What is a debt, anyway? A debt is just the perversion of a promise. It is a promise corrupted by both math and violence.

-- David Graeber

Condense soup, not books!

In the Spring, I have counted 136 different kinds of weather inside of

24 hours.

-- Mark Twain, on New England weather

Government intervention in the market is the main source of large fortunes.

-- Kevin Carson

Human liberation and the protection of nonhuman life are not merely compatible -- both are necessary.

-- Janet Biehl

You are a bundle of energy, always on the go.

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.]

Truth is the most valuable thing we have -- so let us economize it.

-- Mark Twain

I despise humanity because it is not my humanity. I hate tyrants and I detest slaves.

-- Renzo Novatore

You learn to write as if to someone else because NEXT YEAR YOU WILL BE

"SOMEONE ELSE."

It usually takes more than three weeks to prepare a good impromptu speech.

-- Mark Twain

The [specifically anarchist] organization is not a union or contractual understanding between individuals bringing their own artificial ideological convictions. It arises and develops as an organic, natural way because it corresponds to a real need.

-- Georges Fontenis

As far as the problem of the state goes, the lesson of the Russian revolution is written on the wall for all to see.

-- Daniel Guerin

If there be such a thing as truth, it must infallibly be struck out by the collision of mind with mind.

-- William Godwin

I have no mercy or compassion in me for a society that will crush people, and then penalize them for not being able to stand up under the weight.

-- Malcolm X

If on the one side we do not harbor the illusion that the entire proletariat must be enlightened before it can be called into battle, so on the other we do not doubt that as much enlightenment as possible must be produced with oral and printed agitation.

-- Johann Most

Drawn at first to socialism, I was not slow in separating myself from that party. I have too much love of freedom, too much respect for individual initiative, too much repugnance for military organization, to assume a number in the ordered army of the fourth estate.

-- Emile Henry

You seek to shield those you love and you like the role of the provider.

The secret source of humor is not joy but sorrow; there is no humor in Heaven.

-- Mark Twain

We must not only act politically, but in our politics act religiously, religiously in the sense of freedom, of which the one true expression is justice and love.

-- Mikhail Bakunin