For the fashion of Minas Tirith was such that it was built on seven levels,

each delved into a hill, and about each was set a wall, and in each wall

was a gate.

-- J.R.R. Tolkien, "The Return of the King"

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

referring to system overview.]

If there be in nature such a principle as justice, it is necessarily the only political principle there ever was, or ever will be.

-- Lysander Spooner

A philosopher is dead when he is no longer read. Some, then, know the strange fortune of death while still alive.

-- Michel Onfray

Freedom must be so extensive that it includes the right not to be free.

-- Max Nettlau

As early as World War I, American historians offered themselves to President Woodrow Wilson to carry out a task they called "historical engineering," by which they meant designing the facts of history so that they would serve state police.

-- Noam Chomsky

Q: How many supply-siders does it take to change a light bulb?

A: None. The darkness will cause the light bulb to change by itself.

Proletarians of the world, look into the depths of your own beings, seek out the truth and realise it yourselves: you will find it nowhere else.

-- Peter Arshinov

An honest tale speeds best being plainly told.

-- William Shakespeare, "Henry VI"

The power of the state will never deliver joy, happiness and fulfillment to any society. Such power was created by drones for the sole purpose of pillage and indulgence of their often murderous violence against those who do produce, through their toil -- whether through determination, intelligence or brawn -- everything useful and good in man's life.

-- Nestor Makhno

Q: What's yellow, and equivalent to the Axiom of Choice?

A: Zorn's Lemon.

Things tend to organise themselves. If there is any message from contemporary science, it is surely that.

-- Alan Moore

The one duty we owe to history is to rewrite it.

-- Oscar Wilde

As man seeks justice in equality, so society seeks order in anarchy.

-- Pierre-Joseph Proudhon

Even the most wretched individual of our present society could not exist and develop without the cumulative social efforts of countless generations.

-- Mikhail Bakunin

Your lucky number has been disconnected.

Be cautious in your daily affairs.

The smallest worm will turn being trodden on.

-- William Shakespeare, "Henry VI"

Excellent time to become a missing person.

"Whoever denies authority and fights against it is an anarchist," said Sebastien Faure. The definition is tempting in its simplicity, but simplicity is the first thing to guard against in writing a history of anarchism.

-- George Woodcock

A light wife doth make a heavy husband.

-- Wm. Shakespeare, "The Merchant of Venice"