It is highly advantageous for the business world to foster hatred for pointy-headed government bureaucrats and to drive out of people's minds the subversive idea that the government might become an instrument of popular will, a government of, by and for the people.

-- Noam Chomsky

People seem good while they are oppressed, but they only wish to become oppressors in their turn: life is nothing but a competition to be the criminal rather than the victim.

-- Bertrand Russell

I have as much authority as the Pope, I just don't have as many people who believe it.

-- George Carlin

No, Henry VIII could never have obtained an air conditioner or computer. But Henry VIII didn't spend half his month's income on rent, or live a single paycheck away from eviction.

-- Kevin Carson

Rest in peace, poor Mata! Someone who never knew you has sworn to avenge you. And the memory of your blood-drenched eyes will drive his dagger; the vision of your mutilated body will render his bomb more effective.

-- Bruno Filippi

We know all about the habits of the ant, we know all about the habits of the

bee, but we know nothing at all about the habits of the oyster. It seems

almost certain that we have been choosing the wrong time for studying the

oyster.

-- Mark Twain, "Pudd'nhead Wilson's Calendar"

Well, anyway, I was reading this James Bond book, and right away I realized

that like most books, it had too many words. The plot was the same one that

all James Bond books have: An evil person tries to blow up the world, but

James Bond kills him and his henchmen and makes love to several attractive

women. There, that's it: 24 words. But the guy who wrote the book took

*thousands* of words to say it.

Or consider "The Brothers Karamazov", by the famous Russian alcoholic

Fyodor Dostoyevsky. It's about these two brothers who kill their father.

Or maybe only one of them kills the father. It's impossible to tell because

what they mostly do is talk for nearly a thousand pages. If all Russians talk

as much as the Karamazovs did, I don't see how they found time to become a

major world power.

I'm told that Dostoyevsky wrote "The Brothers Karamazov" to raise

the question of whether there is a God. So why didn't he just come right

out and say: "Is there a God? It sure beats the heck out of me."

Other famous works could easily have been summarized in a few words:

* "Moby Dick" -- Don't mess around with large whales because they symbolize

nature and will kill you.

* "A Tale of Two Cities" -- French people are crazy.

-- Dave Barry

Since it seems that every heart that beats for freedom has no right to anything but a little slug of lead, I demand my share. If you let me live, I shall never cease to cry for vengeance.

-- Louise Michel

In a world that is buckling under the weight of profit making, that is overrun by the destructive sirens of Techno-science and the power hunger of globalization -- that new brand of slavery -- beyond all that, friendship exists, love exists.

-- Henri Cartier-Bresson

All things that are, are with more spirit chased than enjoyed.

-- Shakespeare, "Merchant of Venice"

Revolution that divests itself of ethical values thereby lays the foundation of injustice, deceit, and oppression for the future society.

-- Emma Goldman

So you're back... about time...

All authority is quite degrading. It degrades those who exercize it, and degrades those over whom it is exercized.

-- Oscar Wilde

Anarchy, today, is attack; it is war against every authority, every power, every state. In the future society, anarchy will be defence, the prevention of the re-establishment of any authority, any power, any state.

-- Carlo Cafiero

Courage is your greatest present need.

Anarchists know that a long period of education must precede any great fundamental change in society, hence they do not believe in vote begging, nor political campaigns, but rather in the development of self-thinking individuals.

-- Lucy Parsons

Nor can the nation-state and the capitalist system survive indefinitely. Not only is this system widening the divisions between rich and poor around the world into a yawning chasm, but it is also on a collision course with the biosphere.

-- Janet Biehl

Anarchism was born in a moral revolt against social injustice.

-- Errico Malatesta

You will experience a strong urge to do good; but it will pass.

It cannot be sufficiently emphasized that revolution is in vain unless inspired by its ultimate ideal.

-- Emma Goldman