The Mexican people hate, by instinct, authority and the bourgeoisie.
-- Ricardo Flores Magon
From each according to his ability, to each according to his need.
-- Louis Blanc
Q: How many lawyers does it take to change a light bulb?
A: One. Only it's his light bulb when he's done.
"Elves and Dragons!" I says to him. "Cabbages and potatoes are better
for you and me."
-- J. R. R. Tolkien
The greatest danger of bombs is in the explosion of stupidity that they provoke.
-- Octave Mirbeau
If you consider these worthy electors as unable to look after their own interests themselves, how is it that they know how to choose for themselves the shepherds who must guide them? And how will they be able to solve this problem of social alchemy, of producing the election of a genius from the votes of a mass of fools?
-- Errico Malatesta
You feel a whole lot more like you do now than you did when you used to.
We should be careful to get out of an experience only the wisdom that is
in it - and stay there, lest we be like the cat that sits down on a hot
stove-lid. She will never sit down on a hot stove-lid again - and that
is well; but also she will never sit down on a cold one any more.
-- Mark Twain
Many pages make a thick book.
In a republic, all are lords, that is, all despotize one over another.
-- Max Stirner
You should go home.
Rebellion lay in his way, and he found it.
-- William Shakespeare, "Henry IV"
Who cares about the victim if the gesture is beautiful?
-- Laurent Tailhade
History is written by the victors.
-- Anonymous
Wagner's music is better than it sounds.
-- Mark Twain
Those who produce everything have nothing, and those who produce nothing have everything. Such a state of affairs can only produce antagonism between the laboring class and the owning, i.e., do-nothing, class. The fight breaks out and hatred delivers its blows.
-- Marius Jacob
The Bolshevik practice of the last ten years shows clearly the counter-revolutionary role of their dictatorship of the Party.
-- Peter Arshinov
If there is a state, there must be domination of one class by another and, as a result, slavery.
-- Mikhail Bakunin
You will be called upon to help a friend in trouble.
The greatest bulwark of capitalism is militarism.
-- Emma Goldman