Ben Jonson on anarchy
Ben Jonson198 quotes“Let those that merely talk and never think, That live in the wild anarchy of drink”
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Follow a shadow, it still flies you, Seem to fly, it will pursue: So court a mistress, she denies you; Let her alone, she will court you. Say are not women truly, then, Styled but the shadows of us men?
Ben JonsonBen Jonson The covetous man never has money. The prodigal will have none shortly.
Ben JonsonBen Jonson A thankful man owes a courtesy ever; the unthankful but when he needs it.
Ben JonsonBen Jonson Success hath made me wanton.
Ben JonsonBen Jonson Poor worms, they hiss at me, whilst I at home Can be contented to applaud myself, . . . with joy To see how plump my bags are and my barns.
Ben JonsonBen Jonson He threatens many that hath injured one.
Ben JonsonBen Jonson Blueness doth express trueness.
Ben JonsonBen Jonson Silence in woman is like speech in man.
Ben JonsonBen Jonson Reader look, not on his picture but his book.
Ben JonsonBen Jonson Well, I will scourge those apes, And to these courteous eyes oppose a mirror, As large as is the stage whereon we act; Where they shall see the time’s deformity Anatomised in every nerve, and sinew, With constant courage, and contempt of fear.
Ben JonsonBen Jonson Where dost thou careless lie, Buried in ease and sloth? Knowledge that sleeps, doth die; And this security, It is the common moth, That eats on wits and arts, and oft destroys them both.
Ben JonsonBen Jonson Rich apparel has strange virtues; it makes him that hath it without means esteemed for an excellent wit; he that enjoys it with means puts the world in remembrance of his means.
Ben JonsonBen Jonson Language most shows a man, speak that I may see thee.
Ben JonsonBen Jonson There is no doctrine will do good where nature is wanting.
Ben JonsonBen Jonson Who will not judge him worthy to be robbed That sets his doors wide open to a thief, And shows the felon where his treasure lies?
Ben JonsonBen Jonson Were Guilt is, Rage and Courage doth abound.
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Anarchy would suggest you’re not cooperating. Permaculture is urging complete cooperation between each other and every other thing, animate and inanimate.
Bill MollisonBill Mollison This, then, is the Anarchistic definition of government: the subjection of the non-invasive individual to an external will.
Benjamin TuckerBenjamin Tucker An Anarchist is anyone who denies the necessity and legitimacy of government; the question of his methods of attacking it is foreign to the definition.
Benjamin TuckerBenjamin Tucker If the individual has a right to govern himself, all external government is tyranny. Hence the necessity of abolishing the State.
Benjamin TuckerBenjamin Tucker The Anarchists are simply unterrified Jeffersonian Democrats. They believe that ‘the best government is that which governs least,’ and that which governs least is no government at all.
Benjamin TuckerBenjamin Tucker The main question … is not what motive inspired the law, but what it will be possible for men of bad motive to do with the law.
Benjamin TuckerBenjamin Tucker The State is said by some to be a necessary evil; it must be made unnecessary.
Benjamin TuckerBenjamin Tucker And so many of the people in the arena here, you know, were underprivileged anyway, so this is working very well for them.
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