Your best consolation is the hope that the things you failed to get weren't

really worth having.

Q: Why did the programmer call his mother long distance?

A: Because that was her name.

In its mad passion for power, the communist state even sought to strengthen and deepen the very ideas and conceptions which the Revolution had come to destroy.

-- Emma Goldman

Do nothing unless you must, and when you must act -- hesitate.

The enemy is very strong because, for centuries past, he has made his living from theft and violence: he has the accumulated experience of that, he has overcome internal crises and now he puts on a new face.

-- Nestor Makhno

Communicate! It can't make things any worse.

Your own qualities will help prevent your advancement in the world.

You will hear good news from one you thought unfriendly to you.

Tell the truth or trump--but get the trick.

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

Q: What do you call 15 blondes in a circle?

A: A dope ring.

Q: Why do blondes put their hair in ponytails?

A: To cover up the valve stem.

The Mexican people hate, by instinct, authority and the bourgeoisie.

-- Ricardo Flores Magon

In the first place, we are unequivocally opposed to the doctrine of total depravity. We hold that men are depraved only in so far as their surroundings make them so, and if those surroundings were removed, their depravity would disappear.

-- Joseph Labadie

There is no principle of anarchy that denies the right of free contract, and have I not a right to contract with others to live with them under the principles of communism?

-- Joseph Labadie

"Communist society"; in the sense of a society organized exclusively on that single principle -- could never exist. But all social systems, even economic systems like capitalism, have always been built on top of a bedrock of actually-existing communism.

-- David Graeber

According to their absurd programs, the statist socialists and communists have decided to "allow" man to emancipate himself socially, without its thereby being feasible for him to manifest that freedom in his social life.

-- Nestor Makhno

You are a fluke of the universe; you have no right to be here.

Everyone complains about politicians. Everyone says they suck. But where do people think these politicians come from? They don't fall out of the sky; they don't pass through a membrane from a separate reality. They come from American homes, American families, American schools, American churches, and American businesses. And they're elected by American voters. This is what our system produces, folks. This is the best we can do.

-- George Carlin

Faith can move mountains but let them happily fall down on the heads of other people.

-- Boris Vian

I do desire we may be better strangers.

-- William Shakespeare, "As You Like It"

Having nothing, nothing can he lose.

-- William Shakespeare, "Henry VI"