Anarchism is just the way people act when they are free to do as they choose, and when they deal with others who are equally free.

-- David Graeber

We must do the impossible -- rid the world of nations, bringing the play of intelligent anarchy into a world environment.

-- John Cage

What one needs to do at every moment of one's life is to put an end to the old world and to begin a new world.

-- Nikolai Berdyaev

Man thought that the important thing was to have, and did not know that the important thing is to be. The true perfection of man lies, not in what man has, but in what man is.

-- Oscar Wilde

You will be run over by a bus.

The second element of freedom is negative. It is the revolt of the individual against all divine, collective, and individual authority.

-- Mikhail Bakunin

To be really medieval one should have no body. To be really modern one should have no soul. To be really Greek one should have no clothes.

-- Oscar Wilde

You will inherit some money or a small piece of land.

And as you are invaded and violated, so you subconsciously revenge yourself by invading and violating others over whom you have authority or can exercise compulsion. physical or moral. In this way all life has become a crazy quilt of authority, of domination and submission, of command and obedience, of coercion and subjection, of rulers and ruled, of violence and force in a thousand and one forms.

-- Alexander Berkman

Another good night not to sleep in a eucalyptus tree.

Beware the one behind you.

Anarchists are socialists because they want the improvement of society, and they are communists because they are convinced that such a transformation of society can only result from the establishment of a commonwealth of property.

-- Johann Most

This flagrant negation of humanity which constitutes the very essence of the state is, from the standpoint of the state, its supreme duty and its greatest virtue.

-- Mikhail Bakunin

The true Southern watermelon is a boon apart, and not to be mentioned with

commoner things. It is chief of the world's luxuries, king by the grace of God

over all the fruits of the earth. When one has tasted it, he knows what the

angels eat. It was not a Southern watermelon that Eve took; we know it because

she repented.

-- Mark Twain, "Pudd'nhead Wilson's Calendar"

If there is a state, there must be domination of one class by another and, as a result, slavery.

-- Mikhail Bakunin

You will pass away very quickly.

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

The lovely woman-child Kaa was mercilessly chained to the cruel post of

the warrior-chief Beast, with his barbarian tribe now stacking wood at

her nubile feet, when the strong clear voice of the poetic and heroic

Handsomas roared, 'Flick your Bic, crisp that chick, and you'll feel my

steel through your last meal!'

-- Winning sentence, 1984 Bulwer-Lytton bad fiction contest.

FORTUNE PROVIDES QUESTIONS FOR THE GREAT ANSWERS: #15

A: The Royal Canadian Mounted Police.

Q: What was the greatest achievement in taxidermy?

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