Anarchy in the Age of Dinosaurs Quotes

“We don't need unity in theory, we need solidarity in practice.”
― Curious George Brigade, Anarchy in the Age of Dinosaurs

“We reject the blame game and accusations so common in efficient groups. With each person accepting full responsibility for their actions, no on can have any more of the blame than anyone else. Let's all be accountable to ourselves, so we can grow and learn from our mistakes and be buoyed by our successes.”
― Curious George Brigade, Anarchy in the Age of Dinosaurs

“Never confuse efficiency with effectiveness.”
― Curious George Brigade, Anarchy in the Age of Dinosaurs

“Anarchy has the flexibility to overcome many of the traditional problems of activism by focusing on revolution not as another cause but as a philosophy of living. This philosophy is as concrete as a brick being thrown through a window or flowers growing in the garden. By making our daily lives revolutionary, we destroy the artificial separation between activism and everyday life. Why settle for comrades and fellow activists when we can have friends and lovers?”
― Curious George Brigade, Anarchy in the Age of Dinosaurs

“One of the most inefficient utopias I have ever seen was that of a humble Zapatista village in the mountains of Southeastern Mexico. I kid you not, the entire village sits down and takes days to make a single decision! Everyone gets a chance to hear and be heard, and some questions take eons of time, but everyone is patient and respectful. Things actually get done. It's as if time was suddenly transformed from the tickling of a Newtonian clock to something that revolved around ordinary folks.”
― Curious George Brigade, Anarchy in the Age of Dinosaurs

“Nearly every "serious" anarchist writer in recent years has tried to distance anarchism from chaos. Yet for most ordinary people, chaos and anarchy are forever linked. The connection between chaos and anarchism should be rethought and embraced, instead of being downplayed and repressed. Chaos is the nightmare of rulers, states, and capitalists. We should not polish the image of anarchism by erasing chaos. Instead, we should remember that chaos is not only burning ruins but also butterfly wings.”
― Curious George Brigade, Anarchy in the Age of Dinosaurs

“Instead of worship or ignorance of the past, we must make our own tools, our own stories, and our own legends.”
― Curious George Brigade, Anarchy in the Age of Dinosaurs

“It's easier to ponder the future than it is to do something about the present.”
― Curious George Brigade, Anarchy in the Age of Dinosaurs

“No genuine revolutionary challenge to either the State or Capitalism in the United States can fail to ignore racism's importance in maintaining the current system.”
― Curious George Brigade, Anarchy in the Age of Dinosaurs

“When faced with unbridled wildness of reality, dinosaurs fall into fevered delusions of grandeur. In fits of madness, they recreate the world in their own overblown image, bull-dozing the wild and replacing it with a wasteland that reflects their own emptiness. Where there was once the incredibly complex diversity of nature, there is now the dead simplicity of asphalt and concrete.”
― Curious George Brigade, Anarchy in the Age of Dinosaurs

“Within a diverse swarm of individuals and small groups, resistance can be anywhere and anytime; everywhere and all the time.”
― Curious George Brigade, Anarchy in the Age of Dinosaurs

“The rejection of mass organizations as the be-all, end-all of organizing is vital for the creation and rediscovery of possibilities for empowerment and effective anarchistic work.”
― Curious George Brigade, Anarchy in the Age of Dinosaurs

“Traditionally, there have been two major strains of motivation (or perceived motivations) in anarchist politics: Duty and Joy. Like any duality, it is easy to fall into the trap of simplistic black and white labels, ignoring the more realistic continuum of grays. Instead, think of these two motivations as the end points on a continuum, illuminating everything in between.”
― Curious George Brigade, Anarchy in the Age of Dinosaurs

“Nikt nie wie, jak będzie wyglądała rewolucja, a już na pewno nie kanapowi prognostycy, którzy ignorują własne otoczenie, by kontemplować doskonałość dialektyki.”
― Curious George Brigade, Anarchy in the Age of Dinosaurs

“Powszechnym zarzutem wobec kreatywnych lub bojowych działań jest to, że nie będą one dobrze wypadać w mediach, że odciągną uwagę od naszego przesłania lub że być może zrażą do nas tę czy inną grupę wyborców.”
― Curious George Brigade, Anarchy in the Age of Dinosaurs

“Pragnienie masowości i jednorodności (które idą ze sobą w parze) ograniczają nonkonformistyczne i radykalne inicjatywy tych, którzy chcą spróbować czegoś innego.”
― Curious George Brigade, Anarchy in the Age of Dinosaurs

“If the American culture of movies, shopping males, and soft drinks cannot inspire us, there are other Americas that can: Americas of renegades and prisoners, of dreamers and outsiders. Something can be salvaged from the twisted wreck of the “democratic sprit” celebrated by Walt Whitman, something subverted from the sense that each person has worth and dignity: a spirit that can be sustained on self-reliance and initiative. These Americas are America of the alienated and marginalized: indigenous warriors, the freedom fighters of civil rights, the miners’ rebelling in the Appalachian Mountains. America’s past is full of revolutionary hybrids; our lists could stretch infinitely onwards towards undiscovered past or future. The monolith of a rich and plump America must be destroyed to make room for many Americas. A folk anarchist culture rising in the periphery of America, and can grow in the fertile ground that lies beneath the concrete of the great American wasteland. Anyone struggling today – living the hard life and fighting the even harder fight – is a friend even if he or she can never share a single meal with us, or speak our language. The anarchists of America, with our influence as wide as our prairies and dreams that could light those prairies on fire, can make entire meals on discarded food, live in abandoned buildings, and travel on the secret paths of lost highways and railroads, we are immensely privileged.”
― Curious George Brigade, Anarchy in the Age of Dinosaurs