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An avocado-tone refrigerator would look good on your resume.

You're almost as happy as you think you are.

It is economic slavery, the savage struggle for a crumb, that has converted mankind into wolves and sheep.

-- Alexander Berkman

October 12, the Discovery.

It was wonderful to find America, but it would have been more wonderful to miss

it.

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

Whenever you find that you are on the side of the majority, it is time

to reform.

-- Mark Twain

It is only fair to state, with regard to modern journalists, that they always apologize to one in private for what they have written against one in public.

-- Oscar Wilde

So that is why anarchists keep coming back to the question of what anarchism is. Because anarchism is not a political movement. Or rather it is, but only in a minor aspect.

-- Alfredo Bonanno

Catholics and other Christians are against abortions and they're against homosexuals. Well who has less abortions than homosexuals?

-- George Carlin

First, then, God, being all-just, wishes to do justice; being all-wise, knows what justice is; being all-powerful, can do justice. Why then injustice?

-- Voltairine de Cleyre

Where the state lacks means of coercion, it is important to control what people think.

-- Noam Chomsky

By striving to do the impossible, man has always achieved what is possible.

-- Mikhail Bakunin

Anarchy -- the sovereignty of the individual over his own actions -- is the goal for which we strive. Communism is one of those incidents that come afterwards.

-- Joseph Labadie

Only the man who has successfully rid himself of the chains of oppression and seen all the horrors being perpetrated against the human race can be persuaded that his freedom and that of his neighbor are inviolable, as are their lives, and that his neighbor is his brother.

-- Nestor Makhno

In Marseilles they make half the toilet soap we consume in America, but

the Marseillaise only have a vague theoretical idea of its use, which they

have obtained from books of travel.

-- Mark Twain

Today is National Existential Ennui Awareness Day.

Habit is habit, and not to be flung out of the window by any man, but coaxed

down-stairs a step at a time.

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

Remark of Dr. Baldwin's concerning upstarts: We don't care to eat toadstools

that think they are truffles.

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

Q: What looks like a cat, flies like a bat, brays like a donkey, and

plays like a monkey?

A: Nothing.

Religions die when they are proved to be true. Science is the record of dead religions.

-- Oscar Wilde

The two principles referred to are authority and liberty, and the names of the two schools of socialistic thought which fully and unreservedly represent one or the other of them are, respectively, state socialism and anarchism.

-- Benjamin Tucker