Ernst Junger Quotes

I am an anarch – not because I despise authority, but because I need it. Likewise, I am not a nonbeliever, but a man who demands something worth believing in.

Ernst Junger

Quotes to Explore

Let us come to the philosophers, whose authority is of greater weight, and their judgment more to be relied on, because they are believed to have paid attention, not to matters of fiction, but to the investigation of the truth.

Lactantius
Death is the sanction of everything the story-teller can tell. He has borrowed his authority from death.

Walter Benjamin
The navigation of our inland waters has for years been sought in vain by foreign countries, and if we grant the privilege to Russia, other States will be guided in their demands by her example.

Zhang Zhidong
- Example
- Privilege
- Russia
It is hard to imagine an area in which Congress has more express constitutional authority to act than in protecting the right of minorities to vote.

Adam Cohen
- Act
- Authority
- Vote
The authority to declare war rests in Congress, not in an out-of-control president.

Ted Cruz
- War
- Control
- Authority
Of course the UN brings in a lot of moral authority.

Lakhdar Brahimi
- Moral
- Authority
- Lot