Perhaps even more than constituted authority, it is social uniformity and sameness that harass the individual most.
-- Emma Goldman
I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
-- Mark Twain
Your own qualities will help prevent your advancement in the world.
Don't look now, but the man in the moon is laughing at you.
All parties without exception, when they seek for power, are varieties of absolutism.
-- Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
The camel died quite suddenly on the second day, and Selena fretted
sullenly and, buffing her already impeccable nails -- not for the first
time since the journey begain -- pondered snidely if this would dissolve
into a vignette of minor inconveniences like all the other holidays spent
with Basil.
-- Winning sentence, 1983 Bulwer-Lytton bad fiction contest.
Suspicion always haunts the guilty mind.
-- Wm. Shakespeare
Anarchists emphatically reject a morality which denies the original concepts of right and wrong.
-- Erich Muhsam
You will win success in whatever calling you adopt.
Anarchists know that a long period of education must precede any great fundamental change in society, hence they do not believe in vote begging, nor political campaigns, but rather in the development of self-thinking individuals.
-- Lucy Parsons
Collective responsibility in revolutionary action... is a fundamental principle, which guides each one of us in our way of understanding the anarchist idea, in our determination that it should penetrate to the masses, in its spirit of sacrifice.
-- Nestor Makhno
While we have entertained the contention that a deed may make more propaganda than hundreds of speeches, thousands of articles, and tens of thousands of pamphlets, we have held that an arbitrary act of violence will not necessarily have such an effect.
-- Johann Most
You will be audited by the Internal Revenue Service.
The social order of Spain ought to be overthrown; must be overthrown, will be overthrown; and Ferrer was doing a mighty work in that direction. The men who killed him knew and understood it well.
-- Voltairine de Cleyre
Liberalism, socialism and state communism are three branches of the same family, resorting to different approaches in order to exercise their power over man.
-- Nestor Makhno
Liberalism, socialism and state communism are three branches of the same family, resorting to different approaches in order to exercise their power over man.
-- Nestor Makhno
Instead of inanely repeating the old formula, "Respect the law," we say, "Despise law and all its attributes!"
-- Peter Kropotkin
You're at the end of the road again.
Q: What do Winnie the Pooh and John the Baptist have in common?
A: The same middle name.
I'm for truth, no matter who tells it. I'm for justice, no matter who it's for or against. I'm a human being first and foremost, and as such I am for whoever and whatever benefits humanity as a whole.
-- Malcolm X