Where crime exists, force must exist to repress it. Who denies it? Certainly not liberty; certainly not the anarchists.
-- Benjamin Tucker
You're a card which will have to be dealt with.
You will live a long, healthy, happy life and make bags of money.
If the Nuremberg laws were applied, then every post-war American president would have been hanged.
-- Noam Chomsky
It is not the product of their labors to which the workers have a right. It is the satisfaction of their needs, whatever the nature of those needs.
-- Joseph Dejacque
You have a deep interest in all that is artistic.
Your temporary financial embarrassment will be relieved in a surprising manner.
Louis Blanc has gone so far as to reverse the republic motto, as if he wanted to revolutionize the revolution. He no longer says, as everybody else says, and according to tradition, Liberty, Equality, Fraternity; he says Equality, Fraternity, Liberty!
-- Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
You have literary talent that you should take pains to develop.
A tall, dark stranger will have more fun than you.
Q: What's the difference between the 1950's and the 1980's?
A: In the 80's, a man walks into a drugstore and states loudly, "I'd
like some condoms," and then, leaning over the counter, whispers,
"and some cigarettes."
Education is an admirable thing. But it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
-- Oscar Wilde
Never give an inch!
Today is the parent of tomorrow. The present casts its shadow far into the future.
-- Emma Goldman
We must do the impossible -- rid the world of nations, bringing the play of intelligent anarchy into a world environment.
-- John Cage
What good is an obscenity trial except to popularize literature?
-- Nero Wolfe, "The League of Frightened Men"
Is anarchism possible? The failure of attempts to attain freedom does not mean the cause is lost.
-- Johann Most
History is written by the victors.
-- Anonymous
If you say that you reject violence when it exceeds the limits imposed by the needs of defense, they accuse you of pacifism, without understanding that violence is the whole essence of authoritarianism, just as the repudiation of violence is the whole essence of anarchism.
-- Errico Malatesta
I have no mercy or compassion in me for a society that will crush people, and then penalize them for not being able to stand up under the weight.
-- Malcolm X