The social order of Spain ought to be overthrown; must be overthrown, will be overthrown; and Ferrer was doing a mighty work in that direction. The men who killed him knew and understood it well.

-- Voltairine de Cleyre

Bigness, or oversize, is really much more than just a social problem. It appears to be the one and only problem permeating all creation.

-- Leopold Kohr

The criminalization of debt was the criminalization of the very basis of human society.

-- David Graeber

Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live.

-- Oscar Wilde

Don't worry. Life's too long.

-- Vincent Sardi, Jr.

Q: Why do mountain climbers rope themselves together?

A: To prevent the sensible ones from going home.

The smallest worm will turn being trodden on.

-- William Shakespeare, "Henry VI"

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

Your temporary financial embarrassment will be relieved in a surprising manner.

You will have long and healthy life.

To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.

-- Oscar Wilde

The State is said by some to be a "necessary evil"; it must be made unnecessary.

-- Benjamin Tucker

There is a conflict between the static and dynamic conceptions of anarchism, between those who want to gregarize and stabilize anarchism and those who want the revolutionary, individualist spirit to remain and simmer permanently within anarchism.

-- Emile Armand

Chess tonight.

"Good afternoon, madam. How may I help you?"

"Good afternoon. I'd like a FrintArms HandCannon, please."

"A--? Oh, now, that's an awfully big gun for such a lovely lady. I

mean, not everybody thinks ladies should carry guns at all, though I

say they have a right to. But I think... I might... Let's have a look

down here. I might have just the thing for you. Yes, here we are!

Look at that, isn't it neat? Now that is a FrintArms product as well,

but it's what's called a laser -- a light-pistol some people call

them. Very small, as you see; fits easily into a pocket or bag; won't

spoil the line of a jacket; and you won't feel you're lugging half a

tonne of iron around with you. We do a range of matching accessories,

including -- if I may say so -- a rather saucy garter holster. Wish I

got to do the fitting for that! Ha -- just my little joke. And

there's *even*... here we are -- this special presentation pack: gun,

charged battery, charging unit, beautiful glider-hide shoulder holster

with adjustable fitting and contrast stitching, and a discount on your

next battery. Full instructions, of course, and a voucher for free

lessons at your local gun club or range. Or there's the *special*

presentation pack; it has all the other one's got but with *two*

charged batteries and a night-sight, too. Here, feel that -- don't

worry, it's a dummy battery -- isn't it neat? Feel how light it is?

Smooth, see? No bits to stick out and catch on your clothes, *and*

beautifully balanced. And of course the beauty of a laser is, there's

no recoil. Because it's shooting light, you see? Beautiful gun,

beautiful gun; my wife has one. Really. That's not a line, she

really has. Now, I can do you that one -- with a battery and a free

charge -- for ninety-five; or the presentation pack on a special

offer for one-nineteen; or this, the special presentation pack, for

one-forty-nine."

"I'll take the special."

"Sound choice, madam, *sound* choice. Now, do--?"

"And a HandCannon, with the eighty-mill silencer, five GP clips, three

six-five AP/wire-fl'echettes clips, two bipropellant HE clips, and a

Special Projectile Pack if you have one -- the one with the embedding

rounds, not the signalers. I assume the night-sight on this toy is

compatible?"

"Aah... yes, And how does madam wish to pay?"

She slapped her credit card on the counter. "Eventually."

-- Iain M. Banks, "Against a Dark Background"

You have a deep interest in all that is artistic.

To consider mankind otherwise than brethren, to think favors are peculiar to one nation and exclude others, plainly supposes a darkness in the understanding.

-- John Woolman

Anarchy is the negation of all authority.

-- Clement Duval

I'll burn my books.

-- Christopher Marlowe

The anarchist ideals are far from being in contradiction, as the "scientific socialists" claim, to the laws of evolution as proved by science; they are a conception which fits these laws perfectly; they are the experimental system brought from the field of research to that of social realization.

-- Errico Malatesta