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“All governments are in equal measure good and evil. The best ideal is anarchy.”

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Leo Tolstoy was a Russian writer and thinker, a prominent representative of 19th-century Russian literature. His works deeply revealed social contradictions and human nature, and had a profound impact on the world. more

“Anarchy, when it works to destroy authority in all its aspects, when it demands the abrogation of laws and the abolition of the mechanism that serves to impose them, when it refuses all hierarchical organization and preaches free agreement - at the same time strives to maintain and enlarge the precious kernel of social customs without which no human or animal society can exist. Only, instead of demanding that those social customs should be maintained through the authority of a few, it demands it from the continued action of all.”

“Anarchy: It is NOT bombs, disorder or chaos. It is NOT robbery and murder. It is NOT a war of each against all. It is NOT a return to barbarism or to the wild state of man. Anarchism is the very opposite of all that.”

Men War States Return Opposites Murder Chaos Bombs Disorder Anarchy Anarchism Anarchist Barbarism Robbery

Book:Now and after: the A B C of communist anarchism

Source: Now and after: the A B C of communist anarchism

“The anarchist and the Christian have a common origin.”

Christian Common Anarchism Anarchist

Book:Twilight of the Idols with the Antichrist and Ecce Homo

Source: Twilight of the Idols with the Antichrist and Ecce Homo

“Thus the castle of each feudal chieftain became a school of chivalry, into which any noble youth, whose parents were from poverty unable to educate him to the art of war, was readily received.”

Art War School Parent Poverty Youth Noble Educate Castles Art Of War Chivalry Horatio

Author:Horatio Alger

“More than a code of manners in war and love, Chivalry was a moral system, governing the whole of noble life.”

War Whole Moral And Love Noble Manners Code Governing Chivalry Knighthood

Book:A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century

Source: A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century

“When his apprenticeship was finished (the candidate for Knighthood) was received into the Knightly Order by a ritual of sacramental awe.”

Order Finished Candidates Awe Ritual Chivalry Apprenticeship Knighthood

Author:Ariel Durant

“Monsters, among other brutes, are the ones without guilt feelings. Perhaps Hitler did not have any, or Himmler, or Stalin. Maybe Mafia bosses do not have any guilt feelings either, or maybe their remains are just well hidden in the cellar. Even aborted guilt feelings...All men need guilt feelings.”

Men Needs Wells Feelings Remains Guilt Monsters Boss Mafia Brutes Cellars Either Or Guilt Feelings Himmler

Book:On conscience: two essays

Source: On conscience: two essays

“After eating a hundred mice, the cat makes a hadj to Mecca.”

Eating Hundred Cat Guilt Mice Mecca

Book:The Tiger Claw

Source: The Tiger Claw

“If a man has beheld evil, he may know that it was shown to him in order that he learn his own guilt and repent; for what is shown to him is also within him.”

Ifs Knows Men May Order Evil Guilt Repent

Author:Baal Shem Tov

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