Every why hath a wherefore.

-- William Shakespeare, "A Comedy of Errors"

No live organism can continue for long to exist sanely under conditions of

absolute reality; even larks and katydids are supposed, by some, to dream.

Hill House, not sane, stood by itself against its hills, holding darkness

within; it had stood so for eighty years and might stand for eighty more.

Within, walls continued upright, bricks met neatly, floors were firm, and

doors were sensibly shut; silence lay steadily against the wood and stone

of Hill House, and whatever walked there, walked alone.

-- Shirley Jackson, "The Haunting of Hill House"

The smallest worm will turn being trodden on.

-- William Shakespeare, "Henry VI"

It is society that makes criminals and you, jury members, instead of striking you should use your intelligence and your strength to transform society. In one fell swoop you'll suppress all crime. And your work, in attacking causes, will be greater and more fruitful than your justice, which belittles itself in punishing its effects.

-- Ravachol

To take something from a person and keep it for oneself: that is robbery. To take something from one person and then turn it over to another in exchange for as much money as you can get: that is business.

-- Octave Mirbeau

Don't you feel more like you do now than you did when you came in?

People, beware of demagogues. They are your worst enemies. They caress you only so they can better shear you.

-- Andre Lorulot

Nothing so needs reforming as other people's habits.

-- Mark Twain

You will visit the Dung Pits of Glive soon.

Let us endeavor so to live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be

sorry.

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

Disobedience, in the eyes of any one who has read history, is man's original virtue. It is through disobedience that progress has been made, through disobedience and through rebellion.

-- Oscar Wilde

In the first place, God made idiots; this was for practice; then he made

school boards.

-- Mark Twain

That secret you've been guarding, isn't.

Harp not on that string.

-- William Shakespeare, "Henry VI"

The true and legitimate meaning of the word treason, then, necessarily implies treachery, deceit, breach of faith. Without these, there can be no treason.

-- Lysander Spooner

Blow it out your ear.

If you say that you reject violence when it exceeds the limits imposed by the needs of defense, they accuse you of pacifism, without understanding that violence is the whole essence of authoritarianism, just as the repudiation of violence is the whole essence of anarchism.

-- Errico Malatesta

The proper method for hastening the decay of error is not by brute force, or by regulation which is one of the classes of force, to endeavour to reduce men to intellectual uniformity; but on the contrary by teaching every man to think for himself.

-- William Godwin

Don't look back, the lemmings are gaining on you.

Your step will soil many countries.