Ernst Junger Quotes

Cut word lines — Cut music lines — Smash the control images — Smash the control machine — Burn the books — Kill the priests — Kill! Kill! Kill!

The special trait making me an anarch is that I live in a world which I ‘ultimately’ do not take seriously. This increases my freedom; I serve as a temporary volunteer

We are not rebels. Rebels defy authority and break laws at will.

I can get quite well known, and then I can unleash this kind of anarchist-hippie thing that I've been holding like a very precious liquid, carefully, without spilling any, for years and years and years. And now I'm going to pour it everywhere.

If you want to challenge the system, don't go to bed with it.

One way to work the system is to work the system. The other way is to refuse to work it.

Defiance through compliance.

Anarchists have always gone against the grain, and that's been a place of hope.

Anarchism is a game at which the police can beat you.

Our strategy should be not only to confront empire, but to lay siege to it. To deprive it of oxygen. To shame it. To mock it. With our art, our music, our literature, our stubbornness, our joy, our brilliance, our sheer relentlessness — and our ability to tell our own stories. Stories that are different from the ones we’re being brainwashed to believe. The corporate revolution will collapse if we refuse to buy what they are selling — their ideas, their version of history, their wars, their weapons, their notion of inevitability.

The most elementary form of rebellion, paradoxically , expresses an aspiration for order .

We have all in some degree become anarchistic.

I didn't rebel in the way a lot of people do.

My problem has always been with authority, and I'm sure if anybody understands that, it's people in uniform.

If you're going to kick authority in the teeth, you might as well use both feet.

If you attack the establishment long enough and hard enough, they will make you a member of it.

Men acquiesce in a thousand things, once righteously and boldly done, to which, if proposed to them in advance, they might find endless objections.

I rebelled against all form of authority, against my grandfather, my step-father, the Church, the police, the government, the bosses. Everything male that was there, and was determining my life.

See, I'm a subverter at heart.

I really rebel against authority.

I don't push buttons to push buttons. Throwing the rebel card out there is really cheap.

I, for one, hope that youth will again revolt and again demoralize the dead weight of conformity that now lies upon us.

I was rebellious.

If a rock band throws a TV set out of a hotel window, it's seen as anti-Establishment.

I'll rebel against powers and principalities, all the time. Always, I will.