You have an unusual magnetic personality. Don't walk too close to
metal objects which are not fastened down.
The only generals that we should follow are the generals of the little tin soldiers.
-- Georges Brassens
The realization of the usefulness of cooperation, which should have led to the triumph of solidarity in all human relations, instead gave rise to private property and government, that is to the exploitation of the labor of the whole community by a privileged minority.
-- Errico Malatesta
Marxist schools have authors. Just as Marxism sprang from the mind of Marx, so we have Leninists, Maoists, Trotksyites, Gramscians, Althusserians... Now consider the different schools of anarchism. There are Anarcho-Syndicalists, Anarcho-Communists, Insurrectionists, Cooperativists, Individualists, Platformists... None are named after some great thinker; instead, they are invariably named either after some kind of practice, or most often, organizational principle.
-- David Graeber
You can rent this space for only $5 a week.
When the people are being beaten with a stick, they are not much happier if it is called "the People's Stick."
-- Mikhail Bakunin
As long as the working-people fold hands and pray the gods in Washington to give them work, so long they will not get it.
-- Voltairine de Cleyre
Your aim is high and to the right.
Without the rule of one, there would be light, there would be truth, there would be justice. The rule of one is a crime.
-- Louise Michel
In the stairway of life, you'd best take the elevator.
Q: How many WASPs does it take to change a light bulb?
A: One.
Only the shallow know themselves.
-- Oscar Wilde
Troubled day for virgins over 16 who are beautiful and wealthy and live
in eucalyptus trees.
Society, from which we have everything, is a new master, a new spook, a new "supreme being," which "takes us into its service and allegiance!"
-- Max Stirner
You seek to shield those you love and you like the role of the provider.
He that breaks a thing to find out what it is has left the path of wisdom.
-- J.R.R. Tolkien
Q: What do you get when you cross the Godfather with an attorney?
A: An offer you can't understand.
I am absolutely convinced that only a small minority, a very small minority, among men, are seriously reached and profoundly moved by our propaganda of criticism, of doubt, of rebellion, of free investigation, of independent research. On the other hand, it is clear that our first interest lies always in seeking to increase this minority; to keep it, under all circumstances alive, active, refreshed. Our own happiness depends on it.
-- Emile Armand
As a credo, individualist anarchism remained largely a bohemian lifestyle, most conspicuous in its demands for sexual freedom ("free love") and enamored of innovations in art, behavior, and clothing.
-- Murray Bookchin
In our so very civilized society it is necessary for me to live the life of a savage. I must be free, even of governments.
-- Gustave Courbet