Your business will assume vast proportions.
Given a choice between anarchism and anarchy, most anarchists would go for the anarchism ideology and subculture rather than take a dangerous leap into the unknown, into a world of stateless liberty.
-- Bob Black
When I reflect upon the number of disagreeable people who I know who have gone
to a better world, I am moved to lead a different life.
-- Mark Twain, "Pudd'nhead Wilson's Calendar"
The naked truth of it is, I have no shirt.
-- William Shakespeare, "Love's Labour's Lost"
They spell it "da Vinci" and pronounce it "da Vinchy". Foreigners
always spell better than they pronounce.
-- Mark Twain
The only people for me are the mad ones -- the ones who are mad to live,
mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time,
the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn
like fabulous yellow Roman candles.
-- Jack Kerouac, "On the Road"
Now for the remedy. It is in one word, the only word that ever brought equity anywhere -- LIBERTY!
-- Voltairine de Cleyre
ROMEO: Courage, man; the hurt cannot be much.
MERCUTIO: No, 'tis not so deep as a well, nor so wide
as a church-door; but 'tis enough, 'twill serve.
Drawn at first to socialism, I was not slow in separating myself from that party. I have too much love of freedom, too much respect for individual initiative, too much repugnance for military organization, to assume a number in the ordered army of the fourth estate.
-- Emile Henry
One who pays some attention to history will not be surprised if those who cry most loudly that we must smash and destroy are later found among the administrators of some new system of repression.
-- Noam Chomsky
Your step will soil many countries.
Don't hate yourself in the morning -- sleep till noon.
English literature's performing flea.
-- Sean O'Casey on P. G. Wodehouse
I am not a political man and I have no political convictions. I am an individual and a believer in liberty. That is all the politics I have.
-- Charlie Chaplin
Q: Why do firemen wear red suspenders?
A: To conform with departmental regulations concerning uniform dress.
We're all undesirable elements from somebody's point of view.
-- Edward Abbey
There's small choice in rotten apples.
-- William Shakespeare, "The Taming of the Shrew"
You'll never be the man your mother was!
In existing states a fresh law is looked upon as a remedy for evil.
-- Peter Kropotkin
The main difference between the anarchists and the socialists, including the Marxists, lies in the fact that while the socialists maintain that the state must be taken over as the first step toward its dissolution, the anarchists argue that, since power corrupts, any seizure of the existing structure of authority can only lead to its perpetuation.
-- George Woodcock