You will receive a legacy which will place you above want.

The things people say of a man do not alter a man. He is what he is. Public opinion is of no value whatsoever.

-- Oscar Wilde

He that is giddy thinks the world turns round.

-- William Shakespeare, "The Taming of the Shrew"

Education is an admirable thing. But it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.

-- Oscar Wilde

Must I hold a candle to my shames?

-- William Shakespeare, "The Merchant of Venice"

Day of inquiry. You will be subpoenaed.

Anarchists emphatically reject a morality which denies the original concepts of right and wrong.

-- Erich Muhsam

Kindness is a language which the deaf can hear and the blind can read.

-- Mark Twain

You love your home and want it to be beautiful.

It may or may not be worthwhile, but it still has to be done.

The real sense of gradualism remains the same: everything in nature and in life changes by degrees, and this is no less true of anarchy. It can only come about little by little.

-- Errico Malatesta

A long-forgotten loved one will appear soon.

Buy the negatives at any price.

Anarchism is the great liberator of man from the phantoms that have held him captive; it is the arbiter and pacifier of the two forces for individual and social harmony.

-- Emma Goldman

Only the shallow know themselves.

-- Oscar Wilde

Libertarian socialism is properly to be regarded as the inheritor of the liberal ideals of the Enlightenment.

-- Noam Chomsky

I passionately love humanity, and have dedicated my best efforts to the fight for the oppressed. All tyrants disgust me -- and all those who put up with them, adulate them, support them. After having brought them down will I make myself a tyrant in their place? I would be disgusted with myself.

-- Andre Lorulot

The lovely woman-child Kaa was mercilessly chained to the cruel post of

the warrior-chief Beast, with his barbarian tribe now stacking wood at

her nubile feet, when the strong clear voice of the poetic and heroic

Handsomas roared, 'Flick your Bic, crisp that chick, and you'll feel my

steel through your last meal!'

-- Winning sentence, 1984 Bulwer-Lytton bad fiction contest.

There are three infallible ways of pleasing an author, and the three form a

rising scale of compliment: 1, to tell him you have read one of his books; 2,

to tell him you have read all of his books; 3, to ask him to let you read the

manuscript of his forthcoming book. No. 1 admits you to his respect; No. 2

admits you to his admiration; No. 3 carries you clear into his heart.

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

The only people for me are the mad ones -- the ones who are mad to live,

mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time,

the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn

like fabulous yellow Roman candles.

-- Jack Kerouac, "On the Road"

The conditions of contemporary life encircle the workers on all sides, surround them, like water surrounds fish in the sea. The workers are not able to escape from these conditions.

-- Peter Arshinov