this unintelligence of its objectives sets its stamp on its supporters also and renders them stupid and brutal, even when they were originally endowed with the best of talents. One who is constantly striving to force everything into a mechanical order at last becomes a machine himself and loses all human feeling."

Source : "Anarcho-Syndicalism" by Rudolf Rocker, (Ch. 1), 1938.

Rudolf Rocker

#Stupid Quotes #Expression Quotes #Order Quotes

“Oh! God! That bread should be so dear, and flesh and blood so cheap!”
“Before I came here I was confused about this subject. Having listened to your lecture I am still confused. But on a higher level.”
“Communism is a monopolistic system, economically and politically.”
“I'M FEARFUL because in the back of my mind I know that although I'm a law abiding citizen I could still be looked upon as a "threat" to those who don't know me. So I will continue to have to go the extra mile to earn the benefit of the doubt.”

Source : Benjamin Watson (2015). “Under Our Skin: Getting Real about Race. Getting Free from the Fears and Frustrations that Divide Us.”, p.14, NavPress
“Angels are wonderful and exciting, and they have the appeal of beings who will take care of us and manifest God's personal concern.”
“Love requited is a short circuit.”
“We eat pancakes to escape loneliness, yet within moments we want nothing more than our freedom from ever having so much as thought about pancakes. Nothing can prevent us, after eating pancakes, from feeling the most awful regret. After eating pancakes, our great mission in life becomes the repudiation of the pancakes and everything served along with them, the bacon and the syrup and the sausage and coffee and jellies and jams. But these things are beneath mention, compared with the pancakes themselves. It is the pancake--Pancakes! Pancakes!--that we never learn to respect.”

Source : Donald Antrim (2011). “The Verificationist: A Novel”, p.66, Macmillan
“One should always be drunk. That's all that matters...But with what? With wine, with poetry, or with virtue, as you chose. But get drunk.”

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