Ammon Hennacy Quotes
1893–1970
Ammon Hennacy (24 July 1893 – 14 January 1970) was an American Christian anarchist, Christian pacifist, and social activist.
Also known as: Ammon Hennessey, Hennacy, Ammon, Hennessey, Ammon
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Despite the popular idea of anarchists as violent men, Anarchism is the one non-violent social philosophy.
An anarchist is someone who doesn't need a cop to make him behave.
A Christian Anarchist does not depend on bullets or ballots to achieve his ideal; he achieves that ideal daily by the One Man Revolution with which he faces a decadent, confused and dying world.
The only revolution worthwhile was the one-man revolution within the heart. Each one could make this by himself and not need to wait on a majority.
We really can’t change the world. We really can’t change other people! The best we can do is to start a few thinking here and there. The best way to do this, if we are sincere, is to change ourselves!
Oh judge! Your damn laws! The good people don't need them, and the bad people don't obey them.
A pacifist between wars is like a vegetarian between meals.
Love without courage and wisdom is sentimentality, as with the ordinary church member. Courage without love and wisdom is foolhardiness, as with the ordinary soldier. Wisdom without love and courage is cowardice, as with the ordinary intellectual.
At times those who do not want to have their inconsistencies pointed out say in a super-sweet voice to me "Judge not, lest ye be judged." I reply "O.K., judge me, then."
I love my enemies, but am hell on my friends.
The dictionary definition of a Christian is one who follows Christ; kind, kindly, Christ-like. Anarchism is voluntary cooperation for good, with the right of secession. A Christian anarchist is therefore one who turns the other cheek, overturns the tables of the moneychangers, and does not need a cop to tell him how to behave. A Christian anarchist does not depend upon bullets or ballots to achieve his ideal; he achieves that ideal daily by the One-Man Revolution with which he faces a decadent, confused, and dying world.