“The State is a condition, a certain relationship between human beings, a mode of behaviour; we destroy it by contracting other relationships, by behaving differently toward one another… We are the State and we shall continue to be the State until we have created the institutions that form a real community.”
“You don’t know what order with freedom means! You only know what revolt against oppression is! You don’t know that the rod, discipline, violence, the state and government can only be sustained because of you and because of your lack of socially creative powers that develop order within liberty!”
“One can throw away a chair and destroy a pane of glass; but those are idle talkers and credulous idolaters of words who regard the state as such a thing or as a fetish that one can smash in order to destroy it. The state is a condition, a certain relationship between human beings, a mode of behavior; we destroy it by contracting other relationships, by behaving differently toward one another. One day it will be realized that Socialism is not the invention of anything new, but the discovery of something actually present, of something that has grown.... We are the state, and we shall continue to be the state until we have created the institutions that form a real community and society of men.”
“Ein Hochsensibler, der so gestresst ist, dass er sich nicht zu Sport und Bewegung aufraffen kann, der keine Lust hat auf Kontakte und lieber alleine bleibt, weil er sich nur noch nach Ruhe sehnt, der verschafft sich damit durchaus nicht immer die erhoffte Erholung. Es kann sein, dass er sich dadurch sogar noch mehr schwächt. Wer nicht mehr die Energie aufbringen kann, sich zu eigenen Aktivitäten aufzuraffen, läuft Gefahr, Zuflucht zu nehmen zum Scheinleben des Fernsehens. Scheinbewegung und Scheinkontakte übertönen die wirklichen Bedürfnisse, ohne sie je stillen zu können. Man bleibt bedürftig, in einem Mangel, den man auf diese Weise nicht beheben kann. Mangel und Einsamkeit bewirken jedoch ebenfalls Stress, auch wenn diese Form von Stress anders wahrgenommen wird. Wer so lebt, schwächt sich auf Dauer systematisch. Er ersetzt am Feierabend nur den einen Stress durch einen anderen.”
“The act of vagabonding is not an isolated trend so much as it is a spectral connection between people long separated by place and time, but somehow speaking the same language.”
“Hate and fascism are devoid of humanity, and therefore devoid of love. That's easy to see. But so are indifference devoid of humanity, and self-isolation, or the isolation of one-another.”