The Book of Ammon
Contexto: 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. Therefore one with love, courage, and wisdom is one in a million who moves the world, as with Jesus, Buddha, and Gandhi.
Ammon Hennacy: Frases en inglés
The Book of Ammon
Contexto: Despite the popular idea of anarchists as violent men, Anarchism is the one non-violent social philosophy.… The function of the Anarchist is two-fold. By daily courage in non-cooperation with the tyrannical forces of the State and the Church, he helps to tear down present society; the Anarchist by daily cooperation with his fellows in overcoming evil with good-will and solidarity builds toward the anarchistic commonwealth which is formed by voluntary action with the right of secession.
“An anarchist is someone who doesn't need a cop to make him behave.”
[The Book of Ammon, 1965, Hennacy, 31]
"Christian Anarchism, a Definition"
“Oh judge! Your damn laws! The good people don't need them, and the bad people don't obey them.”
[Voices from the Catholic Worker, Troester, Rosalie Riegle, 1993, Temple University Press, 114]
The Book of Ammon
"Tax Statement (1949)"
The Book of Ammon
“A pacifist between wars is like a vegetarian between meals.”
[A Revolution of the heart: essays on the Catholic worker, Coy, Patrick G., 1988, Temple University Press, 153]