The great majority of people have to work in order to earn a livelihood, and a sizable proportion of them are productive workers. A huge number of workers are unproductive as well. They operate entirely with the circumstances and framework created by the capitalist system, such as shuffling invoices, contracts, credit slips, insurance policies, and so forth. Probably nine out of ten "workers" wouldn't have any work to do in a rational society -- one that would not require insurance or any other commercial transactions.

-- Murray Bookchin

Knock, knock!

Who's there?

Sam and Janet.

Sam and Janet who?

Sam and Janet Evening...

Try to have as good a life as you can under the circumstances.

By providing the illusion of participation for everyone, democracy allows majorities to justify their actions, no matter how oppressive.

-- Moxie Marlinspike

Consumer debt is the lifeblood of our economy. All modern nation states are built on deficit spending. Debt has come to be the central issue of international politics. But nobody seems to know exactly what it is, or how to think about it.

-- David Graeber

Everybody who has ever worked for a corporation knows that corporations conspire all the time. Politicians conspire all the time, pot-dealers conspire not to get caught by the narcs, the world is full of conspiracies. Conspiracy is natural primate behavior.

-- Robert Anton Wilson

If you laid all of our laws end to end, there would be no end.

-- Mark Twain

There are even moments when the authority of the socialists and communists is worse than the bourgeois, for they tear down their own ideas and trample on them.

-- Nestor Makhno

Writing is easy; all you do is sit staring at the blank sheet of paper until

drops of blood form on your forehead.

-- Gene Fowler

A fist full of might goes farther than a bag full of rights.

-- Max Stirner

I do not want to unite with the multitude of those who flatter the proletariat, excusing them, praising them, adorning them with wreathes.

-- Bruno Filippi

If the existence of bullshit jobs seems to defy the logic of capitalism, one possible reason for their proliferation might be that the existing system isn't capitalism.

-- David Graeber

God and mankind have concerned themselves for nothing, for nothing but themselves. Let me then likewise concern myself for myself, who am equally with God the nothing of all others, who am my all, who am the only one.

-- Max Stirner

You will overcome the attacks of jealous associates.

Anarchy, today, is attack; it is war against every authority, every power, every state. In the future society, anarchy will be defence, the prevention of the re-establishment of any authority, any power, any state.

-- Carlo Cafiero

Network executives, talk show hosts, and newspaper publishers and editors travel in the same social circle as the powerful state and corporate figures whom they're theoretically supposed to serve as watchdogs over.

-- Kevin Carson

Q: What's the difference between a dead dog in the road and a dead

lawyer in the road?

A: There are skid marks in front of the dog.

Caution: breathing may be hazardous to your health.

Authority is something from which we are constantly subtracting, of which there remains always a residue, and which we attempt to make smaller and smaller.

-- Frederica Montseny

I repeat that I am a political prisoner. The prosecution, whatever the attorney general may say, is political and nothing else.

-- Louise Michel