Q: What do you call a boomerang that doesn't come back?
A: A stick.
Those who suppress freedom always do so in the name of law and order.
-- John Lindsay
Unity is the great goal toward which humanity moves irresistibly.
-- Mikhail Bakunin
The subject is not whether we accomplish anarchism today, tomorrow, or within ten centuries, but that we walk towards anarchism today, tomorrow, and always.
-- Errico Malatesta
You worry too much about your job. Stop it. You are not paid enough to worry.
I would rather, much rather, be illegitimate according to the statutes of men, than illegitimate according to the unchanging law of nature.
-- Voltairine de Cleyre
It's lucky you're going so slowly, because you're going in the wrong direction.
The internationalism of socialists is just an empty phrase.
-- Lev Chernyi
Don't you wish you had more energy... or less ambition?
You will be run over by a beer truck.
It is the duty of us poor people to work and struggle to break the chains that make us slaves.
-- Ricardo Flores Magon
What I want is the revolution, which will cause poverty to disappear. I hail the revolution, which is inevitable, and I hope that it will come soon to bring liberty and equality to the suffering.
-- Louise Michel
If our fathers, in 1776, had acknowledged the principle that a majority had the right to rule the minority, we should never have become a nation; for they were in a small minority, as compared with those who claimed the right to rule over them.
-- Lysander Spooner
If today we fall without compromising, we can be sure of victory tomorrow.
-- Errico Malatesta
You have a deep appreciation of the arts and music.
Monopoly and privilege must be destroyed, opportunity afforded, and competition encouraged. This is liberty's work, and "Down with Authority" her war-cry.
-- Benjamin Tucker
To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.
-- Oscar Wilde
Your depth of comprehension may tend to make you lax in worldly ways.
Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you
nothing. It was here first.
-- Mark Twain
Hanged in Chicago, beheaded in Germany, garroted in Jerez, shot in Barcelona, guillotined in Montbrison and in Paris, our dead are many; but you have not been able to destroy anarchy.
-- Emile Henry