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“The urge to save humanity is almost always only a false-face for the urge to rule it. Power is what all messiahs really seek: not the chance to serve. This is true even of the pious brethren who carry the gospel to foreign parts.” ― H. L. Mencken
Quote fact-checker agrees with attribution:
Establish the self; abolish the state:
https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/tag/self-directed
If we do not establish inner authority, we will continue to manifest external authority.
“An enlightened man had but one duty – to seek the way to himself, to reach inner certainty, to grope his way forward, no matter where it led.”
― Hermann Hesse, Demian
“I realize today that nothing in the world is more distasteful to a man than to take the path that leads to himself.” ― Hermann Hesse, Demian
“Each man had only one genuine vocation – to find the way to himself….His task was to discover his own destiny – not an arbitrary one – and to live it out wholly and resolutely within himself. Everything else was only a would-be existence, an attempt at evasion, a flight back to the ideals of the masses, conformity and fear of one’s own inwardness.”
― Herman Hesse, Demian
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“Whoso would be a man must be a nonconformist.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson, Self-Reliance and Other Essays
https://www.goodreads.com/work/quotes/1472936-self-reliance-and-other-essays
Two thots…
Freedom is a fight, not a right.
Hostage takers and unions make demands.
Free individuals make declarations.
Freedom’s just another word for nothin’ left to lose
Nothin’ ain’t worth nothin’ but it’s free
-Kris Kristofferson