"Violence, contrary to popular belief, is not part of the anarchist philosophy. It has repeatedly been pointed out by anarchist thinkers that the revolution can neither be won, nor the anarchist society established and maintained, by armed violence."

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Source : Vernon Richards (1953). “Lessons of the Spanish Revolution, 1936-1939”

Vernon Richards

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“Generally, Hollywood makes the same stories over and over. I've never wanted to do the same thing twice. If a script doesn't surprise me in some way, I simply can't commit to the project.”
“Growth and mastery come only to those who vigorously self-direct. Initiating, creating, doing, reflecting, freely associating, enjoying privacy-these are precisely what the structures of schooling are set up to prevent, on one pretext or another.”
“Because the twentieth century was a century of violence, let us make the twenty-first a century of dialogue.”
“I won't be skating for the rest of my life, that's for sure”
“Tell me about yourself, Miss Russel." I started to give him the obligatory response, first the demurral and then the reluctant flat autobiography, but some slight air of polite inattention in his manner stopped me. Instead, I found myself grinning at him. "Why don't you tell me about myself, Mr. Holmes?”
“It's grown into a personal relationship, yeah. I'm crazy about Jerry. I think he's a unique character.”
“All great thinkers are initially ridiculed - and eventually revered.”
“The Internet is a graveyard, a bright malfunctioning littoral, and it is entirely necropastoral. But the necropastoral can't be sustained - it's non-sustainable.”

Source : "'Art as a sacred event'". The Believer interview, logger.believermag.com. April 7, 2015.

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