I begin with the respect that the anarchy shows towards the rules. Respecter as an intensive of respire means: ‘to look back, to think over, to take into account.’ These are traffic rules. The anarchist resembles a pedestrian who refuses to acknowledge them and is promptly run down. Even a passport check is disastrous for him. ‘I never saw a cheerful end,’ as far back as I can look into history. In contrast, I would assume that men who were blessed with happiness – Sulla, for example – were anarchy in disguise.

— Ernst Jünger

I came to realize that one single human being, comprehended in his depth, who gives generously from the treasures of his heart, bestows on us more riches than Caesar or Alexander could ever conquer. Here is our kingdom, the best of monarchies, the best republic. Here is our garden, our happiness.

— Ernst Jünger

If I love freedom above all else, then any commitment becomes a metaphor, a symbol. This touches on the difference between the forest fleet and the partisan:this distinction is not qualitative but essential in nature. The anarchy is closer to Being. The partisan moves within the social or national party structure, the anarchy is outside of it. Of course, the anarchy cannot elude the party structure, since he lives in society.

— Ernst Jünger

I have nothing to do with the partisans. I wish to defy society not in order to improve it, but to hold it at bay no matter what. Furthermore, I suspend my achievements – but also my demands.

— Ernst Jünger

In a curious failure of comprehension, I looked alertly about me for possible targets for all this artillery fire, not, apparently, realizing that it was actually ourselves that the enemy gunners were trying for all they were worth to hit.

— Ernst Jünger

Incidentally, I notice that our professors, trying to show off to their students, rant and rail against the state and against law and order, while expecting that same state to punctually pay their salaries, pensions, and family allowances, so that they value at least this kind of law and order. Make a fist with the left hand and open the right hand receptively—that is how one gets through life.

— Ernst Jünger

In this place a mind was at work to negate the image of a free and intact man. It intended to rely on man power in the same way that it had relied on horsepower. It wanted units to be equal and divisible, and for that purpose man had to be destroyed as the horse had already been destroyed.

— Ernst Jünger

It is a great privilege to hear from the mouth of an initiate what struggles we are ensnared in and what the meaning is of the sacrifices we are required to make before veiled images. Even if we should hear something evil, it would still be a blessing to see our task as something beyond a senseless cycle of recurrence.

— Ernst Jünger

It is no coincidence that precisely when things started going downhill with the gods, politics gained its bliss-making character. There would be no reason for objecting to this, since the gods, too were not exactly fair. But at least people saw temples instead of termite architecture. Bliss is drawing closer; it is no longer in the afterlife, it will come, though not momentarily, sooner or later in the here and now - in time. The anarchy thinks more primitively; he refuses to give up any of his happiness. "Make thyself happy" is his basic law. It is response to the "Know thyself" at the temple of Apollo in Delphi. These two maxims complement each other; we must know our happiness and our measure.

— Ernst Jünger

I would like to repeat that I do not fancy myself as anything special for being an anarchy. My emotions are no different from those of the average man. Perhaps I have pondered this relationship a bit more carefully and am conscious of freedom to which “basically” everybody is entitled – freedom that more or less dictates his actions.

— Ernst Jünger