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At its heart, political philosophy is about power: who has it, what they do with it, and toward what ends.

— Cindy Milstein

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Anarchism appears to be the only form of libertarian socialism that speaks to the times and people's dreams.

Anarchism and Its Aspirations (2010)

Power needs to be forever linked to freedom; freedom needs to be the limit placed on power.

Anarchism and Its Aspirations (2010)

The beauty of the direct action movement, it could be said, is that it strives to take its own ideals to heart.

Anarchism and Its Aspirations (2010)

Democracy finds its radical edge in the great revolutions of the past.

Anarchism and Its Aspirations (2010)

Anarchism serves unflinchingly as a philosophy of freedom, as the nagging conscience that people and their communities can always be better.

Anarchism and Its Aspirations (2010)

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The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents.

H. P. Lovecraft The Call of Cthulhu (1926)

There is no governor anywhere; you are all absolutely free. There is no restraint that cannot be escaped.

Robert Anton Wilson

Every morning
I shall concern myself anew about the boundary
Between the love-deed-Yes and the power-deed-No
And pressing forward honor reality.

Martin Buber Power and Love (1926)

In the province of the mind, what one believes to be true is true or becomes true, within certain limits to be found experientially and experimentally. These limits are further beliefs to be transcended.

John C. Lilly The Human Biocomputer (1974)

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