Ammon Hennacy: Goodness

Ammon Hennacy was American Christian radical. Explore interesting quotes on goodness.
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“The dictionary definition of a Christian is one who follows Christ; kind, kindly, Christ-like. Anarchism is voluntary cooperation for good, with the right of secession. A Christian anarchist is therefore one who turns the other cheek, overturns the tables of the moneychangers, and does not need a cop to tell him how to behave. A Christian anarchist does not depend upon bullets or ballots to achieve his ideal; he achieves that ideal daily by the One-Man Revolution with which he faces a decadent, confused, and dying world.”

Ammon Hennacy

"Christian Anarchism, a Definition"

World , Christ , Dependency

“Oh judge! Your damn laws! The good people don't need them, and the bad people don't obey them.”

Ammon Hennacy

[Voices from the Catholic Worker, Troester, Rosalie Riegle, 1993, Temple University Press, 114]

People , Law

“When I was working a man asked me "Why does a fellow like you, with an education, and who has been all over the country, end up in this out-of-the-way place working for very little on a farm?" I explained that all people who had good jobs in factories, etc. had a withholding tax for war taken from their pay, and that people who worked on farms had no tax taken from their pay. I told him that I refused to pay taxes. He was a returned soldier and said that he did not like war either, but what could a fellow do about it? I replied that we each did what we really wanted to.”

Ammon Hennacy

The Book of Ammon

War , People , Education , Way

“Too many of us dissipate our energy by being "for all good causes," attending meetings and passing resolutions, organizing and presenting petitions — all this effort to change others, when if we really got down to it we could use this energy to change ourselves… We become tired radicals because we use our weakest weapon: the ballot box, where we are always outnumbered, and refuse to use our strongest weapon: spiritual power.”

Ammon Hennacy

The Book of Ammon

Effort , Change , Box