Just as the worst slave-owners were those who were kind to their slaves, and so prevented the horror of the system being realized by those who suffered from it, and understood by those who contemplated it, so, in the present state of things in England, the people who do most harm are the people who try to do most good.

-- Oscar Wilde

Contemporary industrial society is now characterised more than ever by the need for stupefying work where it is no longer a real necessity.

-- Herbert Marcuse

Cleansed of its leftist residues, anarchy -- anarchism minus Marxism -- will be free to get better at being what it is.

-- Bob Black

It's called the American Dream, 'cause you have to be asleep to believe it.

-- George Carlin

As to the Adjective: when in doubt, strike it out.

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

Wars are, probably, the greatest of all destroyers of property, and they originate chiefly in two roots. First, for direct or indirect plunder; secondly, for the privileges of governing.

-- Josiah Warren

That government is best which governs not at all; and when men are prepared for it, that will be the kind of government which they will have.

-- Henry David Thoreau

What did one Frenchman say to the other?

I have no idea, I don’t speak French.

What would have happened if one had really managed to enter the base and destroy it? I don't know. Probably nothing, possibly everything.

-- Alfredo Bonanno

I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.

-- Mark Twain

To weaken authority and criticize its acts is not enough. A negation, in order to be absolute, needs to complete itself with an affirmation. That is why I affirm liberty, why I deduce its consequences.

-- Joseph Dejacque

Instead of inanely repeating the old formula, "Respect the law," we say, "Despise law and all its attributes!"

-- Peter Kropotkin

Give your very best today. Heaven knows it's little enough.

What is a utopia? A dream unrealized, but not unrealizable.

-- Joseph Dejacque

Whoever calls himself revolutionary and speaks of dictatorship is only an imbecile or a traitor.

-- Joseph Dejacque

I stubbornly persist in my opposition to the state. But not because, as anarchists so often thoughtlessly declaim, the state is not "necessary". Ordinary people dismiss this anarchist assertion as ludicrous, and so they should. Obviously, in an industrialized class society like ours, the state is necessary.

-- Bob Black

It is especially in the domain of ethics that the dominating importance of the mutual aid principle appears in full.

-- Peter Kropotkin

Today's weirdness is tomorrow's reason why.

-- Hunter S. Thompson

Fear of the people is the defect of all those who belong to authority. The people, as concerns power, is the enemy.

-- Pierre-Joseph Proudhon

When the people are being beaten with a stick, they are not much happier if it is called "the People's Stick."

-- Mikhail Bakunin