Human beings Quote by Terence McKenna Download Open image “Only responsible human beings can exist in an anarchistic society.” — Terence McKenna ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.6 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Human beings Humans Responsible
“For the Anarchist, freedom is not an abstract philosophical concept, but the vital concrete possibility for every human being to bring to full development… — Rudolf Rocker Copy Share Image
“A rational anarchist believes that concepts such as ‘state’ and ‘society’ and ‘government’ have no existence save as physically exemplified in the acts of… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
I define anarchist society as one where there is no legal possibility for coercive aggression against the person or property of any individual. — Murray Rothbard Copy Share Image
For the anarchist, freedom is not an abstract philosophical concept, but the vital concrete possibility of every human being to bring to full development… — Rudolf Rocker Copy Share Image
“An anarchist society is by definition a Free Society, but a Free Society is not necessarily Anarchist. It might fall short in several respects. Some failings might seriously limit its desirability. For instance, a Revolution carried out by men in a male-dominated society, might perpetuate sex discrimination, which would limit freedom and undermine the Revolution by leaving it possible for… — Albert Meltzer Copy Share
The anarchists are not promising anything to anyone. The anarchists only want people to be conscious of their own situation and seize freedom for… — Maria Nikiforova Copy Share Image
An anarchist does not want to rule others and does not want others to rule him. Nothing is so despicable as half-an-anarchist. — Frank Van Dun Copy Share Image
All anarchists believe in worker's control, in the sense of individuals deciding what work they do, how they work, and who they work with.… — Donald Rooum Copy Share Image
No one can act alone in the name of all and no one can accept the anarchy of a society without rules. — Jacques Chirac Copy Share Image
“Common to all Anarchists is the desire to free society of all political and social coercive institutions which stand in the way of development… — Rudolf Rocker Copy Share Image
The Anarchists are right in everything; in the negation of the existing order, and in the assertion that, without authority, there could not be worse violence than that of authority under existing conditions. They are mistaken only in thinking that Anarchy can be instituted by a revolution. "To establish Anarchy." "Anarchy will be instituted." But it will be instituted only… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share
History was an incredibly damaging experience, and now it's over . . . in a sense. — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
We are somehow the children of the planet, we are somehow its finest hour; we bind time, we bind the past, we anticipate the future - we are going hyper-spatial; we are claiming a whole new dimension for biology that it never claimed before. We are actually becoming a fourth-dimensional kind of creature. Our future is somehow with us, as… — Terence McKenna Copy Share
The history of man that you don't know is what your unconscious is made out of. Just as the history of yourself that you… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
What is happening here is we are living past the age, by the millions, living past the age where cultural values make any sense… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
What history is, essentially, is a careening, out-of-control effort to find our way back to this state of primordial balance. — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
And what is the primary datum? It's the felt presence of immediate experience. In other words, being here now is the primary datum. — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
Our culture difinitely takes an egocentric dominator view. The fear of the psychedelic experience is quite literally the fear of losing control. Dominator types… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
Every step into freedom contains within it the potential for greater bondage. — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
This is the message of your life and my life - it’s that nothing lasts. Heraclitus said it: Panta Rhei. All flows, nothing lasts. Not your enemies, not your fortune, not who you sleep with at night, not the books, not the house in Saint-Tropez, not even the children - nothing lasts. To the degree that you avert your gaze… — Terence McKenna Copy Share
I often like to think that our map of the world is wrong, that where we have centered physics, we should actually place literature as the central metaphor that we want to work out from. Because I think literature occupies the same relationship to life that life occupies to death. A book is life with one dimension pulled out of… — Terence McKenna Copy Share
Knowledge, or verbal facility, is no proof that you know what you're talking about. — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
Humans are, as Sartre put it, 'condemned to be free'. To insist that science, or God, objectively defines moral values is to abandon our… — Kenan Malik Copy Share Image
Gambling has held human beings in thrall for millennia. It has been engaged in everywhere, from the dregs of society to the most respectable… — Peter L. Bernstein Copy Share Image
Here's the reality. The image of a white Jesus has been used to justify enslavement, conquest, colonialism, the genocide of indigenous peoples. There are… — Tim Wise Copy Share Image
What is music? Music is language. A human being wants to express ideas in this language, but not ideas that can be translated into… — Anton Webern Copy Share Image
What we're supposed to do as actors is be able to portray real human beings and emotions. And if you grow up in this… — Emily Browning Copy Share Image
A human being can only absorb a small amount of the mystical kundalini, you can be exposed again and again to it, but it… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
I recognize I am essentially a failed human being in the sense that I can't possibly live up to the expectations of an Almighty. — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
A composer knows that music is written by human beings for human beings and that music is a continuation of life, not something separated… — Hanns Eisler Copy Share Image
For our purposes as human beings, the mind is the center of everything. — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
The religion of art, like the religion of politics, was born from the ruins of Christianity. Art inherited from the old religion the power of consecrating things and endowing them with a sort of eternity; museums are our temples, and the objects displayed in them are beyond history. Politics--or more precisely, Revolution--co-opted the other function of religion: changing human beings… — Octavio Paz Copy Share