Do not quarrel or deal in personalities. Listen to opposing arguments after you have presented your own. Learn how to remain silent and reflect. Do not try to get the better in an argument at the expense of your own sincerity.

-- Elisee Reclus

Talkers are no good doers.

-- William Shakespeare, "Henry VI"

The human race is a race of cowards; and I am not only marching in that

procession but carrying a banner.

-- Mark Twain

The fact is that the government, like a highwayman, says to a man: Your money, or your life. And many, if not most, taxes are paid under the compulsion of that threat.

-- Lysander Spooner

Your aim is high and to the right.

Suspicion always haunts the guilty mind.

-- Wm. Shakespeare

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

In the face of dogmas, of despots, of the sentimental, of charlatans and regimenters, humanity's future belongs to reason.

-- Andre Lorulot

It is immoral to use private property in order to alleviate the horrible evils that result from the institution of private property.

-- Oscar Wilde

All I know is what the words know, and dead things, and that

makes a handsome little sum, with a beginning and a middle and

an end, as in the well-built phrase and the long sonata of the dead.

-- Samuel Beckett

What is a utopia? A dream unrealized, but not unrealizable.

-- Joseph Dejacque

What underpins every social conflict in the United States today is the demand for the realization of all human potentialities in a fully rounded, balanced, totalistic way of life.

-- Murray Bookchin

Your ignorance cramps my conversation.

Q: What's tan and black and looks great on a lawyer?

A: A doberman.

As you have undertaken to destroy these races, not inferior, but merely latecomer, you tend in like manner to destroy the working class, which you also qualify as inferior.

-- Jean Grave

It is not a crumb of bread, but the harvest of the entire world that the human race needs, without exploiters and without exploited.

-- Louise Michel

The individualist anarchist critiques to free themselves and others.

-- Emile Armand

Where the state lacks means of coercion, it is important to control what people think.

-- Noam Chomsky

Q: How many lawyers does it take to change a light bulb?

A: You won't find a lawyer who can change a light bulb. Now, if

you're looking for a lawyer to screw a light bulb...

There is only one class in the community that thinks more about money than the rich, and that is the poor.

-- Oscar Wilde