“Anarchy is a word that comes from the Greek, and signifies, strictly speaking, "without government": the state of a people without any constituted authority. Before such an organization had begun to be considered possible and desirable by a whole class of thinkers, so as to be taken as the aim of a movement (which has now become one of the most important factors in modern social warfare), the word "anarchy" was used universally in the sense of disorder and confusion, and it is still adopted in that sense by the ignorant and by adversaries interested in distorting the truth.” PeopleStillsImportantStatesWholeGovernmentUsedSocialClassTakenModernMovementAuthorityOrganizationAimIgnorantConfusionFactorsGreekDisorderThinkerAnarchyWarfareDesirableAdoptedAdversariesAnarchism Author:Errico Malatesta
“Will posterity believe that, while the Press has swarmed with inflammatory productions that tend to prove the blessing of theoretical confusion and speculative licentiousness, not one writer of talent has been employed to refute and confound the fashionable doctrines, nor the least care taken to disseminate works of another complexion.” BelieveHas BeensCareTakenTalentBlessingProvePressesJewProductionsDoctrineConfusionEmployedTheoreticalPosterityFashionableComplexion Book:Travels in France During the Years 1787, 1788, 1789 Source: Travels in France During the Years 1787, 1788, 1789
“I worry more about the marketing that's taken hold since the 70s. The Jazz era, the Swing era, those were huge. Entire decades were named for music. In the 1940s - after World War II - changes in taxation, ballrooms closing, people moving to the suburbs, and the onset of target marketing and the confusion of commerce with art caused some things to happen as a result that have taken us away from jazz and what jazz offers us.” PeopleWorldArtWarHappensMovingResultsWorryTakenHugeOffersJazzMarketingDecadesConfusionErasWar Of The WorldsTargetWorld War IiSwingsWorld War ICommerceTaxationClosingSuburbsBallroom Author:Wynton Marsalis
“Psychedelic drugs cause paranoia, confusion, and total loss of reality in politicians that have never taken them.” RealityCausesLossTakenPoliticianDrugConfusionPsychedelicParanoiaPsychedelic Drugs Author:Timothy Leary
“When we do not know why the photographer has taken a picture and when we do not know why we are looking at it, all of a sudden we discover something that we start seeing. I like this confusion.” KnowsTakenSeeingPhotographerConfusion Book:Saul Leiter Source: Saul Leiter