Quote of the day
But man is a Noble Animal, splendid in ashes, and pompous in the grave, solemnizing Nativities and Deaths with equal lustre, nor omitting Ceremonies of Bravery, in the infamy of his nature. Life is a pure flame, and we live by an invisible Sun within us.
Murray Bookchin
Born: January 14, 1921
Died: July 30, 2006 (aged 85)
Bio: Murray Bookchin was an American anarchist and libertarian socialist author, orator, historian, and political theoretician.
Known for:
- The Ecology of Freedom (1982)
- Post-Scarcity Anarchism (1971)
- The Spanish Anarchists (1977)
- Social Anarchism or Lifestyle Anarchism (1995)
- The Murray Bookchin reader (1997)