Infinite diversity instead of unity is inevitable, especially in the progressive or transitionary stage.
-- Josiah Warren
Consider well the proportions of things. It is better to be a young June-bug
than an old bird of paradise.
-- Mark Twain, "Pudd'nhead Wilson's Calendar"
You will be awarded a medal for disregarding safety in saving someone.
Below a certain size, everything fuses, joins, or accumulates. But beyond a certain size, everything collapses or explodes.
-- Leopold Kohr
If you stand on your head, you will get footprints in your hair.
Troubled day for virgins over 16 who are beautiful and wealthy and live
in eucalyptus trees.
Cheer Up! Things are getting worse at a slower rate.
You're being followed. Cut out the hanky-panky for a few days.
We love to have agents provocateurs in the party, because they always propose the most revolutionary motions.
-- Louise Michel
A vivid and creative mind characterizes you.
In the United States, the New Left has agreed to regard itself as Marxist and speaks of seizing power and building socialism, although it is strongly opposed to centralized power and it has no economic theory whatever for a society and technology like ours.
-- Paul Goodman
Q: How many IBM types does it take to change a light bulb?
A: Fifteen. One to do it, and fourteen to write document number
GC7500439-0001, Multitasking Incandescent Source System Facility,
of which 10% of the pages state only "This page intentionally
left blank", and 20% of the definitions are of the form "A:.....
consists of sequences of non-blank characters separated by blanks".
Only the man who has successfully rid himself of the chains of oppression and seen all the horrors being perpetrated against the human race can be persuaded that his freedom and that of his neighbor are inviolable, as are their lives, and that his neighbor is his brother.
-- Nestor Makhno
The anarchist ideal is large and rich in its diversity. Nevertheless, the role of anarchists in the social struggle of the masses is extremely modest. Their task is to help the masses take the right road in the struggle and in the construction of the new society.
-- Peter Arshinov
Rights have never been granted by authority. They have always been asserted against authority, and won from it.
-- Kevin Carson
I have certain rules I live by. My first rule: I don't believe anything the government tells me.
-- George Carlin
A person is strong only when he stands upon his own truth, when he speaks and acts from his deepest convictions.
-- Mikhail Bakunin
Q: Why do WASPs play golf ?
A: So they can dress like pimps.
Whereas we anarchists desire the extinction of the state through the social revolution and the constitution of an autonomist federal order, the Leninists desire the destruction of the bourgeois state and moreover the conquest of the state by the "proletariat."
-- Camillo Berneri
It is the duty of us poor people to work and struggle to break the chains that make us slaves.
-- Ricardo Flores Magon