Disobedience, in the eyes of any one who has read history, is man's original virtue. It is through disobedience that progress has been made, through disobedience and through rebellion.
-- Oscar Wilde
Without ecology, society cannot exist, and without humanity and nature, ecology cannot exist.
-- Janet Biehl
In a society where waste and planned obsolescence were no longer subsidized, and there were no barriers to competition socializing the full benefits of technological progress, we could probably enjoy our present quality of life with a fifteen-hour work week.
-- Kevin Carson
Q: What do you get when you cross the Godfather with an attorney?
A: An offer you can't understand.
For there are moments when one can neither think nor feel. And if one can
neither think nor feel, she thought, where is one?
-- Virginia Woolf, "To the Lighthouse"
[Quoted in "VMS Internals and Data Structures", V4.4, when
referring to powerfail recovery.]
Don't feed the bats tonight.
The Roman Empire was a state in the real sense of the word. To this day it remains the legist's ideal.
-- Peter Kropotkin
The "government of all the people", if we have to have government, can at best be only the government of the majority.
-- Errico Malatesta
Writing is easy; all you do is sit staring at the blank sheet of paper until
drops of blood form on your forehead.
-- Gene Fowler
There is a 20% chance of tomorrow.
Anarchists are socialists because they want the improvement of society, and they are communists because they are convinced that such a transformation of society can only result from the establishment of a commonwealth of property.
-- Johann Most
[President of the court]: This hand that we today see covered in blood. [Emile]: My hands are covered in blood, like your red robe is!
-- Emile Henry
Communicate! It can't make things any worse.
Whoever says "proletarian State" says "State Capitalism" whoever says "dictatorship of the Proletariat" says "Dictatorship of the Communist Party;" whoever says "strong government" says "Tsarist oligarchy of politicians."
-- Camillo Berneri
A hundred years from now it is very likely that [of Twain's works] "The
Jumping Frog" alone will be remembered.
-- Harry Thurston Peck (Editor of "The Bookman"), January 1901.
I dote on his very absence.
-- William Shakespeare, "The Merchant of Venice"
It is obvious that in calling on anarchists to organise on the basis of a definite program, we are not taking away as such the right of anarchists of other tendencies to organise as they think fit.
-- Peter Arshinov
Are you ever going to do the dishes? Or will you change your major to biology?
Give thought to your reputation. Consider changing name and moving to
a new town.
Time to be aggressive. Go after a tattooed Virgo.