"Seen politically, systems follow one another, each consuming……" — Ernst Junger
"Seen politically, systems follow one another, each consuming the previous one. They live on ever-bequeathed and ever-disappointed hope, which never entirely fades. Its spark is all that survives, as it eats its way along the blasting fuse. For this spark, history is merely an occasion, never a goal."
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Ernst Junger
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22 Quotes by Ernst Junger
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We do not escape our boundaries or our innermost being. We do not change. It is true we may be…
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The anarch is oriented to facts, not ideas. He fights alone, as a free man, and would never dream of…
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The anarch knows the rules. He has studied them as a historian and goes along with them as a contemporary.…
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The anarchist, as the born foe of authority, will be destroyed by it after damaging it more or less. The…
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I am an anarch – not because I despise authority, but because I need it. Likewise, I am not a…
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We had set out in a rain of flowers to seek the death of heroes. The war was our dream…
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The anarch wages his own wars, even when marching in rank and file
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The (capital punishment) controversy passes the anarch by. For him, the linking of death and punishment is absurd. In this…
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The political trend is always to be observed, partly as a spectacle, partly for one's own safety. The liberal is…
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Liberalism is to freedom as anarchism is to anarchy.
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Habent sua fata libelli et balli [Books and bullets have their own destinies]
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A work of art wastes away and becomes lustreless in surroundings where it has a price but not a value.…
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