The more the panic grows, the more uplifting the image of a man who refuses to bow to the terror. Ernst Junger More Quotes by Ernst Junger More Quotes From Ernst Junger Although I am an anarch, I am not anti-authoritarian. Quite the opposite: I need authority, although I do not believe in it. My critical faculties are sharpened by the absence of the credibility that I ask for. As a historian, I know what can be offered. Ernst Junger oppositesbelieveneeds Liberalism is to freedom as anarchism is to anarchy. Ernst Junger anarchismliberalismanarchy The (capital punishment) controversy passes the anarch by. For him, the linking of death and punishment is absurd. In this respect, he is closer to the wrongdoer than to the judge, for the high-ranking culprit who is condemned to death is not prepared to acknowledge his sentence as atonement; rather, he sees his guilt in his own inadequacy. Thus, he recognizes himself not as a moral but as a tragic person. Ernst Junger punishmentguiltjudging Often I have the impression that I am writing on paper that is already browning in the licks of the flames. Ernst Junger i-amimpressionpaperwriting
