Up to now you have believed in the existence of tyrants. Well, you were mistaken. There are only slaves. Where none obeys, none commands.

-- Anselme Bellagarrigue

The Ottoman Empire was an ugly affair, but they had the right idea. The rulers in Turkey were fortunately so corrupt that they left people alone pretty much -- were mostly interested in robbing them -- and they left them alone to run their own affairs, and their own regions and their own communities with a lot of local self determination.

-- Noam Chomsky

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

If the existence of bullshit jobs seems to defy the logic of capitalism, one possible reason for their proliferation might be that the existing system isn't capitalism.

-- David Graeber

You have an unusual magnetic personality. Don't walk too close to

metal objects which are not fastened down.

In the space of one hundred and seventy-six years the Mississippi has

shortened itself two hundred and forty-two miles. Therefore ... in the Old

Silurian Period the Mississippi River was upward of one million three hundred

thousand miles long ... seven hundred and forty-two years from now the

Mississippi will be only a mile and three-quarters long. ... There is

something fascinating about science. One gets such wholesome returns of

conjecture out of such a trifling investment of fact.

-- Mark Twain

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

Once you drain the vitality from people at work, they'll likely submit to heirarchy and expertise in everything. They're used to it.

-- Bob Black

Bridge ahead. Pay troll.

Well I sometimes call myself a libertarian but that's only because most people don't know what anarchist means. Most people hear you're an anarchist and they think you're getting ready to throw a bomb at a building.

-- Robert Anton Wilson

Q: What's the difference between USL and the Titanic?

A: The Titanic had a band.

Nothing wrong with communist anarchism as long as it remains voluntary. Any one that wants to go make a commune, go ahead, do it. I got nothing against it. As long as there's room to the individualist to do his or her own thing.

-- Robert Anton Wilson

The legitimate, the equitable compensation for the loan of money, is the cost of labor in lending it and receiving it back again.

-- Josiah Warren

Delay not, Caesar. Read it instantly.

-- Shakespeare, "Julius Caesar" 3,1

Here is a letter, read it at your leisure.

-- Shakespeare, "Merchant of Venice" 5,1

[Quoted in "VMS Internals and Data Structures", V4.4, when

referring to I/O system services.]

While we have entertained the contention that a deed may make more propaganda than hundreds of speeches, thousands of articles, and tens of thousands of pamphlets, we have held that an arbitrary act of violence will not necessarily have such an effect.

-- Johann Most

Q: How many journalists does it take to screw in a light bulb?

A: Three. One to report it as an inspired government program to bring

light to the people, one to report it as a diabolical government plot

to deprive the poor of darkness, and one to win a Pulitzer prize for

reporting that Electric Company hired a light bulb-assassin to break

the bulb in the first place.

Anarchism does not mean bloodshed; it does not mean robbery, arson, etc. These monstrosities are, on the contrary, the characteristic features of capitalism. Anarchism, or socialism, means the reorganization of society upon scientific principles and the abolition of causes which produce vice and crime. Capitalism first produces these social diseases and then seeks to cure them by punishment.

-- August Spies

Parliament: A compound word from "parler" (to speak) and "mentir" (to lie).

-- Anonymous

If two people love each other, there can be no happy end to it.

-- Ernest Hemingway

Hope that the day after you die is a nice day.