It is right that he too should have his little chronicle, his memories,

his reason, and be able to recognize the good in the bad, the bad in the

worst, and so grow gently old all down the unchanging days and die one

day like any other day, only shorter.

-- Samuel Beckett, "Malone Dies"

This night methinks is but the daylight sick.

-- William Shakespeare, "The Merchant of Venice"

Generosity and perfection are your everlasting goals.

No future and no humanity, no communism and no anarchy is worthy of the sacrifice of my life.

-- Renzo Novatore

Private capitalism, condemned by history, only survives today thanks to the arms race on the one hand, and the comparative failure of state communism on the other.

-- Daniel Guerin

One thing only is needful: the knowledge of the simple and clear truth which finds place in every soul that is not stupefied by religious and scientific superstitions -- the truth that for our life one law is valid -- the law of love, which brings the highest happiness to every individual as well as to all mankind.

-- Leo Tolstoy

If today we fall without compromising, we can be sure of victory tomorrow.

-- Errico Malatesta

Generosity and perfection are your everlasting goals.

They will die of hunger at the proprietor's door, on the edge of that property which was their birthright; and the proprietor, watching them die, will exclaim, "So perish idlers and vagrants!"

-- Pierre-Joseph Proudhon

May the enemies of the people be terrified at the unexpected awakening.

-- Alexander Berkman

You may be gone tomorrow, but that doesn't mean that you weren't here today.

You will be run over by a bus.

You are dishonest, but never to the point of hurting a friend.

We must not only act politically, but in our politics act religiously, religiously in the sense of freedom, of which the one true expression is justice and love.

-- Mikhail Bakunin

Writing is easy; all you do is sit staring at the blank sheet of paper until

drops of blood form on your forehead.

-- Gene Fowler

The authoritarian principle has been proven bankrupt by the experience of the Russian Revolution.

-- Emma Goldman

The United States was born in a revolution, and some of its most revered Founding Fathers extolled the right to make one.

-- Janet Biehl

[President of the court]: This hand that we today see covered in blood. [Emile]: My hands are covered in blood, like your red robe is!

-- Emile Henry

A worker is a part-time slave.

-- Bob Black

Break into jail and claim police brutality.