Others invent more or less complicated system of mutuality. But in the long run it is always the searching for a more secure guarantee of freedom which is the common factor among anarchists, and which divides them into different schools.
-- Errico Malatesta
All social arrangements should admit of this freedom of choice of every individual and all subordination should be voluntary.
-- Josiah Warren
What is the most important thing in the world? It is eating. Why do you women suffer mistreatment? It is relying on others in order to eat.
-- He Zhen
Having nothing, nothing can he lose.
-- William Shakespeare, "Henry VI"
The wise man knows that the oppressed who complain aspire to be oppressors. He relieves them according to his means, but he doesn't believe in salvation through common action.
-- Han Ryner
The individual, his freedom and reason, are the products of society, and not vice versa: society is not the product of individuals comprising it; and the higher, the more fully the individual is developed, the greater his freedom.
-- Mikhail Bakunin
The smallest worm will turn being trodden on.
-- William Shakespeare, "Henry VI"
Q: How many Harvard MBA's does it take to screw in a light bulb?
A: Just one. He grasps it firmly and the universe revolves around him.
You have many friends and very few living enemies.
In all history there is no war which was not hatched by the governments, the governments alone, independent of the interests of the people, to whom war is always pernicious even when successful.
-- Leo Tolstoy
Tomorrow, this will be part of the unchangeable past but fortunately,
it can still be changed today.
Bank error in your favor. Collect $200.
The Makhnovist movement was founded on the deep feeling of fraternity which characterizes only the most oppressed. During its entire history it did not for an instant appeal to national sentiments.
-- Peter Arshinov
Tomorrow, this will be part of the unchangeable past but fortunately,
it can still be changed today.
I don't vote, because I firmly believe that if you vote, you have no right to complain.
-- George Carlin
Look afar and see the end from the beginning.
He draweth out the thread of his verbosity finer than the staple of his
argument.
-- William Shakespeare, "Love's Labour's Lost"
Sometimes I wonder if I'm in my right mind. Then it passes off and I'm
as intelligent as ever.
-- Samuel Beckett, "Endgame"
My dear People.
My dear Bagginses and Boffins, and my dear Tooks and Brandybucks,
and Grubbs, and Chubbs, and Burrowses, and Hornblowers, and Bolgers,
Bracegirdles, Goodbodies, Brockhouses and Proudfoots. Also my good
Sackville Bagginses that I welcome back at last to Bag End. Today is my
one hundred and eleventh birthday: I am eleventy-one today!"
-- J. R. R. Tolkien
Anarchism was born in a moral revolt against social injustice.
-- Errico Malatesta