“No man is born unto himself alone;
Who lives unto himself, he lives to none.”
Francis Quarles (1592–1644) English poet
Esther (1621), Sec. 1, Meditation 1.
“If a man is to be a man, a free spirit unto himself, he must arm himself not only with weapons but with ideals and concepts he is willing to die for.”
Source: The Anarchist Cookbook (1971), Chapter Three: "Natural, Nonlethal, and Lethal Weapons", p. 93.
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