All say, "How hard it is that we have to die"--a strange complaint to come from

the mouths of people who have had to live.

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

What matters most is that people, all men, lose their sheepish instincts and habits that the millennial slavery inspired them, and they learn to think and act freely.

-- Errico Malatesta

Keep emotionally active. Cater to your favorite neurosis.

Q: What did Tarzan say when he saw the elephants coming over the hill?

A: "The elephants are coming over the hill."

Q: What did he say when saw them coming over the hill wearing

sunglasses?

A: Nothing, for he didn't recognize them.

The lunacy of the Soviet regime must be eliminated and replaced by the vital principles of the exploited workers, on a basis of solidarity, freedom and equal voice for each and every person.

-- Nestor Makhno

Q: What do little WASPs want to be when they grow up?

A: The very best person they can possibly be.

The establishment of a citizens' assembly is not in itself a fulfillment; until its participating citizens develop radical content, it will be only an institutional structure.

-- Janet Biehl

It is right that he too should have his little chronicle, his memories,

his reason, and be able to recognize the good in the bad, the bad in the

worst, and so grow gently old all down the unchanging days and die one

day like any other day, only shorter.

-- Samuel Beckett, "Malone Dies"

I believe in individual freedom; that's my primary and complete commitment -- individual liberty. That's what it's all about. And that's what socialism was supposed to be about, or anarchism was supposed to be about, and tragically has been betrayed.

-- Murray Bookchin

The Bolshevik government revealed itself to be powerless in the face of a bureaucracy which is super-abundant, parasitic, despotic and dishonest.

-- Camillo Berneri

Many claim to speak in liberty's name, but few really understand her.

-- Benjamin Tucker

You will be held hostage by a radical group.

If you sow your wild oats, hope for a crop failure.

Let us light the fuse on the dynamite of vengeance!

-- Severino Di Giovanni

It is the lash of hunger which compels the poor man to submit. In order to live he must sell -- "voluntarily" sell -- himself every day and hour to the "beast of property."

-- Johann Most

Socialism and communism both demand a degree of joint effort and administration which would beget more regulation than is wholly consistent with ideal anarchism.

-- Voltairine de Cleyre

Be peaceful, be courteous, obey the law, respect everyone; but if someone puts his hand on you, send him to the cemetery.

-- Malcolm X

Does it follow that I reject all authority? Far from me such a thought. In the matter of boots, I refer to the authority of the bootmaker; concerning houses, canals, or railroads, I consult that of the architect or engineer.

-- Mikhail Bakunin

Consider well the proportions of things. It is better to be a young June-bug

than an old bird of paradise.

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

You are number 6! Who is number one?