Every why hath a wherefore.

-- William Shakespeare, "A Comedy of Errors"

You can rent this space for only $5 a week.

Rebellion lay in his way, and he found it.

-- William Shakespeare, "Henry IV"

From the outset of the industrial revolution, what is nostalgically called "laissez-faire" was in fact a system of continuing state intervention to subsidize accumulation, guarantee privilege, and maintain work discipline.

-- Kevin Carson

Basically, revolutionaries never go far enough, and if they're not going to go far enough, they should stop upsetting people. Or killing them, for that matter.

-- Bob Black

He draweth out the thread of his verbosity finer than the staple of his

argument.

-- William Shakespeare, "Love's Labour's Lost"

What is "being an active agent?" It is women struggling for liberation with their own might. What is "being a passive agent?" It is men's granting liberation to women... what active forces there have been have come from men, and as a result the benefits to women have not equaled those garnered by men.

-- He Zhen

No violence, gentlemen -- no violence, I beg of you! Consider the furniture!

-- Sherlock Holmes

The greatest crimes in the world are not committed by people breaking the rules. It's people who follow orders that drop bombs and massacre villages. As a precaution to ever committing major acts of evil it is our solemn duty never to do what we're told, this is the only way we can be sure.

-- Banksy

The Public is merely a multiplied "me."

-- Mark Twain

There cannot be a history of anarchism in the sense of establishing a permanent state of things called "anarchist." It is always a continual coping with the next situation, and a vigilance to make sure that past freedoms are not lost and do not turn into the opposite.

-- Paul Goodman

The collapse of communist systems nearly two decades ago led to a profound disillusionment in the west, not only with the communist project -- which had been in a state of crisis for some time -- but with radical left-wing politics generally.

-- Saul Newman

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

Q: What do you call a principal female opera singer whose high C

is lower than those of other principal female opera singers?

A: A deep C diva.

Tuesday After Lunch is the cosmic time of the week.

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

Now, in a situation where the working class has practically disintegrated, the possibility of an expropriation of the means of production no longer exists.

-- Alfredo Bonanno

You will be aided greatly by a person whom you thought to be unimportant.

Resignation is death. Revolt is life.

-- Albert Libertad

You are scrupulously honest, frank, and straightforward. Therefore you

have few friends.