Q: What do you call a WASP who doesn't work for his father, isn't a
lawyer, and believes in social causes?
A: A failure.
I offered to stay awake to let the others go to sleep, and everyone laughed, saying that I would not even hear the cannon! But afterwards, one by one, they fell asleep, and I am watchful over all of them, while working for those who are to come.
-- Camillo Berneri
I would have been a coward if I hadn't had the courage to express, in my own way, my rancour and my disgust.
-- Germaine Berton
You will live to see your grandchildren.
All social arrangements should admit of this freedom of choice of every individual and all subordination should be voluntary.
-- Josiah Warren
A dictatorial committee composed of workers is certainly the thing one could find most inflated with self-importance and nullity and, consequently, the most anti-revolutionary.
-- Joseph Dejacque
Avoid reality at all costs.
Your reasoning powers are good, and you are a fairly good planner.
Your goose is cooked.
(Your current chick is burned up too!)
Your supervisor is thinking about you.
So you're back... about time...
The conflict between wage labor and capital, while it has by no means disappeared, nonetheless lacks the all-embracing importance that it possessed in the past.
-- Murray Bookchin
Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you
nothing. It was here first.
-- Mark Twain
That patriotism which tends toward unity without regard to liberty is an evil patriotism.
-- Mikhail Bakunin
We are neither for a majority nor for a minority government; neither for democracy not for dictatorship. We are for the abolition of the gendarme. We are for the freedom of all and for free agreement, which will be there for all when no one has the means to force others, and all are involved in the good running of society. We are for anarchy.
-- Errico Malatesta
The liberty of man consists solely in this: that he obeys natural laws because he has himself recognized them as such, and not because they have been externally imposed upon him by any extrinsic will whatever, divine or human, collective or individual.
-- Mikhail Bakunin
One could wager, considering the number of anarchists when Franco took over, probably a considerable portion of the Spanish population are still anarchists. And if they could get out from under the Franco dictatorship they could attempt to implement anarchism once again.
-- Robert Anton Wilson
To monotonously live the mouldy hours of the ordinary people, the submissive, the accommodated, a life of convenience, is not living, it is only vegetating and carrying around an amorphous mass of flesh and bones. To life one should give the exquisite elevation of the rebellion of the arms and the mind.
-- Severino Di Giovanni
Below a certain size, everything fuses, joins, or accumulates. But beyond a certain size, everything collapses or explodes.
-- Leopold Kohr
Make a wish, it might come true.