No one should ever work... In order to stop suffering, we have to stop working.
-- Bob Black
Whenever you find that you are on the side of the majority, it is time
to reform.
-- Mark Twain
The only generals that we should follow are the generals of the little tin soldiers.
-- Georges Brassens
First, then, God, being all-just, wishes to do justice; being all-wise, knows what justice is; being all-powerful, can do justice. Why then injustice?
-- Voltairine de Cleyre
The mind is its own place, and in itself
Can make a Heav'n of Hell, a Hell of Heav'n.
-- John Milton
Most anarchists are, frankly, incapable of living in an autonomous cooperative manner. A lot of them aren't very bright. They tend to peruse their own classics and insider literature to the exclusion of broader knowledge of the world we live in.
-- Bob Black
The law has no claim to human respect. It has no civilizing mission; its only purpose is to protect exploitation.
-- Peter Kropotkin
Don't read any sky-writing for the next two weeks.
He who attempts to control another is a governor, an aggressor, an invader; and the nature of such invasion is not changed, whether it is made by one man upon another man, after the manner of the ordinary criminal, or by one man upon all other men, after the manner of an absolute monarch, or by all other men upon one man, after the manner of a modern democracy.
-- Benjamin Tucker
Go to a movie tonight. Darkness becomes you.
It is a wise father that knows his own child.
-- William Shakespeare, "The Merchant of Venice"
Today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday.
Do not preach the straight and narrow way while going joyously upon the wide one. Preach the wide one, or do not preach at all; but do not fool yourself by saying you would like to help usher in a free society, but you cannot sacrifice an armchair for it.
-- Voltairine de Cleyre
The fight against the destruction of surplus product and against hoarding in Brazil cannot be carried out through the state, but through consumer cooperatives, which affiliated with powerful federations, will be able to deliver to the market and finance production and regulate prices on a fair basis.
-- Mario Ferreira dos Santos
You may be wondering if I'm joking or serious. I'm joking and serious.
-- Bob Black
You've been leading a dog's life. Stay off the furniture.
The republic is nothing whatever but absolute monarchy; for it makes no difference whether the monarch is called prince or people, both being a "majesty."
-- Max Stirner
You can't separate peace from freedom, because no one can be at peace unless he has his freedom.
-- Malcolm X
Every person who ever thought he had a right to assert, and went boldly and asserted it, himself, or jointly with others that shared his convictions, was a direct actionist.
-- Voltairine de Cleyre
"Class", "power", "state", are three inseparable terms, one of which presupposes the other two.
-- Mikhail Bakunin